Discover 10 architectural museums opening in 2022: from OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre to SANAA’s Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sidney and MAD architects’ Lucas Museum in Los Angeles.
Georgian design studio Stipfold has created a jagged Christmas Tree by deconstructing traditional geometries and playing with materials and reflections.
Engaging architectures by Kengo Kuma, Santiago Calatrava, Ini Archibong and Grimshaw Architects feature in our ‘2021 best pavilions’ round up.
A flexible ‘sliding cabin’ opening to the countryside and the first sustainable house 3D-printed from raw earth feature in our 2021 Best Homes round up.
What an exceptional year! At Archipanic, we wish you Merry Christmas and happy holidays.
Germany Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai blends visionary environmental ideas with real-life results. The sustainable architecture features suspended cubes and a forest of steel poles, covered by a floating roof.
Squeezed between two buildings on a very narrow plot, the ‘House on Bagattenstraat’ provides a generous and spacious family home.
The Luxembourg pavilion in Dubai narrates the country’s soul with a sustainable and sinuous architecture inspired by the famed infinite loop.
GES-2 sustainable art center by Renzo Piano Building Workshop invites you to experience art on the Red October island, just a stone’s throw away from the Kremlin in the Russian capital.
For the Israel Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, AVS and Knafo Kilmore Architects have created a multimedia experience inviting visitors to explore the country’s commitment to smart and sustainable innovation springing from the common desert landscape Israelis share with their neighbours in the Gulf.
Querkraft’s Austria Pavilion at Dubai Expo offers a multisensorial experience allowing visitors to feel the country’s commitment and vision for a better future.
JKMM Architects metaphorically bring snow to the desert. The Finland Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai highlights the country’s commitment to sustainability and its deep connection with nature.
Squid Game, Netflix’s most watched series so far, features surreal architecture inspired by childhood memories, Escher’s artwork and Santiago Calatrava’s pure white interiors. *Spoiler alert!
The Singapore Pavilion by WOHA Architects in Dubai features a lush tropical urban landscape and innovative technologies, reflecting the city-state’s vision of becoming a City in Nature.
“Like a wooden conical musical instrument,” the UK Pavilion by Es Devlin at Expo 2020 Dubai displays AI-generated poems submitted by visitors.
How long does excellence take? This is the opening question of the ‘Decades in the Making’ short movie featuring two masters of their craft: acclaimed Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Richard Paterson, Master Distiller of Dalmore, Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
Craftsmanship, childhood memories and earthy tones. Nature and human-centred surface design strives at the post-Covid 19 Cersaie 2021, the world’s leading international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings.
Iris Ceramica Group presents Hypertouch, a pioneering solution allowing you to control heating, ventilation, air conditioning, light, audio-video systems and windows by simply caressing a ceramic surface.
Cersaie 2021: Polychromatic spheres, cylinders, cones, cubes and prisms blend together at the INFINITE MAJESTY installation by Masquespacio for Roca Tiles.
We have created a Pinterest board rounding up the best architecture installations and projects at Chicago Biennial 2021.
A shock-pink block party structure for communal gathering and an architectural-scale urban painting revive a vacant lot in Bell Park, Chicago.
Chicago reinvents the Architecture Biennial format putting neighborhoods and people at the centre. Forget artsy, difficult-to-read or self-referring architecture installations… And embrace the vernacular for good.
The ‘Wetlands’ exhibition explores the fragile link between waste and production with forward-thinking, innovative and responsible solutions. The United Arab Emirates win the Golden Lion for best National pavilion at the 17th Biennale Architettura di Venezia.
Marsk Tower, a new sculptural landmark and lookout point in Southern Jutland, Denmark, has finally open to the public! Enjoy the panorama on the UNESCO World Heritage site of Wadden Sea National Park.
September 2021: from Milan to Chicago, from Seoul to London, Beijing and Paris. We round up 15 international fairs, festivals and biennials in this super creative month.
The AERODREAM exhibition at the Centre Pompidou-Metz showcases the inflatable work of architects, artists and designers who found alternatives to postwar rationalism ‘within a bubble.’ From the pop icon ‘Blow’ chair to Buckminster Fuller’s ‘Biosphere’ and the inflatable concert hall by Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor.
ANNA Stay’s dynamic architecture is derived from “a desire to live with nature’s elements, rather than shielding them off,” explains Caspar Schols. Initially conceived for his mum, the project has won the prestigious 2021 Architizer A+ Awards Project of the Year Award.
Kengo Kuma’s CLT Park Harumi recreational venue is dressed with a skin of wooden leaves filtering light like trees in a forest.
Kengo Kuma, Kenzo Tange and Fumihiko Maki but also Tange Associates, Kume Sekkei and more… Tokyo Olympics’ architecture is cross-generational and great, even if we can’t be there!
We have created a Pinterest board rounding up what we liked the most at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Check it out!