The Smog Free project: the world’s largest air-cleaning tower opens in Beijing
Daan Roosegarde inaugurates the Smog Free Project, an air-purifying tower envisioning a cleaner urban future. Starting from Beijing.
Urban Rigger: BIG completes first student-friendly floating housing in Copenhagen
BIG’s Urban Rigger is the first floating housing solution for students in search of a cozy and an affordable place not far from Copenhagen’s city centre.
Digital mapping Rio de Janeiro: how technologies can improve people’s life in the favelas
Amnesty International, Google and no-profit organisation AfroReggae have been digital mapping Rio de Janeiro favelas unveiling their true urbanscape to the world. ArchiPanic explores the history -and troubles- of the city’s slums.
Tokyo-lization: Daigo Ishii+Future-scape merges Japanese urban features with world cities’ architecture
Daigo Ishii+Future-scape architects present the Tokyo-lization project that mesh Tokyo urban features with the ones of Venice, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen and La Paz to show how our idea of locality have become more fragile.
Building Far East metropolises: over-densified architecture from Seoul to Hong Kong
How can architects help to improve people’s lives in growing Far East metropolises? Four exhibitions reflect on on a massive challenge that comes packed and piled to the extreme.
The Architectural Imagination: architects go visionary to save and re-invent Detroit
Architects and locals team up to envision their dreams for Detroit future. The US Pavilion at Venice Biennale presents visionary proposals to fuel new energy in a city that craves for architectural imagination after a bankruptcy and decades of decline.
The Mile: the world’s highest vertical park and observation deck by Carlo Ratti Associati
On the occasion of the official presentation of The Mile, the highest vertical panoramic park, Carlo Ratti Associati share their opinion on urban vertical spree and visionary verticality in architecture.
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris
Landskating: 9 great stories of concrete ramps from Tokyo to Paris… What happens when architects and skaters team up to make cities friendlier?
Périphériques Marin + Trottin Architectes envision a crowd-founded cluster of affordable Parisian buildings
With the PARIS PAR NOUS, PARIS POUR TOUS proposal Périphériques Marin + Trottin Architectes envision a crowd-founded cluster of Parisian buildings to return the city to its own people.
3BOX Paris green housing by Stephan Malka
Stephan Malka presents 3BOX, a green housing model aimed to reconnect Paris with its inhabitants and that is even 40% below the real estate market price.
Urban bird nest amplifies birds’ tweet to improve cities’ soundscapes
“Orator” urban bird nest by Katia Tolstykh features a copper trumpet-like speaker to soothe metropolitan noise with amplified chirps and tweets.
Replicas of Isis threatened Palmira Arch in Syria will rise in London and New York
Replicas of Palmira Arch that was nearly destroyed by ISIS in Syria will be 3D-printed in London and New York as symbols of defiance against acts of terrorism and thanks to a broader conservation program by the Institute of Digital Archaeology.
Architecture: does London really need a brand-new skyline?
With 260 towers under construction and a £175 million garden bridge, what is the future of London and Londoners? ArchiPanic collected opinions and concerns of some of the protagonists of the city’s transformation.
The Bride: the first vertical city on earth
Meet the The Bride. AMBS Architects present the world’s first vertical city hosting schools, sky-gardens and entire neighbourhoods up to almost 1 km above the ground. “But do not call it the next super tall tower, because they are nor safe nor efficient” says at AMBS Architects to ArchiPanic.
Black Gold asphalt-made design hints at the doom of consumerism
Black Gold design collection by Quintus Kropholler explores the unconventional beauty of asphalt and refers to the doom of petrol-driven society.
The ultimate skyscraper
Who challenges the Burj Khalifa? The first vertical city could overshadow the architecture battle to build the ultimate skyscraper and relegate super tall towers as thing from the past.
Split courtyard house by TAO adapt Beijing historic neighborhoods to new generations’ lifestyle
Renovated split courtyard houses by TAO combine public and private spaces according to Beijing traditional neighbourhoods.
Cubitts launches glasses made with King’s Cross’ architecture ingredients
Inspired by the architectural ingredients of King’s Cross, London brand Cubitts presents a collection of handcrafted glasses made in coal, concrete, rust and copper.
Polis Station: Studio Gang rethinks US police spaces within local communities
Studio Gang presents Polis Station, an exhibition and a social project to reorient U.S. police stations towards their local communities after widespread outrage and protests over recent acts of police violence.
Burning Man 2015
Discover the free spirit of 2015 Burning Man festival through the eyes artists and architects, planners and designers who lived in the temporary metropolis that will rise again from its ashes.
The Fuzzy Logic project turns traffic jam into musical soundscapes
With the Fuzzy Logic project, Marta Santambrogio aims to transform traffic noise into musical jam sessions starting from harmonical tuk-tuks, Indian street cahos and traditional musical instruments.
Israel Pavilion at MIlan Expo 2015 by David Knafo
ArchiPanic met David Knafo, architect of Israel Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015, who unveils how “vertical planting” technology can innovate agriculture and make way to sustainable cities where buildings will grow food from vertical crops on their facades.
Jerusalem: Bauhaus at Bauhaus Center in Tel Aviv
Bauhaus Center Tel Aviv hosts “Jerusalem: Bauhaus” an unconventional exhibition that reveals the unbeaten paths of the Israeli capital’s XX century architecture.
Growing Underground
In buzzy Clapham, London, two entrepreneurs and a Michelin-starred chef launch the first underground farm of sustainable and mouthwateringly fresh micro-greens and salads.
Makoko Floating School
NLÉ studio protoyped and built a sustainable A-shaped watercraft structure for the Makoko floating community in Lagos, Nigeria. The project responds to the critical challenges posed by urbanization and climate change in Africa and foresees possible solutions to a new way for sustainable architecture.
Brazilian Modernity
The exhibition “Modernity as tradition” at Brazil Pavilion in Venice displays how evolution of local architecture helped to build a national identity.
Grafting Italian Architecture
INNESTI/GRAFTING, the exhibition at Italian Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale interprets Rem Koolhas provocation about dealing with a globalized architecture by enhancing a national attitude to incorporate new architecture with the previous heritage. Curator Cino Zucchi set a botanical-oriented exhibition focused on Milan as a modernity lab, 2015 Expo and a review on the evolution of Italian landscape.
Imposed Modernity
A spikey tower made by 692 wooden stools raises as a symbol of the erasure of regional identiy at Kosovo Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale.
The Urburb
The Israeli pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 is focused on the concept of Uburb, a neologism that mesh urban and suburban as the result of 100 years modernist planning in Israel. Four sand printers sketch, erase and re-sketch scenarios of a condense society living in isolated residential-buildings sprawled and isolated throughout the country.
Absorbing Modernity?
Is there a globalized architecture able to shape an uniformed style through out the planet? Some of the most impressive national pavilions at Venice Architecture Biennale challenged back the “Absorbing Modernitiy” provocation launched by curator Rem Koolhas.