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“We always want to conquer space.” Wolf Prix was in a robust mood as he took architectural filmmaker s Spirit of Space on a tour of the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France. Reflecting on the success of a building that has welcomed an estimated one million visitors since it opened a year ago, the founder…
The past 12 months has seen some remarkable projects delivered around the globe; from the world’s se cond tallest building — Gensler’s Shanghai Tower — to the many pavilions of the Milan World Expo. The ambitions of designers and developers remains undiminished, though, and 2016 will see the completion of a host of new, groundbreaking, genre-defining…
It’s been another eventful year for architects around the globe, full of controversy, conversation a nd contemporary design of the highest order. Here, we take a look back at some of the biggest events and most notable new buildings covered by Architizer over the past 12 months. Click on the hyperlinks provided to remind yourself of…
MAD Architects’ pursuit of an urban landscape at one with the natural environment has produced anoth er organic icon in Northern China. Following the opening of its wave-shaped China Wood Sculpture Museum in the burgeoning metropolis of Harbin in 2013, the Beijing-based firm has completed a remarkable venue for music and theater in the same city,…
Casa Sperimentale is a wild, eclectic ode to Brutalism, slowly crumbling away on a wooded plot near the coast.
Richard Rogers of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has been awarded the J.C. Nichols Prize for Vision aries in Urban Development given by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) to those who demonstrate a “longtime commitment to the creation of communities that reflect the high standards of design and development.” The ULI commended Rogers for a “more…
One of the most talked-about stories in architecture this year has been Tokyo’s decision to scrap Za ha Hadid’s competition-winning design for the 2020 Olympic Stadium. Fueled by concerns over spiraling costs, public discontentment at the scale of the proposed arena, and mounting criticism from Japanese architects, the city pulled the plug on the British-Iraqi architect’s…
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.” So said Renzo Piano, but, however unreasonable he may believe this premise to be, the architect has come closer than ever to achieving the feat with an astonishing new structure in Athens, Greece. The Energy Canopy is a huge roof…
Following the completion of the largest building in the Netherlands, OMA has returned to its spiritu al home with another conceptual curiosity in Rotterdam. The mixed-use Timmerhuis building has arrived in the heart of the Dutch city, its cascading terraces of glazed cubes now visible above the skyline not far from the distinctive curved form of…