The Angry Architect
That Thiago Bernardes has established himself as a renowned designer of wonder-homes in his native B razil will come as little surprise to those who are familiar with the architect’s family history. Thiago is the grandson of Sergio Bernardes, a larger-than-life pioneer of utopian architecture in 1960s Brazil who could purportedly design a staggering 25 homes a month at the pinnacle of his career.
Most architects strive to design buildings that maintain their quality over time and, better still, garner a semblance of historic significance over decades or even centuries. No matter how timeless our designs may be, though, their longevity pales into insignificance when compared with the stalwarts of nature. Now, global firm Perkins+Will have created an architectural…
One of the most controversial stories in architecture so far this year has to be that of Jean Nouvel , who boycotted the opening of his Philharmonie in Paris. The French architect complained that it had opened its doors — as (much-belatedly) scheduled in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo incident — despite remaining unfinished and…
Tokyo – the city where radical architecture resides. No architects do it quite like the Japanese, wh o consistently upend formal conventions in an attempt to circumvent Tokyo’s idiosyncratic building regulations and react to the country’s unusual real estate economics. But these factors — building laws and financial drivers — only scratch the surface in terms…
It is often said that we should learn to appreciate the journey rather than being preoccupied with o ur final destination. With that in mind, Onion Co. Ltd. — the firm behind a new boutique hotel in their native Thailand — appears to have taken this philosophy to heart, creating a retreat in which the interconnecting…
When it comes to materials, Japanese maverick of modernism Sou Fujimoto is probably best known for h is use of snow-white steel members — impossibly slender beams and columns that lock together to form architecture that barely exists at all. His firm frequently veers into hyper-minimalism, framing space with skeletal structures that suggest a possibility of…
Despite approaching the grand old age of 80, Sir Norman Foster is showing no signs of resting on his laurels. His firm recently unveiled a wave of new projects which typify their unerring ability to work on the grandest of scales, with any kind of client: whether you are a private developer or a huge…
Long a staple of the architectural diet, so to speak, bakeries have evolved into multifunctional pla ces intended for much more than simply selling bread, attracting people to stay and eat in sophisticated, stylish surroundings. With Passover drawing to a close this weekend, we’d like to mark the end of the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread…
They may hail from Denmark, but Henning Larsen Architects have been making waves all over Scandinavi a for many decades. Now, the Copenhagen-based firm has been selected from the 11 finalists in the competition for major new commission in central Sweden, the NORR, the new National Museum in Östersund, announced this morning. (Incidentally, today is the…