New technologies are able to build not only futuristic utopias, but they also have the capacity to penetrate real, vulnerable places and shape present and future spaces, formal and informal. MIT Senseable City Lab enters the fragile core of the favelas to (digitally) bring to
“Architecture as a hyphen between the past and the present, where heritage and contemporary creation converse” (Tadao Ando). Inserting itself in the series of concentric circles - built and modified over almost three centuries, thus giving shape and consistency to the Bourse de Commerce area -
On the winding route of the South Tirol valleys, in-between the regular lines of the vineyards that cross them back-and-forth, nestled in the basin of Eisack Valley - that is where you will find Novacella Abbey, one of the most significant architectural ensembles in the
A house, two different faces: one baroque, exuberant towards the street, the other reserved, introverted towards the inner courtyard. And between the two facets, countless interwoven layers and textures. Museo Casa Ayora offers the experience of exalted materiality, created with various decorative patterns, historical and contemporary. The
In radical and temperate forms, in a visionary and referential way, the architecture of Wadden Sea Centre spreads its wings from the place where it is inserted, goes obliquely to reach contemporaneity and flies horizontally further, miming an enclosed flight on the ground. One Place and many
BIG inscribes Copenhill with capital letters among the megaprojects that respond superlatively to climate change. The massif with aluminium crust solidifies the principles of hedonistic sustainability enunciated by Bjarke Ingels as the generator of the new architecture and the reflection of the Zeitgeist of this
How will our world change and, in particular, how will architecture change over the following years? These are topics that both concern and incite us at a time when a constantly shifting reality has made us increasingly aware of the fact that we need more
The projects signed by LPPA – Ledroit Pierret Polet architectes – have a distinct spatiality, a personal way of articulating relationships between components, fulls and voids and slabs and true splits. The house on Villas Boulevard in Saint Gilles is an example of this –
“Like the other Art Deco and Neo-Gothic buildings in the neighborhood, which argue for a real desire for architecture, the Navez building tries to leave its mark upon the context through its game of designs and wide-angle geometry” - MSA. Located in the north of Brussels,