Rem Koolhaas: Live Lecture Stream from the World Architecture Festival
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas will give the final keynote lecture today at the World Architecture Festival. ArchDaily will be streaming this keynote from our Facebook page.
Month: November 2018
Iturbide Studio / Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo
On a plot of 7×14 in the Barrio del Niño Jesús and just a few steps from Graciela Iturbide’s house, a small tower of only three levels extruded in a literal way, extrudes its measurements in plan to become a solid piece of clay that de-constructs before its own materiality in very thin and almost imperceptible tensions of steel.
Carla Juaçaba Studio Wins the AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2018
Brazil-based Carla Juaçaba Studio has been announced as the winner of the AR’s Emerging Architecture Awards 2018 in Amsterdam. The firm will receive a £10,000 prize in recognition of exemplary projects such as their chapel for the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 2018 Venice Biennale, and the Casa Santa Teresa in Rio de Janiero.
Housing Building in Foz / Luís Peixoto
The project, at first conceived as a white building with great transparency for its interior, eventually evolved to the work presented here, with the intention of a more sober gesture and a greater relationship with the urban environment in which it is inserted.
architecture school in miami opens warped concrete studio building by arquitectonica
arquitectonica’s miami university studio building features an open plan space covered by a warping thin-shell concrete roof structure.
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Revolutionary Nature: the Architecture of Hiroshi Sambuichi
Our world revolves. Not just literally, as it does around the sun, but in nature’s every aspect. Seasons cycle into each other (though more erratically each year), waves trace and retrace the beaches with the shifting tide, flowers open, close, and turn to follow the path of the sun. Even we are governed by these circular natural systems. Maintenance of our circadian rhythms, a human connection to light, is so essential to our health that it is a required element in many contemporary building codes.
Jambu Bar / Arquea Arquitetos
Jambu Bar runs in a small wooden house surrounded by a residentialbuilding area. We knew that a bar and its demand wouldn’t fit in the existing house space, so we would have to expand it. The most common solution is to bring the hallto the front area and extend the kitchen backwards, but we chose to invert that concept and offer the costumers the experience of a backyard.
New Zealand Architecture Awards 2018 winners announced
A seaside retreat, a restaurant slotted between heritage buildings and a pair of replacements for earthquake-ruined buildings in Christchurch are among the best new architecture projects completed this year in New Zealand. The New Zealand Institute of Architects Incorporated (NZIA) has announced 17 winners of its annual awards, four of which have been awarded special prizes. It
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Why do Beautiful Things Make us Happy – And Why Does Modernism Make us Sad?
A recent exhibition at the MAK Vienna – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, is showcasing the works of Sagmeister & Walsh, a NYC-based design firm investigating what makes beauty so appealing.
Rethinking Le Corbusier’s Manifesto: 6 Explorations That Break Away From Modernist Ideals
“A model by Corbusier is the only image that brings to my mind the idea of immediate suicide.” – Ivan Chtcheglov