UK charity Art Fund’s crowdfunding campaign to save artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s cottage in Dungeness from being sold to a private owner has been successful. The Art Fund has raised £3,624,087 to purchase Prospect Cottage in Kent, which was at risk of being sold to a private individual, from the Keith Collins Will Trust.
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Coronavirus lockdowns will have a profound impact on how creative businesses work in future, according to architects and designers including Carlo Ratti Associati, BIG, Snøhetta and Pearson Lloyd. Over the past couple of weeks a huge shift in office culture has occurred, with teams spread across multiple houses instead of one studio. This has forced
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Dutch architecture studio MVRDV’s mixed-use Shenzhen Terraces development will be built at the Shimao ShenKong International Centre in Shenzhen. The development will contain a conference centre, bus terminal and theatre in organic-shaped buildings around curved landscaped outdoor spaces. MVRDV designed Shenzhen Terraces’ irregularly shaped low-rises to contrast with the vertical skyscrapers surrounding the development. The buildings’ irregular
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Architect Baerbel Mueller and architectural designer Juergen Strohmayer have created a multi-use gallery for the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana. Named Nubuke Extended, the one-room rectangular building is an extension to the arts and culture institution’s headquarters in Accra. Built by the entrance to the Nubuke Foundation grounds, the elevated concrete gallery is raised above the
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Photographer Roberto Conte has captured the geometric shapes of Le Corbusier’s weathered concrete buildings at Chandigarh’s in his latest series. Conte’s images showcase the clean silhouettes of the buildings found in the modernist utopia, from the UNESCO-recognised World Heritage site of the Capitol Complex to lesser-known examples of Le Corbusier’s design. “With this project I want
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Architecture studio Tectoniques has built a house from concrete dyed with ochre that emerges from the ground in Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d’Or, France. Called P House, the semi-hidden structure has a rough, rugged exterior designed to blend into the slope of the land. Tectoniques fabricated the house from a specially developed concrete, created together with materials supplier Lafarge.
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As China recorded its first day with no new coronavirus cases, architecture and design studios in the country have said they are gradually returning to normality. “It’s a tough and challenging time, however, our colleagues in Hong Kong are back in the office and our stores in Hangzhou and Hong Kong have reopened,” said London-based
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Danish architecture firm Henning Larsen has designed a 183-metre-tall skyscraper as part of its development of Cockle Bay Park on the Sydney waterfront. The development will be built on two distinct scales: close to the waterfront, the low-rise “village scale” buildings will house public and retail spaces alongside a public park. Above it, the “city scale” part
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Madrid-based designer Jorge Penadés has designed and fabricated a colourful shop for Spanish footwear brand Camper from simple perforated metal profiles. The store in Málaga has a raw, industrial aesthetic that has been softened with a colour palette of bright blues, pinks and reds. Penadés used just three basic elements – perforated metal profiles, corner
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