Above: The Water Hut has a system of pumps and tubes to get people thinking about how much water is wasted in leaky pipes before it reaches the tap
Architecture for Humanity has created four specially designed huts for ‘Clerkenwell Presents’ at Clerkenwell Design Week. Continue Reading…
Designs for Herzog & de Meuron’s latest project for Oxford University have been unveiled. The world-renowned architecture practice won a competition to design the Blavatnik School of Government, which forms a part of the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter (ROQ) masterplan for the University of Oxford, UK. Continue Reading…
Above: Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, 2013. Photo by Yoshiaki Tsutsui
Toyo Ito has been announced as the winner of the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize 2013. Continue Reading…
The S11 House in Malaysia, by ArchiCentre, has been built around the existing trees on the site to provide natural shelter for the living spaces. Continue Reading…
The rumours have been circulating for quite some time, but it has now been confirmed that Rem Koolhaas will be curating the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2014. Continue Reading…
The snakes and ladders of future living tea towels– looking at trends across Kitchens & Bathrooms… developed by Aberrant Architecture for the Kitchen & Bathroom Hub which will be part of the Kitchen & Bathrooms hub installation.
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100% Design opening next Wednesday 19th September.
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Delfina Foundation have announced London-based Studio Octopi and Cairo-based Shahira Fahmy Architects are the winning duo of an architecture competition for the expansion of the Foundation, which will make it the largest international artist residency provider in London when it re-opens in autumn 2013.
The Shard, which, at 310m-high is the tallest building in Europe, was officially inaugurated last week with a laser show marking the launch. However, work is continuing on the View from the Shard, and other parts of the tower, which will open in February 2013. Event Communications is working on designs for View from the Shard, a 240m-high public viewing point at London tower the Shard.
Event in collaboration with Shard architect Renzo Piano to develop the three-floor View from the Shard, which will offer 360º views of the capital, allowing people to see for 64km. The View, which occupies levels 68, 69 and 72 of the Shard, will be accessibly from two high-speed ‘kaleidoscopic’ lifts, which will take just 30 seconds to reach the 68th floor.
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PayneShurvell presents an exciting collaboration between Berlin-based artist Kai Schiemenz who produces walk-in sculptures or ‘containers’ which invite the viewer in, and the architects of the White Cube Bermondsey, Casper Mueller Kneer, based in London and Berlin.
“Architectures aren’t containers for human needs – but needs and humanities are being generated by architecture. Buildings aren’t neutral boxes for communities, but communities are being formed and governed by them.”
Kai Schiemenz
In a timely exhibition, Kai Schiemenz and Casper Mueller Kneer examine the role of stadiums, auditoriums and associated architectures – historic, contemporary and imagined buildings, all of which organise crowds in circular ways.
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Yesterday’s ‘Question Time’ hosted by IDA at the 100% Design Exhibition put the designers on the spot and gave them a good old grilling. The debate was chaired by BLUEPRINT Magazine founder & all round architectural impresario Peter Murray. Panel members included Iqbal Latif (IL), Developer of the renowned Hotel Rafayel, Stephan Oberwegner (SO), MD, at Max Bentheim and Dexter Moren (DM) of Dexter Moren Associates. Read this Despoke event report to get the full low down…
Can a book be an architectural form? According to the Architectural Association School (AA) in Bloomsbury they can. The AA’s current exhibition does just that, displaying books produced by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and its many collaborators in order to reveal their key role as a revolutionary architectural form.
