MISUNDERSTANDINGS Exhibition: FRAC Centre

MISUNDERSTANDINGS Exhibition at FRAC Centre

A show addressing one of the most important archives of architectural experiments worldwide: it opens a reflection on the operative value of museums and collections for the contemporary discourse and practice of architecture.

House of Trace, London home extension

House of Trace, London home extension

Design: Tsuruta Architects. Replacement of the original extension called for an intervention that could be a part of the original main building, without replicating classical vocabulary or gesture. The intent was to keep a sense of everyday memory.

Pensthorpe Play Barn, Fakenham, Norfolk

Pensthorpe Play Barn in Fakenham

Design: Adam Khan Architects

This building reinvents the familiar yet despised typology of indoor play centre, bringing sensory and haptic delight, user comfort, and a deep sustainability based on adaptability and environmental performance.

Espaco Espelho d’Agua Lisbon, Belém

Espaco Espelho d'Agua Lisbon

A 113 sqm vertical garden in new restaurant/gallery/concert venue next to the river in Belem, Lisbon. It wraps around the kitchen inserted into this renovated 1940s pavilion. Several windows cuts through the plant surface.

Motorway Maintenance Centre Salzburg Building

Motorway Maintenance Centre Salzburg

Design: Marte.Marte Architekten. Four different building parts around the central fuel station and three salt silos, simple and elegant blocks, are arranged around a courtyard. A single continuous eaves line connects all the parts of the building.

Tiwag KWB Control Center Silz Building, Austria

Tiwag KWB Control Center Silz Austria

The new architectural design by Bechter Zaffignani Architekten for the power station control centre in Silz is a massive, tower-like, free-standing building. The dominant building on the site was and still remains the old turbine building

One More Kaohsiung Residential Tower

One More Kaohsiung Residential Tower

Design: spatial practice, architects. A simple building design: the horizontal band defines the uninterrupted view of the park, mountain, and sea; while also performing as a sustainable shading element to reduce heat gain.

TAC-SEV New Campus, Mersin, Turkey

TAC-SEV New Campus Mersin

Design: Erginoglu & Calislar Architects. TAC-SEV New Campus is built across from the existing property of Tarsus American College, a well established educational institution with a 100 year history. It includes a primary school, dormitory and multipurpose building

Texugueira House in Leiria, Portugal

Texugueira House in Leiria

Design: Contaminar Arquitectos. The shape of the house stretches on the ground, unfolding from a wall that supports three volumes. Each one has a different scale, offering a different experience, resulting in a dynamic and playful composition.

Richland Residence, Phoenix real estate

Richland Residence in Phoenix

Design: Contramark and Knob Modern. Located in the Coronado Historic District of Downtown Phoenix, Arizona, USA, the house was formerly a rental duplex built in 1935 that was converted into a single family dwelling with a modern addition.

Sky Garden in Istanbul Ortaköy Square

Sky Garden in Istanbul

Design: SO? Architecture and Ideas. Interactive suspended garden in Ortaköy Square, one of the most touristic spaces in Istanbul. Putting a garden on the ground in such a congested area would reduce the walkable surface and make the square even more dense.

Academy of Sport and Wellbeing Perth College, Scotland

Academy of Sport and Wellbeing, Perth College UHI Building

Scotland-based design and architecture firm, Keppie Design worked with leading construction company, Dixons Contractors, to complete the Academy of Sport and Wellbeing at Perth College, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, Scotland.

Housing Crisis: UK Housebuilding Issues

Container Temporary Housing

The UK’s dramatic population growth projection – 11 million more people by 2035, equivalent to 22 more Manchesters, already Europe’s most overcrowded country, will have damaging consequences for everyone.