Design: Herzog and de Meuron, architects. Germany has a new architectural and musical landmark: the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg is now officially open. The building unites the former Kaispeicher warehouse with a new glass structure featuring wave-like peaks and valleys on top.
Design: MU Architecture. Situated in the verdant Laurentians in Quebec, the Estrade Residence reveals itself discretely on the shores of Lac de la Cabane in St-Adolphe d’Howard.
Design: OMA, architects. £110m flagship cultural building wins Planning Permission: the city’s cutting-edge arts venue aims to take a radically new approach to cultural production and performance.
Architect: João Mendes Ribeiro. Claus Porto, a Portuguese 130 years old scents brand, has opened it’s first flagship store in Lisbon downtown. A heritage built not just by their impressive material assets, but also by their intangible patrimony, linked to the objects’ symbolic quality and value.
Architects: Biasol: Design Studio. A plain shopfront in Melbourne’s outer eastern suburbs plays host to this compact cafe with a sleek minimalist fitout. It was an opportunity for Biasol: Design Studio to work again with one of their previous clients, the team behind Lilydale’s Hutch & Co.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2017 has announced TAB 2017 Vision Competition, offering architects, scientists and artists the chance to define a new urbanity of the Paljassaare Peninsula in Tallinn in the era when no ecosystem is unaffected by human action.
Design: Blakstad Haffner Arkitekter. The architects’ ambition was to reflect and strengthen values of community, solidarity, diversity and democracy, both through form and function by establishing a small village.
Design: Atelier Oslo, Architects. The starting point is a typical challenge of densification in an area of existing single family houses. The house is broken up into smaller volumes to adapt to the relatively tight situation and the scale of the surrounding buildings.
Conversion of a 500-year-old palazzo in the heart of Venice into a Benetton ‘megastore’ by OMA. The Renaissance building, known as the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, overlooks the Grand Canal and the city’s famous Rialto Bridge.
Design: Wiel Arets Architects. The IJhal is a recently completed pedestrian passageway situated within Amsterdam’s central train station, on its the northern, waterside–which abuts the river it’s named for, the IJ.
Design: FGO/Arquitectura. The Casa PM project is erected within a lot with abundant vegetation, which is why the architecture was adapted to the terrain; most of the trees were respected and were relocated to provide shadow to open spaces.
For an architect, the challenge is the fuel that keeps him alive. The architects accepted the challenge to design a shelter at 2,100 m in the Southern Carpathians on a tight budget. They asked to build it themselves!
Design: JKMM Architects. The design process has aimed to eschew rectangular designs in favour of a strong and memorable visual identity: the sculptural, massive quality of the new buildings recalls the imposing solidity of erratic boulders.
Architects: Biasol: Design Studio. Situated in the popular bayside suburb of Elwood, The Milton exemplifies the ongoing gentrification of the area and it’s rich literary and architectural history.