Carlo Ratti Associati has won an international competition for Reinventing Cities, with the design of a new research center placed under a 200-meter-long (650-foot-long) vineyard. Situated close to Milan’s Fondazione Prada, the VITAE project will connect the street level to the roof via a seamless footpath, and will contain a new office building and [...]
With its hundreds of churches, Rome has developed a rich history of domes. Inspired by this heritage, Jakob Straub has photographed the most remarkable domes of this city from the ancient Pantheon to the modern sports stadium of Pier Luigi Nervi. Its neutral perspective, taken looking up from the center of the dome, opens [...]
London and Moscow based AI Studio has revealed plans for a new Media City in central Saint Petersburg, Russia. The project will include office spaces for media and other creative industries, as well as the public realm, designed in collaboration with Hyland Edgar Driver. The concept aims to fuse contemporary materials and technology with the site's history, and the [...]
The ADUnB Cultural Center - Association of Teachers of the University of Brasilia - was the result of a request for proposals for professors of the FAU / UnB and other architects who worked on the campus in 1999. The project was extensive and required that the proposal be will execute in multiple stages. [...]
This Monday the Paseo del Bajo was officially inaugurated: one of the most awaited -and costly- works of recent times in Buenos Aires. Simultaneously with the actions and initiatives of other countries in addressing urban mobility, the project presented by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in April 2016 aimed to [...]
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the new linear park along the River Thames will open its doors on the Greenwich peninsula, London, this July. In collaboration with Neiheiser Argyros, the New York-based office has created the next cultural and leisure destination in the capital of the United Kingdom, which will offer an evolving [...]
The construction of the 53 West 53rd Street (53W53) skyscraper finished its heavy work in the center of Manhattan, in New York. With 73 floors, the building has 145 apartments and a duplex of 70 million dollars at its top, where the milestone was celebrated with the presence of Nouvel itself, according to New [...]
Swiss architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron have released new renderings of their Kulturforum (Culture Forum), an extension of the Berlin-based Neue Nationalgalerie. The future structure, which in 2016 was selected to become the city’s Museum of the 20th Century, will be a stylistic hybrid, taking inspiration from public and private buildings like warehouses, [...]
The studio Vincent Callebaut Architectures has revealed the images of his project tribute to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, after the fire that severely damaged this historic structure. The project is a transcendent proposal, a symbol of an ecological and resilient future, which is inspired both by biomimicry and by common ethics to seek a [...]
Snøhetta has been responsible for the design of the Shanghai Grand Opera in Shanghai, China, after an international design competition. With the aim of attracting a wide audience of traditional, classic and experimental performances, Snøhetta has developed the architectural, landscape, interior and graphic design for the complex in collaboration with the ECADI architects based [...]
