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Elbphilharmonie by Herzog & de Meuron
16 February 2017The peaks and troughs of the roof of Herzog & de Meuron’s new Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg could be a metaphor for its history of popular support, political opposition and rising costs. The crystal fantasy landmark does however put Hamburg on the architectural map. Words by Herbert Wright.
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Curated Diary: Bedwyr Williams
1 February 2017Artist Bedwyr Williams picks his top art and design events for the new year, from an interdisciplinary theatre production to a model railway show in Wales
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Sustainability Pavilion for 2020 Expo Dubai by Grimshaw
25 January 2017Grimshaw puts theory into practice with its Sustainability Pavilion for the 2020 Expo in Dubai, which will have a sustainable future as a permanent legacy building. Cate St Hill talks to deputy chairman Andrew Whalley about the design
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Greenwich housing by Bell Phillips Architects
23 January 2017Spread across six very different sites in London’s Greenwich, Bell Phillips Architects has imaginatively repurposed a series of old, underused garage plots for housing for the elderly, freeing up larger public housing stock for families and bringing life to these once-dead backwaters
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Cite du Vin by XTU Architects & Casson Mann
19 January 2017The original straight-edged plans for a museum of wine in Bordeaux went out of the window when the architects Anouk Legendre and Nicolas Desmazières drank a glass of one of the world’s best wines. From that point on, what has become the Cité du Vin, in collaboration with Casson Mann, had to be deliciously voluptuous.
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Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
17 January 2017‘Rolling up the street’ was the starting idea for this 14-storey addition to the Columbia Medical School by Diller Scofido + Renfro. With it the practice has also realised a 20-year long exploration of a continuous surface building, albeit as a specific response to site and program.
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Listen: Michael Pawlyn
16 January 2017While biomimicry has transformed the world of robotics and is being increasingly adopted in engineering and materials science, it is yet to be widely embraced by architects, says Michael Pawlyn. An architect and speaker focused on innovation, Pawlyn is the founder of exploration Architecture, co-founder of the Sahara Forest Project and the author of Biomimicry in Architecture - the second edition was published by RIBA Publishing in October.
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The Poli House by Karim Rashid
16 January 2017A building with its feet firmly in the turbulent early history of the founding of the state of Israel, Tel Aviv’s new hotel The Poli House has been lavished with audacious colour and playfulness by Karim Rashid in a very modern approach to its interiors that loudly says ‘future’. Anthea Gerrie pays a visit
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Dyson Campus by WilkinsonEyre
4 January 2017Building on a 20-year relationship with technology company Dyson, WilkinsonEyre has completed a £250m expansion of the Dyson campus in rural Wiltshire, which it first designed in 1996. The centrepiece is a mirrored glass box designed to conceal the brand’s most top-secret innovations...
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Lisbon’s MAAT by Amanda Levete Architects
22 December 2016MAAT has opened a curvaceous new waterfront building by Amanda Levete’s practice AL_A. It transforms the riverside, reframes the idea of exhibition space, and reconnects this edgeland with the city behind it
