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In their practice, the three authors – French architects Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal – work on making careful and continuous changes to the existing city. To them, total demolition followed by new construction is not an opti…

The «Cabanon«, a ‘primitive hut’ using rough pine boards on the exterior, it is set in a magnificent landscape where Le Corbusier was able to combine pleasure with concentrated work, now being shown at the ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. Beginning in the 19…

Istanbul is, indeed, the place for identifying with the beauties and stupidities of different worlds simultaneously. A timeless cliché, but true: Istanbul is a cradle of dualities. Here, not only East and West but also informal and formal, tolerance …

So don’t expect any architectural experiments in Berlin, except for the Dutch Embassy by OMA and the Jewish Museum by Daniel Libeskind. What you will find is tidy, straightforward development that respects the building lines. Luckily there are plenty…

JDS Architects of Copenhagen and Brandsberg-Dahls Arkitekter of Stavanger have won the invited competition for a new hotel building in the Norwegian city of Stavanger. The Two Seasons will house over 200 rooms on 8,500 square metres, that float over …

Tilburg is another town with ambitious plans to present itself as a place of culture, and so it asked Körmeling to make a work of art. As an ode to the terrace house with through living room, the Eindhoven architect came up with a version that rides …

A diamond-shaped white concrete Casa da Música [CdM] slowly emerged in the most central roundabout of the local modern urbanity. From the very beginning, the process was politically and urban disturbed. This fact placed its construction, archite…

Spain is currently in the midst of a building boom. An ideas competition was staged early this year on the assumption that some 400,000 dwellings will be needed in the Barcelona region over the next twenty years. Madrid, meanwhile, is spreading out f…

The assignment set last June for five offices (Architectuurstudio Herman Hertzberger, Claus en Kaan, Diederen Dirrix Van Wylick, Henket & partners, Benthem Crouwel) contained not only a programme of requirements but also a preamble. In it we read…

Lower secondary professional education has a bad name, and that's what client Ben Steenweg wanted to talk about before discussing the building. That bad name is the result of a number of incidents in a number of schools. In Hoorn the problems are alm…

Situated next to Boavista Plaza, one of Porto's busiest roundabouts, Casa da Musica is almost invisible despite its strong formal expression. This is caused in part by the trees on the roundabout, from where the building is best viewed. And it is par…

OMA surprised the jury by locating its building partly outside the actual competition site. The 360-meter length of the building is conceived as promenade, a coherent sequence of programs and views. Bridging the east and west banks of the river along…

MBM (Martorell, Bohigas & Mackay) from Barcelona, Rudy Uytenhaak and MVRDV were invited to submit designs for a varied programme of owner-occupied and rental dwellings, commercial properties, and public functions. MVRDV were selected because they…