airport

Sadness as Nazi-built hub that be­came a life­line for star­ving Ger­mans closes

The Da­nish ar­chi­tec­ture firm Schmidt Ham­mer Las­sen won the Grand Prix Award for its Per­for­mers House project, a mo­dern ver­sion of a Da­nish folk high school, at this year’s Leaf Awards in Lon­don last week. The prize spe­ci­fi­cally fo­cu­s…

Small rooms with a lot of lu­xury: that’s the for­mula be­hind Ci­ti­zen M. »If you’re in town for a short stay, then you cer­tainly don’t want a big lu­xury room with all the extras«, ar­gues Je­roen Ves­ter of Ams­ter­dam de­sign firm Con­crete, ‘b…

The RIBA Na­tio­nal and In­ter­na­tio­nal Awards were an­noun­ced on June 27th. The final short­list for the £20,000 Stir­ling Prize which in­clu­des the RIBA Na­tio­nal Awar­dees will be an­noun­ced on July 17th, and the win­ner on Oc­to­ber 11, 200…

De Rui­ter star­ted his of­fice for ar­chi­tec­ture, pro­duct de­ve­lop­ment and project de­ve­lop­ment back then on the basis of his doc­to­ral re­se­arch. Sustaina­bi­lity has been a prio­rity right from the start. The ul­ti­mate aim of De Rui­ter …

“The Rock” is a $39 million-project for the new in­ter­na­tio­nal pas­sen­ger ter­mi­nal of Wel­ling­ton In­ter­na­tio­nal Air­port, that has been de­si­gned by Stu­dio Pa­ci­fic Ar­chi­tec­ture. What is sup­po­sed to be­come “New Zealand’s ne­west i…

Designed and com­ple­ted in four years, Ter­mi­nal 3 at Bei­jing Ca­pi­tal In­ter­na­tio­nal Air­port opens the doors this week to its la­test Olym­pic crea­tion – a mas­sive glass-and-steel air­port ter­mi­nal with a gently slo­ping roof that will w…

In 1996, two years after the first post-apartheid elec­tions were held in South Af­rica, the Aca­demy of Ar­chi­tec­ture in Rot­ter­dam in­itia­ted the Hou­sing Ge­ne­ra­tor Com­pe­ti­tion for South Af­ri­can Ci­ties, a project that in­vol­ved va­rio…

Saturday March 25 Tur­bu­lent times in Bue­nos Aires. Just a week ago the pre­si­dent de­ci­ded that March 24 is a na­tio­nal day of re­mem­brance to com­me­mo­rate the mi­li­tary coup in 1976. By law, all civil ser­vants enjoy a free day; hos­pi­tal…

Alterations made to New­castle In­ter­na­tio­nal Air­port mean that the con­trol tower, which was built in 1966, doesn't have the sight lines it once did.

The tour, which lasts two years, star­ted in Aus­tria in 2004 with the pre­sen­ta­tion of ele­ven ar­chi­tec­ture firms and will fi­nish with 99 par­ti­ci­pa­ting of­fices. The Nether­lands is the fifth coun­try on the tour iti­nerary. The name given…

The ex­hi­bi­tion is an in­itia­tive of the Mi­nis­try of Trans­port and Water Ma­nage­ment, the Foun­da­tion for Art and Pu­blic Space (SKOR) and the Ate­lier HSL. It sets out to give some re­le­vance to the cul­tu­ral and so­cial si­gni­fi­cance of…

Friday Fe­bru­ary 7 a de­ci­sion was taken on 'Ground Euro.' From the in­vi­ted pro­po­sals for 'the de­ve­lop­ment of a glo­bal urban-design con­cept,' the win­ners tur­ned out to be a Spanish-Belgian al­li­ance: Aries, Idom, Mo­ritz et Simon, L'Ate…

Riding the waves of suc­cess in Dutch De­sign, va­rious Dutch pu­blis­hers have laun­ched new ar­chi­tec­ture ma­ga­zi­nes pri­ma­rily aimed at in­ter­na­tio­nal re­a­ders over the past year. The la­test to join A10 and Vo­lume in the books­to­res is…

Roemer van Toorn in­tro­du­ced Dubai with a quote from the Ame­ri­can wri­ter Mike Davis. In his ar­ti­cle ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’ (New Left Re­view, 2006), Davis wri­tes that Dubai is one big gated com­mu­nity, a neo-liberal dream tu…