steel construction

The Ber­ke­ley Art Mu­seum / Pa­ci­fic Film Ar­chive (BAM/PFA) nee­ded a new home as it was dis­co­vered their pre­vious lo­ca­tion was seis­mi­cally ina­de­quate. After a re­view of 141 in­ter­na­tio­nal ar­chi­tects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was cho­sen to…

The Ber­ke­ley Art Mu­seum / Pa­ci­fic Film Ar­chive (BAM/PFA) nee­ded a new home as it was dis­co­vered their pre­vious lo­ca­tion was seis­mi­cally ina­de­quate. After a re­view of 141 in­ter­na­tio­nal ar­chi­tects, Japan´s Toyo Ito was cho­sen to…

New York’s High Line, the ele­va­ted aban­do­ned rail line along the West Side of Man­hat­tan cur­rently being trans­for­med into a park, will be framed at 23rd street by a four­teen story con­do­mi­nium tower ap­pro­pria­tely named HL23 and de­si­gn…

Divided into three chap­ters – pro­duct, pro­cess and ar­chi­tec­ture – the book in­clu­des cont­ri­bu­ti­ons from eight wri­ters in cir­cles around Ce­pe­zed that ex­plore the spe­cial po­si­tion of the of­fice in the field. Each ar­ti­cle is fol­lo…

The con­struc­tion of the Bo­de­gas Pro­tos Wi­nery in Pe­ña­fiel has been fi­nis­hed. The buil­ding of Wi­nery de­si­gned by Ro­gers Stirk Har­bour …

The ‘Zone Pa­la­tul Parlamentului’ was rea­li­sed in all its dull mo­nu­men­ta­lity du­ring the Ce­au­sescu re­gime. The dic­ta­tor got the idea for the big­gest ever grand pro­jet after vi­sit­ing North Korea, where he saw at first han…

When the smelly and un­he­althy mi­ning in­dus­try disap­peared from the Ruhr­ge­biet in the 1980s, the re­gion was left to deal with hea­vily pol­lu­ted land and high un­em­ploy­ment. The In­ter­na­tio­nale Bau­au­stel­ling (IBA) Em­scher Park, whic…

My drive to Ut­recht last Sa­tur­day took me along the A12 mo­tor­way. Strewn thought­lessly along both sides of the road­way were miserable-looking boxes de­co­ra­ted with si­gnage that cla­mou­red for at­ten­tion, in­ter­rup­ted oc­ca­sio­nally by …

Winka Dub­bel­dam opened her of­fice Archi-Tectonics in 1994. She rose to pro­mi­nence with cont­ri­bu­ti­ons to ex­hi­bi­ti­ons such as 'The Un­pri­vate House' (1994) at the MOMA and Archi-Lab (2000) in Orléans. She also com­pi­led a body of qu…

Zijlstra, ar­chi­tect and foun­der of Ma­te­ria, an in­de­pen­dent ad­vi­sory of­fice for the selec­tion and de­ve­lop­ment of ar­chi­tec­tu­ral pro­ducts and ma­te­ri­als, dis­cus­sed the use of ma­te­ri­als by Mike Guyer and An­nette Gigon from Swi…

Besides de­ve­lo­ping a ca­ta­lo­gue of ma­te­ri­als, soon avail­able on in­ter­net, 2012 en­ga­ges in re­se­arch and pro­duc­tion. The in­te­rior of Duchi shoe shop is com­po­sed for 90% of waste. But it doesn't look the least bit shabby: floors, wa…

When I vi­si­ted the CCTV site in early Oc­to­ber 2006, work had just star­ted on the struc­ture above ground. Hund­reds of Chi­nese workers were busy on 18 hectare-site in the centre of Beijing’s Cen­tral Busi­ness District. Ten­sion was high…

John Ent­anza, edi­tor of the ar­chi­tec­ture ma­ga­zine Arts & Ar­chi­tec­ture, in­itia­ted the Case Study House Pro­gram in 1945. As the in­tro­duc­tion to the book out­li­nes, Ent­anza saw the pro­gramme as a way to 'offer the pu­blic and the …

The 25kV buil­ding is a for­mer electri­city con­trol sta­tion, now re­no­va­ted to house works­paces for (new) media com­pa­nies and vi­sual ar­tists working with new media. The ori­gi­nal buil­ding was little more than a blank con­crete vo­lume wit…