Bricks Decoded: The Return of Glass Blocks.Go on. Admit it. The thought of glass blocks probably makes you shudder. Unless you fall into the 5%* category of new generation designers who have already embraced the potential of this highly misunderstood and marginalised building...
Interview: Christie Petsinis & Tim Wilson of Folk Architects.Some people are just awesome and they get it. They are precisely the type of people I love giving plenty of airtime. So today, we shine a spotlight on a young Melbourne architecture practiceĀ Folk, headed up byĀ Christie Petsinis & Tim...
Alvaro Siza Vieira’s New Church of Saint-Jacques de la Lande in Rennes, France.Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira has designed a beautiful, light-filled church for Rennesā outer suburbs. Alvaro Siza Vieira's Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande will be the first church built in Brittany, France...
Stage of Forest: Ski Pavilion at Songhua Lake Resort of Jilin, China by META-Project.Designed by Beijing-based META-Project, this mountainside structure looks like a villainās secluded lair in a James Bond film. Its purpose in reality, however, is a lot less foreboding. Peering over the icy Songhua Lake from a...
Cinker Pictures Shanghai Combines Boutique Movie Theatre with Social Spaces.Taking its inspiration from the Space Race era and 70s sci-fi, Cinker Pictures Shanghai expands on the first Beijing cinema concept, drawing together lounges, a bar, restaurant, cinema, terrace, and a gallery, all in the one...
The MaoHaus in Beijing, China by AntiStatics Architecture.AntiStatics Architecture seem to have made concrete billow and wave in the breeze of central Beijing. The material-defying feat is an experimental faƧadeāone that looks a lot more like the rolling fabric of a featherweight tent than...
Bricks Decoded: Easy, Breezy, Beautiful Breeze Block.In Brazil, itās known as CobogĆ³. In India, they call it Jaalis. The French term is Brise-soleil. Here we know it as Breeze Block. Call them what you will, these little units of awesome are making a massive comeback. Back in the 50s...
Liquid Pavilion by DepA for The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal.DepA has completed a mirrored pavilion set on the grounds of a cultural institution Serralves, Portugal, originally designed by Ćlvaro Siza in the...
Tianjin Binhai Library in China by MVRDV with TUPDI.MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the spectacular Tianjin Binhai Library in a coastal metropolis outside Beijing,...
