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Tautem and Bmc2 Architectes use monolithic forms to create concrete school in Marseille

May 18, 2021 James Parkes 0

French architecture studios Tautem and Bmc2 Architectes have built a concrete school in Marseille with sculptural features, skewed-geometric windows and colourful interiors. The 41,000-square-metre Antoine de Ruffi school is located on a corner site at the entrance to the Euroméditerranée district between Marseille’s second and third arrondissement. The studios looked to the architecture of the

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Diana Kellogg Architects creates oval-shaped school in India’s Thar Desert

May 15, 2021 James Parkes 0

New York-based studio Diana Kellogg Architects looked to symbols of femininity for its design of an oval-shaped all-girls school in India made from local sandstone. Located in the Thar Desert in the north of India, the Rajkumari Ratnavati Girls School was built to educate and teach over 400 girls between the ages of five and sixteen. Diana Kellogg

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Seven 3D-printed houses that have been built around the world

May 14, 2021 James Parkes 0

A Dutch couple recently became the first people in Europe to move into a 3D-printed home, so we have rounded up seven examples of 3D-printed houses from around the world. 3D printing has long been hailed as a potential solution for quickly and efficiently building housing, and this promise is now becoming a reality. Here

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Clap Studio designs modular studio that takes cues from the Mediterranean Sea

May 12, 2021 James Parkes 0

Valencia-based design practice Clap Studio has created The Sea, a temporary modular installation for a television studio that was informed by the ocean and made from gridded mesh boxes and illuminated spheres. Located in the Veles e Vents building in Valencia that was designed by David Chipperfield, The Sea installation was built as part of

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MAD tops Jiaxing Civic Centre with roof shaped like a “tarp blown by the wind”

May 11, 2021 James Parkes 0

Architecture studio MAD has designed a three-venue civic centre in the city of Jiaxing, China, that will be topped with a continuous roof that has the form of a tarpaulin being blown in the wind according to the studio, Located near the canals of the historic South Lake and alongside the city’s largest park, the Jiaxing

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Lilli Hollein appointed director of Vienna’s MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

May 10, 2021 James Parkes 0

Vienna Design Week co-founder Lilli Hollein

Lilli Hollein, the former director and co-founder of Vienna Design Week, has been named the head of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. Hollein will assume her role as general director and artistic director of the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts from September 2021. As director, she aims to broaden the audience

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World’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal

May 7, 2021 James Parkes 0

516 Arouca is the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge

Portugal’s Institute for Research and Technological Development for Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability has completed a 516-metre-long pedestrian suspension bridge named 516 Arouca in northern Portugal. Built in the Arouca Geopark, the 516-metre-long bridge is suspended 175-metres above the Paiva river and links two hills with granite cliff faces. The bridge was built by Institute for Research

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First tenants move into 3D-printed home in Eindhoven

May 6, 2021 James Parkes 0

A boulder-shaped concrete house in the Netherlands has become the first lived-in 3D-printed home in the country after its tenants received the key on April 30. Located in a suburb of Eindhoven, the single-storey home was built as part of a five-home 3D printing scheme named Project Milestone, and is said to be the first

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AL_A wraps University of Oxford buildings in etched glass and anodised aluminium

May 5, 2021 James Parkes 0

London-based architecture studio AL_A has designed two buildings for the University of Oxford that are wrapped in aluminium and etched glass to mimic stone and reflect the site’s historic setting. The two interconnected buildings form part of the Wadham College campus and consist of an undergraduate centre that houses common and social spaces and work

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Southern hemisphere’s tallest residential skyscraper punctuated by cantilevered golden star

May 4, 2021 James Parkes 0

Tallest residential tower in the Southern Hemisphere by Fender Katsalidis

Architecture studio Fender Katsalidis has completed the Australia 108 skyscraper in Melbourne, which at 319 metres tall is the tallest residential building in the southern hemisphere. The 100-storey skyscraper was designed to become a landmark on the city’s skyline with a golden star dubbed the Starburst breaking its clean lines. “The completion of Australia 108 marks an incredible

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