Architecture studio Pearce+ has created a timber pavilion in Camden, London, to draw attention to the need for shade in the UK and encourage people to build their own DIY shading. Commissioned by Camden Inspire festival, the simple pavilion is currently situated at the site of the Camden Collective charity in north London. It was…
Architect Donald Insall, founder of Donald Insall Associates and known for his conservation and renovation work, including on Windsor Castle, has died at the age of 100. Insall, whose death was announced in a statement from his studio, was best known for his work in conservation, which he saw as different to preservation. “Preservation he said…
a grid of oak trees frames porphyry-paved piazza in northern Italy Ghisellini Architetti has redesigned Public Square Madre Francesca Cabrini as a contemporary Italian piazza framed by architecture and trees. Located in a small town in the lower Lodi area of Italy, the project reinterprets the open clearings of the region’s former lowland forests,…
Four triangular timber volumes shape coastal ‘house of cards’ House of Cards is a coastal residence in Koksijde, Belgium, designed by Vantieghem Talebi around the structural and zoning constraints of an existing foundation. The new house follows the foundation’s asymmetrical cruciform geometry, with each triangular bay forming a distinct volume resembling a house of cards.…
A dormant dome in the heart of Istanbul has been reimagined as a contemporary cafe. Designed by international design and creative studio Mitte, Local People transforms an underused structure in Başakşehir, one of the city’s densely developed residential districts, into a community gathering place. As its name suggests, the project embodies a local spirit, bringing…
BIG raises cloud-like building above public park in albania Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) wins the Fountain Plaza Tirana international design competition with a proposal that raises the building above a park-like public realm in Tirana, Albania. The project combines elevated building volumes, a translucent facade, and a network of slender columns to create an…
Cloaked in layers of white disks, architecture studio BIG has revealed plans for a mixed-use building in Tirana containing apartments, offices, cultural spaces and water features. Named Tirana Fountain Tower, the cloud-like building will be raised on slim white columns over Rinia Park, designed to keep the ground level largely open as a public space.…
Architecture studio Grimshaw and landscape architect Aspect Studios have completed a visitor experience centre for one of Australia‘s most-visited natural landmarks, the Twelve Apostles in Victoria. Located at the top of the site in Port Campbell National Park, the 3,300-square-metre visitor centre is designed by Grimshaw and Aspect Studios with rammed-earth walls intended to resemble…
OMA reimagines a Houston coffee plant as a school OMA transforms Houston’s historic 1930s J.A. Folger & Co. coffee plant into the Frank Liu Jr. Academy for Music and Arts (FLAMA), a tuition-free public charter school designed around music, creative learning, and community. Led by OMA partner Jason Long and project architect Salome Nikuradze,…
Nota, the company behind hotelier Not a Hotel, is set to create its first cultural space with the opening of Not a Museum, which will be designed together with Tokyo creative collective SKWAT. The mixed-use space will be located in the Imperial Hotel Plaza Tokyo, a 2,000-square-metre commercial centre that is set to be torn…