“When we launched Utopian Hours ten years ago, it seemed unrealistic to build a festival around the excitement cities generate and the very meaning of what a city truly is,” The post The tenth version of Utopian Hours takes place in Turin October 16–17 appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
While founding partner of the architecture and interior design studio Hendricks Churchill, Rafe Churchill, was thinking about his next move, his career path took an unexpected turn. Instead of settling The post A new hospitality group emerges from the architecture and design studio Hendricks Churchill to breathe new life into historic buildings appeared first on…
When the Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) first moved to downtown Santa Ana, California, it hardly had a campus” to speak of. Instead, its roughly 2,300 students in The post Studio One Eleven’s porous design for the Orange County School of the Arts weaves a grade school campus into the city appeared first…
British studio Foster + Partners and local architect Luis María Uriarte have expanded the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum in Spain with a 55-metre-long elevated gallery. Named Agravitas, the bridge-like extension sits on large V-shaped columns that straddle the existing museum, not touching the original building fabric. Foster + Partners and Luis María Uriarte designed the…
Local studio Fieldwork has transformed a run-down building in west London into a home and casting studio with “a sense of drama and atmosphere”. Fieldwork stripped back and expanded the two-storey building, adding a mansard roof and a double-height side infill extension to increase the internal floor area by over 60 per cent. This created a…
LE CORBUSIER’S RONCHAMP CHAPEL THROUGH PAUL CLEMENCE’S LENS Born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret on October 6, 1887, Le Corbusier would have turned 139 today. To mark the anniversary, designboom revisits one of the architect’s most singular works through a photographic portfolio by Paul Clemence, whose images turn their attention to the light, textures and sculptural surfaces…
Work has commenced on a renovation of the Royal College of Art‘s iconic modernist campus in west London, overseen by British studios Witherford Watson Mann and Clementine Blakemore Architects. Now underway, the revamp will reinvigorate the Grade II-listed Darwin Building – the heart of the London university’s Kensington campus, built in 1962. Few details have been…
wood and biodegradable 3D printed modules form woven pavilion Woven is a temporary architectural pavilion by Atelier DARN that explores cycles of transformation, decay, and regeneration through a structure made entirely from nature-based materials. Located in Les Gavarres landscape, in Girona, Spain, the pavilion combines wood with a biodegradable filament made from miscanthus…
AGRAVITAS HOVERS ABOVE BILBAO FINE ARTS MUSEUM A new volume now hangs above the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, spanning architecture built several decades apart. Foster + Partners and Bilbao architect Luis María Uriarte have completed Agravitas, an expansion that adds around 6,000 square meters to the museum while leaving its 1945 building and 1970…
Brazilian architecture practice Estúdio Módulo has released its competition-winning designs for the headquarters of Itaú Cultural, which feature a tall, slender building wrapped in glass and white louvres. The São Paulo-based architectural studio’s design for Itaú Cultural, an arts research institute, was selected through a competition involving six firms. Estúdio Módulo has won a competition…