The Aral Sea has shrunk by 90 percent since the 1960s because of massive Soviet irrigation projects. Today, the depleted water body is a cautionary tale for what happens when The post Joseph Grima appointed program director of Uzbekistan’s Aral School appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
On September 16, Google shared new interior and exterior renderings of Chicago’s Thompson Center, as part of the ongoing renovation project by Jahn/. The new renderings differ from a previous The post Google shares new Thompson Center interior renderings for Chicago flagship appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
malba grows beneath buenos aires On its 25th anniversary, Malba is preparing to expand beneath Plaza Perú in Buenos Aires, with Frida Escobedo Studio leading a project that will double the museum’s exhibition space. The new architecture moves underground, allowing a substantial extension of the institution while the public square continues across the surface…
Storm frequencies, intensities, and durations are changing and, in many regions, severe storms and snowmelt events occur more often than expected. This environmental shift, combined with commonly used impervious surfaces The post A resiliency plan for a flood prone neighborhood in Hoboken, New Jersey appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.
Toronto is a city of ravines. Though lush, verdant networks of plant and animal life unfold below the city streets like veins and arteries, you’d almost never know it from The post At the University of Toronto’s Indigenous House, Formline Architecture + Urbanism and LGA Architectural Partners fold Indigenous pedagogies into the design appeared first…
the city as a field of possibility What if the city wasn’t something to consume but something to play? For the Situationists, this was a way of challenging the passive role assigned to people in modern society. Instead of simply following the routes, functions, images, and routines laid out for them, they imagined inhabitants…
A sculptural cluster of cylindrical forms defines the “calm, continuous” House in Las Rozas, a home in Madrid completed by local studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. Overlooking the Sierra de Guadarrama on the outskirts of Madrid, the home’s cylindrical volumes emerge from a gently sloping site and are finished in crisp white render with sloping roofs.…
Architecture practice Studio Egret West has submitted a “more-permeable” masterplan for the final phases of the Battersea Power Station development in London. Designed for the development’s remaining 16-acre brownfield site, the updated masterplan by Studio Egret West would contain 3.2 million square feet of residential, commercial and leisure space. The new proposal, which has been…
Casa POP reorganizes a standardized Madrid apartment Casa POP by gon architects is the renovation of a 78 sqm apartment in Vicálvaro, east of Madrid, that had been occupied by its owners for 20 years. The starting point was a typical, heavily compartmentalized home whose layout no longer suited their way of living. The…
On a Tuesday afternoon along the Lower East Side’s swath of the East River, a small group gathers in an amphitheater abutting the riverfront. Farther upstream, a mother stands over The post The East Side Coastal Resiliency project bolsters New York City’s waterfront with updated flood infrastructure and new opportunities for recreation appeared first on…