Category: Architecture
Serpentine Pavilion 2020 by Counterspace: it will be built with recycled bricks
The South African architecture studio Counterspace will use cork and bricks made with recycled building materials to build this year's Serpentine Pavilion, dedicated to the experiences of migrant communities in London. K-Briq modules will be used for the pavilion, a new Kenoteq technology for the production of bricks made from 90% recycled construction and demolition waste. According to what reported by the manufacturer, this ecological bricks do not require cooking..
Read more- 0 Comment
A 3D printed houses project in Italy: Tecla
New ways of thinking about the house, of designing and building it. Technology provides new and innovative methodologies in the field of architecture on a daily basis and one of these, 3D printing, is catching on widely. We talked about it some time ago in an article that told of a project by a Dutch university that had developed the first habitable village entirely 3D printed and that you find below. https://www.tosilab.it/prime-case-stampate-in-3d-sorgeranno-a-eindhoven/..
Read more- 0 Comment
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara win the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2020
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, won the Pritzker Architecture award for 2020. Farrell and McNamara were honored "both for the integrity of their approach to buildings and for the way they run their business," said the jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. For the first time, the award goes to Ireland, although the fourth winner - Kevin Roche - is originally from that country. For the fourth and fifth time, the prestigious prize was..
Read more- 0 Comment
Architects Declare founded in UK for sustainable architecture
The awareness that something is changing in our planet due to climate change is now a widespread issue: this year the UN launched the alarm which highlighted how the time available to limit heating global of 1.5 degrees is only 12 years and represents the only way to avoid catastrophic levels of sea level rise and increase in extreme weather events. We have seen in recent events dedicated to design - from the Fuorisalone to the 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen - how widesp..
Read more- 0 Comment
Arata Isozaki is the Pritzker Prize 2019
Arata Isozaki wins the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize, which will 'fly' to Japan for the eighth time since its foundation 40 years ago. Born in 1931, Isozaki is originally from Ōita, in the north-east of the Japanese island of Kyushu. Japanese architecture still winning After awarding the prestigious Pritzker Prize, considered by many as the "Nobel Prize for architecture”, to the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi in 2018, the international jury decided to honour Arat..
Read more- 0 Comment
Architect Ishigami’s Serpentine Pavilion 2019
For 19 straight years now, the Serpentine Gallery – one of the most renowned modern and contemporary art showcases in London – has appointed a world famous architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion, a temporary summer pavilion that is renewed every year at Kensington Gardens, London. There is just one requisite for the position, namely that the architect has never implemented any projects in the United Kingdom. So who is the architect of the Serpentine Pavilion 2019? J..
Read more- 0 Comment
Is bamboo the plant that can revolutionize architecture?
Perhaps not everybody is aware of the amazing properties of bamboo, which has always been used as a construction material in Asia, and which, in recent years, has been highly appreciated by European architects and designers too. We generally consider bamboo an ornamental plant or associate it with parquet flooring but its hardness is comparable to that of steel. Indeed, it is called "green steel" by no mere chance. It can carry two-fold the weight compression borne by cement,..
Read more- 0 Comment
Apple Piazza Liberty in Milan: a masterpiece near the famous Duomo
The new Apple store in Milan has been designed by Stefan Behiling, architect of the Foster + Partners studio, who had already designed other Apple Stores in San Francisco, London, Macao and Dubai in the past few years. It is the first Apple flagship store in Italy and the 170th Italian store of the American multinational; the team who worked on the project needed several years to find the suitable space, 4 years of planning and 1 year for the realization. Here are the phot..
Read more- 0 Comment
The first 3D printed houses will appear in Eindhoven
3D printing has now become a widespread practice. We have been getting more familiar it in recent years, first through the printing of small objects, then progressing to furniture, chairs, armchairs and tables. In addition to this, the development of new technologies and new production and design methods is now affecting the world of design and architecture, creating functional elements with completely new aesthetics, unusual shapes and new colours. We discussed the impact of..
Read more- 0 Comment
10 must-see pavilions at the Venice Biennale Architettura 2018
The Venice International Architecture Exhibition 2018, which has reached its 16th edition, is entitled Freespace. Officially opened on 26 May, it will be held at the Giardini and Arsenale until November. Curated by the Irish firm Grafton Architects, Freespace is also the theme organisers have assigned the 63 nations participating in the Venice Biennale 2018. They have been invited to revisit their pavilion spaces with the utmost freedom, based on their cultural background,..
Read more- 0 Comment
Leave a Reply