TYPOLOGY | The warehouse
Warehouses used to dominate the the cities. They changed, almost disappeared, hid behind new materials. Now they’re back.
Warehouses used to dominate the the cities. They changed, almost disappeared, hid behind new materials. Now they’re back.
To encourage cooperation between two different disciplines, at Cornell University the schools of Computing Science and Information Science are joint together in one unique building: the Bill & Melinda Gates Hall (design by Morphosis Architects).
ARCHIST (Architect/Artist). How would famous artists design a building?
Illustrator Federico Babina creates the Artistar: can you find the correlation between architect and artist, work of art and architecture?
Here’s our take on his work.
High-tech architecture incorporates elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design.
A magical experience in James Turrell’s Skyspace installation:
“The Color Inside” is a milestone in The University of Texas at Austin’s Landmarks public art collection.
Starting in 2000, every year (well,almost: except for 2004) a pavilion by a star architect still to build in the UK. Spring to Fall in Kensington Gardens, London.
It’s not unusual to find, especially in poor districts and in developing cities, modern architectures that clash with the surroundings. But in this case, it is the context that strikes you.
A vertical city on Rotterdam’s waterfront. An urban lecture by OMA. Photos by Ossip van Duivenbode Read also: Copenaghen’s BLACK DIAMOND >>> A cityscape essay
A public walkway links and revives marginalised, but surprisingly beautiful sections of foreshore. “We move on from nostalgic visions of place-making and embrace interstitial spaces with relish”. Abundant birdlife and the silky surface of the river can be closely inspected as one walks the gentle arc which links an existing school, playground, major entrainment centre and rowing club. Punctuating the arc are two carefully crafted pavilions which offer shelter, seating and a location to pause and consider the water plane and sky.
San Francisco is a city with a deep passion for knowledge of nature: since 1853 the city is the headquarter of the California Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious institutions in the US. RBWB reaffirm this vocation with an incredible building, between discover and landscape.