14+ hour, 59+ min ago  (526+ words) World-Architects OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture "Contemporary Brussels is both historic and modern, national and European, regional and cosmopolitan. That is its essence " in the mediation between presumed opposites. It is this reality that our project intends to express. It…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (200+ words) World-Architects The city of Melle wishes to build a new primary school on a completely open, unidentified plot of land. Our main goal was to endow this empty lot and its surrounding neighbourhood with a sense of community, whilst staying…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (136+ words) A house for craftsmanship in Belgian Limburg The project concerns the establishment of a house for craftsmanship in Belgian Limburg, also known as the VAKhuis. A place where craftspeople, designers, local producers, small companies as well as builders and students…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (282+ words) World-Architects Mies van der Rohe Award 2007, nomination The new buildings for the University Campus Krems are situated on the edge of the rolling vineyards of the Wachau region, north of Wien. The buildings house the postgraduate Danube University, the University…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (246+ words) World-Architects Renovation of the Wi So Faculty of the University of Cologne The University of Cologne is planning to renovate the building of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences. As part of a VOF tender, SSP was awarded the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (311+ words) The Hainan Science Museum, designed by Ma Yansong and his firm MAD, has opened to the public on the edge of Wuyuan River National Wetland Park. Since its trial opening, it has welcomed more than 350, 000 visitors in four months, with…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (580+ words) World-Architects OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture For Rotterdam's Timmerhuis, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (207+ words) World-Architects Christo's first major outdoor public artwork in the UK will be a temporary sculpture, The Mastaba, that will float on Serpentine Lake in London's Kensington Gardens this summer. Construction of The Mastaba, which will coincide with an exhibition on…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago  (347+ words) World-Architects Maintaining privacy for residents, diversifying the living environment, and building welcoming, open spaces Residents of urban housing complexes can't choose their neighbors. This project is an attempt to provide both connection and appropriate distance between the residents of a…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (67+ words) World-Architects Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety While the book is organized chronologically by project, Bergdoll and Bronkhorst's exhibition creates a visual narrative, juxtaposing details from different houses and inviting visitors into Rietveld's world through salient aesthetic attributes and patterns. Wang…...