A slice of Silicon Valley – inside the RCA’s colossal new £135m building | Architecture | The Guardian
The Royal College of Art’s brutalist new building – by architects Herzog & de Meuron – reflects a shift from art school to science-tech powerhouse. But is a business-facing behemoth what its students really need? Source: A slice of Silicon Valley – inside the RCA’s colossal new… Continue reading
Domus: The Malibu home of legendary Hollywood agent Michael Ovitz
It is an unusual challenge: how to build a Los Angeles-area beach house for the man who has everything, including a palatial art-filled mansion just a few miles away, which, as it happens, you yourself designed? The client is Michael Ovitz, a legendary Hollywood agent, studio executive, collector and patron… Continue reading
Google’s New Bjarke Ingels– and Thomas Heatherwick–Designed HQ Shows the Future of Office Spaces | Architectural Digest
From floor to ceiling, Google’s Bay View campus breaks new ground for sustainability while defying the typical office aesthetic Source: Google’s New Bjarke Ingels– and Thomas Heatherwick–Designed HQ Shows the Future of Office Spaces | Architectural Digest… Continue reading
Google Bay View Campus by BIG and Heatherwick Studio reimagines workspace
The Google Bay View Campus has opened. Architects Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Heatherwick Studio have worked with Google’s own design and engineering teams for the new Silicon Valley campus, the first major campus the company has developed itself.Spanning a vast 42 acres and located next to Nasa’s Ames Research Center,… Continue reading
Kraszna-Krausz | 2022 Book Awards
Momentum of Light “Simply a stunning publication, from the exquisite photographs and rich collaboration between the authors (a photographer and architect) to the inspired use of design and impressive production values. It’s an uplifting and immersive experience to make your way through this book, which explores the interplay between natural… Continue reading
56 Leonard, Herzog & de Meuron’s skyscraper in New York – Domus
Nicknamed the Jenga Tower by New Yorkers for its irregular protruding shape, five years into its own experimenti in vertical living, 56 Leonard Street seems like a comparatively successful combination of far-out urban fantasy and pragmatic machine-a-habiter. Continue reading
Lambda Files. The Project for the Munch Museum of Oslo | CentroCentro
…The Project for the Munch Museum of Oslo shows how new forms of architecture are the result of intense processes of political and social dialogue, of long-term collaborations between different agents. Well worth highlighting among numerous documents on display are the unpublished images that photographer Iwan Baan took of… Continue reading
Inside Ellen DeGeneres’s Mission to Aid Gorilla Conservation | Architectural Digest
With the help of the TV star, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund unveils a spectacular campus by MASS Design Group dedicated to education and conservation Source: Inside Ellen DeGeneres’s Mission to Aid Gorilla Conservation | Architectural Digest… Continue reading
These Spanish Architects Are Revitalizing Structures Sustainably | Architectural Digest
The Spanish architects José Selgas and Lucía Cano are known for using curved surfaces, bright colors, and high-tech materials to create attention-getting buildings. But they also know that the less you build, the less carbon will be emitted into the atmosphere, reducing buildings’ contribution to global warming. And… Continue reading
Burkina Faso’s Master Builder | Martin Filler | The New York Review of Books
Because most of Kéré’s completed buildings are far from the well-trodden pathways of mass tourism, few people have seen them apart from their users, local residents, or architecture aficionados who’ve traveled great distances expressly to visit them. Happily, among the latter is Iwan Baan, the Dutch architectural photographer… Continue reading
Pritzker Winner Francis Kéré Pushes Architecture’s Green Future – Bloomberg
The Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré uses local materials and an eye for traditional practices to push the global boundaries of sustainability. Source: Pritzker Winner Francis Kéré Pushes Architecture’s Green Future – Bloomberg… Continue reading
Momentum of Light – Iwan Baan, Francis Kéré – Best Dutch Book Designs/De Best Verzorgde Boeken
The book ‘Momentum of Light’ – Iwan Baan, Francis Kéré was just selected as one of The Best Dutch Book Designs / De Best Verzorgde Boeken 2021 Every year, The Best Dutch Book Designs celebrates the best products of the graphic industry in the Netherlands: 33 books made with… Continue reading