architecture
Last weekend, Miami hosted its annual Formula 1 grand prix. The Florida city, which held its first race in 2022, has already become a natural nesting ground for the sport which oozes lavish and luxury lifestyles to excess. On Sunday, British driver Lando Norris claimed his maiden victory at the Hard Rock stadium in front of a crowd of 275,000. While all eyes were on the 24-year-old and his papaya-liveried McLaren teammates (among whom roamed, by way of a profane talisman, one special guest even more orange than the winning car, former president Donald Trump) the other teams were left to quietl...
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The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, designed by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, has been crowned the winner of this year's EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Revealed by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission, the German project is being rewarded for its innovative approach to sustainability and for creating a welcoming and interactive space for study, collaboration, and community gatherings. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition for the study centre in 2015, are the youn...
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Since its inception in 1988, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, also known as the Mies van der Rohe Award, has celebrated excellence in architectural works built across Europe. Co-organised by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the prize is set to announce its winner for its 2024 edition on 14 May at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. A jury have whittled down 362 nominees to a shortlist of 40, competing for the main €60,000 prize. The award also includes the Emerging Architect Prize (€30 000). The awarded projects are not only judged on their aesthe...
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Famous for its quaint streets, canals, Gothic architecture and Christmas markets, the Belgian city of Bruges will soon welcome visitors to explore its creative side – and envision the possible Bruges of the future. Far from being divorced from its context and Bruges’ rich heritage, though, the contemporary art and architecture festival will engage with the city’s historic centre (as well as the West Bruges and Zeebrugge areas) within its theme ‘Spaces of Possibility’, focussing on exploring the revitalisation of neglected places in Bruges and encouraging visitors to imagine the city’s potentia...
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Cool paint coatings could help cities feel up to 1.5C cooler, a new study has found. Using paint to counter the ‘urban heat island’ effect is nothing new, but this real-world experiment showed just how impactful it can be. Researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) coated the roofs, walls, and road pavements of an industrial area in Singapore with paint containing additives that reflect the sun's heat. The first-of-its-kind study, published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society in March, revealed that paint could be a key tool in making urban areas more comfortable for work ...
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Considered one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, with his work presented in the world’s best museums and collections, Richard Serra has died aged 85. His lawyer, John Silberman, confirmed his death on Tuesday, stating that the cause was pneumonia. Known by his colleagues as the “poet of iron,” Serra became world-renowned for his large-scale steel structures, such as monumental arcs, spirals and ellipses. He was closely identified with the minimalist movement of the 1970s. Picasso sculptures take centre stage in must-see exhibition at Bilbao's GuggenheimMicroscopic masterpiec...
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The world's most famous unfinished building may finally be completed after architects said that the basilica would be finished by 2026, marking the centenary of the death of the Sagrada Familia's creator, Antoní Gaudí. Esteve Camps, the president of the organisation in charge of realising the original masterplan of Gaudí, said the building should be completed within two years, some 144 years after the first stone was laid on the site. If the deadline is reached, the basilica would include the 172.5-metre central tower dedicated to Jesus Christ, making the Sagrada Familia Barcelona’s tallest bu...
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In the far reaches of Dongguan, a city in south-eastern China known for its huge production factories of export goods, is a mini-city perfectly replicating historic sites from around Europe. The area is called the Ox Horn Campus and is owned by Huawei, the Chinese tech company, and was completed in 2019 at a cost of $1.5 billion. It houses Huawei’s main research and development offices, but it looks far from a typical R&D headquarters. To get around Ox Horn Campus, you have to take a bright orange train. It's not open to the public, but anyone who has the chance to jump on one of these trains ...
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Architecture has long been intertwined with the historical narratives of colonialism, where European powers imposed their styles and ideologies upon colonised regions, often disregarding local cultures and climates. This dominance led to the perpetuation of architectural forms that were unsuitable for tropical environments, leading to issues such as poor ventilation, excessive heat gain, and structural instability. However, in the mid-19th century emerged a counter-movement known as Tropical Modernism, which sought to reconcile modern architectural principles with indigenous traditions and tro...
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Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, an award that is globally seen as architecture’s highest honour. 78-year-old Yamamoto is known for his social advocacy and his built works marrying public and private space, which often make a point of bringing together diverse groups in urban environments. “For me, to recognise space is to recognise an entire community,” Yamamoto said. “We can still honour the freedom of each individual while living together in architecture space as a republic, fostering harmony across cultures and phases of...
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