Tag: Architects

As a response to Notre-Dame’s tragic fire, Shepherd Studio developed a possible temporary reconstruction: the proposal is entitled ‘divine intervention’. The ‘divine intervention’ by Shepherd Studio includes a huge inflatable balloon-like protective layer that would sit on top of the...

Every year, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off in the high desert outside of Los Angeles, where the art installations are the background of nearly every photo. The 2019 Coachella art installations were built by groups, including...

100% Design – the UK’s largest and longest standing annual design event – returns from 19-22 September with a shake-up to its core programming. For its 24th edition, 100% Design remains the perfect destination for architects and designers to discover...

This award-winning social architecture project was a challenging one for Urko Sánchez Architects. The 2,600m2 space in Tadjourah, Djibouti, was created for SOS The Children and contains 15 houses. The greatest challenge facing the architects was the fact that this area...

Nowadays, it’s become common for cavernous, industrial buildings to be used as exhibition spaces, much to the delight of the artists who no longer have to worry about their work being overshadowed by quirky decoration or even worse, cramped into...

Next in our 2015 Milan Expo daily series is the Vietnam pavilion.   The Asian country took inspiration from its national flower, the lotus, and decided to focus on problems related to the world’s most important element: water. The lotus flower turned...

Barcelona-based architects External Reference designed this fantastic premium Catalan fast food restaurant. Ham on Wheels, as the name suggests, combines bicycle culture with Spanish ham, and the tiny space is full of clever touches, like a carved mural of a...

Having a great place to work is key to boosting productivity, and the Second Home offices in London’s Shoreditch definitely look like a great place to spend your working days. Designed by SelgasCano architects, and powered by 100% green energy,...

In the heart of the Pedras Salgadas Park in Portugal, Luís and Tiago Rebelo de Andrade of Rebelo de Andrade Studio have created these interesting looking Tree Snake Houses. The tree houses aren’t build among the branches of a high tree,...

Knarvik Community Church is the work of award-winning Oslo architects Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter, famous for their bold, simple and very Scandinavian architecture, and is a modern take on a Norwegian stave church from the Middle Ages. Built in layers and with...