Architecture Archive
Interactive floorplan: CSD Architecten

Interactive floorplan: CSD Architecten

Built on an unusually proportioned narrow plot in Antwerp’s city centre, CSD Architecten’s first residential…

10 December 2009

Next generation architects

Next generation architects

Architectural first steps are critical: nothing sets a career on course like a well-received structure…

10 December 2009

Tamina baths, Switzerland

Tamina baths, Switzerland

The great resort hotels of the Alps continue their contemporary renaissance courtesy of Smolenicky &…

8 December 2009

Urbanisms: Steven Holl + Li Hu

Urbanisms: Steven Holl + Li Hu

Having had the privilege to be among the first to try out the Beijing Linked Hybrid building while working…

7 December 2009

Saadiyat Island tour, Abu Dhabi

Saadiyat Island tour, Abu Dhabi

From the highway that passes Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island there’s little more to see than dunes, dust…

7 December 2009

Interactive Floorplan: View House, Argentina

Interactive Floorplan: View House, Argentina

From the images, one might think that the View House is set adrift in its own sprawling private wilderness,…

3 December 2009

Book: Moshe Safdie II

Book: Moshe Safdie II

Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie is probably best known for his iconic debut project, the Habitat…

1 December 2009

Letter from Scotland

Letter from Scotland

Ten years on from devolution, Scottish contemporary architecture is, as the following highlights strongly…

26 November 2009

Forge Arts by Burd Haward Architects, London

Forge Arts by Burd Haward Architects, London

In an effort to recreate the intimate and calm context for which chamber music was originally composed…

20 November 2009

First Works architecture exhibition, AA Gallery

First Works architecture exhibition, AA Gallery

Hadid, Piano, Rogers, Foster and many of the fellow-60s and 70s generation of architects may today pride…

19 November 2009 | Events
Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale

Jean Tschumi: Architecture at Full Scale

Everyone knows Bernard Tschumi, former dean of Columbia’s architecture school; designer of the Derrida-inflected…

19 November 2009 | Books
John Portman retrospective

John Portman retrospective

For W*129 we took a trip to Entelechy II, John Portman’s Sea Island summer house and arguably the most…

12 November 2009

Interactive Floorplan: Shed House, Isle of Skye

Interactive Floorplan: Shed House, Isle of Skye

Accidental architecture was the inspiration behind the Shed House, a compact two-bedroom home on the…

11 November 2009