ArchDaily

House in Saint-Julien / ciguë
Winy Maas and Theobert van Boven Lead the Transformation of Their Former High School
Interior Design: 33 Restaurants in Mexico That Stimulate the User's Experience
450 Years of Houses in the United States
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games: Discover the Full List of Projects
Why the Drawings of Louis Kahn Still Matter
LoVt3 Apartment / NáBITO Architects
Agrotopia Research Center for Urban Food Production / van Bergen Kolpa architects
Serindang House / PARISAULI ARSITEK STUDIO

House in Saint-Julien / ciguë

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 10:00 PM PST

architects: ciguë
Location: 87460 Saint-Julien-le-Petit, France
Project Year: 2022
Photographs: Maris Mezulis
Area: 88.0 m2

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Winy Maas and Theobert van Boven Lead the Transformation of Their Former High School

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 09:30 PM PST

MVRDV founding partner Winy Maas and Theobert van Boven of Van Boven Architecten, two alumni of Gymnasium Beekvliet, are leading the transformation of their former highschool in the Dutch village of Sint-Michielsgestel. In addition to the renovation of the existing building, the design features a flowing, colourful extension accommodating a new auditorium, as well as art and culture facilities providing students with an engaging learning environment. The new structure features a printed façade showcasing artwork by Canadian visual artist Ian Kirkpatrick that provides a record of the school's 200 years of history while creating a new focal point for the school and region.

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Interior Design: 33 Restaurants in Mexico That Stimulate the User's Experience

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 09:00 PM PST

Restaurante Mexicano Masaryk / Vrtical. Image

Over the years, interior design has evolved according to the needs that arise, but above all to the experiences that it seeks to provoke in the user. In the last two years, we have witnessed a radical change and a special interest in this subject because the pandemic forced us to pay specific attention to the configuration of the places we inhabit. This brought about much more holistic designs that cater to the wellbeing of the user, combining colours, sensory experiences, technology and natural elements that promote health.

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

450 Years of Houses in the United States

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 08:30 PM PST

Art Deco + Art Moderne (1920–1945). Image Cortesía de American Home Shield

The history of architecture is made up of demographic, cultural, and social changes. In its relatively short history, American architecture has evolved with changes in the country, representing the catalog of various cultural influences that make up the United States as a whole. Many elements of American home design have remained intact over the past 450 years, reflecting longstanding American traditions and values that have stood the test of time.

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games: Discover the Full List of Projects

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 08:00 PM PST

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games and Paralympic Games have officially opened on February 4, 2022. The Winter Olympics made a brave move by adding two snow zones in Zhangjiakou and Yanqing to the ice zone in Beijing, creating an unprecedented three-zone system for the Winter Olympics.

Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University (THAD), has led the planning and architectural design of the whole and all venues in Zhangjiakou Zone and Shougang Venue in Beijing Zone. Planning and Venue design for Yanqing Zone was elaborated by the China Architectural Design & Research Group. Chinese architects took the initiative to create while serving the principle of sustainable development and closely integrating architectural planning methodologies and architectural design during the approximately six-year construction cycle. They proposed the design framework of "full-scale spatial intervention" based on the "General Plan, Regulatory Plan, Urban Design, Architecture Design and Equipment System Design," completing the Chinese practice of sustainable Winter Olympics.

This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Why the Drawings of Louis Kahn Still Matter

Posted: 03 Feb 2022 07:30 PM PST

Market Street East (1960-62), Philadelphia Civic Center (1956-57).. Image Courtesy of Lars Muller Books, The Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania, Sue Ann Kahn, and the Museum of Modern Art.

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

In an age of ebooks and web-first publishing, Louis Kahn: The Importance of a Drawing (Lars Müller Publishers) is a defiant throwback: a lavish, 500-plus-page book, very much an object befitting its subject, whose buildings had a weight, both literal and figurative, that was part of their power and appeal. Conceived and edited by Michael Merrill, the book is both a deep examination of Kahn's creative process, as told through the medium of the hand drawing, as well as a revealing portrait of the man behind those buildings and illustrations. Merrill is an architect and educator and currently serves as director of research at the Institute for Building Typology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. He's also the author of two previous books on the master architect, Louis Kahn: Drawing to Find Out and Louis Kahn: On the Thoughtful Making of Spaces.