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Its first steps were controversial, now the memorial to former US president Dwight D Eisenhower, designed by Frank Gehry, has finally broken ground in Washington DC after years of opposition. , full_html
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Renderings courtesy of the Eisenhower Memorial
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled plans for the new Royal College of Art that will form part of its expanded in Battersea campus in south London. , full_html
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A-FRAME is Daniel Zamarbide's new project developed after the formation of his new BUREAU practice. It was designed as an intervention for the TRIENNALE 2017 of the Canton of Valais, in Switzerland, the proposal makes an interpretation of one of the…
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The 2018 cycle of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program competition is already underway. The yearly competition challenges emerging architectural talent to develop creative proposals for a temporary summer outdoor installation that provides shade,…
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The library, one part of a larger cultural complex masterplan, bases itself around a spherical auditorium which, coupled with the main atrium, forms an eye that gives panoramas of the interior space and reflects the beautiful park in front of the…
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Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV / TUPDI. Photograph by Ossip van Duivenbode
Rijnstraat 8, a government building remodeled and expanded in The Hague, was inaugurated yesterday by the King of Holland. The building is an example of the new government policies Netherlands is applying to public property, reducing it, making it…
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Rijnstraat 8 by OMA. Photograph by Delfino Sisto Legnani and Marco Cappelletti, Courtesy of OMA
Dominique Perrault Architecture has been selected as the winner of an international competition to design the Gangnam International Transit Center, a new multimodal hub and shopping center located in the heart of Seoul, South Korea. , full_html
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Lightwalk by Dominique Perrault. Image © Rayus, Dominique Perrault Architecte, adagp
Six buildings were shortlisted for the coveted 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building. Now in its 22nd year, the RIBA Stirling Prize is the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize. , full_html
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Hastings Pier, by dRMM Architects. Photograph © Alex de Rijke
The chapel was built atop rolling moors in Krumbach, Austria. The Salgenreute Chapel is the rebuilding out of wood and stone, of existing 200-year-old Lourdes Chapel, and comprises a nave and an apse., full_html
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Kapelle Salgenreute by Bernardo Bader Architects | Dornbirn. Photograph © Bernardo Bader Architekten | Dornbirn
Locally based Saucier + Perrotte Architectes and HCMA designed the project: a structure which includes two large buildings; "one prismatic, white and diaphanous, the other darker and stretched horizontally.", full_html
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Complexe sportif Saint-Laurent by Saucier + Perrotte Architectes/HCMA. Photograph © Olivier Blouin