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The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Join us in London for the announcement of the winners of the AR Emerging awards 2024 on Thursday 14 November! This year’s shortlist includes architects who are investigating earth and bio‑based materials,…. Architecture is a site of exchange ...
From pillar to lamp post: lighting city streets
Sep 7, 2021 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. The history of the street light traces the course of political turbulence and the rise of capitalism. Street lighting might seem like a product of modernity, but there is little new about it. The Romans illuminated their city streets at night and ...
1993 April: Mies’ miraculous survivor, Villa Tugendhat
Jun 20, 2012 · The design The Villa Tugendhat was the last major residence designed by Mies to be built in Europe. Christian Norberg-Schultz comments, in Meaning in Western Architecture, that ‘What the Villa Savoye represents in the oeuvre of Le Corbusier, the Tugendhat House in Brno represents for Mies van der Rohe’.Before the First World War Mies had spent some time working under Peter Behrens, as had ...
Revisit: Marcel Breuer's Flaine resort and Charlotte Perriand's Les ...
May 25, 2020 · Cantilevering out over the rocks, Hôtel Le Flaine became a powerful symbol and the most published image of the ski resort. It took more than 10 years to finish Breuer’s entire masterplan of the ‘Utopian City of Modernism’ in the Alps. The most recognisable building is Hôtel Le Flaine, finished in 1969, a four-storey block whose front ...
Vitra Fire Station in Germany by Zaha Hadid Architects
Feb 3, 2016 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. Zaha Hadid’s first completed building is perhaps the most famous fire station in the world (apart from the one in Ghostbusters), with a gestural, pointy porch that yells ‘emergency!’. The rest of the building is a complex collection of ...
Social housing in Mallorca, Spain by IBAVI
Apr 11, 2022 · Through a process it has developed whereby the carbon emissions of different building materials are ‘resource mapped’ according to geographic location, IBAVI has discovered that marés construction outperforms other kinds when sourced nearby. IBAVI first tested this material in 2019 at Carrer del Regal, a three-storey urban infill social-housing project in Son Gotleu, an inner-city ...
House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects, Oita City, Oita, Japan
Apr 1, 2009 · The startlingly brilliant 37-year-old Sou Fujimoto is highly prolific, with five projects featured in the AR Awards for Emerging Architecture, before appearing last year on the jury (a tactic to stop him winning the main prize for the second time). House N extends his portfolio of houses in a new direction, creating what he calls a ‘box-in ...
The Strategies of Mat-building - The Architectural Review
Aug 13, 2013 · To understand those decades of the last century, some context is needed. The link between Team 10’s ideas and French structuralism had already been analysed, demonstrating the belief of that generation of architects in the new social sciences, the application of relational thinking to the programme, and the legacy of linguistics to be seen in the re-organisation of architectonic and urban ...
Typology: Bank - The Architectural Review
Sep 18, 2019 · 03 typology bank williamsburgh savings robert helmer architectural review. The 63ft-tall hall of the 1929 Williamsburgh Savings Bank, by Robert Helmer, is designed to reassure the public. An inscription reads: ‘to our depositors past and present … by their industry and thrift they have … maintained the true spirit of American democracy’.
Yona Friedman (1923-2020) - The Architectural Review
May 11, 2022 · The Architectural Review An online and print magazine about international design. Since 1896. His built legacy is limited, but Friedman’s utopian ideals are a serious attempt to redress inequalities of resources and space. During the last half of his long life, Yona Friedman (1923-2020) lived in a 19th-century, Haussmann-type apartment on ...