Architettura

Imagine a museum, instead of travelling far to see it, will stand temporarly in your home town.

Romanian artist Alex Dragulescu creates artwork blending traditional art and new media.

He gives the impression of wanting to tidy everything up and clear away any unnecessary visual ballast. Meticulously and with surgical precision Richard Galpin breaks down the fine top layer of large-scale architectural photographs.

The former workers' district of Zurich is undergoing large-scale rehabilitation. After the renovation and conversion of a number of buildings such as the Volkshaus and the Hotel Rothaus, there are now further plans for a new development: an area of

As if their indestructible presence wanted to make sure that we don't forget the past. As if they wanted to tell us that war is present everywhere – for many years now the bunkers.

Written by Maya Jordan, Photos by Nelson Kon and Fran Parente

The concrete structure, which at first sight looks rather awkward and monumental, reveals itself at a closer look as a walk-in sculpture which.

U-Bahnhöfe der klassischen Moderne (Underground stations in the classical modern style)

We are architects, and during the last few years we have been reading and commenting on several architectural websites. As many of you do, we love to watch, learn and discuss about architecture online.

The photos are all by Gigi Cifali, who originally trained as a topographer, from a series called "Absence of Water." The images document the disused pools of London.

Inspired by the shape of water in endless motion, The Blue Planet is shaped as a great whirlpool. The new Denmark’s Aquarium is situated

The Baumraum team, which is made up of architects, landscape designers, innovative craftsmen and tree experts, plans modern tree house designs which are constructed to the individual specifications of the client.

Christine Killory and Rene Davids examine the influence on architecture of high-tech engineering on the basis of 25 buildings erected in the USA.

The plan extends our research into the notion of ‘abstract verandah’ to include a barcode motif in the plan. A series of discrete spaces, organised in a way to suit the client’s particular requirements, results in a coded arrangement that is

The design for a mixed-use development on the shores of Straume, near Bergen

The time has finally come and the Indian elephants in the Copenhagen zoo have finally taken up residence in their new home. Compared with the old enclosure.

Frederic Chaubin, photographer and chief editor of the French magazine Citizen K, is searching for places, that have a story to tell and whose unique character he can document with his camera.

The architects Blocher Blocher Partners, who specialise in corporate architecture, have developed this by converting the texture of the moss to an abstract motif and then vectorising it.

Swimming bath architecture has recently been making a comeback and is now manifesting itself in entirely new contexts.

This year's European Championships, which are taking place at four venues each in Switzerland and Austria, have also been the occasion for the development or redevelopment of a number of stadiums.

Flare is a pneumatic building facade system, manufactured by WHITEvoid. The system consists of metal flake bodies.

It's an unusual thing to find a book on architecture with hardly any pictures, almost total reliance on text and taking as its subject a series of crucial questions relating to 31 buzzwords.

The interplay between graphic art and architecture is a discipline in itself. Visitor orientation and guidance systems require a detailed analysis of the architecture of the building, and the operational and movement sequences of the building's

Because our attention is fully focussed on new products and old acquaintances we frequently overlook the architecture of the stands themselves, which is often of high quality and great elaboration.

The architect Keiichito Sako was one of the first to recognise the potential for his architecture in the growing giant China. 2004 he opened his studio.

The organic parkway by Plan B Arquitectos and JPRCR Arquitectos

In the autumn of 2005 the Lower Ninth Ward, a multi-cultural precinct in the east of New Orleans, was flattened by the force of the hurricane Katrina.

Apocalyptic sentiments. The abandoned futuristic housing complex San Zhi is situated close to the Taiwanese capital and was planned in the early 80s.

Thom Mayne's studio Morphosis wins the Zumtobel Group Award for sustainable architecture for its Federal Building in San Francisco

Ingrid Buron and Gregory Namberger "export" the spirit of Berlin to the island of Rügen

At the imm cologne we our fifth anniversary and we had a big party at the Architonic Lounge and later at the SIDIspot. Thanks everybody who joined us.

The younger generation of japanese architects, including Kengo Kuma, who was born in 1954, has taken a new directions, by using more natural materials.

Between 1969 and 1970, architect, artist and theorist Oskar Hansen built his wooden-clad summer home in Szumin – on the picturesque oxbow lake and Bug river, in central Poland. After 45 years, the unobtrusive house – designed and constructed