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First Look: Shenzhen Natural History Museum Opens to the Public

The Shenzhen Natural History Museum was undertaken by the 3XN - B+H Architects -Zhubo Design Consortium, with 3XN as...

A New Cultural Landmark for Oxford: The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

A Passivhaus campus redefining collaboration, sustainability, and the relationship between University and city The...

Forestone Cabin: A Regenerative Timber Prototype Rooted in the Pyrenees

IAAC’s ecological shelter merges local materials, craftsmanship, and wildfire-resilient design Forestone Cabin is a 20...

The Foundry Project: A Composed Landmark for Chatham High Street

EHAD crafts a measured, material‑driven architecture rooted in urban rhythm Set within the dense and ever‑moving...

Gonio Marina Masterplan: A New Benchmark for Waterfront Living in Georgia

The Gonio Marina Masterplan sets a new benchmark for waterfront living along Georgia’s Black Sea coast. Designed by Spectrum Architecture, the large-scale development integrates residential, hospitality and leisure districts within a resilient ecological framework shaped by a one-kilometre Central Lagoon Spine.

Nature. Nurture. Future

The slogan used for the Singapore pavilion at the Dubai Expo is made of three words that can also be read as a sentence: Nature nurture (the) future. An explicit declaration of intent that reflects the strategy adopted by the Asian city-state to promote itself within the planetary stage of EXPO.

The conversion of the old Guangxi sugar factory

In architecture, the theme of the re-use has always been one of the most complex. The tough challenge to which...

A retreat in balance between tradition and modernity: the Hishiya hotel in Fukuchiyama

On the Yura River, in Japan, stands the second oldest city in Kyoto prefecture, Fukuchiyama. It flourished at the turn of the 16th century around the homonymous castle, built in the Warring-States period by General Akechi Mitsuhide.

Restoration of the Ruina wing of the Museum of Architecture A. V. Schusev

The Ruina wing (in Russian, ruin) of the Museum of Architecture Aleksey Viktorovich Schusev of Moscow was originally the coach house of the estate built in 1787 for the chamberlain Aleksandr Talyzin, starting from a project attributed to the architect Matvey Kazakov.

Rooted in the history of the place. The green flavour of the Benci House

Florence, the cradle of the best architects and artists of the Italian Renaissance, a capital of culture whose leadership has known no setback and one of the most famous and visited UNESCO site of the world.

Biesbosch Museum Island,
Water in Between

In the National Park De Biesbosch, born in 1421 in the aftermath of a famous flood which caused the creation of the wetland in which it is placed, rises the Biesbosch Museum Island.

Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech: haute couture and the city, between past and future

A new museum dedicated to the French couture icon Yves Saint Laurent has opened in Marrakech this autumn, shortly after the inauguration of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Paris.

Restored Burle Marx at Salvador de Bahia: the Terreiro de Jesus Square

The Terreiro Square is an integral part of the foundation project of the city of Salvador de Bahia (1549). At that...

Urban icon. Rafaela Cultural Centre in the former Central Market

Rafaela is an Argentinean city of about one hundred thousand inhabitants in the Province of Santa Fe. The city is formed by the so-called private colonization with European farmers, fomented by the Argentine Confederation during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Cristalleries Planell Civic Centre

In a triangular urban plot in the Barcelona’s district of Les Corts, previously occupied by the Planell glass factory of 1913, Harquitectes firm from Sabadell, designed a public building with mixed functions: an adult education center, a language standardization consortium and a hotel.

Lifescapes beyond bigness – The National Pavilion of the UAE

“Lifescapes beyond bigness” is the National Pavilion of the UAE at the 16th Architectural Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – was commissioned by The Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and curated by Khaled Alawadi.

UAE Modern: People Planet Profits, Trials of a Sustainable Future

Together with Dubai Design Week for the second year consecutively, UAE Modern in partnership with MAS Paints have produced the custom conference for the Dubai Design Week main stage programme, hosted the atrium of building 4, Dubai Design District (d3) – the hub of Dubai Design Week.

Compasses Plus at Dubai Design Week

Cplus current issue focuses on the most interesting events of Dubai Design Week 2018, that marks the design district...

C29 Editorial – Sustainable architecture: a stern warning for planet Earth

Why talk about sustainable architecture today, in a global political framework that seems to quickly run in the opposite direction? The answer, of course, is that we need to urgently talk about it exactly for these reasons. It is necessary to underline, and to do so towards an ever wider public, the risks that the planet Earth runs if we continue on this path, in order to convince the highest possible number of people that a trend reversal is necessary.

C31 Editorial – Heritage at risk

About seventy years ago, when the UN (1945) and UNESCO (1946) were born from the ruins of the Second World War, culture and heritage seemed a solid foundation on which to rebuild a new society that went beyond the devastating conflicts that had marked most of the countries of the world in the first half of the 20th century.