AR House 2024 shortlist revealed - The Architectural Review
Nov 18, 2024 · It is very rare for two projects by the same practice to feature on the shortlist. It happened once before, in 2014, with two houses by Marie-José Van Hee Architecten.This year, the shortlist includes two projects by Gianni Botsford Architects.
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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Building with earth: Anna Heringer and Nripal Adhikary in …
Nov 11, 2024 · Nripal Adhikary Yes, there was an Outrage about how the use of cement in the mix just makes brown concrete. I use that reference a lot. It is because we have been inspired by you and Martin Rauch that we do not use cement to stabilise the earth. It is also encouraging to see architects such as Yasmeen Lari and Diébédo Francis Kéré winning architecture awards – and not just the earth ...
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) - The Architectural Review
Oct 18, 2022 · Hundertwasser’s architectural principles redefine relations between urban space and nature to imply interconnectedness, modesty and interdependence; these are manifested in the way he designed and justified the incorporation of green roofs, which feature in all of his architectural projects.
November 2024: 25 years of AR Emerging - The Architectural Review
Since 1896, The Architectural Review has scoured the globe for architecture that challenges and inspires. Buildings old and new are chosen as prisms through which arguments and broader narratives are constructed.
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
Apr 24, 2012 · Biography. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852. Education Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Taught to draw by his father. Key buildings Houses of Parliament, London (1844)
The History of Architecture in Eleven Arches
Dec 19, 2014 · The Arch: does any other fragment present a feat of structural engineering with such seemingly effortless grace? The Mesopotamians needed them for lack of stone or wood; the Romans needed them to dramatically span huge distances and to celebrate their victories; late medieval masons needed them to make their Gothic masterworks as …
Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates’.Tanizaki’s words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), cast across the ...
Graphic novel: Well-appointed rooms | Good rooms
Jan 10, 2025 · In this short graphic novel, Zosia Dzierżawska explores the ways rooms change and interact with each other Swipe the image to see both spreads; click to view in full screen
Thatch is back: a traditional material could inform new sustainable ...
Jun 28, 2023 · T hatch almost disappeared across Europe in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. The exception is the low‑lying and watery terrain of the Netherlands, where reed beds – and consequently thatch materials – were part of the vernacular.