A personal review of design creations
Tammisto Electricity Substation
Kivinen Rusanen Architects modernised a key power grid hub with a new building featuring four masonry patterns.
The International African American Museum
The International African American Museum opens this weekend in Charleston at the waterfront site that served as the port of arrival for nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
#RamadanSeries – Masjid E Zubaida
Published each Friday during the Holy Month of Ramadan, the #RamadanSeries looks at contemporary mosques around the world.
Season 4 – Episode 1: Masjid E Zubaida in Raichur, India.
#BackToSchool - National Teachers Colleges - Winner of ‘Architecture for Good’ Architizer A+ Awards
The Public Award goes to a large-scale renovation and new build facilities near the towns of Kaliro and Mubenda (Uganda).
Buckle Street Studios
In the Aldgate East neighbourhood of London, Grzywinski+Pons signed a dense and varied assemblage of buildings including apartments, co-working space, a coffee shop and more.
#RamadanSeries – Cambridge Central Mosque
For our last episode of the #RamadanSeries, let’s discover a ‘place of tranquillity’ with tree-like pillars built by Marks Barfield Architects…
Episode Four – Cambridge Central Mosque, UK.
#RamadanSeries - Al-Irsyad Mosque
A dome does not make a mosque and stacked stones can become calligraphy. With these two strong elements Urbane Indonesia created a religious building once listed among the Top 5 in 2010.
Episode Three – Al-Irsyad Mosque, Indonesia
#RamadanSeries - Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jame Mosque
Mixing old and new ideas into a contemporary concept, this mosque, by Shatotto, is also a departure from tradition worship places in both physical and philosophical designs.
Episode 2 - Mayor Mohammad Hanif Jummah Mosque, Dhaka
Cukrownia Żnin: A Sugar Factory turned into A Hotel
Żnin, a city in north-central Poland, was already known by Romans before establishing its historical centre in the 11th century… It is in one of its industrial landmarks that Bulak Project created a new hotel.
A multiuse brutalist space
For its new concept, Osmo X Marusan café-terrace in Montréal commissioned local design studio MDT Mobilier to create a hybrid collective space.