A personal review of design creations
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.
Ling Ling Mexico City
Undoubtedly with the best views of the city, Ling Ling Restaurant by Hakkasan by Sordo Madaleno, is Mexico’s hottest and highest spot for lunch or dinner…
A Floating Pavilion as prelude of a Museum of Immersive Art
Indirectly linked to the origins of its hosts city, the new venue prefigures the intersection of architecture and visual arts and appeal to all senses.
Plateforme 10: 3 Museums in the heart of Lausanne
Just a few short steps from the main train station, Plateforme 10 is the new arts district in Lausanne. Arisen on the site of a former railway locomotive repair shed, it is the new home of three cantonal museums…
The Umbrella House by Kazuo Shinohara
If you are heading to Art Basel and Design Miami/Basel next week, do not miss Vitra Design Museum’s brand new addition on its Campus: the Umbrella House by Kazuo Shinohara.
Villa M, a Green Spot in the Parisian Urban Jungle
In the heart of Montparnasse, a new mixed-use complex hides its metallic structure beams by medicinal herbal plants and fruit trees. Villa M is the perfect combination between nature and a human-centered mission.
The Pacific, a human-scale skyscraper
In Vancouver, ACDF Architecture unveiled The Pacific, a new high-rise building whose façade creates a new skyscraper language in the form of new relationships between pedestrians and the building.
#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 - The Mosque of Light
In Al Quoz, one of Dubai’s busiest industrial areas, The Mosque of Light by Dabbagh Architects is a contemporary place of worship that is quietly masterful in its use of form, materiality, and controlled natural light to evoke a sense of calm, spiritual connection, and to transition the worshiper from the outer material world to an inner sense of being.
#RamadanSeries - Episode 1 - Mosque of the Late Abdulkhaliq Gargash, Dubai