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The Farnsworth House
The Farnsworth House
HOUSE AS CHOOSEN BY OUR READERSAbout the house...“Every physical element has been distilled to its irreducible essence. The interior is unprecedentedly transparent to the surrounding site, and also unprecedentedly uncluttered in itself. All of the paraphernalia of traditional living –rooms, walls, doors,...
The Vitra Campus
The Vitra Campus
Serious games… by L.F.G.**Luis Fernández-Galiano is an architect and professor at the architecture academy of the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid....

The Seifert House
The Seifert House
House we loveMrs. Seifert, sixty-four years old and curator of an art gallery, commissioned this house after her previous home, an approximately 150 years old building,...

The Shell House
The Shell House
THE HOUSE OF THE WEEK«A large shell shaped structure finds itself in the middle of the woods. It is hard to determine what exactly the structure is, and unlike the...

I remember you Oscar Niemeyer.
I remember you Oscar Niemeyer.
A Tribute to...The Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer died on Wednesday, December 5th, 2012 at the age of 104. He designed much (more than 600 works around the world)...

The Three Mobile House
The Three Mobile House
HOUSE WE LOVEHangar Design Group has designed three new mobile homes in partnership with HHD, Holiday Homes Design, an Italian manufacturer of prefabricated...

Last Call for Planet Earth
Last Call for Planet Earth
MOVIE WE LOVEThe challenge_The planet is in danger_The cry for help has been made, loud and clear_The challenge is very simple and it’s a matter of survival.There...

Tadao Ando, the Master...
Tadao Ando, the Master...
+ Communications research centreValdrada is without doubt one of the most impressive and fascinating of the Invisibile cities to come out of Calvino's fantastic...

Yabu Pushelberg
Yabu Pushelberg
Yabu Pushelberg Bio_ExpressYabu Pushelberg has been creating timeless and artistic designs worldwide for 30 years. With offices in New York and Toronto, the design...

Palimpsest and Emotion
Palimpsest and Emotion
Special Feature Of course, in areas already recognized for their historic significance, some industrial buildings have been able to take advantage of the support of...

The R.R. House
The R.R. House
ECO-FRIENDLY HOUSE WE LOVE.The relationship between architecture and environmental sustainability may be expressed in a variety of different possible ways. Vinicius...

Ieoh Ming Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei was born in China in 1917, the son of a prominent banker. At age 17 he came to the United States to study architecture, and received a Bachelor of...

Ayaspasa House in Istanbul
Ayaspasa House in Istanbul
HOUSE OF THE WEEKAyaspasa House has an extremely high ceiling, a dramatic feature that set scene for the design of the rest of the space. Each room was given its own...

The Canadian Epicurian
The Canadian Epicurian
A TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE GREATEST CANADIAN ARCHITECTSArthur Charles Erickson, architect (b. 14 June 1924, Vancouver, BC; d. 20 May 2009, Vancouver BC), studied at...

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
Building The Future Now + The iconic work of a singular architect

The Mikou Design Studio
The Mikou Design Studio
Article that our readers likesMikou Design Studio was created in 2005 by Selma Mikou and Salwa Mikou, after many years of collaboration with international architecture...

Piero Lissoni
Piero Lissoni
PortraitPiero Lissoni, born in 1956 in Seregno, starts his career as Designer in 1978 and, got his degree in Architecture at the Milan Politechnic, in 1985 starts his...

David Adjaye
David Adjaye
THE INTERVIEW THAT WE LOVEOne of the leading architects of his generation, David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities...

The Dodler Grand Hotel
The Dodler Grand Hotel
The historic Hotel Dolder, a bold, imposing, organic building on the hill by Lake Zurich, reopened in 2008 after a renovation project by Foster+partners.
 The...

Nigel Coates
Nigel Coates
Architectural_PortraitNigel Coates is born in 1949 in England. From 1972-74: Architectural Association School of Architecture, A.A dipl.
 From 1979-89: Unit Master...

Mexico City
Mexico City
Portrait_ArchitecturalThe capital lends itself as a laboratory in which urban conditions strongly influence work patterns and shape the architectural avant-garde. With...

Palazzo Orlandi
Palazzo Orlandi
The mix of old world and modern is really not my thing but I do like this project. I like the darkness and contrast of it. More after the jump.Palazzo Orlandi is located...

The XS House
The XS House
HOUSE WE LOVEUNI is a design/build company founded by Chaewon Kim and Beat Schenk in Cambridge, MA in 2003 and acts simultaneously in the roles of architect, builder,...

The Ong & Ong House
The Ong & Ong House
HOUSE WE LOVEArchitects: Ong & Ong Pte Ltd_Location: 55 Blair Road, Singapore_Design Team: Diego Molina and Maria Arango. Camilo Pelaez_Project Team: Diego Molina...

Tea House
Tea House
The GardenAt the foot of the hill dividing Hloubetin and Aloisov you’ll find a small garden. The garden is unostentatious, slightly wild but even so graceful, each...

Palomba Serafini Associati
Palomba Serafini Associati
Portrait_ExpressArchitects and designers Ludovica and Roberto Palomba founded Palomba Serafini Associati in 1994. They stand out for their ability to offer a...

Cino Zucchi
Cino Zucchi
The InterviewG.T. questionned Cino Zucchi, Professor of Architectural and Urban Composition at Milan Polytechnic.
 The interview addresses a number of themes in...

Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto
This interview was made by www.floornature.comBio_ExpressSou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1971. After studying architecture in the faculty of engineering at...

The VHM
The VHM
Nestled between the River Lima and Mount St. Luzia, a few minutes from the historic center of Viana do Castelo, this avant-garde hotel distinguishes itself by its...

Drift Bay House
Drift Bay House
Architecture_PortraitKerr Ritchie is a Queenstown based mixed descipline studio focused on an integrated and collaborative design process. The Studio has extensive...

Tropical Homes
Tropical Homes
Elegant, hardcover books showing fine photography and featuring architecture,  scenery, and life styles in different parts of the globe have always been popular...

Oslo Opera House
Oslo Opera House
BUILDING WE LOVEThe Opera House is the realisation of the winning competion entry. Four diagrams, which were part of the entry, explain the building’s basic...

Sir Richard Rogers
Sir Richard Rogers
Portrait_ExpressBorn (1933) in Florence of Anglo-Italian parents; studied at the London Architectural Association, where he graduated in 1959; his teachers included...

Paris Eight Project
Paris Eight Project
The Paris Eight is a 18.000m² building located in the heart of the Central Business District (CBD). Formerly headquarter of a bank and lately renovated in 1999, the...

Stephan Jaklitsch
Stephan Jaklitsch
The New York-based architect behind all Marc Jacobs retail locations worldwideStephan Jaklitsch’s Habits, Patterns, Algorithms presents a diverse selection of the...

Total Housing
Total Housing
Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: social, environmental and economic factors affect form. This new survey into multi-family...

Adam D. Tihany
Adam D. Tihany
This interview was made by www.floornature.comAdam D. Tihany is widely regarded as the preeminent hospitality interior designer in the world (design industry)...

The Qual Hill House
The Qual Hill House
At the first meeting, the clients introduced both their growing family and growing art collection. They were particularly excited about a new artist, Vik Muniz, whose...

CEBRA
CEBRA
HOUSE WE LOVEThe estate consists of five blocks, the design of which is based upon a wish of creating a flexible concept able to contain different accommodation units...

Marcio Kogan
Marcio Kogan
HOUSE WE LOVEArchitect: Marcio Kogan_Location: Brasilia, Brazil_Design Year: 2006_Construction Year: 2008_Co-author: Suzana Glogowski_Collaborators: Lair Reis, Oswaldo...

Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects
Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects
Bio_ExpressPezo von Ellrichshausen Architects was founded in Buenos Aires in 2001 by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. They currently work in concepcion,...

The Architecture of Humeurs
The Architecture of Humeurs
Animist, vitalist and machinist, the architecture of “humeurs” rearticulates the need to confront the unknown in a contradictory manner by means of...

Kristy Krone
Kristy Krone
Bio_ExpressKristy Krone graduated from California State University Long Beach in May of 2009, with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Interior Architecture Design. She...

Bug Dome by The WEAK!
Bug Dome by The WEAK!
The building is realized on a wasteland of a ruined building site in-between the Shenzhen City Hall and an illegal workers camp. The design is inspired by insects. The...

Olivier Bourgeois
Olivier Bourgeois
Trop de bleu is a temporary exhibition pavillon located in Magdalen Islands, a little archipelago of colorful houses and endless dunes in the gulf of St-Lawrence. The...

The Design Firm
The Design Firm
EGODESIGN MAGAZINE - THE TEAM - LOVE THIS HOUSE.Architects: The Design Firm_Location: Kengeri Satellite Town, Bangalore, India_Project Head Architects: Sujit Muralidhar...

Pieta-Linda Auttila
Pieta-Linda Auttila
“By bending the block I forced the slats into a new form that contrasts with the original arrangement. That which is solid turns partly transparent, that which is...

Zecc Architecten
Zecc Architecten
Architect: Zecc Architecten_Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands_Project Architects: Rolf Bruggink, Marnix van der Meer_Collaborators: René de Korte, Marc...

Field Chapel in Boedigheim
Field Chapel in Boedigheim
Technical presentationArchitects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by Professor Frank Flury_Local architect: Ecker...

Pierluigi Piu
Pierluigi Piu
Bio_ExpressPierluigi Piu was born in Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy) in 1954. He later pursued his studies at the University of Architecture in Florence, in which city he...

Herzog & de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron
The Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (both born in 1950 in Bâle, Suiss) have established themselves at the centre of architectural discourse by...

Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando
PortraitJapanese architect, Tadao Ando is an architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working...

Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future was a unique comprehensive project exploring the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of...

Compartment House
Compartment House
Architects: Ario Danar_Location: South Jakarta, Indonesia_Site Area: 180 sqm_Constructed Area: 126 sqm_Project year: 2007_Photographs: Richard Salampessy.

Foster + Partners
Foster + Partners
An exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) investigates the great British studio’s relationship with historic structures and its approach to places that...

Civic Center in Saint-Germain en Laye
Civic Center in Saint-Germain en Laye
Architect: Philippe Harden_Location: Saint Germain en Laye 78100, France_Design team: Atelier 9 Portes and Philippe Harden Paris_Client: Town of Saint Germain en...

Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando
This interview was made by www.floornature.comI think that architecture is a place where people get inside of it and they perceive and think about their existenceTadao...

40_R Laneway House
40_R Laneway House
The conversion of an industrial shed to a single family home in midtown Toronto makes a case for a strategic approach to urban sustainability and revitalization,...

Sander Architects
Sander Architects
Architects: Sander Architects_Location: Santa Rosa, California

Skylab Architecture
Skylab Architecture
Architects: Skylab ArchitectureLocation: Portland, USAProject Year: 2007Site Area: 929 sqmClient: NORTH Advertising

AXEL SCHOENERT
AXEL SCHOENERT
Axel Schoenert Architectes Associés -ASAA creates the Hotel Gabriel Paris Marais as the first “Detox Hotel” entirely devoted to well-being and...

The Time of the boutiques
The Time of the boutiques
The Time of the boutiques is, in a way, an extension of the very successful The kitchen, a way of life, exhibition organized by the Fondation pour l’Architecture...

FIFA : The splendour continues!
FIFA : The splendour continues!
Films in competition
_45 films from 17 countries
10 Canadian productions, including 7 from QuebecCanadian and Quebec films feature prominently in the 27th...

Dorte Mandrup + Cebra
Dorte Mandrup + Cebra
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps + Cebra Arkitekter A/S_Location: Hellerup, Copenhagen, Denmark_Project Year: 2008_Turn Key Contractor: Partnering NCC...

LIJO RENY architects
LIJO RENY architects
The compound wall is a simple contemporary design, which breaks at two points, on either side of the site, to form horizontal openings that give a glimpse of the serene...

Laure Tixier
Laure Tixier
Questions concerning habitation, architecture and urbanism underpin Laure Tixier’s work. In her drawings and videos, the artist focuses mainly on the Utopias that...

Quebec_2009 Architecture
Quebec_2009 Architecture
The Ordre des architectes du Québec announces the 43 finalists for the 2009 Awards of Excellence in Architecture: architecture that bears witness to...

JVA
JVA
Architects: JVA_Location: Nesodden, Norway_Client: Heidi Gaupseth og Geir Kløver_Primary Architects: Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs_Collaborators:...

Dolbeau-Mistassini Theatre
Dolbeau-Mistassini Theatre
From October 10 to 13, the city of Dolbeau-Mistassini, a municipality located at the northern section of the Saguenay - Lac-Saint-Jean region in Quebec, Canada,...

GeneroCity
GeneroCity
Culturesfrance and the Ministry of Culture and Communication - Department of Architecture and Heritage had appointed Francis Rambert as curator of the French pavilion at...

MOS
MOS
Architects: Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample_Location: Ontario, Canada_Design Team: Fred Holt, Chad Burke, Ryan Bollom, Forest Fulton, Temple Simpson, Martin Kredizor,...

WOMEN OF THE YEAR
WOMEN OF THE YEAR
The EgoDesign Magazine team wish you a delicious new year / Mbula e lamo / Bonne année / Próspero año nuevo / Buon Anno / Próspero ano novo.

LAVA - Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
LAVA - Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
Architects: LAVA - Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser and Alexander Rieck
_Location: Sydney, Australia_
Project year: 2008_
Project Team: Chris Bosse,...

Helen Zille
Helen Zille
Helen Zille (born in March 9, 1951) is the Mayor of Cape Town in South Africa’s Western Cape province and leader of the Democratic Alliance political party, South...

Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini
Milanese architect Alessandro Mendini has been editor-in-chief of "Casabella", "Modo" and "Domus". Monographs on his work alone and with...

Sou Fujimoto
Sou Fujimoto
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects
_Location: Hokkaido, Japan
_Project Team: Hiroshi Kato
_Site Area: 14,590 sqm
_Constructed Area: 2,536...

Juvet Landscape Hotel
Juvet Landscape Hotel
Architects: Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor
_Location: Gudbrandsjuvet, Norway
_Design Period: 2004-2007
_Construction period: 2007-2008_Client:...

Cyrille Druart
Cyrille Druart
Inaugurated in July 2008 in Lyon, France, I-WAY is an international first. This exclusive building is entirely dedicated to automobile simulations (simulator technology...

Parasite Studio
Parasite Studio
The apartment is located on the first floor of a building raised in the last century in the central area of Timisoara, within an area of protected buildings. From the...

Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
Coll-Barreu Arquitectos
The lot locates in the crossroad of the two most important streets of the Ensanche (1862) in Bilbao. The restrictive city zoning rules force to repeat the existing...

Dupli.Casa House
Dupli.Casa House
The geometry of the building is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site. Originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and...

Hotel Habita Monterrey
Hotel Habita Monterrey
Hotel Habita Monterrey
 opened last August this year, Hotel Habita Monterrey strikes with captivating architectural desicions by Agustin Landa and a rooftop pool...

FARO Architecten BV
FARO Architecten BV
On the Steigereiland, near Amsterdam, Pieter Weijnen built his own experimental wooden home. The house is painted a vibrant blue, referring to the traditional dike...

Aldo Cibic
Aldo Cibic
Aldo Cibic started working independently in 1989 with Cibic & Partners, working in Italy and abroad on interior and industrial design. He teaches at the Domus...

Chapultepec Space
Chapultepec Space
“Tijuana is Television Town. At one point 75% of all television sets in the world were assembled in Tijuana. Thousands of people worked in San Diego and live in...

EVERLAND HOTEL
EVERLAND HOTEL
Installed right on the Palais de Tokyo’s roof, more than 30 meters above the Seine, the Everland Hotel features an exceptional point of view on Paris and the...

Presenhuber House
Presenhuber House
This holiday house is located in the middle of the village of Vnà in the Lower Engadine. The particular challenge of the project was to bridge the divide between...

Sanitas Per Aquam
Sanitas Per Aquam
The Romans invented the baths as a place to get together, have fun and, above all, stay healthy with water: it was they who invented the name SPA, standing for Salus Per...

Carabanchel Housing
Carabanchel Housing
Architects: Dosmasuno Arquitectos - Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro and Lina Toro
Location: Madrid, Spain
Construction beggining: September...

Amalia House
Amalia House
Amalia House by GRID Architects - named after the grandmother of her owners - is a holiday cabin to host family members spread all over austria. Located on top of a hill...

Donna Karan
Donna Karan
PORTRAITDonna Karan built her enormous fashion empire in less than a decade on one extraordinarily simple idea: If she needs a particular item of clothing - a bodysuit,...

Jardins de Métis 2008
Jardins de Métis 2008
The 9th edition of the International Garden Festival opens at les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens and  brings together more than 40 designers from Italy,...

Christophe Dugied
Christophe Dugied
After fifteen years working on commission for newspapers and publicity, nowadays Christophe Dugied develops a unique universe by means of his photography. Short listed...

Dominique Perrault
Dominique Perrault
E.D.: For artists, exhibitions are essential steps in their careers. Is it the same for architects?Dominique Perrault: It’s very different. For architects,...

Opus Hotel
Opus Hotel
Opened in September 2002, the Opus is a boutique hotel located in Vancouver’s trendy Yaletown, and has become a magnet for architects, photographers and designers,...

Claudio Silvestrin
Claudio Silvestrin
Claudio Silvestrin Architects was established in 1989 with offices in London, and since 2006 in Milan also. The work of the practice encompasses real estate development,...

Alberto Mozó
Alberto Mozó
Work: Building BIP Computers Architect: Alberto MozóArchitects Contributors: Francisca Cifuentes, Mauritius Leal, Luis Fernandez Location: Suecia esquina Bilbao,...

The 2008 Governor General's Medals in Architecture
The 2008 Governor General's Medals in Architecture
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the Canada Council for the Arts announces the recipients of the Governor General’s Medals in Architecture...

Maurice Nio
Maurice Nio
Maurice Nio is one of the most active and interesting contemporary Dutch architects . Born in 1959, he completed his architecture degree in Delft - Faculty of...

Design + Comfort space at Montréal -Trudeau
Design + Comfort space at Montréal -Trudeau
Aéroports de Montréal announced the opening of a new common-use VIP lounge at Montréal-Trudeau airport. Located in the international jetty, after...

Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Cadaval & Solà-Morales
Express visitThe house is designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales, a young Barcelona-based firm founded by husband-and-wife team Eduardo Cadaval and Clara...

USEK - Kaslik, Lebanon
USEK - Kaslik, Lebanon
Located in the periphery, at the South-East of the USEK campus, in the real estate zone of Sarba, Keserouan, the degraded and exiguous site on a A relatively reduced and...

Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi + Hirofumi Ohno
Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi + Hirofumi Ohno
A photo reportage Architects: Yuji Nakae, Akiyoshi Takagi + Hirofumi OhnoPhotography: Hiroyasu SakaguchiLocation: TokyoBlock of eight apartments.

Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel (62-year old) who came to international attention with the completion of his Institut du Monde Arabe (usually referred to as IMA) in 1987 as one of President...

Terunobu Fujimori
Terunobu Fujimori
PORTRAIT EXPRESSTerunobu Fujimori was born in 1946 in Chino, in Nagano province. He graduated from Tohoku University, then studied the history of architecture at Tokyo...

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
The Mobile Art Pavilion for Chanel is Zaha Hadid Architects has been inspired by one of Chanel's signature creations, the quilted bag. Chanel is renowned for its...

Contemporary Jewish Museum
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Late this spring the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will officially open the doors to 6 thousand square metres of new display space. Daniel Libeskind...

Julius Shulman
Julius Shulman
Ask Julius Shulman how his career started and his reply sounds like the opening line of a fairy-tale: "Well, it all began just by chance." It was indeed a...

Urbanopolis
Urbanopolis
How will the future growth of cities affect us? - Air, water, soil, forests, climate - What are the future needs of our cities? - Housing, transportation, energy,...

PAALMA
PAALMA
PAALMA (Premio Artista + Architetto La Marrana Arte Ambientale) is the prize aimed at celebrating the synergy between art and architecture. The first edition of PAALMA...

Yasuhiro Yamashita  - Atelier Tekuto
Yasuhiro Yamashita - Atelier Tekuto
Born in Kagoshima in 1960, Yasuhiro Yamashita obtained his master’s degree at the Shibaura Institute of Technology in 1986. After working turn by turn at Yutaka...

Indigo Hotel
Indigo Hotel
“The Project is organized around three main ideas. First: to discover the building as a voyager who experience places not at once but through continuous steps....

Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier
The work of Le Corbusier remains highly significant and relevant in today's architectural discourse. Yet during the past two decades, no major museum show has addressed...

S(E)OUL SCAPE
S(E)OUL SCAPE
S(E)OUL SCAPE is the exhibition that recounts the outcomes of the urban and architectural transformation that involved South Korea in the last years. After a long period...

Jo Crepain
Jo Crepain
Jo Crepain was born in bruges in 1950. After completing his studies in architecture and urban planning at the antwerp academy, he founded his own office. From his...

Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind
In the ordinary course of my work I travel around alot to see new buildings and shows and to talk to the people involved, artists, architects, museum directors, curators...

Moscow
Moscow
The vibrantly colored mixture of different periods and styles, national traditions and global culture, of provinciality and the chic of a sophisticated metropolis...

20 Creative People/Architecture
20 Creative People/Architecture
BALKRISHNA DOSHI, Architect (Inde)Egodesign.ca, your magazine presents - by images - 20 Creative People in Architecture who are already influencing your life...

Charlotte Skene Catling
Charlotte Skene Catling
Charlotte Skene Catling studied architecture at the University of Westminster. She worked in Berlin with Axel Kufus and for the practice Elz und Rothkegel. She has...

Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels Group – BIG - is a Copenhagen based group of 85 architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism,...

Ørestad College
Ørestad College
The Ørestad College will be the first in Denmark to fulfill new educational visions regarding subjects, organization and teaching systems. Communication,...

Jürgen Mayer H.
Jürgen Mayer H.
J.MAYER H. Architects have been working on the interface between product design, architecture, urban planning and communication for more than 8 years. Projects are...

Toronto
Toronto
2007 Toronto Urban Design Awards held every year, the awards acknowledge and celebrate the contributions that architects, landscape architects, urban designers and...

Archizoom Associati
Archizoom Associati
Archizoom Associati (1966-1974) presents a first critical overview of one of the crucial experiments - called radical architecture - conducted by the Florentine group,...

MOSCOPOLIS
MOSCOPOLIS
Aside from the bevy of Russian models taking to the Paris catwalk, there are another group of Russians drawing the eyes of the Parisian architecture, art/fashion world...

Michel Rojkind
Michel Rojkind
Michel Rojkind is not yet 40 (was born on December 18, 1969 in Mexico City), and he’s only been designing buildings for a dozen years. (He was a rock...

Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma was born in 1954, and set up his own agency in Tokyo in 1990 (Kengo Kuma & Associates). He teaches in several universities, and has won many prizes both...

1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
1973: Sorry, Out of Gas
Organised by the CCA, this major exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are the first to study the architectural innovation spurred by the 1973 oil crisis, when the...

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
Dubai has more new towers. These ones are by Zaha Hadid, who has created a building that looks like a sensual, persuasive, mysterious sculpture - called Opus.

BEIJING
BEIJING
If you were to swap building permits for cowboys and Louis Vuitton for the local sheriff, you’d come up with Beijing, the new Wild EastIn the old days, pioneers...

As Antonio Gaudi as it gets
As Antonio Gaudi as it gets
There is a seamless dialogue between nature, history and modernity in Barcelona, where the love of design is as omnipresent as the love of food and life itself. The...

The Atelier Bow-Wow
The Atelier Bow-Wow
Portrait Architecture studio Atelier Bow-Wow is celebrated for research that defines new urban and architectural typologies in Tokyo, where otherwise unrelated elements...

The Island Machines
The Island Machines
“A team of machine builders have set up their workshop in the industrial warehouses of the former shipyards, at the heart of the Ile de Nantes. The designers let...

Eva Harlou
Eva Harlou
It was soon after graduating from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 2003 that Eva Harlou found herself playing a key role at Copenhagen architects 3XN, where she...

Liu Tong Yu
Liu Tong Yu
Location: Taipei, TaiwanArchitect: Liu Tong YuTotal Area: 160 mqTaipei, the capital of Taiwan, is notoriously hectic and expensive; a city teeming with people, cars and...

Recipients of 2007 Awards of Excellence of RAIC
Recipients of 2007 Awards of Excellence of RAIC
Warren Carther, BFA, RCAWarren Carther’s innovative career has spanned thirty years. His interest in glass as an art form began with blown glass. However, Carther...

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa - SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa - SANAA
Throughout the 20th century, Japan has produced the greatest of architects: from KazuoShinohara to Kisho Kurokawa, architect of “metabolism“ in the 1960s,...

JARDINS DE MÉTIS
JARDINS DE MÉTIS
The 8th edition of the International Garden Festival celebrates sound, one of the essential yet frequently overlooked senses in the garden experience. This edition...

Alter Architecture
Alter Architecture
Like alter-globalisation, “alter architecture” envisages a different way of conceiving of the built environment, one that takes into account the constraints...

The Kitchen, a way of life
The Kitchen, a way of life
If the kitchen is by definition a place where we prepare meals, it is also a central living space which has aroused the interest of architects, designers, sociologists,...

Berlin, Back on Track
Berlin, Back on Track
This large cathedral of glass and steel is Europe’s largest and newest major station, and overlooks Berlin’s Bundestadt, or parliamentary centre. Linking...

Twenty things you should know about Nuno Grande & Pedro Gadanho...
Twenty things you should know about Nuno Grande & Pedro Gadanho...
E.D.: Who are you / how would you describe yourself?Pedro Gadanho: Single hedonistic metrosexual, vaguely  workaholic. Nuno Grande: A good friend of the Portuguese...

Which architecture plan for Quebec in this century?
Which architecture plan for Quebec in this century?
The Quebec Order of Architects (OAQ) revealed on January 18, the 30 finalists in the 24th edition of the Architecture Awards of Excellence. This year’s program...

The urban oasis
The urban oasis
Every city in North America seems to have a park at its heart. Both Mount Royal Park in Montréal and Central Park in New York are leading examples of urban green...

Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito, who was born in 1941, opened his own agency in Tokyo in 1971 (known as Toyo Ito & Associate Architects, since 1979). In 2001, his Multimedia Centre in...

2006 Personality of the Year: Zaha Hadid
2006 Personality of the Year: Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid is a contemporary outstanding deconstructivist architect. Born in Baghdad, on October 31, 1950, the Iraqi-British achieved a degree in mathematics from the...

Things you should know about Franklin Azzi...
Things you should know about Franklin Azzi...
E.D. Who are you / how would you describe yourself?F. A. I am a young architect, who, after several years within a great French architecture agency, decided to set up...

Saucier + Perrote
Saucier + Perrote
Riding the line between public and private space, the Perimeter institute for Theoretical Physics, a private research institute, questions the usual hard thresholds...

A new standard housing of Japan
A new standard housing of Japan
Architecture in Japan has gone through several periods: during the Meiji period (1868-1912), western architecture was imported, followed by a nationalist revival....

Frank Gehry + LVMH
Frank Gehry + LVMH
“It is more the cloud than a building (ship)”, was enthused Bernard Arnault by presenting on Monday to the press the model of his future Foundation Louis...

Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry
Gehry, Frank, architect (Toronto 28 Feb 1929). Raised in Toronto, Frank Gehry moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was 17. He received his Bachelor of...

Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Niemeyer
While the straight path may be the shortest distance between two points, a winding road might be a lot more interesting. In fact nature abounds with examples of the...

The Nomadic Museum
The Nomadic Museum
New York’s photographic exhibiton of the year is Ashes and Snow. Canadian photographer Gregory Colbert revealed an overwhelming display, not-seen until the 2002...

Paul Laurendeau
Paul Laurendeau
In his book on Lacan, Robert Georgin defines the difference between a man of science and a writer/psychoanalyst on the other."Without exception, like Galileo, the...

Michel A. Laflamme
Michel A. Laflamme
Michel A. Laflamme is a multi-talented architect. Although he displayed his collection of Checkmate Vases (based on chess pieces) at the Tokyo Designers Block in 2003, a...

Buenos Aires, Berlin, Montréal
Buenos Aires, Berlin, Montréal
What could these very different cities possibly have in common? Well, for starters, they’ve each been selected as an official “UNESCO City of...

Which architecture plan for Quebec in this century?
Which architecture plan for Quebec in this century?
Finalists in the category of institutional project     CCIT_Communication, Culture and Information Technology Building, OntarioSaucier + Perrotte...

 

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