Since 2002, the historic city of Muharraq, the third-largest in Bahrain, has been the protagonist of a comprehensive preservation and development project meant to highlight its pearling history and improve the urban environment. Building on Muharraq’s legacy are several new structures designed by world-renowned architects to create the framework for the city’s revival, among which are four multistorey car parks designed by Christian Kerez and set to be completed this year. The structures envisioned not as car storage but as public spaces feature curved slabs that create a continuous transition from one level to the other while shaping a constantly changing spatial experience.
Christian Kerez Designs Parking Structure in Bahrain as Part of the Pearl Path Project
Invisible Cities: Rethinking the Refugee Crisis Through Design
What do Katuma, Hagadera, Dagahaley, Zaatari or Ifo bring to mind? They are truly beautiful names, and could easily belong to Italo Calvino's 55 invisible cities.
But they are not invisible cities, they are informal settlements in Kenya and Jordan, home to between 66,000 and 190,000 refugees, mostly from bordering countries, supposedly temporary camps that half a century later are still with us today. Generally lacking in infrastructure, some have schools and hospitals, and Zaatari even has a circus academy, but for most of the people who live there, they are the only cities they have ever known.
Before “Colonial” There Was Immigrant Architecture in North America
There is an architecture of the migrant. It is survivalist, built with what is available, made as quickly as possible, with safety as its core value. Americans romanticize that architecture as “Colonial”: simple timber buildings, with symmetric beginnings, infinite additions, and adaptations. But “Colonial” architecture is not what was built first by the immigrants to a fully foreign land 400 years ago. Like all migrant housing, time made it temporary and forgotten.
Villa Cardo / Studio Andrew Trotter
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Architects: Studio Andrew Trotter
- Area: 120 m²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Chianca, Huguet, TUFO
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Professionals: Fabio Cervellera
House by the Lake / FdMP Architectes
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Architects: FdMP Architectes
- Area: 434 m²
- Year: 2019
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Professionals: Olivier Zahn & Associés Sàrl, Acau architecture SA
PAMS Healthcare Hub, Newman / Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
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Architects: Kaunitz Yeung Architecture
- Area: 970 m²
- Year: 2020
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Professionals: Stellen Consulting, Devlyn
Albeida Tourist Complex / Salgado E Liñares Arquitectos
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Architects: Salgado E Liñares Arquitectos
- Area: 5866 ft²
- Year: 2019
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Manufacturers: Tente Construcciones Modulares
Shanghai Astronomy Museum / Ennead Architects
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Architects: Ennead Architects
- Area: 39000 m²
- Year: 2021
Short Sentence Office / Woodo Studio
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Architects: Woodo Studio
- Area: 330 m²
- Year: 2021
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Manufacturers: HAY
SET Habitable Modules / SET Ideas
NORM House / Alain Carle Architecte
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Architects: Alain Carle Architecte
- Area: 395 m²
- Year: 2021
Urban Garden / Valode & Pistre
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Architects: Valode & Pistre
- Area: 28000 m²
- Year: 2021
MVRDV’s Vibrant Residential Neighborhood Traumhaus Funari Breaks Ground
MVRDV's Traumhaus Funari project, a residential master plan that redevelops parts of a former US Military barracks, has started construction in Mannheim, Germany. The project aims to combine affordability, individuality, and diversity by allowing residents to make their own ecological and spatial choices regarding their homes. The master plan consists of a catalogue of residential typologies with a variety of materials, sizes, finishes, interior layouts, and connections to the outdoors which future residents can choose from.
UNStudio Wins Competition to Design the Chungnam Art Museum in South Korea
UNStudio and South Korean design firm DA Group have been selected to design the Chungnam Art Museum in Naepo, South Korea. The proposal will provide an immersive cultural experience, with a strong focus on the interaction between art and the public. In addition to creating an assemblage of technology and art, the project will serve as a social anchor for the local community, a space defined by notions of flexibility and “art for all”.
Metal Houses in Argentina: 10 Projects with Sheet Metal Exteriors
Whether applied as cladding to steel or timber frame structures or to structures built by traditional means, sheet metal offers an array of advantages as a building material, thanks to its low cost, ease of maintenance, and versatility.
Tropical Modernism: Costa Rica’s New Elevated Treehouses
Costa Rica’s new modern homes are built to float above the landscape. This wave of elevated housing is designed to minimize environmental impact while working with varied terrain. Aiming to become a carbon-neutral country, Costa Rica is transforming its housing market as it experiences a growing demand for more residential buildings.