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Henning Larsen Designs Rammed Earth Campus for Youth Academy in Uganda

Reyyan Dogan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:30:00 +0000

Henning Larsen, in collaboration with Kampala-based Siimi Design Studio, has revealed the design for a new modular campus for El Cambio Academy, a youth football and education institution located in Masaka, Uganda. The project is being developed using rammed earth construction, with bricks produced on site from locally excavated soil. Currently under construction, the first phase includes a boys' dormitory and is expected to be completed by summer 2025. The 1,280-square-meter campus is designed to accommodate 60 children between the ages of 9 and 16, providing facilities for both academic education and athletic training.

Architecture Classics: National Congress / Oscar Niemeyer

David Douglass-Jaimes — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Located at the head of the abstract bird-shaped city plan by Lúcio Costa, and as the only building within the central greensward of the eastern arm of the Monumental Axis, the palace of the National Congress (Congresso Nacional) enjoys pride of place among Oscar Niemeyer’s government buildings in Brasília. The most sober of the palaces on the Plaza of the Three Powers, the National Congress reflects the strong influence of Le Corbusier, while hinting at the more romantic and whimsical forms that characterize Niemeyer’s trademark Brazilian Modernism.

Soumaya Museum / FR-EE Fernando Romero Enterprise

Igor Fracalossi — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:00:00 +0000

The Soumaya Museum is home to a private art collection of nearly 70,000 works from 15th to mid-20th century, including the world’s largest private collection of Auguste Rodin sculptures.

Casa Scout / BAAG

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Carrying out the project of a house for a group of Scouts required some previous research of the ways of living, educating, playing and organization these kind of associations have. From the beginning, the project was focused on the search of an inclusive space that would allow both group work and respect for the environment and their surroundings.

Kengo Kuma and FGMF's Japan House Sao Paulo Through the Lens of FLAGRANTE

Equipe ArchDaily Brasil — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Architect and photographer Romullo Fontenelle of FLAGRANTE studio shared with ArchDaily a series of photographs from the recently inaugurated Japan House Sao Paulo, a project by Kengo Kuma in partnership with the local office FGMF Arquitetos.

AD Classics: Los Manantiales / Felix Candela

Michelle Miller — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published on April 14, 2014. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

With the design for Los Manantiales, Felix Candela’s experimental form finding gave rise to an efficient, elegant, and enduring work of structural art. Comprised of four intersecting hypars, a strikingly thin roof surface creates a dramatic dining space. Built as Candela was establishing an international reputation as the foremost shell building, he demonstrated to the world his masterful combination of artistry and technical virtuoso.

AD Classics: Vitra Fire Station / Zaha Hadid

Luke Fiederer — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published on April 21, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Although Zaha Hadid began her remarkable architectural career in the late 1970s, it would not be until the 1990s that her work would lift out her drawings and paintings to be realized in physical form. The Vitra Fire Station, designed for the factory complex of the same name in Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, was the among the first of Hadid’s design projects to be built. The building’s obliquely intersecting concrete planes, which serve to shape and define the street running through the complex, represent the earliest attempt to translate Hadid’s fantastical, powerful conceptual drawings into a functional architectural space.

Jingfeng Academy / Tumushi Architects

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Sun, 19 Aug 2018 02:00:00 +0000

The client want to build a small cultural facility on the site. Firstly, it will be a studio for researchers work and be a library for professional book. Due to sit close to Jinfeng village, it is named as Jinfeng academy.

Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo / Paulo Mendes da Rocha + Eduardo Colonelli + Weliton Ricoy Torres

Igor Fracalossi — Sun, 20 May 2018 09:00:00 +0000

Built in the last decade of the nineteenth century to house the Lyceum of Arts and Crafts has never been fully completed. As early as November 1905, the first works of adaptation were executed, still under the plan and direction of the architect Ramos de Azevedo, to receive the first collection of paintings belonging to the State and which became the Pinacoteca.

AURA Summer Academy / Istanbul: Past, Present, Future

Rene Submissions — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:04:00 +0000

Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy (AURA) Istanbul would like to invite you to join its inspiring Summer Academy, "Istanbul: Past, Present, and Future".

The melting pot of east and west, the great city of Istanbul, has been coveted through the ages and was the capital of two glorious empires: the Byzantine and Ottoman. 8,000 years of human occupation at this site has left behind a massive accumulation of architectural legacy for later researchers to discover and analyze.
Join us in Istanbul for a month of comprehensive analysis with lectures from leading experts in the field. Explore the coping mechanisms developed through

H Academy / CJ Studio

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:00:00 +0000

H Academy primarily offers hairdressing courses including hair cutting, dyeing, perming, and additionally, make-up, and nail art. The plan focuses on the teaching process and how the program functions. The teaching consists of academic and practical learning. More complicated activities would be performed in practical learning, so there is only one classroom for academic and two for practical.

Sou Fujimoto's Polyhedral Pavilion Shapes The Art Island of Japan

Fernanda Castro — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 16:00:00 +0000

Located a few meters from the terminal of Naoshima, the Japanese island better known as the "Art Island", Sou Fujimoto's Pavilion appears as a translucent and lightweight diamond perched on the coastal edge of Kagawa, visible from SANAA's ferry terminal welcoming the visitors to the island.

Martin Rein-Cano Explains the Importance of Dynamism in Landscape Architecture

Osman Bari — Sun, 25 Jun 2017 16:00:00 +0000

In an interview with ArchDaily, TOPOTEK 1's co-founder Martin Rein-Cano explains the role dynamism plays in landscape architecture, and touches on his journey as a student to where he is now.

TOPOTEK 1’s Martin Rein-Cano On Superkilen’s Translation of Cultural Objects

Osman Bari — Sun, 14 May 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Founded in 1996 by Buenos Aires-born Martin Rein-Cano, TOPOTEK 1 has quickly developed a reputation as a multidisciplinary landscape architecture firm, focussing on the re-contextualization of objects and spaces and the interdisciplinary approaches to design, framed within contemporary cultural and societal discourse.

BIG Changes on the Horizon for Bjarke Ingels and His Firm

Karina Zatarain — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:15:00 +0000

“The greatest thing about being an architect,” pronounced Bjarke Ingels, “is that you build buildings.”

Reporting from the Front: 6 Months in 5 Minutes

AD Editorial Team — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 05:00:00 +0000

This week the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale—Reporting From the Front—will close. Six months have passed and hundreds of thousands of architects, urbanists, designers and tourists have perused both the National Participations (of which more were represented this year than ever before) and the central exhibition curated by Alejandro Aravena – the first South American to direct the most prestigious event on the architectural calendar. ArchDaily has compiled our most extensive coverage of the event and, as the 15th incarnation of Biennale shuts its gates for the last time, our collection of articles, interviews and publication excerpts remains permanently accessible.

What Motivates and Inspires UN Studio's Ben van Berkel?

Becky Quintal — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 13:30:00 +0000

Last week ArchDaily attended the 2016 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin. Following his opening keynote address, we talked to Ben van Berkel of UN Studio who spoke of his interest in using technology in architecture to improve not only user experience, but to affect qualitative aspects of design itself. Together with his partner Caroline Bos, Van Berkel recently published Knowledge Matters, a book positioned "to help architects to run a better studio and to share knowledge."

"Creative Cynic" Peter Cook Explains Why Archigram Designs Were Always Meant to Be Built

Becky Quintal — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:30:00 +0000

Last week ArchDaily attended the 2016 World Architecture Festival in Berlin. We chatted with Sir Peter Cook and asked him about the current state of global affairs (Brexit, the US election, etc). He explained how his experience and work has influenced a career that has spanned over five decades, and reminds us of the inspiring power of architecture.