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Istanbul Modern Museum / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + Arup

Paula Pintos — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 05:00:00 +0000

With 10,500 square meters of usable space across five levels, the new Istanbul Modern building comprises large exhibition galleries, multifunctional spaces, dedicated zones for education, offices, and spaces for commercial activity.

“Architecture Stands Out Because It Has Something to Say to its Context”: In conversation with Mario Botta

Vladimir Belogolovsky — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 03:30:00 +0000

Swiss architect Mario Botta is known for his geometrically imposing, spatially captivating structures that are invariably dressed in zebra-like horizontal stripes in either black and white or red and white combinations. These both traditional and strikingly modern villas, chapels, wineries, schools, libraries, museums, company headquarters, banks, and residential blocks are scattered throughout towns and mountainous villages in the architect’s native Ticino region in southern Switzerland, extend all over Europe and can be encountered in places as far away as China, India, South Korea, Japan, and the USA.

Spotlight: Mario Botta

Dario Goodwin — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 03:30:00 +0000

Working since he was 16, Swiss architect Mario Botta (April 1, 1943) has become a prolific and well known crafter of space, designing a huge array of places of worship, private homes, and museums, perhaps most notably the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Mogno, Switzerland. His use of traditional masonry over the streamlined steel and glass of so much modern architecture creates strong, self-confident buildings that pull together the contrast between the weight of his materials and lightness of his designs.

San Carlino Church / MARIO BOTTA ARCHITETTI

Collin Chen — Wed, 22 May 2019 21:00:00 +0000

The life-size wooden model represented the cross section of the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Church in Rome. The real church almost lacks an exterior but the interior is, on the other hand, worked out in full detail. Its section, a wonderful example of Baroque architecture, is elegant and refined with protrusions, recesses and decorations. The model celebrated this section.

Spotlight: Renzo Piano

Rory Stott — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Italian architect Renzo Piano (born 14 September 1937) is known for his delicate and refined approach to building, deployed in museums and other buildings around the world. Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1998, the Pritzker Jury compared him to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Brunelleschi, explaining that "his intellectual curiosity and problem-solving techniques as broad and far ranging as those earlier masters of his native land."

15 Impressive Atriums (And Their Sections)

María Francisca González — Sun, 10 Jun 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Offices and cultural buildings both offer the perfect opportunity to design the atrium of your dreams. These central spaces, designed to allow serendipitous meetings of users or to help with orientation in the building, are spacious and offer a lot of design freedom. Imposing scales, sculptural stairs, eccentric materials, and indoor vegetation are just some of the resources used to give life to these spaces. To help you with your design ideas, below we have gathered a selection of 15 notable atriums and their section drawings.

Centro Botín / Renzo Piano Building Workshop + luis vidal + arquitectos

Fernanda Castro — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 12:00:00 +0000

The Centro Botín, a space for art, culture and education, projecting into the Bay of Santander, will restore to the city the immense dockland site of the Albareda mole, used until now as a parking lot. This is a strategic area, overlooking the sea, near the old city centre and enhanced by the historic Jardines de Pereda. The centre was strongly supported by Emilio Botín (1934-2014), president of Banco Santander and financed by the Botín Foundation, one of the most important private foundations in Spain, established in 1964 with the aim of fostering the social, economic and cultural development of Cantabria.

ArchDaily's 2017 Building of the Year Awards are Now Open for Nominations

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 08:55:00 +0000

2016 was a defining year for ArchDaily. The change and uncertainty around the globe which emerged during the past year allowed us to double down on our mission to provide information, knowledge, and tools to architects, leveling the access to architectural knowledge and enabling a more diverse, equitable profession. As part of this, we now have a renewed focus on data-driven decisions and crowdsourcing architecture's understanding of its own work. The flagship of this crowdsourcing effort has always been our annual Building of the Year awards.

CTBUH Names Winners of 2016 Tall Building Awards

Patrick Lynch — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:15:00 +0000

The Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat have announced the winners of the 15th edition of the CTBUH Tall Building Awards. From over 100 submissions, the best buildings from four regions – the Americas, Asia & Australasia, Europe and Middle East & Africa – were selected, along with recipients of the Urban Habitat Award, the Innovation Award, the Performance Award and the 10 Year Award. The CTBUH will pick a global winner from the regional selections later this year.

The 14 Stories Behind the 2016 Building of the Year Award Winners

Rory Stott — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:30:00 +0000

Last week, ArchDaily unveiled the 14 winners of this year’s Building of the Year award. Selected by ArchDaily readers from a pool of over 3,000 candidates, these 14 projects represent the best designs published by ArchDaily in the past year, as determined by an unbiased network of 55,000 voters who took part - each of them a judge in one of the world's most democratic architecture awards.

Intesa Sanpaolo Office Building / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Karen Valenzuela — Mon, 18 May 2015 03:00:06 +0000

The project for the new Intesa Sanpaolo head office is both an environmental and social laboratory and an urban project, with a discreet urbanity that unites it with the city’s inhabitants.

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art / Mario Botta

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The museum is located in downtown Charlotte, a city that has undergone a rapid urban development in recent years. It houses the works of art of Andreas Bechtlers’ collection with important artists such as Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle, Picasso, Giacometti, Matisse, Mirò, Degas, Warhol, Le Corbusier, Léger.

Ferdeghini Sport Complex / Frigerio Design Group

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 23 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The project provides a new vision of sports and environment. It combines youth education and growth with Spezia Calcio's athletic needs, always respecting the context and the local resources. The renovation of the sports center "Ferdeghini", with minimal building's footprint, high energetical efficiency and sensorial comfort, designed to become the "home" of the youth sector of the historic Company Spezia Calcio.

MUSE / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The area extends from the railway line and Palazzo delle Albere, on Via Monte Baldo, up to the left bank of the River Adige. This area has an extremely high potential, but is constrained between two physical and psychological barriers to the east and west:the railway, separating the area from the town’s nearby historical centre, and Via Sanseverino, which acts as an urban boundary between the area itself and the river’s natural environment.

House in Lumino / Davide Macullo Architects

Nico Saieh — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Located in the Swiss Alpine village of Lumino, just north of Bellinzona, this house stands as a monolithic element, quietly complementing and echoing its context. The surrounding area is characterised by traditional stone built houses, many of which date back centuries and are marked by their use of this single construction material. The new house is intended as a relevant response to and contemporary interpretation of the vernacular; its exposed reinforced concrete form recalls the revered strength and resonates the presence of these old stone houses. Sitting on the edge of the old village, the house acts as a sort of bastion between the old core and the modern residential expansion.