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Studio Gang Projects Exhibition Inspired by Horticultural Grafting Opens at Aedes Berlin

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Studio Gang is an architecture and urban design practice founded in 1997 by Jeanne Gang and based in Chicago, with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, and Paris. Comprised of over 100 professionals, including architects, designers, and planners, the studio is known for its research-driven approach to design. On Friday, July 11, the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin will inaugurate an exhibition on Studio Gang's work, organized in collaboration with AW Architektur & Wohnen magazine. Titled Studio Gang: The Art of Architectural Grafting, the exhibition explores the studio's design methodology through six recent projects.

L’Ark Belvédère Office Building / Cino Zucchi Architetti

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The new L'Ark office building in the Bordeaux Belvédère district, designed by Cino Zucchi Architetti, stands as a testament to the city's ongoing architectural renaissance, integrating contemporary design with a deep respect for the city's urban fabric.

University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center Paris / Studio Gang

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Studio Gang, the international architecture and urban design firm led by Jeanne Gang, has completed its first project in France: the University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris. Serving as a European hub for scholarship and research in Paris's 13th arrondissement, the new academic center is designed to enliven the surrounding neighborhood and weave itself into the urban and intellectual fabric of the city. "The Center in Paris is designed as a vertical campus. Its multilevel atrium provides all the spaces with light and offers visual connections across programs," said Jeanne Gang, Founding Partner of Studio Gang. "We wanted the building to amplify social interactions, scholarly collaborations, and cultural exchange between the University and the City of Paris." The Center is part of a new development that also includes a mixed-use residential building designed by PARC Architectes. Situated on a corner site on Paris's Left Bank, in a neighborhood regarded as a hub for research and higher education, the Center is the architectural centerpiece of the block.

Facette Bordeaux Workspace / Studioninedots

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 02:00:00 +0000

In the new urban district of Belvédère in Bordeaux, we're thrilled to unveil the finalized Facette. The design is Studioninedots' response to the request for a place that fosters new ways of working and offers the flexibility, collaboration and diversity essential for today's entrepreneurs. For at a time when work is increasingly untethered from specific times and places, the building's true value lies in its innovative spaces for interaction. Facette boasts a sequence of distinctive collective spaces, leading users from the ground floor, along the facade to the roof terrace. These spaces drive the social community within the building. The building's communal ambition and enticing, multi-purpose spaces set Facette apart as a building that fits today's working needs.

Architectural Photography and Scale: Human Figure as an Essential Assessment Tool

María Francisca González — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:30:00 +0000

The incorporation of the human figure is one of the most effective tools used in architectural photography: it helps the viewer decipher the scale of work and assess its amplitude. While it successfully communicates a rough idea of the measurements of the elements in the picture, it also helps architecture become more relatable and accessible. People engage better with the built environment when it is populated, mainly because the human sense of society and community is the cornerstone of our civilization. With this in mind, we are showcasing a selection of our favorite photographs where the human figure takes center stage, enhancing our reading of architecture.

Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects

Valeria Silva — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 09:00:00 +0000

The true beauty of a built place is proportional to the positive influence it has on people. When we wonder why we feel so good in a place, so ‘at home’, it is because its dimensions, proportions and tensions have been designed for us.

Currency Museum / Costa Lopes

Daniela Cardenas — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The new Currency Museum is located on the waterfront of Luanda, just in the heart of the city downtown, nearby the charismatic headquarters of the National Bank of Angola.

36 Architecture Firms from the Global South You Should Know

ArchDaily Team — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 08:45:00 +0000

Countries that are part of the so-called “global south” have undergone many transformations in their cities and urban contexts in recent years due to the economic and social challenges they face. Urban growth, sustainable development, quality of life and health in emerging cities, and the development of their own cultural identity have been some of the issues that local architecture had to incorporate.

Young architects have understood the importance of making an architecture that is deeply rooted in their own territory while giving this architecture a clear local identity. By generating new typologies and using their own resources and materials, they have presented innovative, site-specific, and, above all, solutions with a new fresh focus towards what represents them as creators of this architecture.

Saclay Student Residence / LAN Architecture

Andreas Luco — Sat, 11 May 2019 05:00:00 +0000

LAN, in association with CVA and the landscape architect Topotek, has just completed plot B, a highlight of the Grand Paris project, for a total of 900 residences, serving 1,082 students. Spanning two Urban Development Zones, the École Polytechnique district and the Moulon district, this large-scale campus represents the pinnacle of national higher education and research, and is one of the greatest student residences ever created in France.

Women in Architecture Photography: 12 Names to Know

Romullo Baratto — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 05:00:00 +0000

In many parts of the world, more women have architectural degrees than men. However, this fact hasn’t translated past university into the working world as women continue to be underrepresented across nearly all levels of practice.

Contemporary Religious Architecture That Rethinks Traditional Spaces for Worship

Dima Stouhi — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:00:00 +0000

Constructing places of worship has always been an intricate practice, managing to detach the human, and release the boundary between body, mind, and spirit. Holy presence has been crucial in designing and constructing sacred places, which is why almost all religious building possessed similar characteristics: grandiosity, monolithic material, natural elements, and a plan that compliments an individual’s circulation through the space. Contemporary religious structures, however, found a way to adapt to the evolution of architecture. Unlike the Gothic or Baroque periods, modern-day architecture does not have a dominant identity. It is, in fact, a combination of postmodernism, futurism, minimalism, and everything in between. Architects have found a way to transform these exclusive, religion-devoted places into structures of spirituality, manifestation, and fascination.

Pavilion of Humanity / CHYBIK + KRISTOF

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 21 May 2018 04:00:00 +0000

Moravské Náměstí is a busy square in the centre of Brno. As it lies right on the Brno ring road (boulevard), thousands of people walk and drive through it every day. Few of them, however, realize the historical complexity of the spacious area, which used to be part of the fortification system of the city. The last chapter of its history was written last summer when the square was temporarily adjusted to suit the needs of a multigenre festival Meeting Brno. The major theme of the festival was the idea of European unity, currently greatly endangered by populism and radicalization within the society. The festival's main motto – Unity in Diversity – paraphrases the official motto of the European Union and its physical manifestation was designed by the Brno architecture studio Chybik+Kristof. The installation sought to commemorate particular historical milestones as well as demonstrate unexpected connections with an objective to induce the desire for solidarity and unity, call for tolerance and initiate a debate about contemporary socio-political issues.

World Photo Day 2017: Our Readers’ 100 Most-Bookmarked Architectural Photographs

María Francisca González — Sat, 19 Aug 2017 08:00:00 +0000

This August 19th is World Photo Day, which celebrates photography on the anniversary of the day on which France bought the patent for the daguerreotype, one of the earliest photographic processes, and released it to the world for free in 1839. At ArchDaily, we understand the importance of photography in architecture—not only as a tool for recording designs, but also as a discipline that many of us enjoy. To celebrate the occasion, we decided to reveal the most popular images ever published on ArchDaily, as selected by you, our readers. Using data gathered from My ArchDaily, we have ranked the 100 most-saved images from our database; read on to see them.

DYEJI / Costa Lopes

Daniel Tapia — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 02:00:00 +0000

The urban border of Luanda bay has been continued to Cape Island, remote origin of the city and, for a long time, local fishing community and Luanda recreational point. The new landfills on the island’s inner front give it a new urbanity, amongst the unobstructed views of the city center.

Sapiens / Costa Lopes

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:00:00 +0000

The Sapiens Building (Polytechnic Institute of Science and Technology) is located in a still semi-industrial area, on an intermediate topographic platform between the northern limit of downtown, not far from Luanda’s port and the Central Railway Station, and the bottom of the cliff just bellow the residential neighbourhood of Miramar.

KN10 / Costa Lopes

Sabrina Leiva — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 13:00:00 +0000

The KN10 building – among the first to be completed by COSTA LOPES and home to its head offices – roots itself in its location in Rua Kwame N’Krumah, opposite to Rua Moisés Cardoso, a continuation of the upper city ridge (one of Luanda´s main urban structures) and, on the other hand, in its generic programme which at the time met the need for qualified office spaces. It also takes in account the uncertainty in relation to the transformation of the neighboring urban plots.

1st Congress Tower / Costa Lopes

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:00:00 +0000

The project equates itself around four fundamental conditions: the program for a banking institution - corporate and generic offices but with a socio-cultural area - with an inevitable intensive occupation of the available plot; the prime location in Largo Lumeji, with its strong public profile, one of the joints in the city's urban expansion from the downtown; the near context, rapidly changing and unpredictable, with general verticalization and space closure; and the will to safeguard or even increase, a priori, the public space of the city.

10 Stunning Images of Sacred Spaces

Holly Giermann — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 13:00:41 +0000

In the spirit of Easter Sunday, we've rounded up a compilation of ten glorious sacred spaces from our Religious Architecture Pinterest board. Ranging from traditional, reverent congregation halls to unexpected ultra-modern chapels, these spectacular places of worship are bound to inspire. Get a dose of these divine works after the break...