-
Architects: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
- Area: 114 m²
- Year: 2013
-
Professionals: Ove Arup & Partners, Shimizu Corporation
Koji Fujii / Nacasa&Partners Inc.
Sayama Forest Chapel / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
Clover House / MAD Architects
-
Architects: MAD Architects
- Area: 300 m²
- Year: 2016
-
Manufacturers: Lixil Corporation, Tajima
-
Professionals: Kira Construction Inc
The 14 Stories Behind the 2016 Building of the Year Award Winners
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.
Representing a diverse field of architects, locations and project types, each design has a very different story about how it came into being, how its design responds to its context, how it fits into an architect's oeuvre, or what it says about the direction which architecture is traveling in. But despite the many different types of story represented, each of the stories behind the Building of the Year winners is a fascinating architectural tale. Here are those 14 stories.
World Photography Day 2015: The 10 Most-Saved Images in My ArchDaily
"Every picture tells a story" - at least, that's according to that great philosopher of our time, Rod Stewart. But what about the stories behind the pictures themselves? At ArchDaily we know that a great image requires not only great architecture but also a skilled photographer, so to celebrate World Photo Day we decided to find out more about the most popular images on ArchDaily. We've taken the ten most bookmarked images in My ArchDaily, and contacted some of the photographers to find out more about their images - read on to see the top ten, and to find out the stories behind six of them.
10 Stunning Images of Sacred Spaces
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...
Ribbon Chapel / Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
-
Architects: Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP
- Area: 80 m²
- Year: 2013
-
Manufacturers: ZM SILESIA
-
Professionals: Ove Arup & Partners