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Frankfurt Architecture City Guide: 20 Projects Tracing a Skyline Between History and Modernity

Diogo Borges Ferreira — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 07:30:00 +0000

Frankfurt is often recognised for its distinctive skyline, a rare feature in European cities. Towering glass skyscrapers mark its role as a global financial hub, yet beneath this vertical image lies a city layered with centuries of history, destruction, and reconstruction. From medieval timber-framed houses to post-war modernism and contemporary high-rises, Frankfurt has consistently reinvented itself through architecture, producing a built environment where different periods coexist in dialogue.

Infosys Campus / Morphogenesis

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The new office campus for IT giant Infosys in Nagpur sets surpasses conventional benchmarks for sustainability and energy efficiency. Situated within the Special Economic Zone adjacent to the city's upcoming MIHAN commercial hub, the campus accommodates over 2,000 employees across 33 acres (out of a total of 142 acres) in its Phase-1 development, with future phases planned for expansion.

Pathé Foundation / Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:00:00 +0000

The art of inserting a building into an historical city block means engaging in an open, physical dialogue with those already there. Building onto an extant structure also presents an opportunity for a more widespread renovation project, a reclaiming of space. The new headquarters of the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé is an unexpected presence, a curved volume one glimpses floating in the middle of the courtyard in which it sits, anchored on just a few supports. On the ground, there is a stand of birch trees, a floral island set in the dense mineral context of the city.

The Leadenhall Building In London Acquired By Chinese Investors in Record-Breaking Sale

Osman Bari — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 08:00:00 +0000

The Leadenhall Building, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, has been sold to a Chinese property magnate for a price of £1.15 billion, in what has become the second-biggest sale of a UK building in history, as well as one of China’s largest acquisitions of UK real estate. The transaction involved developer British Land and its partner Oxford Properties, who sold the tower to CC Land, a Hong Kong based company.

European Central Bank / Coop Himmelb(l)au

Daniela Cardenas — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:00:00 +0000

The striking twin tower shapes the skyline of Frankfurt’s Ostend

The Milkshake Tree / pH+

Cristobal Rojas — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 09:00:00 +0000

An experiential garden den has been created for the London Festival of Architecture 2016 by pH+ Architects on Peninsula Square, Greenwich. Conceived as an inclusive sensory space, The Milkshake Tree is a pop-up inspired by the practice’s work for the London Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy (LCCCP) in Haringey. The installation stimulates and encourages play through sounds, smells, movements and reflective surfaces.

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.

House in Hampstead / Cullinan Studio

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 29 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Much of the original integrity of this Grade II listed Georgian house had been lost through a series of clumsy interventions. The house was poorly planned – with no real central living space or easy flow from one part to another.

On Top of the City: Behind the Scenes at the Leadenhall Building

Chris Rogers — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Settled comfortably around a black conference table – the only item of furniture in an office space still lacking its carpet tiles – on the 40th floor of the new Leadenhall Building, I had the opportunity to discuss with lead designer Graham Stirk and his partner, practice co-founder Richard Rogers, the forces that shaped their new building and how they came to be working in the City of London once again.

The Leadenhall Building / Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Diego Hernández — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The building comprises a number of distinct architectural elements that provide clarity to the composition both as a whole and as a legible expression of its constituent parts. These elements include the primary stability structure, the ladder frame, the office floor plates, the northern support core, the external envelope and the public realm.

L’Orange de Ris / Edouard Francois

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 07 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Our project was born on the site of an abandoned police station, just beyond the last housing blocks of Ris Orangis, a suburb of Paris. At the city’s edge, the site faced an impenetrable jungle with rotting caravans and the ruins of a chateau.

Maggie’s Newcastle / Cullinan Studio

Javier Gaete — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Maggie’s Newcastle, completed in May 2013, injects a seasonally responsive, fluxing, landscaped realm into the Freeman Hospital grounds. Responding to the forces of sun and time, the centre sits still within its landscaped banks, and under a planted roof allowing copper beeches, cherry blossom, crocuses, wild flowers and herbs to delight with the seasons. Up to 1000 people have already visited the centre in its first month, which is unprecedented in Maggie’s history.

Media Library of Montauban / Colboc Franzen & Associés

Javier Gaete — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

The construction of the new multimedia library of Montauban is spearheading an urban renewal project in the eastern quarters of the city. It must mark the entrance to the city, providing an identity to these neglected neighborhoods while still representing the city of Montauban. In parallel it is a project of reinvention: in these times of the digitalization of knowledge, the challenges of such a design are of spatialization and of materialization of the information and its division. This is the "third place" between domestic space and work space.

AD Interviews: Edouard François

David Basulto — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Back when I was an architecture student I was very impressed by the early works of French architect and urban planner Edouard François, which introduced new ways to understand the relation between nature and architecture.

Urban Collage / Edouard François

Jonathan Alarcón — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

At Champigny-sur-Marne, respect of the context and the refusal to interpret it led us to take a unique position. The site is a grand ensemble that was built in the 1970's : a large zone of housing filled with towers and multi-story housing blocks near the old town center. The program asked for an urban renewal plan based on a new town center with shops and housing.

L’arbrisseau Neighborhood Centre / Colboc Franzen & Associés

Megan Jett — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000

It’s impossible not to notice the L’Arbrisseau neighborhood centre in the southern suburbs of Lille. Its helical shape, the staircase that winds itself up around the sides of the building and its aluminium cladding, like a space vessel’s, all make it stand out. They create a contrast with a rather disjointed and sometimes deprived urban environment that nonetheless holds some pleasant surprises, including a sunflower swimming pool around the back that is straight out of the Seventies.