Nidus . photos: © Volker Conradus . + archdaily
The two Sankt Göres townhouses in Düsseldorf Kaiserswerth are the first new Nidus buildings: unadorned but deliberately quoting architectural history, built monolithically and reduced to the essentials with natural materials. The two townhouses „Sankt Göres” are located in the north of Dusseldorf in Germany. Slightly set back, they only cast a spell over the viewer at a second glance. Continue reading Nidus
The Urban Nature Project is the Natural History Museum’s response to the growing pressures of urbanisation and biodiversity loss on people and planet. It aims to give people across the UK, no matter who they are or where they live, the motivation and tools to safeguard nature in towns and cities. Continue reading Feilden Fowles
Pardo . photos: © José Campos
The sublime landscape of the place blends with the sea, the sky and the mist. From the building to the landscape, the Sinal House overlooks the mouth of Minho River, the hill of Santa Tecla, Caminha and the mouth of Coura River. The lines of the bank and the topography outline the contours of the scenery that is defined and reflected in the water’s surface. Continue reading Pardo
Michael Henriksen . photos: © James Retief
Home extension by Michael Henriksen in St Albans near London. Continue reading Michael Henriksen
The new visitor and information center (BIZ) will provide the area around the Weißenhofsiedlung with a previously missing urban building block and focal point. An address-forming and publicly accessible building is being created as a link between the UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Academy of Fine Arts (ABK). On the occasion of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) in 2027, but also beyond, the project proposal creates a place of further development, innovation and confrontation with contemporary issues in the sense of a “showplace”. With the design of the BIZ, a lighthouse project is being created for IBA 27 with today’s understanding of a high level of building culture in all its facets. Continue reading Boltshauser Architekten