In this film the Swiss architect and university professor sketches various ideas as design considerations for a new building and its potential functions beside the Mies van der Rohe House in Berlin. Continue reading Peter Märkli
Sou Fujimoto is designing the architecture of Hida Takayama University with Hiroaki Miyata. Continue reading Sou Fujimoto
Hidekazu Kishi Architects . + archdaily
The owner lived next to their parents’ family home. There were some extended carports and eaves in the garden, and they lived by going back and forth while using the outside space. The front road was narrow and there was little traffic, so the exterior space, including the vacant lot opposite, was used as a garden for two families. Then, the owner built a new house in the vacant lot, and their grandmother lived in the house their older residence. The neighboring house on the south side was a one-story house and the ground was lowered by 1 m, so we placed the house as close to the south as possible and left as much of the open area and brightness of the vacant lot. Continue reading Hidekazu Kishi
Cyril Chenebeau . photos: © Aldo Amoretti
The project is located in the commune of Le Rouret in the Alpes Maritimes, on the edge of a protected natural area. The house is accessible via an old forestry road that extends into a hiking trail leading north to the Gorges du Loup.
The house is located at the balance point of the plot in a relatively gentle topography. Continue reading Cyril Chenebeau
The Brooks Memorial Art Gallery opened to the public in 1916. Situated in the center of Memphis within Overton Park, the museum originated as a modest exhibition space without a collection. Over the next one hundred years, additions to the original building expanded the ambition and scale of the institution, transforming it into the present-day Brooks Museum of Art. However, the spatial, climatic, and infrastructural demands of a twenty-first century museum exceeded the capabilities of the existing structures. In 2019 after an extensive selection process, Herzog & de Meuron was appointed design consultant for a new museum building. Continue reading Herzog & de Meuron