Architecture has always cultivated an intimate exchange with the surrounding nature. Three award-winning projects of the ICONIC AWARDS 2023: Innovative Architecture show how convincingly contemporary hotel and wellness architecture can be orientated towards tradition and turn […]
The Italian architect and engineer Carlo Ratti has been appointed curator of the 19th International Architecture Biennale of Venice, which will take place from 24 May to 23 November 2025. Carlo Ratti, Born in Turin in […]
Architectural projects have their own dynamics. They rarely run in a straight line: they are initiated, progress, branch off, turn back, stop or freeze at a certain stage. The fact is that much more architecture is […]
Whether in the urban wilderness or small oases between concrete and steel – inner-city locations such as community centers, playgrounds, market halls or banks can be much more than mere urban backdrops. We present four outstanding […]
Grand gestures and meaningful places: If you want to successfully design large-scale projects in China, you have to adapt to different needs and circumstances than in Europe. Wei Wu and Magdalene Weiss, Executive Partners at architecture […]
Cities make a decisive contribution to climate change. At the same time, they are particularly affected by its impact due to their location and building structures. While the population in cities continues to grow, available resources […]
As part of the Rotunda Project 2023/24, the architects from Matri-Archi(tecture) are bringing their own and others’ experiences of life in the diaspora to Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne. According to the museum, the focus is on […]
As building director of the Goethe University, Ferdinand Kramer (1898 to 1985) and his team realised a general plan as well as a total of 23 university buildings including interiors between 1952 and 1964. The designs […]
“The Great Repair”, they say, “is an oxymoron”. In the title, two seemingly contradictory principles collide: “The revolutionary ambition of radical system change, a characteristic of great solutions, collides with the evolutionary act of repair. For […]
