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Architects: Wutopia Lab
- Area: 925 m²
- Year: 2024
Featured Brewhouse Apartments / JEMS
Editor's Choice 7 Latin American Architecture Firms that Achieve More with Less
Emerald Screen Pergola / Wutopia Lab
coffea SHED Columbia Circle Store / kooo architects
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Architects: kooo architects
- Area: 400 m²
- Year: 2023
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Manufacturers: AutoDesk, CDN Lighting, Enscape GmbH, Robert McNeel & Associates
Ângela Roldão Architecture Office / Ângela Roldão Arquitetura
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Architects: Ângela Roldão Arquitetura
- Area: 1292 ft²
- Year: 2024
Chapel of St Anthony of Padua in Fryšták / Karel Filsak Architects
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Architects: Karel Filsak Architects
- Area: 18 m²
- Year: 2020
Tengbom's Stockholm Office / Tengbom
Thomas Heatherwick Selected to Curate the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2025
Thomas Heatheriwck has been appointed as the General Director and curator of the 2025 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. In its fifth edition, the Seoul Biennale serves as a platform for addressing urban challenges faced by major global cities. The biennale aims to foster innovative solutions and discussions around urban and architectural issues, underscoring Seoul’s commitment to a human-centered and climate-friendly future. As Asia’s largest architecture biennale, the exhibition is scheduled to take place from September 1 to October 31, 2025.
CPFB Education Center / archipelago
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Architects: archipelago
- Area: 800 m²
- Year: 2024
Blending Nostalgia and Modernity: The Rise of Synthetic Profiles in Furniture Design
Furniture made from natural materials is widely valued for its beauty and texture, especially when it comes to wood, bamboo, reed, and rattan. However, they often face challenges such as weather damage, pest infestations, and high maintenance requirements like regular cleaning and treatments to prevent fading and structural weakening. Additionally, their lack of uniformity and strength can compromise consistent quality, while harvesting the raw materials can have negative environmental impacts. These issues, combined with inconsistent availability and higher costs, have driven innovations in synthetic materials that aim to replicate the aesthetics of natural products, often using recycled materials to promote sustainability.
The Obel Award Announces Theme for its 6th Cycle, the 2024 Edition
The Obel Award is an international prize for architectural achievement presented annually by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation. Each year, the jury selects a specific theme and grants an award to a promising solution. For the 2024 edition, the prize that honors architectural contributions that positively impact both people and the planet will be focused on “Architecture With”.
Previous emphasis included Adaptations, Emissions, Cities, Mending, and Well-being. In 2023, the fifth cycle recognized ‘Living Breakwaters’ in New York, a green infrastructure project off the shore of Staten Island, by SCAPE Landscape Architecture and its founder Kate Orff. In 2022, the Obel was awarded to Seratech, a carbon-neutral concrete solution, in 2021, the concept of the 15-minute city received the prize for its value in creating sustainable and people-centric urban environments, and in 2020, Studio Anna Heringer was acknowledged for Anandaloy, in Bangladesh, an unconventional, multifunctional building that hosts a therapy center for people with disabilities on the ground floor and a textile studio on the top floor producing fair fashion and art. Finally, in its first edition, fixated on well-being, the Obel Award was granted to the Art Biotop Water Garden project in Tochigi, Japan, by Junya Ishigami & Associates.
THYTA House / LASSA architects
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Architects: LASSA architects
- Area: 380 m²
- Year: 2023
Educational Architecture for the Community: Exploring the Works of Plan:b Architects in Colombia
Founded by architects Felipe Mesa and Federico Mesa, the Plan:b arquitectos studio is located in the city of Medellín, Colombia, bringing together building design, participation in academic activities, and the construction of concepts capable of connecting architecture with the urgent realities of everyday life. Understanding the architectural project as a provisional pact, permeable configuration, and positive expression of eco-social constraints, they have constructed a large number of buildings of various scales and programs since 2000, ranging from public, educational, and sports spaces to housing, offices, hotels, and installations.
Family Mausoleum, Municipal Cemetery / Fransmas architects
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Architects: Fransmas architects
- Area: 20 m²
- Year: 2023
T+N House / Junsekino Architect and Design
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Architects: Junsekino Architect and Design
- Area: 601 m²
- Year: 2023