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News • News • 3 Jul 2022
RH+architecture develop an intriguing urban infill strategy for a Paris neighbourhood
In the 11th district of Paris, the architecture of the neighbourhood has a spontaneous feel characterized by the wide variety of outlines, scales, and forms that make up the disparate cityscape. On a deep and narrow plot measuring 45-meters iin length and 9-meters in width, two new buildings containing 14 dwellings have been added by RH+architecture.
Luc Boegly
Deliberately understated, the new infill additions are in keeping with the anarchic urban setting and engage in a delicate dialogue with the surrounding context.
Luc Boegly
To the garden side, the buildings are clad with solid wood modules that lend a warm and peaceful look to the hustle and bustle of Paris. The blocks are wedged into position to create a random app... More
News • News • 8 Oct 2021
Herzog & De Meuron complete their first work in Korea with the opening of the sculptural SongEun Art Space
In the heart of Seoul’s Chung Dam District, which is known for its luxury shopping, restaurants, and bars, Herzog & DeMeuron have completed the new landmark SongEun Art Space, which provides art and office spaces for the non-profit SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation.
Iwan Baan
Designed in collaboration with JUNGLIM Architecture, the monolithic concrete triangular volume results from the given building envelope on the site, maximizing the floor area, as well as exploiting the sculptural potential of the zoning law.
Iwan Baan
Rising a total of eleven storeys with five floors underground, the building contains more than 8,000 square meters of floor space. Art spaces on the lower floors open outward towards the main stree... More
News • News • 19 Oct 2020
ZOYA Museum takes its cue from historic village surroundings
In Petrischevo Village, outside Moscow, ZOYA Museum by Architectural buro A2M is located on a large field site surrounded by a small, primarily single-storey village. A historic site dating back to the Great Patriotic War, the shapes and layouts of the existing village are interpreted through different volumes into the architecture of the new museum.
Ilya Ivanov
With a total area of 2,500 square meters, the two-storey ZOYA museum includes an exhibition area, café, gift shop and associated amenities. Each hall within the museum is articulated as an independent volume, with views over the historic landscape that surrounds.
Ilya Ivanov
The different architectural volumes are united with a colonnade the runs the perimeter of... More
Product • By Concrete LCDA • New Panbeton® Collection
New Panbeton® Collection
Concrete LCDA collaborates with well known designers.
Panbeton® is a unique technology of ultra-lightweight concrete cladding.
The panels are quick and easy to install. They are ideal cladding to dress
up a space with concrete.
- A light and very large panel that can be cut to size
- A front in genuine raw concrete finish
- A simple fixing system
- Quick installation with very little handling More
Project • By Gaetan Le Penhuel & Associés, Architectes • Offices
84 Housing Units in Lyon
Last block of phase 1 to be subdivided on the Lyon Confluence peninsula (France), the operation ensures the transition between the West edge of the ground, occupied by a gendarmerie barracks, and the recent constructions that surround it. The project makes the bet to achieve a hyphen by the vacuum, fading away, between Rhone and Saone rivers, towards the superb hillsides green and steep of Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon. The unexpected approach, conceived with Z Architecture, of the masterplan is to open the plot from East to West so as to offer cross-views towards the two rivers. To achieve this, the mixed program - 84 housing units, in accession and social, offices, shops, and parking - is located into two buildings aligned face to face on the... More