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Architects: Studioninedots
- Area: 5200 m²
- Year: 2024
Facette Bordeaux Workspace / Studioninedots
Chenot Palace Weggis Health Wellness Hotel / Davide Macullo Architects
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Architects: Davide Macullo Architects
- Area: 18361 m²
- Year: 2020
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Manufacturers: 2F Leuchten, Alutech Metallbau, Aqwa Sanitär, Baumgartner, Brunner Innenausbau, +6
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Professionals: Fahrni Architekten, Anliker AG, Poliform Contract, Lauber Ingenieure, Basler & Hofmann AG, +2
Currency Museum / Costa Lopes
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Architects: Costa Lopes
- Area: 4794 m²
- Year: 2015
36 Architecture Firms from the Global South You Should Know
Countries that are part of the so-called “global south” have undergone many transformations in their cities and urban contexts in recent years due to the economic and social challenges they face. Urban growth, sustainable development, quality of life and health in emerging cities, and the development of their own cultural identity have been some of the issues that local architecture had to incorporate.
Young architects have understood the importance of making an architecture that is deeply rooted in their own territory while giving this architecture a clear local identity. By generating new typologies and using their own resources and materials, they have presented innovative, site-specific, and, above all, solutions with a new fresh focus towards what represents them as creators of this architecture.
Saclay Student Residence / LAN Architecture
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Architects: LAN Architecture
- Area: 25346 m²
- Year: 2018
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Professionals: Topotek 1, Bouygues Construction, Franck Boutté Consultants
Women in Architecture Photography: 12 Names to Know
In many parts of the world, more women have architectural degrees than men. However, this fact hasn’t translated past university into the working world as women continue to be underrepresented across nearly all levels of practice.
The conversation regarding women in architecture gained tremendous traction back in 2013 with the petition for Denise Scott Brown to be recognized as the 1991 Pritzker Prize winner, alongside her husband and the consequent rejection of that request by Pritzker. The Architectural Review and Architect's Journal have, since 2015, jointly presented awards to the exceptional female practitioners as part of their Women in Architecture Awards program. The swelling of these movements have helped to promote not only the role but also the recognition of women in architecture.
Contemporary Religious Architecture That Rethinks Traditional Spaces for Worship
Constructing places of worship has always been an intricate practice, managing to detach the human, and release the boundary between body, mind, and spirit. Holy presence has been crucial in designing and constructing sacred places, which is why almost all religious building possessed similar characteristics: grandiosity, monolithic material, natural elements, and a plan that compliments an individual’s circulation through the space. Contemporary religious structures, however, found a way to adapt to the evolution of architecture. Unlike the Gothic or Baroque periods, modern-day architecture does not have a dominant identity. It is, in fact, a combination of postmodernism, futurism, minimalism, and everything in between. Architects have found a way to transform these exclusive, religion-devoted places into structures of spirituality, manifestation, and fascination.
Here is a selection of contemporary religious buildings that prove once again that architects are breaking all boundaries of creativity.
Pavilion of Humanity / CHYBIK + KRISTOF
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Architects: CHYBIK + KRISTOF
- Year: 2017
World Photo Day 2017: Our Readers’ 100 Most-Bookmarked Architectural Photographs
This August 19th is World Photo Day, which celebrates photography on the anniversary of the day on which France bought the patent for the daguerreotype, one of the earliest photographic processes, and released it to the world for free in 1839. At ArchDaily, we understand the importance of photography in architecture—not only as a tool for recording designs, but also as a discipline that many of us enjoy. To celebrate the occasion, we decided to reveal the most popular images ever published on ArchDaily, as selected by you, our readers. Using data gathered from My ArchDaily, we have ranked the 100 most-saved images from our database; read on to see them.
DYEJI / Costa Lopes
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Architects: Costa Lopes
- Area: 12153 m²
- Year: 2015
Sapiens / Costa Lopes
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Architects: Costa Lopes
- Area: 10758 m²
- Year: 2015
KN10 / Costa Lopes
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Architects: Costa Lopes
- Area: 4221 m²
- Year: 2009
1st Congress Tower / Costa Lopes
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Architects: Costa Lopes
- Area: 41623 m²
- Year: 2013
10 Stunning Images of Sacred Spaces
In the spirit of Easter Sunday, we've rounded up a compilation of ten glorious sacred spaces from our Religious Architecture Pinterest board. Ranging from traditional, reverent congregation halls to unexpected ultra-modern chapels, these spectacular places of worship are bound to inspire. Get a dose of these divine works after the break...
Divine Inspiration: 15 Spiritual Spaces
In honor of those celebrating Easter Sunday, we’ve compiled a list of the most breathtaking places of worship from our Religious Architecture Pinterest board. From vast, open halls, to intimate places of prayer and contemplation, these works are sure to spark your appreciation for divine architecture. See them in all their glory, after the break...
Photography: Mid-Century Modern Churches by Fabrice Fouillet
As Europe recovered from the death and destruction of World War II, countries got back to the business of rebuilding their communities and, of course, their churches. The need to make sense of the madness of the War was palpable - as was the need to express this modern-day spirituality in a form that broke from the past and embraced this new world.
The result was a bevy of European churches that - although often misunderstood by practitioners - represent some of our best-preserved examples of Modernist architecture. Photographer Fabrice Fouillet made it his mission to photograph these beauties in a series he calls "Corpus Christi." You can see the images - as well as Fouillet's description of the work - after the break...