Personalization of architectural and design elements has become an important global trend in the creation ofexceptional and individualized spaces. These days, anything that can be personalized is fair game, with both clients and architects eager to stand out and create designs that are a true reflection of their personal tastes and lifestyles. In the realm of porcelain tiles, personalization is a key way to infuse design with personality, which the brand Kaolin has been focusing on through its Customization Program.
Join us for a summer workshop on earth building! We will construct a rammed earth pavilion and explore ways to use natural materials in architecture. Special attention will be given to hemp as a building material. No prior knowledge is required! The workshop will take place at the Center for Earth Building in Dobrava pri Škocjanu 23.
Bamboo U is an education enterprise that has grown out of the center of the world’s bamboo-building movement in Bali, Indonesia. Together with the renowned design firm IBUKU and just two minutes from the all-bamboo campus at Green School Bali, we have been pioneering bamboo architecture for over 10 years. We share our extensive knowledge on bamboo design and sustainable architecture through immersive courses.
Our upcoming in-person course will give participants the unique opportunity to work on the construction of a playground, the winning project from our recent design competition. Join us to meet the pioneers, visionaries, designers, and builders who have transformed bamboo into the most desired natural material.
‘Invisible’ introduces the works of Axi:Ome—a design practice led by Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim formerly in St. Louis and now in Cleveland—through a collection of essays and projects that map the firm's trajectory across seven years, from 2015 to 2023. The book covers 24 built, unbuilt, and conceptual projects located in different cultures and landscapes around the world that engage with multiple programs and scales. Essays by Nader Tehrani, Eric Mumford, Alan Balfour, Jennifer Yoos, Jessie Reiser and Nanako Umemoto with Julian Harake, and Michelle L. Hauk each contribute insight into Axi:Ome’s critical frameworks and help define a discourse of complexities in contemporary practice arising from academia. The book documents the invisible ethos that underlies the construction of architectural projects in an intricate world, challenging practitioners to rethink and reexamine how they position their own work in the architectural spectrum. ‘Invisible’ maps and chronicles an architectural practice as it engages with the pedagogical visions of the profession.
As Barcelona gears up to be the World Capital of Architecture in 2026, it is calling on young architects under 35 to reimagine 10 permanent blind walls, one in each district, and transform them into new facades that will leave a legacy in the city. ThisInternational Ideas Competition for Young Architectsaims to improve the quality of public spacethrough transformation and revitalization. Organized by the Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, made jointly with UNESCOand the International Union of Architects (UIA), it seeks architectural proposals that give meaning to walls that are currently anonymous and without any prominence, exposed in public space in a permanent provisional state.
In the past ten years across the globe, temperatures have broken records of heat consecutively bringing one heat wave after the other. The effects of these heatwaves have been felt particularly strongly in the Gulf region which was already known to hold extremely high temperatures in the summer months.
The people of Bahrain would traditionally move to the desert areas of the south during the winter months and back to coastal areas or closer to inland water sources during the hot summer months, this extended to various occupations as well, with agricultural workers, craftspeople, and traders frequently relocating to
On the heels of gmp’s successful exhibition of adaptive-reuse works that ran parallel to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in Italy last May, the firm debuts its first ever U.S. show in early October at the German cultural center Goethe-Institut USA in New York City. Called UMBAU.Nonstop Transformation — the word umbau translates variously as rebuilding, renovation and conversion — the exhibit will present eight to 10 very different works that all significantly transform their existing buildings and urban settings:
Margolese National Design for Living award winner Jane Wolff is delivering a special public lecture at Melbourne School of Design on her work framing public conversations about how to manage complex and contested landscapes that are subject to change.
Feature Cover - Boundless Joy - Designing Playgrounds for Every Child
"Creating Inclusive Playgrounds for Every Child": Design a universally accessible playground that caters to children with all types of disabilities. The challenge is to create not just a play area but a vibrant space that ensures safety, inclusivity, and endless fun for children with diverse needs.
Capital city Podgorica announces Competition for the Conceptual Architectural Design of the Adaptive Reuse of the 'NA-MA' Department Store in Podgorica.
Francesco Jodice, What We Want, Dubai, T52, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venezia.https://www.iuav.it/DIPARTIMEN/IRIDE/IRIDE/PARD/RIVISTA/ENGLISH/CALL/
The Sun, ‘mother’ star of the solar system around which various bodies, including the Earth, revolve, whose fusion core produces energy and releases electromagnetic radiation, a flow of particles and neutrinos. In 2024, a surge of this radiation caused a storm capable of disrupting electrical grid transmissions on Earth.
CITY’SCAPE begins, a two-day event dedicated to LANDSCAPE DESIGN that will showcase the most current themes at the Triennale di Milano. Over 40 speakers from 10 countries, including Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, Turkey, Denmark, China, Finland, and Italy, will participate in the eighth edition of the International Symposium and award "CITY’SCAPE - Landscape design as a strategy in climate change for urban and social resilience," scheduled for July 11th and 12th in the prestigious setting of the Salone d’Onore of the Triennale di Milano.
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Material Matters 2023 photo by Sophie Mutevelian
Material Matters returns in 2024. Based on the critically acclaimed podcast of the same name, the fair brings together over 40 world-leading brands, designers, makers, manufacturers and organisations to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape society.
John Andrews: Architect of Uncommon Sense is a celebration of the great, yet under recognised, architect's work and its global impact. Now more than ever, Andrews’ designs are a shining example of how architecture can be used to address urgent environmental and urban concerns.
