Renovating a space for a gastronomic purpose can be one of the most interesting challenges for an architect, due to the freedom of design that tends to characterize these projects. It allows us to play with cladding materials, lighting, and furnishings to create unique spaces that are both attractive and functional for both the restaurant team and the diners.
We dived into our project library to select 5 restaurants that took advantage of their renovations and complexities to create distinctive spaces, presented by ICEX e Interiors from Spain.
Solar technology has enormous potential, but it has been underutilized. To get an idea of just how underutilized it is, consider that every 24 hours the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth could provide energy for the entire planet for 24 years. Of course, it is necessary to collect it properly, through photovoltaic systems. With the climate crisis increasingly present in our daily lives, causing growing concerns about obtaining energy from renewable sources and reducing carbon emissions, using the sun's possibilities to generate clean energy seems to be a path of no return. But there are still some difficulties that reduce its use, such as obtaining economical solar products, aesthetics, availability of these products, regulations, and even installation issues.
Building-integrated photovoltaics, or BIPVs, offer the design and construction industry solutions to typical challenges that hinder adoption of solar energy. Below, we list the main challenges of incorporating solar energy into projects and how they can be overcome.
The Taipei Performing Arts Centre sits amid the city’s Shilin Night Market. Lifted off the ground, so that street life spills beneath the structure, the glass-walled central cube appears light and airy. Image Courtesy of Vanceva
An honourable mention for OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre celebrates the textural power of subtly shaded glass.
Spaces create living environments, and the design of the room has a direct effect on people's moods and behavior. The winners of this year's iF Design Awards show how high-tech materials, elements, and shapes shine in their uniqueness and create a very special atmosphere.
For Alape, perfecting the material, glazed steel – not only in visual terms but also as a haptic experience, as with the Aqua surface series – is particularly important. Image Courtesy of Alape
For 125 years, German brand Alape has been perfecting the visual as well as haptic experience of washbasins and washstands made of glazed steel.
The Budapest Development Agency announces an international architectural design contest for the renewal of the Nyugati Railway Station and its surroundings.
The Art Omi: Architecture residency program is first of its kind in the nation, inviting 10 early- to mid-career architects from around the world to develop their work during a full two-week residency on Art Omi's campus. Architecture Residents are selected on the basis of their individual proposed project and portfolio. Completed projects are presented in an informal critique setting at the end of the residency period, with visitors invited to see the proceedings.
Over the course of more than 70 years, American office furniture manufacturer Haworth has developed a unique understanding of how our surroundings help humans thrive in the workplace. Image Courtesy of Haworth
Office furniture specialist Haworth embraces awareness, analysis and imagination in its quest to create workspaces that have a positive impact on our lives.
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Sculpture made from grass-based biomaterial developed as an open source technology for the fabrication of objects and buildings.
Join us online or in person at Building 14, Nolan Park, Governors Island, New York, on Friday 29th October where we present a new material and a new approach to making public spaces and buildings based on the FIELD Project, followed by a panel discussion on their possibilities in the built and green spaces of New York, voiced by leading institutions working on climate justice and social resiliency in the city.
The opening conference of the “AURA on Saturday” series in 2021 Fall Semester will host architect, professor emeritus, writer Juhani Pallasmaa and architect, writer Hüseyin Yanar.
CASA Vertigo in collaboration with the Curatorial Research Collective proudly present 50 Years of CASA Vertigo: From KSA to CASA, a retrospective exhibition diving into the history and legacy of the exhibition and event committee CASA Vertigo, established with TU Eindhoven’s Architecture department.
Cover Image by: Brendan Cooney, Parto Jahangiri, Arvin Nadimi and Minh Quang Do, Sweden
Sustainability comes in many forms. Amazing innovations and advances are introduced every day in the drive towards environmentally-responsible, socially sustainable, resource-efficient structures and cities. These include everything from smart homes and photovoltaic glass, to new forms of circular economies, centrally organized power networks, and modular building techniques.
Come Together. The Architecture of Multigenerational Living, gestalten 2021
Three or four generations living under one roof, sharing their rooms, meals, and lives—this is multigenerational living. Around the world this more communal approach to living is getting increasingly popular. It’s not just within the family. Intergenerational community living is also making a comeback: Architectural experimentation is also creating space for new models of coliving that are bringing people from different backgrounds and generations, who might not typically live together, all into the same shared home. So what’s the difference between a multigenerational home and simply a big house? Come Together explores the why, the what, the where and, most importantly, the how of the homes that succeed at being liveable for all ages—with designs created by architects around the globe that are not only stunning, but balance flexibility, age-inclusivity, privacy, and communal spaces for multiple generations to come together. In five essays, ranging from rethinking Asia’s centuries-old tradition of multigenerational living, to Australia’s emergence as an epicenter for a new expression of multigenerational housing in the western context, and new approaches to intergenerational community living coming out of Europe, five in-depth profiles and 29 case studies, this book shows that through carefully considered design, it’s possible to live your own life and share it with others－all under one roof.
Oregon State University Forest Science Complex. Image Courtesy of Wood Design & Building Awards
The Wood Design & Building Awards program recognizes design teams that are passionate about celebrating wood as a safe, strong, and sophisticated building material. Projects submitted to the Wood Design & Building Awards program are accepted from Canada, US, and internationally, adding value to the diversity of wood building application examples.
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Architects and Designers: Have you ever asked yourself how to win more work, how to leave behind unprofitable, ineffective marketing methods, how to level up your design firm, and to say yes to more fulfilling work...?
If so, sign up now to our free three online sessions of our Business of Design series and hear firsthand from Archmark, ING Media and MVRDV their tips to enable architects and designers to become better managers, business developers, and entrepreneurs.
VELUX Group's Director of Sustainable Buildings Lone Feifer talks about the Build for Life Conference and the company's vision for a more sustainable future for the built environment.
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