Institutional Architecture | Tag (page 7)

Gilmosery / Kim in-cheurl+ARCHIUM

May 13, 2014

+ 34

Architects: Kim in-cheurl+ARCHIUM
Area: 1029 m²
Year: 2012
Professionals: MASIL, COAZ Construction, ENG Energy Design Lab, SEN Structural engineers Co.LTD

Doncaster Civic Office / Cartwright Pickard Architects

April 26, 2014

+ 17

Architects: Cartwright Pickard Architects
Year: 2012
Professionals: AEC, Arup, Wates Construction, Grontmij

Taegutec Office Building / Tago Architects

April 23, 2014

+ 13

Architects: Tago Architects
Area: 4000 m²
Year: 2011

Henning Larsen Wins Competition to Design Central Bank of Libya

April 23, 2014

Henning Larsen Architects has won an invited competition to design a new headquarters for the Central Bank of Libya in Tripoli. Inspired by Libyan vernacular architecture, the structure will occupy two existing site excavations. The first, and largest, excavation will be transformed into a “shaded oasis” that serves both the bank and Gurji district by providing areas for operations, an education center, restaurant and hotel. The second will allow vehicular access to the treasuries.

New Cemex Headquarters / Atelier Povetron

April 21, 2014

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Architects: Atelier Povetron
Area: 681 m²
Year: 2012

Headquarter building for the Science Park of the University of the Basque Country / ACXT

April 17, 2014

+ 39

Architects: IDOM
Area: 11440 m²
Year: 2013
Professionals: ATHOS, UTE VIAS - ANTZIBAR

Prisons and Human Rights Violations: What Can Architects Do?

April 14, 2014

Originally published by the Architectural Review as "Discipline and Punish: the Architecture of Human Rights", this article by the founder of Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility Raphael Sperry outlines how prison design in the US and elsewhere is violating fundamental human rights, and how some architects have come to be complicit in these designs.

We think of architectural regulations as being there to ensure that buildings are safe for the public. But what if a building’s harm is not caused by unexpected structural failure but by the building performing exactly as intended? Can a building designed to facilitate human rights violations amount to a violation in itself? And what is the responsibility of the architects involved? These are the questions at the centre of the current debate in America around the architectural profession’s involvement in prison design.

Read on for more on the ethics of prison design after the break