We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Richard Rogers, the architect of two of the movement’s best-known inside out buildings, Centre Pompidou and the Lloyd’s building. Inside-out is one of the most common ways of defining the buildings of Rogers – or to use a term coined by Archigram founder Michael Webb, “Bowellism”. This
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Snøhetta has designed a visitor centre for two archives, which will be built within the Arctic Circle on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. Named The Arc, the building will be a place for people to digitally view items from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which is the world’s largest, secure seed-storage,
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Humans will be replaced by artificial intelligence at the centre of our future cities, curator and brand consultant Suzanne Livingston told Dezeen Day. “We will no longer be centre stage. We will no longer be kingpin,” said Livingston during a panel on future cities during Dezeen Day. Instead of being at the centre of cities humans will
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Wesleyan House Methodist International Church is a 21-storey high-rise church in Hong Kong, topped with a Sky Chapel with views across the city and its harbour. The building, which stands in a densely populated area of the city, is described by Hong Kong-based Rocco Design Architects as “a vertical skyscraper church”. The 11,000-square-metre church is situated on a
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Although few overtly Bauhaus buildings were built in the UK, the movement’s ideals had a huge impact on British architecture. Beyond Bauhaus curator, Pete Collard, picks four buildings that demonstrate the school’s influence. The Beyond Bauhaus exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London aims to explore the influence that the German design school, which was
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Designer Iker Gil and Luftwerk have projected a grid of red lasers across Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House to highlight the building’s geometric form and its history. The installation is the second iteration of the Geometry of Light laser-display designed by Mas Studio’s Gil and Luftwerk, which was previously installed at the Barcelona Pavilion.
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Foggo Associates has designed a curved high-rise in central London at 70 St Mary Axe, which is widely known as the Can of Ham due to its distinctive shape. The 21-storey tower stands on the same street as the Foster + Partners-designed skyscraper at 30 St Mary Axe, which is called the Gherkin, in a grouping of
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Invisible Studio has built a gymnasium for a hotel in Somerset, which is designed as one giant window so that the building has a minimal impact on its garden setting. Named Room in a Productive Garden, the building stands in the vegetable gardens of the Georgian Hadspen House, which is now The Newt in Somerset Hotel.
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The 3,000 hugely varied churches built in Poland between 1945 and 1989 were often created as a rejection of communist authority. Kuba Snopek, co-author of Day-VII Architecture, picks five of the most intriguing. Following the second world war, predominately Roman Catholic Poland was under socialist, secular rule and largely cut off from the Vatican. This
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Behnisch Architekten has completed an office and reception building that looks like a sports arena at the Adidas headquarters in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Named the World of Sports Arena, the 52,000-square-metre office block stands at the the southern entrance to Adidas’ World of Sports campus. “The newly constructed building looks like a soccer stadium and has space for more
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