Studio Bright designs facade with perforated brick screens in Sydney

Brought to you by: Studio Bright’s project at 8 Loftus Street has attempted to reinvigorate a city block in Sydney, Australia’s Circular Quay. Capped with a rooftop garden, and street-level arcade that connects the interior courtyard to the street, the building, part of a larger precinct named Quay Quarter Lanes, houses two floors of retail

Oslotre prioritizes material efficiency in cross-laminated timber building

Brought to you by: While Scandinavia already has a reputation for mass timber construction, including what was, until this year, the world’s tallest timber building, Oslotre’s St. Olavs vei 18 shows a continued innovation of timber projects in the region. Located in Kristiansand, on the southern tip of Norway, St. Olavs vei 18 is the

MAD Architects’ arts center in Aranya is under construction

Brought to you by: Taking inspiration from the massing of clouds, MAD Architects’ forthcoming public art space in Aranya Community, Qinhuangdao, China, is nearing completion. Called the Cloud Center, the building will include a grand hall, gallery, and theater across a footprint of 2,500 square meters (26,000 square feet). Aranya is a coastal town east

Nori Architects retrofits an office building facade with recycled materials

Brought to you by: Nori Architects’ renovation of the Asanuma Corporation’s Nagoya Branch Office has given a 30-year-old, nearly all-glass office building in Aichi, Japan a new facade with primarily recycled natural materials. The Tokyo-based architecture firm was tasked with revamping the 8-story tower into a modern office space. As the firm described, “this project

BIG completes a planted tower in Singapore with a facade that pulls apart

Brought to you by: The newest contribution to Singapore’s reputation as a city engaging in biophilic design is Bjarke Ingels Group’s (BIG) CapitaSpring. The new 51-story, 920-foot-tall tower was designed in collaboration with Carlo Ratti Associati and follows a plan of “vertical urbanism.” Realized for the Singaporean real estate investment and development firm CapitaLand, the

Candalepas and Associates complete a modern, heritage-inspired facade

Brought to you by: Architect: Candalepas Associates Location: Sydney, Australia Completion Date:September, 2022 Located a block from Sydney, Australia’s Hyde Park, 116 Bathurst Street has brought a facade of apses and arches to the city. Also known as The Castle, the 37-story tower contains retail and residential spaces, in addition to a hotel. The design

The Architect’s Newspaper presents its 4th annual TimberCon

TimberCon, presented by The Architect’s Newspaper in partnership with the Mass Timber Institute, returns virtually on September 28. This year’s edition features leading projects and practitioners from across the U.S. and Canada sharing advances in timber design, engineering, and construction. Mass timber is of growing interest across North America as firms and clients seek to

Albert Einstein Education and Research Center emulates a tree canopy

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Architect Safdie Architects Location São Paulo, Brazil Opening August, 2022 Programmer, Interior Planner, and Executive Architect Perkins&Will Landscape Architect Isabel Duprat Skylight Sub-Contractor Seele Structural Engineer Thornton Tomasetti, Avila Engenharia, BRZ Experts Facade Thornton Tomasetti, Crescencio Environmental  Atelier Ten, Ca2 Horticulture Sue Minter General Contractor Racional Engenharia Exposed Concrete Beams Peri

Titanium dioxide breaks down smog on a Milanese hospital building

Brought to you by: Architect Mario Cucinella Architects Location Milan, Italy Completion Date January, 2022 Structural Engineer Ballardini Studio di Ingegnaria Service Engineer Deerns Italia  Contractor Itinera Facades Aza Aghito Zambonini  Glass Sentire AZA Facades Profile Schüco Italia Sunscreen Blades Laminam REI Doors AGEZE Italia  Lighting iGuzzini Mario Cucinella Architects’ San Raffaele Hospital breaks down

Kengo Kuma applies modular assembly scheme to student housing

Architect Kengo Kuma & Associates Location Geneva, Switzerland Local Architect CCHE Structure 2M Ingénierie Civile SA Landscape EMF Paisatge Lighting Design Light IQ Facade Consultant Sottas SA Contractor Complex Bau MEP Weinmann Energies Electricity DSRG Engineering – Scherler SA Featuring a stepped promenade that cuts through an otherwise uniform grid of operable screened windows, Kengo

Avenier Cornejo architectes wrap a Parisian nursing home in brick

Brought to you by: Architect Avenier Cornejo architectes Location Paris, France Completion Date May 2022 Structural Engineering EVP Ingénierie Quantity Surveyors Bureau Michel Forgue Landscape BASE Green Credentialing ETAMINE Consultant SemPariSeine Brick Kolumba by Petersen Tegl Brick Distributor  Harpage Brick Installation Delta Sud Brick Support Bracket Etanco Wood Joinery Bildau Bussmann Sun Shades Lamisol III

Steel and glass define a public-facing greenhouse that pushes the scale of urban agriculture

Brought to you by: Architect META architectuurbureau and van Bergen Kolpa Architecten Location Roeselare, Belgium Completion Date September 2021 Diffuse Glass Vetrasol Greenhouse Roof BOAL Screens Phormium Stability and Technical Studies Tractebel Cultivation Techniques Studies Wageningen University & Research, BU Greenhouse Horticulture Greenhouse Studies Smiemans Projects Built atop an existing concrete office building, the Agrotopia

The white aluminum facade of the Neutron Research Centre shines in front of the French Alps

Architects Levitt Bernstein, TKMT Location Grenoble, France Completion Date 2021 Aluminum Curtain Wall System Wicona Insulated Solid Metal Panels l’Emaillerie Alsacienne Double Glazing with Sun Protection AGC Perforated Aluminum Panels Local fabricators, Rhône-Alpes Region, France With the Alps rising behind it, the white aluminum and glass facade of the Neutron Research Centre at Institut Laue-Langevin

The jagged facade of the Museum of Modern Aluminum is as dynamic as the city around it

Nonthaburi’s new Museum of Modern Aluminum (MoMA), designed by Hung And Songkittipakdee design and research (HAS) gives a new face to Thailand’s history as an aluminum manufacturing hub along one of the busiest thoroughfares outside of Bangkok. While the design team wanted to use the material throughout the building to reflect the museum’s content, the