This new exhibition centre is designed as a city-within-a city. All four of the 160 m long and 80 m wide halls are freely spanned by airy, arched timber structures with hourglass daylight apertures.
The prize-winning design, of which all that can be seen from the outside is a glass cube making an impact over a distance and defining the urban situation,... Læs mere
Heroic 20th-century Modernism saw the private home as a place to first test out utopian theories - a place for free play and experimentation where new... Læs mere
From the 1970s to the present day, there is scarcely an architect who has produced such pioneering work as a creative explorer of limits, lateral... Læs mere
Talks about the Forth Bridge - the longest railway bridge in the world and the first large structure made of steel. Crossing the wide Firth of Forth west... Læs mere
Borchard has chosen seven of the most beautiful gardens and photographed them, always in spring, in a time when the architecture has not been overwhelmed by the vegetation.
Fritz Leonhardt would have been 100 years old in 2009. He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart and then travelled in the USA. He made... Læs mere
Known as the Big Eye the Oita Stadium is one of the chosen venues for the next World Cup in 2002. It can be used year-round for public events aided by its retractable roof.
Text in English & German. Johannes Peter Holzinger studied architecture at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt am Main from 1954 to 1957. After a... Læs mere
Karl Friedrich Schinkel's most popular designs date from 1834 and 1838 and were his last major projects in which he presented his ideal of architecture in brilliant drawings and watercolors.
Literature on Schinkel has grown enormously since the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1981, but this is the first book that deals with his education and training. No one seems to have seen that Schinkel was actually a son of the late Enlightenment.
Even though his viaducts for the TGV Atlantic line and several innovative projects rapidly brought him national recognition, Jean-Yves Barrier managed to avoid... Læs mere