The Nautical crafter Firmship’s primary focus is designing modern, but unassuming seafaring vessels – ships sailing upon the calm waters of quiet luxury, outfitted with tasteful accoutrements that include bespoke furnishings, upholstery, and even stained… Read More »Buy a Firmship Land Rover Defender, Receive a Matching Aera P-1 Titanium Watch
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that are a “background and foreground to everyday life”. Yamamoto, who is the 53rd Pritzker Architecture Prize… Read More »Riken Yamamoto wins 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
A veil of metal mesh wraps the steel structure of In-Between Pavilion, an exhibition space in Shenzhen, China, designed by Beijing studio Trace Architecture Office. In-Between Pavilion provides a home for the Design Homology Museum,… Read More »Mesh veil wraps exhibition space in China by Trace Architecture Office
The first case study in our Social Housing Revival series looks at a housing block in Vienna organised around a central “common heart” that harks back to the city’s golden age of municipal construction. Designed… Read More »Seestadt Aspern Housing by Berger + Parkkinen brought Red Vienna into the 21st century
A reinforced concrete frame defines the twisting form of a tower designed by local studio Hamonic + Masson & Associés for the port city of Le Havre in northern France. Called the Alta Tower, the… Read More »Hamonic + Masson gives Alta Tower in Le Havre an “expressive” twisting concrete shape
Architecture has a long tradition of famous figures working well into their old age but sometimes it’s best to know when to stop, writes Catherine Slessor. Though it seems like only yesterday that the ribbon… Read More »“Bowing out gracefully is a rare thing in the starchitect firmament”