A grass-topped roof of compacted earth appears to float above this glazed restaurant near Parma, Italy, designed by Turin-based studio Carlo Ratti Associati for tomato company Mutti. Named Quisimangia, or Here We Eat, the restaurant… Read More »Carlo Ratti Associati shelters Mutti restaurant with “clod of earth lifted from the ground”
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, by IM Pei, the first “mega-museum in the Gulf”. This austere stack of limestone-clad blocks… Read More »IM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art was the most significant building of 2008
Car brand Honda has unveiled a redesigned H mark for its future electric vehicles, which is the first significant update of its logo since the 1980s. The redesigned H logo will be used on the… Read More »Honda unveils revamped logo for “historic transformation”
Architecture studio KPF has completed the Ziraat Bank Headquarters skyscrapers as the centrepiece of the Istanbul International Financial Center in Turkey. Rising 40- and 46-storeys-high, the towers are made up of interconnected glass structures that widen… Read More »KPF completes twin skyscrapers for Ziraat Bank Headquarters in Istanbul
The wildfires raging in Los Angeles are highlighting the underrated significance of the city’s unique urbanism and 20th-century architecture, writes Daniel Elsea. This is a love letter to LA. In life, as in history, it… Read More »“LA boasts the world’s most important legacy of 20th century architecture”
German studio Batek Architekten has designed the T7.2 dental clinic in Berlin using saturated colours and tactile materials to give the space an “inviting, artful atmosphere”. The dental prophylaxis practice in west Berlin is an extension… Read More »Batek Architekten arranges gallery-like dental clinic around acrylic glass cube