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What is a good room? For this issue, The Architectural Review asked architects, curators and writers to describe a good domestic setting – real, remembered or imagined. For some, the room is one designed by Álvaro Siza or Jean-François Zevaco; for others, it is one depicted in an artwork, from a Berliner Zimmer in an 1845 painting by Adolph Menzel, to …
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) - The Architectural Review
Oct 9, 2019 · After this initial work, Niemeyer continued to produce remarkable projects in the major Brazilian cities. The theme of the free plan was developed in his own home, Das Canoas House (1951-53) in the middle of the lush forest of Tijuca in Rio, as well as in the amazing Edifício Copan (1951-57), a large residential building in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil’s largest metropolis.
Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) - The Architectural Review
Feb 14, 2020 · At the age of 78, in a key scene of the documentary movie Il ne suffit pas que Dieu soit avec les pauvres, Hassan Fathy was interviewed at his Ottoman-Mamluk flat, at the foot of the Cairo Citadel.Swathed in a brown cloak, he walked back and forth on the house’s rooftop with the ensemble of Cairo’s buildings and the dome and minarets of …
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) - The Architectural Review
Oct 18, 2022 · Hundertwasser’s architectural principles redefine relations between urban space and nature to imply interconnectedness, modesty and interdependence; these are manifested in the way he designed and justified the incorporation of green roofs, which feature in all of his architectural projects.
Déchelette Architecture, France - The Architectural Review
Nov 25, 2024 · Déchelette Architecture was shortlisted in the AR Emerging awards 2024. Read about the full shortlist here . On a quiet residential street in Boulogne‑Billancourt, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris, a new building interrupts the rhythm of plaster, stone and concrete facades.
Augustus Pugin (1812-1852) - The Architectural Review
Apr 24, 2012 · Biography. Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin 1812-1852. Education Christ’s Hospital, Newgate Taught to draw by his father. Key buildings Houses of Parliament, London (1844)
Competition: PRIMA International 2024 - The Architectural Review
Nov 20, 2023 · The PRIMA competition, organised by Paris-based Atelier 37.2 on behalf of French minerals company Groupe CB, invites individuals or pairs of students to propose a permanent ‘micro-architectural work’ for the enormous industrial site which is located around 15km south of Calais.
Kowloon Walled City: Surreal photographs of day-to-day life …
Apr 9, 2014 · Part of the south elevation, illustrating in the narrowness of its buildings how the Walled City had evolved from a squatter settlement. Individual huts had been redeveloped over time, rising to four or five storeys in the 1950s, then up to nine storeys in the early 1960s and reaching a maximum of 17 storeys in the 1970s.
Competitions - The Architectural Review
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Tadao Ando (1941-) - The Architectural Review
Apr 16, 2020 · In his 1977 essay In Praise of Shadows, Junichiro Tanizaki wrote that ‘we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness, that one thing against another creates’.Tanizaki’s words closely resonate with the work of Tadao Ando, vividly expressed in the dramatic diagonal shadows and light of his formational Koshino House (1981), cast across the ...