Designed by Butcher, a lecturer at London architecture school the Bartlett, Flood House aims to monitor tide fluctuations in the seasonally flooded landscape of southern England where the River Thames meets the North Sea. The angular ply and weatherboard structure measures 5.5 metres by 7.5 metres and floats on three steel pontoons. Without a motor on board, it will b...
Researchers are exploring different approaches to creating more rain in the country, according to reports. One option is to construct an artificial mountain, which would increase cloud production and make it possible to create rain on demand. A team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the US are understood to have received a $400,000 grant toward...
Called Swale, the project was co-conceived by Mary Mattingly, an artist who creates "sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces". In 2009, she and four companions lived for six months on a barge in New York, where they grew their own food and purified their own water. She most recently transformed an old boat hull in Philadelphia into a residency space for artists and writ...
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After studying architecture in Lyon, she worked in Geneva and Marseille, before moving to Japan, where she was in 2011, when the devastating earthquakes hit. It was then that she decided to start composing artistic and urban works. Now based in Paris, Mademoiselle Maurice designs and creates colorful installations using origami, lace or embroidery, or other mixed medi...
The eight-day exhibition and conference aims to question how the city can respond to issues including swelling populations and changing global markets. ArDe will be curated by landscape architects Martha Schwartz Partners, curator Jane Withers, and architect and Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob. It will host a varied programme of interactive installations and events. "Ar...
Built in 1955 out of masonry concrete and granite, The Dam of Conchos is 4.6 meters high and has a storage capacity of 120,000 cubic meters. The construction formed part of a large hydroelectric development of the Serra da Estrela that aimed to divert water between the Ribeira das Naves river and Bayou Lagoon Long. The spillway built into the dam is a 1.5km tunnel that ...
If Design Week is an opportunity to rediscover those buildings, courtyards and passageways in Milan that for all the rest of the year we hurry by distractedly, then the FAI – the Fondo per l’Ambiente italiano (Italy’s National Trust) – provides the means of discovery. They are not afraid to get their hands dirty: the FAI does not just work to identify these places and th...
A large-scale sculpture by British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two emblems of American architecture – the classic red barn and the Bates family’s sinister mansion from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho – will comprise the fourth annual installation of site-specific works commissioned for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iri...
Last year Dambo created a sculpture called Simon Selfmade in Tilst, Denmark, using wood donated by a neighboring hardware store. The piece depicted a literal self-made man finishing his own body with a hammer. When a hurricane swept through Tilst, destroying Simon, locals were sad, so one 14-year-old girl took matters into her own hands. The girl, whose name is Anine,...
A Fremont, California Whole Foods Market removed from their shelves all products that benefit from bees. The results were even more shocking than you’d expect. 97 per cent of the bakery products were either gone or significantly changed. Out of 1,057 desserts, just 32 remained unchanged. Most were vegan options, and even some of those were available in limited amounts. ...
As a hotspot for tech companies, San Francisco is the logical home to such an ordinance, but it isn’t the first California city to enact such a requirement. Smaller cities, like the nearby Sebastopol in Sonoma County, already have similar regulations. San Francisco’s new law will become effective January 2017, requiring all new buildings in the city with 10 stories or fe...
Following hot on the heels of our story on the Richard Wagner Museum extension by Staab Architects, here is another tale of an invisible architecture and extraordinary museum building that also hides its light under a bushel, but in a most spectacular way. Slovenian architect Boštjan Vuga visited the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon in France for uncube and found a 1970s build...
Criminologist Theo Kindynis looks into the environmental conditioning built into the shopping mall experience and asks whether the ambience of such spaces, designed first and foremost to provoke the impetus to consume, encourages impulsive shoplifting and how the determined shoplifter must understand the environment in order to exploit it. “Every historical epoch”, ar...
Ursula Müller, head of the Architecture Department of the Berlinische Galerie, shares with uncube the story about the rediscovery of a set of extraordinary architecture collages by Dieter Urbach that had fallen into obscurity. Graphic designer Urbach was officially commissioned to produce photomontage perspectives envisioning some of the GDR’s most ambitious projects inc...
Pacific Park is a 4.9 billion USD mixed-use development under construction over seven city blocks of Downtown Brooklyn. When completed in 2025, Pacific Park will encompass 6,430 new apartments, up to 100,000 square metres of office space, 25,000 square metres of retail space, a public park, a grand new entrance to the subway lines below and the Barclays Center sports are...
In the garden of Schloss Schwetzingen, near Heidelberg, there is a marvellous feature that has impressed me since I was a student. It’s called The End of the World, and it’s the view through a dark tunnel of hedging of a painted landscape, illuminated from above and seemingly far away. It is the romantic view from a grotto towards infinity, the view of Caspar David Frie...
Chimney flues have something magical about them. It is easy to imagine that hot air rises but it is always a surprise to feel the draught created and rising up by expansion. It is such a simple, pleasant and natural effect that it makes one think that it is possible to enjoy all the marvels of nature without imposing presumptuous acts of force that prove to be expensive...
Lined with an assemblage of niche boutiques ranging from Opening Ceremony to the newly opened New York outpost of BDDW’s M Crow general store, the area just north of Canal Street now welcomes another worthy addition in the form of 11 Howard, the latest hospitality venture of real estate magnate Aby Rosen, the owner of properties such as the Gramercy Park Hotel and the Se...
London architects De Matos Ryan were recently tasked with making the Grade II* listed venue – including Gwynne's vaulted umbrella forms – more appealing to more people, with the aim of increasing its revenue. Work has now finished; as a result, the size of the public space has doubled and the layout has improved, to encourage theatre goers and other visitors to use the s...
Cradled in an elbow of the Seine, 30km north-west of Paris, the land is an L-shaped tract covering 113 hectares, straddling nature and the city. On one side there’s the town, with its modest suburban houses and some rougher housing projects. The river, dotted with barges and houseboats, flanks the opposite side. Across the water stands Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye and the...
The sixth outpost opened in March in the heart of Brixton, and unlike the others, which are kitted out with vintage interiors, owners Perry Patraszewski and Andi Hinteregger have taken what they call the ‘Berlin nightclub’ theme and run with it, utilising wooden scaffold planks for shelving, polished concrete, exposed metal beams, corrugated sheets and strip lighting in ...
Billed as Europe’s fastest growing hostel brand with a penchant for on-trend destinations like Dublin, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona, the group has just opened in Amsterdam, the first salvo in a trinity of upmarket hostels to launch in 2016 ahead of Stockholm and Rome. The brand’s mix of pop-art colours and easy vibes – courtesy of long time collaborator DesignAgency –...
Located in the centre of Saint Petersburg, a short stroll from the main shopping drag, Nevsky Prospect, the restaurant is housed on the ground floor of a residential building that used to be an army barracks, dating from 1908. Interior designer Alexei Penyuk has embellished the original exposed brick and steel-framed windows of the industrial pile, by cladding the remain...
Working with retail specialists Virgile + Partners, the firm has completely overhauled the store’s two lower ground floors, opening up what were narrow, corridor joined rooms into a sprawling gallery that will no doubt change the way men prefer to shop. The 28,000 sq ft space not only houses 50 new brands and man-sized change rooms (complete with phone chargers), it a...
The freestanding staircase takes visitors down to the Brunel Museum in East London's Rotherhithe and into a 50ft-deep shaft or chamber, which opens this week as an unconventional performance space. The Grade II* listed shaft was built by engineering father-son partnership Marc and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It opened in 1843 and leads to the world's first underwater tun...
The new 74-room Alex Hotel is a masterful expression of the city’s changed fortunes. Local architect Space Agency has turned a corner plot in the midst of the Cultural Centre and the entertainment quarter Northbridge into an eye-catching low-rise of bright spacious rooms, while Sydney-based interiors studio Arent & Pyke have added a light palette of colours and mixed tex...
This is famously one of the world's most visited galleries of contemporary and modern art, and a prime London cultural destination since the former Bankside Power Station's transformation by Swiss duo Herzog & de Meuron opened its doors at the turn of the millennium. Now, 16 years later, Herzog & de Meuron have returned to the site, adding a much-needed extension to t...
Still, the art museum was slowly outgrowing its space, and a new wing soon became necessary to cover the needs of a growing collection and the thriving museum's requirements for different ways to present art. Enter Swiss architects Christ & Gantenbein, who masterminded the museum's latest expansion. This would not only allow the creation of space to breathe in the origin...
Yet in recent years the group has been making an effort to change this perception, most visibly through its luxury arm, JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts. In January 2015 this was boosted with the launch of Los Cabos Beach Resort & Spa, a sprawling property designed by Jim Olson/Olson Kundig Architects that sits amongst the dunes of Mexico’s Baja California Sur. In additi...
Inspired by the first Café Monico, which was established in 1877 and was also located in the heart of Theatreland, on London’s Shaftsbury Avenue, the 2016 incarnation is true to the original and the latest offering from the relentless Soho House group. Collaborating with chef Rowley Leigh — of Le Cafe Anglais fame — the restaurant is a clear step away from the group’...
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The nursery symbolizes the nurturing of projects and talents so that they can grow, providing them with fertile soil, offering them shelter and giving prominence to new energies. The tree is a symbol of life, of nature at its most primitive, a central icon around which all activities are arranged. And in a horizontal plan view, the roots are designed to connect the many ...
The entrance off Philosopher’s Walk has increased pedestrian activity and by extension the level of safety in this treasured historic public park. The café in the ground level atrium is a highly frequented destination for students and parents, as well as the general public. Koerner Hall is celebrated as a perfect integration of architecture and engineering – and lauded b...
After 50 years, in 1961, a new concrete stadium was built replacing the old one. It had a horse shoe shape, and it received after some time the name of a famous Romanian athlete. After another 50 years, following more than a decade of debates and proposals, the new Cluj Arena was built and opened to the public in 2011. The most important conceptual element of this pr...
One by one, our group of journalists got off the bus into an unassuming industrial boulevard lined with what looked like typical warehouse buildings, their metal cladding shining bright under the glaring Middle-Eastern sky: we were in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai’s largest art hub occupying a warehouse complex in the industrial quarter of Al Quoz, which lies a 20-minute drive ...
