Racine Tower in Paris crowned like a queen by Maud Caube tmore...

In November 2024, Maud Caubet Architectes completed the Racine project in Paris's 12th arrondissement for Alderan (SCI EWOK), the project owner. The project involved the renovation of the former headquarters of the Office National des Forêts (ONF), a 35- meter-high tower built in 1970. The extensions and the new crown represent a spectacular transformation. Total surface area: 6,081 m². Project cost: €24 million. A spectacular metamorphosis In the heart of Paris's 12th arrondissement, near the Sorbonne Nouvelle campus, the Racine project is situated

Neuroscience Center at Sainte-Anne Hospital in Paris more...

In Paris (14th arrondissement), for the GHU Paris Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne (project owner), Pargade Architectes completed the new Neuroscience Center in 2024. This project bridges the legacy of architect Charles Auguste Questel (1807–1888) with a facility decidedly open to the city. Since its founding, Sainte-Anne Hospital has been a laboratory for mental health and also serves as a laboratory for architecture and urban planning. Within this demanding heritage context, the Neuroscience project, designed by Pargade Architectes, envisions the hospital of tomorrow through its architectural approach.

2024 Ceremony Video Honoring Riken Yamamoto more...

The Pritzker Architecture Prize releases a special ceremony video celebrating 2024 Laureate, Riken Yamamoto, available now on www.pritzkerprize.com. The documentary-style video recognizes the 53rd Laureate awarded this past May in Chicago (United States of America), the hometown of Cindy Pritzker, in honor of her centennial birthday, who co-founded the award with her late husband, Jay A. Pritzker, in 1979. Viewers will glimpse lesser-known traditions that precede the ceremony such as Cindy’s Dinner, a gathering for the newest

White Arkitekter secures Swedish Institute grant to support sustainable rebuilding of Ukraine more...

White Arkitekter has received project funding by the Swedish Institute through the SI Ukraine Cooperation Programme for the key initiative SustainTimber: Standards for Sustainable Transition. The project aims to develop sustainable timber architecture in Ukraine while aligning the country’s rebuilding efforts with European regulations and integration goals. As part of Ukraine’s National Recovery Plan, which emphasizes

Five Stories by Ellen Weinstein, an illustrated children's book also for grown ups  more...

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Text and illustrations by Ellen Weinstein. A house addresses how it functions from the inside. What levels of communication are there between its residents, there is vertical orientation beyond the blocks of flats, up or down, as well as living next to each other on one floor. This exciting picture book tells the story of what neighborhood relationships emerge and develop further, with wonderful illustrations. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s. Jenny writes letters in Yiddish to her grandmother, while practicing her English in her new neighborhood. By the 1930s, when Anna Cozzi and her Italian

Yllefabriken – Renovation gives new life to an old factory grounds  more...

With its beautiful exterior, the Yllefabriken in Norrköping is a reminder of Norrköping's heritage as an industrial city. Over the years, the building has had a number of different owners and tenants but has now been transformed and developed into a modern building with a range of uses. At the same time, the character of the building has been maintained and has been an important part of the project, with a focus on sustainability and preserving the old industrial heritage that the building represents. We talked to Freddy Franzén at FlexFasadia to learn how the work with Yllefabriken went, what difficulties have arisen

In Montpellier, So Wood or the hanging gardens of Port Marianne more...

Stepped buildings aligned on the street, active and varied roofs, a southern opening onto the landscape, and inhabited inner courtyards. A+Architecture and Hellin Sebbag Pirany architectes delivered So Wood in Montpellier (France) in 2024. 105 homes, 5 SOHOs, offices and shops.Surface area: 10,300 sq. metres (net floor area). Budget: €18m. Context: An emblematic urban development project in the Montpellier metropolitan area, the Port Marianne district stems from an

Athletes Village Lot E2B Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (France) more...

Construction of 98 housing units, 6 shared spaces and 7 shops Village des Athlètes Buildings E2B1, E2B2, E2B3 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine (France) Sector E of the Athletes’ Village is first and foremost a family resemblance. As coordinator architect of the sector, CoBe has pre-written the main guidelines that govern the design of the various buildings while leaving some leeway to the individual designers. As such, the visuals of the CoBe project produced for the competition have served from the outset as reference images to represent the entire project in the sector. In order to ensure its total coherence, the family resemblance

Ferryhopper premises in Athens more...

The "IXI" oce building in Moschato, Athens, Greece hosts on the ground floor the offices of the innovative startup, booking engine of ferries, Ferryhopper. The project was developed and implement ed after the radical renovation of the existing structure and its transformation into a functionally intelligent, with LEED environmental certification specifications, aesthetically modern office space, by KN Group _ Design that works. Designing Ferryhopper's building and oce spaces, 

The Carnival of the Dinosaurs (A Musical Fairy Tale) by Tom Woods more...

Once upon a time there was a beautiful queen, Tyrannosaurus Regina, who ruled over all the dinosaurs, they are terrible lizards... This wonderful story is told and played by Michael Heuberger (narrator), Freddy Kempf (piano) and Natalia Woods (piano).. .but everyone adored her and obeyed her every word; anyone who made derogatory comments was eaten for breakfast. So she decided to send out spies on the occasion of her birthday party so that no one would prepare a rebellion. Because no one else would go undetected, she sent out a mosquito to find the Brontosaurus. Which is no easy feat simply because of the extraordinary

Athletes Village in Saint-Ouen sur Seine more...

An ephemeral village, a district inaugurated on february 29 by the french president, the athletes’ village will be the center of the world in the summer of 2024, before becoming a fully-fledged city district in 2025. As part of the most ambitious project of the decade for the Paris metropolis, architect Dominique Perrault has been entrusted with the design of sector E, located on the right bank of the Seine, between the Cité du Cinéma and the Vieux Saint-Ouen. Called «Les Belvédères» in reference to its location and the height of its

Project Gaia enables climate-related risk analyzes using AI more...

An artificial intelligence (AI) application developed by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and its project partners, the Bank of Spain, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank, enables analysis of climate-related risks in the financial system. Project Gaia created a proof of concept and tested it in financial climate risk analysis use cases. The proof of concept used large language models (LLMs) to automatically extract climate-related indicators from publicly available corporate reports.

Call for ideas for the LINA Architecture Platform programme more...

Riken Yamamoto receives the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize  more...