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Future cities: new challenges need to reimagine the look of urban landscapes

19. March 202119. March 2021 Rolf Maass

Nick Dunn, Lancaster University and Paul Cureton, Lancaster University Imagining future cities has long been a favourite activity for architects, artists and designers. Technology is often central in…

Moynihan Train Hall, a monumental citizen project that is restoring the size of train travel in New York Opened since Friday 1th January 2021

15. March 2021 Rolf Maass

Designed by SOM, the project completely reimagines the travel experience at the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere, and evokes the architectural…

Reinterpretation of a 100+ year zoning law in the heart of Harlem

15. March 2021 Rolf Maass

The Smile, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, is a mixed-use residential development introducing affordable housing units alongside market rate rentals, set within the…

Brutalism: how to love a concrete beast

15. March 2021 Rolf Maass

No other architectural style elicits emotional reactions like Brutalism. Think monolithic concrete buildings composed of blunt rectangular forms, devoid of colour, decoration or…

Reading Architecture: Architectural Guide Sub-Saharan Africa A book review with Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai

10. January 202110. January 2021 Rolf Maass

What does the built environment of Africa look like beyond slum huts or safari lodges? What characterizes the building activity on the continent…

Transformation of a major industrial heritage in Varvsstaden

30. December 202030. December 2020 Rolf Maass

Kjellander Sjöberg has been commissioned by Varvsstaden AB to transform one of the major  examples of industrial heritage in Malmö – Gjuteriet. In…

It takes a village: The new heart of the Johns Hopkins University campus

13. December 2020 Rolf Maass

Johns Hopkins University selects BIG to rejuvenate the social experience for students. The design for Hopkins Student Center, or ‘The Village’, is an…

Dense + Green Cities (2020) by Thomas Schröpfer at Birkhäuser Architecture as Urban Ecosystem

16. October 202017. October 2020 rem

The topic is global, cities all over the world are affected, participate from the start to the green lung. Interplay between the built-up…

Residential Hillside 79 & Park by BIG in Stockholm

4. September 20204. September 2020 rem

The 25,000m2 wooden hillside at the edge of Stockholm’s treasured national park Gärdet celebrates its official opening together with the city’s tallest new…

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