Moynihan Train Hall, a monumental citizen project that is restoring the size of train travel in New York Opened since Friday 1th January 2021
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
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
No other architectural style elicits emotional reactions like Brutalism. Think monolithic concrete buildings composed of blunt rectangular forms, devoid of colour, decoration or…
Election ambiguity may be beneficial in the short term, but in the long term it’s corrosive
As the results of the US election began to arrive, political junkies tried their best to make sense of what was happening. But…
Reading Architecture: Architectural Guide Sub-Saharan Africa A book review with Philipp Meuser and Adil Dalbai
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
Kjellander Sjöberg has been commissioned by Varvsstaden AB to transform one of the major examples of industrial heritage in Malmö – Gjuteriet. In…
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: curators and artists discuss about art
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting the #GuggenheimBilbaoInsights project, the new series of videos led by the Museum’s curatorial department, where the curators talk with…
It takes a village: The new heart of the Johns Hopkins University campus
Johns Hopkins University selects BIG to rejuvenate the social experience for students. The design for Hopkins Student Center, or ‘The Village’, is an…
Seven different “disease forms” identified in mild COVID-19 MedUni Vienna study provides new insights for a better understanding of the disease - and possible biomarkers for vaccine development
In a study recently published in the top journal “Allergy”, a team of MedUni Vienna scientists led by immunologist Winfried F. Pickl and…