A house within a house

The pharmaceutical company Roche Diagnostics has a new, vibrant meeting place for its employees: The project, called Herzzone (German for Heartzone), was designed by Studio Alexander Fehre.

Attractive working environment

The Berlin-based company Relaxound commissioned Ester Bruzkus Architekten to design a working environment that offers a variety of spatial scenarios and atmospheres.

A playful synthesis of the arts

Near Valencia, Ana Milena Hernández Palacios and Christophe Penasse of Masquespacio have transformed a house built in 1925 into an expressive living space and studio.

Nominee DETAIL Award 2024

The nominees for the Detail Award 2024 have been announced: The Faith Museum by Niall McLaughlin Architects is an extension of a Grade I listed castle, positioned along the line of a medieval retaining wall from the original castle complex.

Innovative construction

With the observation tower in the Hardwald forest in Switzerland, the architecture firm Luna Productions has created a contemporary symbol of circular timber construction.

Nominee DETAIL Award 2024

The nominees for the Detail Award 2024 have been announced: This timber house by Florian Nagler, nestled within a garden, extends the living and office space of the main building in Munich Pasing, while contributing to the goal of urban densification.

Playful and reduced

The six-storey building that is home to the Colegio Reggio school draws attention even from afar. With its diverse shapes, colours and textures, the building resembles a toy castle.

Expansion on a brownfield site

In the north of Scotland, Loader Monteith have planned an office building and residence for a mountainbike holiday company. A second residence is to follow.

Nearly 50 m of wood-frame construction

With Le Berlier, a 15-storey residential tower, Moreau Kusunoki have created a model for large-scale wood-frame construction in the French capital.

In the midst of nature

The Flora observatory built near Barcelona for observing nature was developed and erected by a team of students and researchers at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.

Interview with Sarah Wigglesworth

British architect Sarah Wigglesworth drew international attention with her Straw Bale House in London. In this interview with Heide Wessely, she describes how to design cities more sustainably.

Sustainable and single-origin

With the Black & White Building, Waugh Thistleton have not only created London’s tallest solid-wood office building, but have also made a significant contribution to the circular economy.

Repurposing

On behalf of an investor from Malaysia, Wilkinson Eyre have transformed London’s Battersea Power Station into a shopping mall featuring offices and flats. For the most part, the interiors of the impressive turbine halls have been preserved.

Theatre factory in old foundry

Assigned the task of repurposing an industrial building into a performing arts centre, the architects consistently set their focus on retaining and opening its historical structure.

Pivoting walls

In the Czech city of Ostrava, KWK Promes have transformed an old slaughterhouse into an art gallery. The dilapidated condition of the exposed-brick building represented both challenge and inspiration for the planners.

Hotels, hostels, resorts

The current issue of Detail takes a look at new beginnings. Few sectors of the economy were so battered during the corona years as the hotel industry.

Meet the Architects

In our video series #Meet the Architects, architects present current projects from their offices. Jochen Reetz from DIIIP explains the design for the Loft M project in Cologne.

Refurbishment

Apart from the ecological, social, and economic necessity to do so, adaptive reuse often raises unforeseen structural and detailing issues, which we address at the start of the year. We docu­ment seven selected projects energy-efficient renovations, the addition of new functions to existing buildings, the densification of inner-city areas, and conversion.

Ecological resistance

In a suburb of the Spanish city of Molina de Segura, Andrés Jaque and his office Offpolinn have created the Rambla Climate House, a single-family dwelling conceived as a climate- and eco-house. The project won the 2022 Simon Architecture Prize.

Structural fire protection

Mork-Ulnes are designing a single-family house that will withstand future disasters.

Surrounded by nature

The DelaVegaCanolasso architecture studio specialize in small houses using modular techniques. In this video, Ignacio de la Vega and Pilar Cano-Lasso shed light on their latest project, the Fresnos house in Madrid. 

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Circular materials from Milan

Circular design was the dominant theme at Milan Design Week. Here we present four projects that demonstrate innovative approaches to the sustainable use of material cycles. 

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