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Green and yet close to the city centre: the Hyparschale stands on a river island opposite Magdeburg's old town. © Marcus Bredt

Müther's largest roof
gmp Architekten Renovate Hyparschale
The Hyparschale in Magdeburg is the largest surviving building designed by the architect and engineer Ulrich Müther. Over the past five years, gmp Architekten have renovated the listed building and transformed it into a modern event centre.

The education centre is a single-storey wooden pavilion. © Marco Cappelletti, courtesy of Enrico Molteni Architecture

Under one roof
Educational Centre in Parma by Enrico Molteni
Enrico Molteni has designed a filigree pavilion on the university campus in Parma, whose wooden shell houses two buildings with different uses.

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The Innovation Factory 2.0 is a contemporary landmark in the Neckaruferpark. © Brigida González

Timber construction for communicative working
Innovation Factory Heilbronn by Waechter + Waechter
The timber construction braced with V-columns allows column-free rooms that can be flexibly divided according to the size of the start-up companies. The timber façade is displayed behind glass and becomes a landmark in the Neckaruferpark.

The raised Cultural Living Room encloses the newly created entrance courtyard. © Iwan Baan

Moving roofscape
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts by Studio Gang
Studio Gang's sweeping folded roof connects the disparate components of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock, opening it up to the surrounding parkland.

A light-filled atrium brings the outside space inside. © Adrià Goula

Nominee DETAIL Award 2024
Qualifying the Centre
The nominees for the Detail Award 2024 have been announced: At the heart of House 1736 is a light-filled atrium. Harquitectes designed a robust and monolithic low-cement concrete structure that helps to regulate temperature, humidity and acoustics.

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Honourable Mention DETAIL Award 2024
House 1736
At the heart of House 1736 is a light-filled atrium. Harquitectes designed a robust and monolithic low-cement concrete structure that helps to regulate temperature, humidity and acoustics.

Both inside and out, the new station mission building is divided into two parts: The high, glazed access area to the street and the service rooms to the east. © Klaus Frahm

Chameleon effect
Station Mission in Hamburg by Carsten Roth
Protect and yet offer insights: Carsten Roth combines both in the station mission at Hamburg's main railway station. The eye-catching feature of the new building is its colour-changing metal facade.

Cork panels adorn the façade of a single-family home in Spain. © Javier Bravo

Cork façade
Residential house in Spain by Gurea
A residential building in Spain designed by Gurea Arquitectura Cooperativa features a facade clad in cork panels.

The roof dome of Apple's flagship store is suspended above the sales area. © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners

Attractive retail experience
Apple Flagship Store in Kuala Lumpur by Foster + ...
Apple's first flagship store in Malaysia offers transparency in a tropical climate.

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When open, the interior of the pavilion merges seamlessly with the exterior. © Alex Shoots Buildings

Urban retreat
Garden Pavilion in Prague by Byró Architekti
In a garden colony in Prague, Byró Architekti has designed a small wooden pavilion whose interior blends seamlessly with the exterior.

The Alta Tower rises 17 storeys above the city centre of Le Havre. Its external skeleton is made of precast concrete. © Hamonic+Masson & Associés

Daring prestressed concrete
Alta Tower in Le Havre by Hamonic + Masson
The 17-storey residential tower rises boldly above its neighbours in the centre of Le Havre. But it also makes numerous references to the surrounding post-war planned city centre.

The new cantilevered roof of the Swiss embassy makes an inviting gesture. © Khoo Guo Jie

Pavilion in the green
Swiss Embassy in Singapore by Berrel Kräutler Arc...
Zurich-based Berrel Kräutler Architects are renovating and extending the Swiss Embassy in Singapore.

The residential building echoes the cubature of the old greenhouses, using their steel and glass construction as a covered veranda. © Dietmar Strauß

Refuge between greenhouses
Residential House in a Nursery by Jahnke Architektur
The detached house in Tamm, near Stuttgart, fits perfectly between the greenhouses of an old nursery. The architects also paid attention to resource conservation when choosing the building materials.

The steel structure has been given a different colour on each floor. © Filip Dujardin

Three colors: green, yellow, red
Bicocca Superlab by Balance Architettura
In Milan's industrial district of Bicocca, Balance Architettura has opened up the former office building of a steelworks operator, exposing its delicate steel structure.

Book tower in Ghent, Robbrecht en Daem architecten, © Stad Gent - Dienst Toerisme

Edition DETAIL
Architecture of Transformation in Flanders
Architects from Flanders are currently causing international ripples with their unconventional and creative conversions of existing buildings. The new book from Edition Detail's Baukultur series portrays the amazingly lively Flemish conversion culture with 24 recent courageous and pragmatic project examples.