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Hard Lines

Since February this year, the Hard Lines exhibition has been open to the public in the lobby of the former headquarters of the Gustavo Gili publishing house. For this show, architect and curator Valentín Roma used plans, texts and images to prepare 29 different projects and arrange them chronologically.

Roof extension in timber construction

The new rooftop addition of the Technical College of Construction and Design by ao-architekten offers 1650 m2 of additional usable area for classrooms, CAD labs and recreational spaces.

We have selected three impressive vault constructions that characterize the appearance of the following projects.

The private living room as a showroom of your personality: 100 years of interiors at Vitra Design Museum

The private living room as a showroom of your personality: 100 years of interiors at Vitra Design Museum

Single-wythe brickwork – and not a thermal insulation composite system – lies behind the rendered facade of a Berlin apartment building designed by Bruno Fioretti Marquez.

An extensive exhibition on Brutalist architecture will be opening on 9 November 2017 at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.

Sea Containers House on the Thames was erected in 1974 as a hotel to boost tourism in Great Britain.

It had been presumed lost, but this fall a legendary interior designed by Hermann Czech for a baroque palace in the heart of Vienna found its way back into the spotlight.

The façade, which is covered in aluminum rings, has been likened by critics to the ornamentation associated with the Louis Vuitton brand.

They became instantly iconic when Dutch architect Piet Blom's Cube Houses were completed in Rotterdam in 1984. With 38 small cubes and two so called super-cubes, they have become a much loved feature of the city, and have been in constant occupation since completion.Recently, the buildings have enjoyed a top to bottom renovation and are once again are looking splendid.

Architectural historians count the Olympic Park in the north of Munich as one of the most important constructions of the 20th century as well as the best-maintained Olympic construction worldwide.

Begrünte Dächer sind viel mehr als bloße gestalterische Elemente: Die Begrünung produziert Sauerstoff, speichert Regenwasser, schützt Gebäude gegen Kälte, Wärme und Schall und bindet Staub- und Schadstoffpartikel. Beim 2. Internationalen Gründach Kongress

The origin of the high-rise building goes back to Chicago at the end of the 19th century.

Since the opening of the concrete passenger-handling rotunda in 1974, the airport has grown rapidly and now forms a major transfer point between land and air traffic.