Podcasts

Windows and facades

What’s behind the Facade? – Editorial Detail 10.2023

Facades have always had many roles to play. They give buildings a face, protect them from the elements, and convey meaning. But what is behind the shell?

Materials and surfaces

Truth to Materials – Editorial Detail 4.2023

The discussion on truth to materials is determined by many aspects, the decisive ones being climate issues.

India’s cultural heritage

Museum of Art and Photography by Mathew & Ghosh Architects

In the Indian metropolis of Bangalore, architects Mathew & Ghosh have realized the Museum of Art and Photography. Collections of South Asian art and culture have been displayed here since the middle of February.

Hotels, hostels, resorts

Where’s the Journey Headed? – Editorial Detail 3.2023

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.

Ecological resistance

The Rambla Climate House in Spain

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.

Refurbishment

Taking Stock – Editorial Detail 1/2.2023

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.

Best of 2022

Our Readers' Video Favourites

These three videos have particularly inspired our readers this year.

Building envelopes

The Path to a New Architecture – Editorial Detail 12.2022

“We must become much more effective if we want comprehensive social and ecological transformation,” says the Vienna-based architect Markus Zilker from einzueins architektur.

Building with bulrushes in Berkeley

Detail Students' Award Goes to the USA

With their Biotic Air Unit 2071 research project, the students of UC Berkeley have demonstrated that a Californian variety of bulrush is a suitable building material.

Circular economy

Reuse Building Materials – Editorial Detail 11.2022

New builds are no longer in keeping with the times. Instead, we need to ask how we can use existing building stock as a resource, reusing bricks, windows, or facade pieces. If the aim is net zero, demolition and landfill disposal must be avoided at all costs. Today, a progressive architecture is one that takes part in the circular economy and reuses building materials.

Regional typology

The Flowing Garden

In the Chinese province of Fujian, More Than Arch Studio have designed a courtyard house with a labyrinthine interior.

From gorge to cave

Holiday Home by HW Studio in Mexico

This weekend house located in a secluded area near the Mexican city of Morelia virtually disappears into the landscape.

Lighting & Interiors

Light for Daily Life – Editorial Detail 10.2022

Our October issue is all about light and interiors. PPAG’s school in Vienna brings daylight into deep cluster spaces to foster daily well-­being.

Office in green surroundings

Headquarters in Timber Construction by Snøhetta

The new ASI Reisen office building takes the symbiosis of humans and nature as its theme.

Sustainable construction

Google Bay View – The Basilica of IT

BIG and Heatherwick Studio drape a solar canopy above the internet moguls.

Interview

Arno Lederer on the Münchner Volkstheater

What does it mean to build a people’s theatre? Stuttgart architect Arno Lederer, founder of LRO Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei, provides some answers.

Interview

Barbara Buser on Circular Building

In her projects, Swiss architect Barbara Buser seeks uncomplicated solutions for recycling used building components.

A sensitive extension

New Building for the Kunsthaus Zürich

An atmospheric, tightly woven architecture film invites viewers on a voyage of discovery through David Chipperfield’s new building for the Kunsthaus Zürich.