Office to flat conversion

In Berlin, FAR frohn&rojas have converted former office space from the early 1930s into a 211 m2 apartment that integrates various architectural references.

Conversion with history

In Menorca, Calderon-Folch Studio has transformed a building dating from 1844 into a hotel that incorporates historical layers and regional references into its architecture.

Interview with Anders Lendager

Danish architect Anders Lendager is one of the most radical pioneers of circular construction. In this interview with Jakob Schoof, he explains how architects can help end the throwaway society.

Nominee DETAIL Award 2024

The nominees for the Detail Award 2024 have been announced: The former Coop wine warehouse in Basel’s Lysbüchel neighbourhood was transformed into a multistorey residential building, designed to accommodate residents of all ages and diverse lifestyles. 

Moving roofscape

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.

Large wooden and rammed earth buildings

With its flat rammed-earth facade, the new Cantenac-Brown winery building is inconspicuous at first sight. Inside, however, there are two large rooms with an unusual wooden structure.

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. 

Comfortable seating

During the 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, Fritz Hansen presented the new Monolit chair, designed by Danish designer Cecilie Manz. Monolit is an upholstered plywood shell chair with a leather frame and is available in two different heights.

Company Portrait

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.