The biennial event, hosted and organized by Austria-based brick producer and building-envelope specialist Wienerberger, brought together architects from around the globe.
This month's ongoing exhibitions include a series of half-inch-scale models of 2022 Design Vanguard Kwong Von Glinow’s ongoing and completed Chicago housing projects, on view at MAS Context.
This month’s dates and events include a Raqs Media Collective exhibition commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at the late architectural theorist's eclectic home in west London.
This month, ongoing exhibitions include a display of park bench prototypes by Scottish designers on the grounds of Mount Stuart, a palatial 18th century estate on the Isle of Bute.
This month, ongoing exhibitions include the Public Art Fund's large-scale installations in Brooklyn and a major solo exhibition of influential Bauhaus furniture designer Erich Dieckman in Berlin.
Program: An 18-story, 570,487-square-foot hotel with 182 rooms, 9 conference rooms, a fitness club, a top-floor restaurant with panoramic views, retail space, and five levels of below-ground parking. Design concept and solution: Rather than design a rectilinear tower, the architects imagined the Vienna Sofitel as an abstract volume of tilting planes of glass. They gave the structure—which is concrete for the building's first five stories and a mix of steel and concrete for the remainder—a trapezoidal footprint. With a mix of gray, black, white, mirrored, and transparent glass, the facade produces a dynamic range of reflections. The five-story base of
