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Remembering Alexandros Tombazis (1939-2024), and the Metabolist architecture of this 1970s eco-pioneer
Back in September 2010 (W*138), we explored the legacy and history of Greek architect Alexandros Tombazis, who this month celebrates his 80th birthday.
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All hail the power of concrete architecture
‘Concrete Architecture’ surveys more than a century’s worth of the world’s most influential buildings using the material, from brutalist memorials to sculptural apartment blocks
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Three Object Apartment embraces raw concrete honesty in the heart of Athens
Three Object Apartment by DeMachinas is a raw concrete home in Athens, which confidently celebrates its modernist bones
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Giovanni Michelucci’s dramatic concrete church in the Italian Dolomites
Giovanni Michelucci’s concrete Church of Santa Maria Immacolata in the Italian Dolomites is a reverently uplifting memorial to the victims of a local disaster
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The Wonder Cabinet fosters creativity in Bethlehem
The Wonder Cabinet in Bethlehem, Palestine is a not-for-profit production and cultural hub for creativity in the region
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Pa.te.os hotel in Portugal is a concrete love affair with Alentejo
Pa.te.os hotel by Aires Mateus is set in the Alentejo landscape in Portugal and celebrates the blend of concrete and nature
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The changing face of Tijuana's art and architecture landscape
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Feilden Clegg Bradley unveils refresh of South Bank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room
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Fine lines: Kristine Norlander’s vision of the Lassens’ modernist architecture
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Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian architecture uncovered
Jason Oddy’s photographic study of Oscar Niemeyer’s Algerian buildings, set alongside research and archival documents, explores the architecture’s inseparable relationship to revolutionary politics in a new book from Columbia University Press, titled The revolution will be stopped halfway: Oscar Niemeyer in Algeria
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Apollo Architects & Associates make waves with seaside residence
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London’s brutalist Balfron Tower is brought back to life
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Futureproofing: Oyler Wu Collaborative design a new creative laboratory
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Ataúlfo House is designed around Mexican light and natural ventilation
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Richard Meier & Partners unveil first residential project in the Czech Republic
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Architecture Club designs a new atelier for artist Monika Sosnowska in Warsaw
An architectural exercise in purity and restraint, Polish sculptor Monika Sosnowska’s new atelier is a simple concrete volume, and the first-built project of Basel-based architects Karolina Slawecka and Pawel Krzeminski under their new studio. Photographed by Hélène Binet, the radically simple atelier was featured in the Smart Art-themed November issue of Wallpaper* magazine (W*248)
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A modern education: Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts gets a facelift
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V&A pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale to explore the legacy of Robin Hood Gardens
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Woods Bagot designs a concrete and limestone house anchored to the Australian coast
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Villa Mörtnäs by Fourfoursixsix is an exercise in Swedish simplicity
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Ibañez Shaw's Fort Worth Camera Studios land in Texas
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Denton Corker Marshall reveal the new Australian Pavilion’s mysterious black box
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Di Gregorio Associati's cinematic pergola frames a rural Italian home
A concrete pergola becomes a frame for the landscape, and a sculptural transition between interior and exterior, at a house in the Emilian countryside
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A concrete family compound in Basel by Buchner Bründler creates a family microcosm
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'Building The Brutal': celebrating the construction of London's Barbican
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Art and architecture converge at the Saarland Museum’s new extension
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A concrete folly by Mexican studio Tezontle brings new life to a Havana plaza
Imagined as an extension of the Cuban capital, the permanent sculpture has transcended its role as a public art installation
