The mausoleum offers itself as a simple stone box crowned by another in translucent glass. The duality of “emptiness” and “fullness” presents a paradoxical and disturbing architecture.
Archive | March, 2010 
Jean Nouvel: 100 11th Avenue, New York
During The Armory Show Week 2010, French architect Jean Nouvel was in New York for the preview of his new and nearly completed residential tower called 100 11th Avenue.
Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel
In its 40th anniversary year, the Serpentine Gallery is delighted to announce that the 10th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is being designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel.
Thom Mayne on architecture as connection
Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he’s created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form.
Senior Center in Lich Germany by Pfeifer Kuhn Architekten
Directly on the park in lich is the new senior center. The new house community approach while pursuing a different strategy than the traditional retirement homes.
OLE BOUMAN: On Survival
Archinect interviews Ole Bouman – As well as being the director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI) and many other things, Ole Bouman is contributing editor of the journal Volume, which is jointly produced by Archis Foundation, AMO (the research bureau of OMA) and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University (GSAPP).
ASU Polytechnic Academic Buildings by Lake|Flato
Five new academic buildings more than doubled the academic space at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus.
Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center International Competition
To create Kaohsiung as a maritime capital, Kaohsiung City Government sincerely invites architects from all over the world to participate in the international competition of Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center. The objective of the project is to lead Kaohsiung City becoming the gate to maritime cultural nation, Taiwan!
video-chat with Josep Lluis Mateo about his project currently under construction in Paris Boulogne.
Josep Lluís Mateo entered the invited competition in 2006, winning first prize for the development of the city block on the former Renault factory site. Identified as one of the outstanding economic and urban sectors in the Île-de-France region, the project is decisive to the restructuring of the west of Paris.
KC-Project – Villa in Progress by Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
KC Project – Lebanon, Yarze by Y.TOHME/ARCHITECTS
Place de la République Proposal by Mateo Arquitectura
Transforming a traffic junction into an urban space means, firstly, reducing the impact of road traffic. Having addressed the traffic, the challenge is to transform the place into an urban space.
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