Architecture & Structural Engineering

Oslo Opera House: please walk on the roof

Oslo’s opera house gives the impression of an iceberg rising out of a Fjord. The around 20,000 m² measuring freely accessible roof is completely tiled in...

Eco-friendly living combines with a distinctive design

The Villanova Icône project was designed by the award-winning firm Hamonic+Masson & Associés of Paris, France. This 17-story residential tower...

Nottingham University supports collaboration between research and local businesses

Won as part of a national design competition (project value £4.4m), the Ingenuity Centre houses local and national...

A lively location of encounters

The building, reminiscent of a finely cut diamond, is located in Freiburg’s historic downtown area, and offers users outstanding service and an ideal environment for...

First museum in passive house construction

The new building of the Ravensburg Art Museum in Southern Germany is the world's first certified museum in passive house construction and was awarded with...

With the precision of Swiss clockwork

A project of the century which began in several locations at the end of the 1990s is coming to a close with commissioning planned for December 2016. With a...

Revitalizing the Space "Where the Waters Meet"

For the Australian landscape architecture and urban design firm McGregor Coxall, a design has to be more than just a quick solution to a client’s...

While the names Justin Timberlake, Jay Z, Coldplay, Beyoncé, and Britney Spears conjure up images of incredible concert experiences, the lighting designers behind such great shows are often an...

For designers at ROJO Architecture, working in a space that's suited for play provides just the right mental break to spark their next great idea. Their office sits inside of what was once a busy...

The different jobs are carried out in several stages, whilst it is not acceptable to close down the mall and refuse access to the 80,000 daily visitors. Since the start, which was approximately eight...

In case of MEP contractor Mensonides from Harlingen (NL), this is certainly true: They switched from a traditional 2D drafting approach to using DDS-CAD in February 2016. "Not only because we had the...

The Advantages of BIM

“Thanks to BIM, we can achieve a very high level of cost accuracy, which we used on the Giessen Tower project for both the preliminary design and construction.” – Matthias Moog,...

Unconventional building geometry efficiently planned with Allplan Engineering

“With the 3D visualisation feature in Allplan Engineering, the number of error sources could be reduced compared with 2D....

A newcomer to the Frankfurt Skyline

With the OMNITURM, Frankfurt am Main is getting an iconic mixed-use structure that is unique throughout Germany. 

The skyline of Frankfurt am Main is distinctive...

Three centuries of bridge building over the Firth of Forth

The Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh in Scot­land is a cable­stayed bridge with three pylons over 200 m in height. It is one of the...

Concrete dam replacement at Lake Grimsel

Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG (KWO), headquartered in Innertkirchen in the canton of Bern, operates a total of ten power plants in the Grimsel and Susten areas,...

An exciting path across the gorge:
The Tamina Bridge in the canton of St. Gallen

With an arched span of 265 meters, a superstructure length of 417 meters and a height of 220 meters above the valley...

Big, bigger, The Circle

„The Circle“ comes to live 

The biggest high-rise project in Switzerland is becoming a reality: After six years of intense preparation, the end of April 2015 marked the...

Challenging Access

After six years of intense preparation, the end of April 2015 marked the official green light for the implementation of the major project “The Circle”.

With a total investment...

Tripla comes into being through Open BIM

The Helsinki metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing regions in Europe. Central Pasila, located only three kilometers from downtown Helsinki, is the...

Multifunctional Building opens Gateway to the Campus

An irregular polyhedron of colliding granite planes is broken by large fissures of glass, opening the interior space to the sun and sending...

Timeless design and ideal working environment in the St Martin Tower

The 18-storey St Martin Tower in Frankfurt was completed in 2015. Its lightness and elegance serve to impress the viewer of this...

Lichtwiese Campus of Darmstadt Technical University awarded "The German Sustainable Building Certification"

Darmstadt Technical University was awarded the silver "German Sustainable Building...

Groundbreaking planning and project execution through Open BIM

Under the management of the architect team comprising Jaspers-Eyers, MASS Architects and Michel Janssen, a new municipal administration...

Living on the vertical village street

The 100-meter-high residential building located in a new quarter of the city in the north of Vienna contains more than 300 apartments – many of which are...

Ecological Timber House with Minergie Certificate

The residential and commercial building "Multi-family house Holzhausen" in Steinhausen, Switzerland, impressively demonstrates the variety of design...

The Metropol Parasol is the new landmark of the Spanish City of Seville

The huge, mushroom-shaped elements not only provide Seville with shade, but also have other attractive uses: The new landmark...

Pearwood ensures listening pleasure

The Austrian Feldkirch is nestled in the cultural landscape of Felsenau and is home to an event building which was completely rebuilt after its predecessor was...

A residential estate in the context of climate protection

The property comprises 58 apartments in four apartment units in passive house standard. The overall energy concept of the climate protection...

A luxury-class weekend retreat

This family weekend retreat is located on South Pender Island, BC. The building is approximately 2,500 square feet and contains a simple program—an open social space...

The oldest evidence of creative intelligence

The Schöningen spears and other wooden instruments have made the archeological site one of a kind worldwide; a place where one can find out how Homo...

Based on the model of avenue trees

The idyllic surroundings and riverside setting played a crucial role in the design of the new festival hall in Neckartailfingen. The intertwining branches of the...

Building’s floor plan is based on furrows of a ploughed field

The residential home, designed by architecture office LEVENBETTS, is located in upstate New York in the USA. Vectorworks was used to...

Comfort temperature in the classrooms

This school building is characterized by its openness and transparency while maintaining the small scale within its various departments. It includes an advanced...

New prospects for old office building

Binckhorsthof, located in the Hague, is an approximately 30-year-old office building and former headquarters of the Dutch Royal Airforce. The building had been...

A milestone in high alpine architecture

Like a shimmering mountain crystal, the Monte Rosa Hut (Monte-Rosa-Hütte, in German) lies nestled between the glaciers of the Pennine Alps in Switzerland at...

Central meeting place on campus

The Student Service Center of Erasmus University Rotterdam came into being in a contrasting interplay of sustainability and user-friendliness, transparency and...

Rehab unit meets all patient's requirements

Architecture office wörner traxler richter designed an urban novelty in the form of the Health Center of the Tübingen University Clinic: Its extraordinary...

Bright ambience

The Rheinpark mall opened its doors for business in Swiss St. Margrethen in the 70s. Three decades later, the mall no longer met the discerning tastes of its shoppers. The lighting...

New training grounds for the Brabantia Eindhoven soccer club

A multifunctional building with numerous sports facilities for Brabantia Eindhoven. The newly built complex with the rounded corners...

A musician’s dream comes true

The Budapest Music Center serves many functions: The promotion of classical, contemporary and jazz music as well as the accommodation of a comprehensive music library....

Enjoyable holidays in Rio de Janeiro

The Formosa Beach Hotel, located in Rio de Janeiro (BR), has been fully modeled and coordinated using BIM from the early design stage and onwards. The complete...

The floating island of energy

Sustainability: A term that is so overused that one is reluctant to utter it. And this also goes for “sustainable building,” which has become a standard phrase whose...

Paris is growing skyward

After more than 30 years, a change in municipal planning allows for the construction of the 50 meters tall residential and office building ZAC Masséna on the left bank of the...

Futuristic Design Meets Sustainability

The Econia Business Park, in Helsinki, Finnland is being built in terms of sustainable development. The developer and the builder have developed a unique...

When an artwork is a source of inspiration

This building was inspired by a sculpture by American sculptor Isamu Noguchi. It is reminiscent of a serpent with its extended neck and head rising high up...

Award-Winning Concept for Waterfront House in New Zealand

Based on five months of voting by the community of "ArchitectsJURY.com", the "jury" selected the waterfront house project from Aotea, New...

"Green" architecture and historic conservation

Red River College Campus is a state-of-the-art business, multi-media, and information technology learning centre. The project was built on a brownfield...

Honorable Mention on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects Awards

Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue Terminal is the largest above-ground station in the New York City subway system. For the...

Subsidized Passive House Building Project Receives Energy Globe Vienna Award

The "Haus am Muehlweg" project in Vienna, which in 2007 was awarded the renowned energy prize Energy Globe Vienna Award,...

1,700 trees for a good climate

The Sagamihara Campus of the Aoyama Gakuin University near Tokyo comprises 20 buildings on an area of more than 160,000 m² and provides space for around 10,000 students...

Geometry and Building Technology Guarantee Sustainability

In 2007, E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH, based in Zolling, Upper Bavaria, commissioned the Munich architects Boesel Benkert Hohberg to draw up the...

Two-family House as Power Station

The first plus-energy house in Switzerland produces the energy for heating, hot water and household electricity itself by means of a photovoltaic system. The energy...

Bowden Centre won Australia's most prestigious architecture awards

The Bowden Centre, completed in February 2007 is a new educational and multipurpose resource building at Mt Annan Botanic Garden,...

Designer-Architekturbüro konstruiert für den Eigenbedarf

Die Architekten Jeff und Tracey Prose von Building Arts Workshop LLC haben in Portland, Oregon, zwei Stadthäuser für den Eigenbedarf...

Unconventional Architecture and Homage to Elvis

World Architecture News gave the Cambridge House its "House of the Month" award in January 2008, calling it an "extraordinary space wrapped in...