Grande Arche in Paris – The biggest and less loved Celebrative Monument
Grande Arche is an impressive building that has never been fully appreciated it from the French and international critics. The work of Johan Otto von Spreckelsen – a Danish Architect who has had practically this unique opportunity to show off himself besides its nation. Completed in 1989, it rises several kilometers away from the original Arc du […]
Couvent de la Tourette – Le Corbusier’s Masterpiece or something else?
Couvent de la Tourette is one of the greatest masterpieces of Le Corbusier. It represents his dialectic and is capable of giving rise in visitors feelings and conflicting opinions. Still in usable for both the clergy and for tourists. In these few lines, and in this series of photos we tried to show our point […]
Is this building a clamorous copy of Terragni Casa del Fascio?
Terragni Casa del Fascio – the 1936 building in Como, Italy – seems to have infected the German architects and their composition of the facade. It is hard not to think to the very important rationalist architecture of Giuseppe Terragni when you look at this architecture of the study Freivogel-Architekten – recently made in Germany. I will not […]
Architectural Quotes – Worth spreading Architects’ voice
How many architectural quotes do you know? You can travel, discover, watch tons and tons of images, but you will always be yourself and your new hints. We can learn a lot with the eyes, but doing so we would learn only within our limits. If you read, listen and learn from the voice of the […]
The Bridge that owes its shape to the DNA – Helix Bridge, Singapore
Near to the incredible Marina Bay Sands Hotel and a few meters from the Art Science Museum, it is located the Helix Bridge, a unique and powerful element – Designed by Cox Architecture + Architects 61. It represents the helix of DNA and all its meaning. The architects – in full Singaporean mood – have created this little infrastructure that […]
H&M flagship store in Rome | Massimiliano Fuksas
One of the last interventions of Massimiliano Fuksas in the heart of Rome is the H&M flagship store. A refurbishment and extension of an historic building. He has opted for a strong intervention – a disadvantage for conservatives – that, at the same time, can be reconciled the most with the context and with the building itself. […]
EXPO 2015 Construction site – Latest updates from the aerial videos
Expo Milan and Tim for Expo have published the latest charming video of the site area. Made with a drone, the movie guide viewers through the area and indicates the various nationalities of the pavilions. It provides an overview of the future universal exhibition which fortunately is getting closer to being complete. Looking forward to […]
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – Peter Eisenman
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called Holocaust Mahnmal, is a giant monument in the hearth of Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold – inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II. It consists of […]
Vertical Forest in Milan – Boeri Studio
Last week two towers have been inaugurated in Porta Nuova. These green towers are called “Bosco Verticale” (Vertical Forest). The project, by the Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) is based on a reforestation concept that helps regenerating the city environment and urban biodiversity without implying any expansion of the city area. The Project […]
The controversial EXPO GATE by Scandurra Studio
Since have been revealed renderings of the project, the Expo Gate designed by Scandurra Studio aroused many doubts and perplexities, especially by the citizens. These uncertainties are due to the unique position that Expo Gate occupies within the historic fabric Milanese, exactly opposite the Castello Sforzesco – an important XV Century historic building. What is Expo […]
Andrea Branzi | Thoughts and Teories
On October 25, Andrea Branzi went at the Politecnico di Milano for a conversation between him and Richard Ingersoll. Archiobjects was present and below provides a summary of the intervention of the famous Italian architect-designer. The themes are varied, ranging from the modern movement, globalization, the world of the twenty-first century and its complications, always […]
Robert Venturi | The right approach to architecture
I love this cover photo, because it is able to capture much of the essence of Robert Venturi, meaning his simplicity and his being humble towards architecture and everything that surrounds it. Among all the great teachers, he is the one that gave me more. Once more on Archiobjects blog we talk about Robert Venturi. […]