A translucent forest house

On the outskirts of the coastal town of La Barra, Diego Arraigada Arquitectos, Rafael Solano and livni+ has designed a pavilion-like learning centre for children that extends the school curriculum with various courses. 

Regional connections

In Vidrà, a small village in the Catalan foothills of the Pyrenees, Taller Sau have designed two semi-detached houses with a regional connection and a high level of structural efficiency.

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Sustainable future lab

The new building in the 20th arrondissement of Paris offers its users 7500 m2 of space for start-ups and fab labs, as well as plenty of space for local residents. A hybrid wood-concrete construction was used.

From cowshed to art studio

Near West Cowes on the Isle of Wight in southern England, Gianni Botsford Ateliers is converting a cowshed into an artist's studio using the simplest of industrial materials.

Habitat for birds and mammals

The structure, designed by the Spanish architecture firm Temperaturas Extremas, supplies water to the nearby Kirchberg Plateau in Luxembourg. It will also provide nesting sites for birds.

Fired and unfired clay

The Hotel Leo in the garden of the Villa Wiesental is clad in greenish and white-grey clinker brick. The interior walls are made of clay bricks and earth blocks.

Provisional as a concept

From the outside, the house from the 1950s has changed very little. Inside, Pihlmann Architects and art historian Marianne Krogh have created open, flowing spaces.

Sculptural monolith

For the Performing Arts Centre at Brighton College, Krft and Nicholas Hare Architects designed a solitaire with a shell of flint blocks and light grey Seeton bricks.

In the midst of nature

The Flora observatory built near Barcelona for observing nature was developed and erected by a team of students and researchers at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.

Interview with Sarah Wigglesworth

British architect Sarah Wigglesworth drew international attention with her Straw Bale House in London. In this interview with Heide Wessely, she describes how to design cities more sustainably.

Sustainable and single-origin

With the Black & White Building, Waugh Thistleton have not only created London’s tallest solid-wood office building, but have also made a significant contribution to the circular economy.

Repurposing

On behalf of an investor from Malaysia, Wilkinson Eyre have transformed London’s Battersea Power Station into a shopping mall featuring offices and flats. For the most part, the interiors of the impressive turbine halls have been preserved.

Theatre factory in old foundry

Assigned the task of repurposing an industrial building into a performing arts centre, the architects consistently set their focus on retaining and opening its historical structure.

Pivoting walls

In the Czech city of Ostrava, KWK Promes have transformed an old slaughterhouse into an art gallery. The dilapidated condition of the exposed-brick building represented both challenge and inspiration for the planners.

Hotels, hostels, resorts

The current issue of Detail takes a look at new beginnings. Few sectors of the economy were so battered during the corona years as the hotel industry.

Meet the Architects

In our video series #Meet the Architects, architects present current projects from their offices. Jochen Reetz from DIIIP explains the design for the Loft M project in Cologne.

Refurbishment

Apart from the ecological, social, and economic necessity to do so, adaptive reuse often raises unforeseen structural and detailing issues, which we address at the start of the year. We docu­ment seven selected projects energy-efficient renovations, the addition of new functions to existing buildings, the densification of inner-city areas, and conversion.

Ecological resistance

In a suburb of the Spanish city of Molina de Segura, Andrés Jaque and his office Offpolinn have created the Rambla Climate House, a single-family dwelling conceived as a climate- and eco-house. The project won the 2022 Simon Architecture Prize.

Structural fire protection

Mork-Ulnes are designing a single-family house that will withstand future disasters.

Surrounded by nature

The DelaVegaCanolasso architecture studio specialize in small houses using modular techniques. In this video, Ignacio de la Vega and Pilar Cano-Lasso shed light on their latest project, the Fresnos house in Madrid. 

Spanish design

Cork, Yoku and Alma are the names of three new tile ranges from Spanish manufacturer Apavisa. While the first two products are inspired by plant motifs, the Alma wall tile surprises with its geometric rigour.

Wall tiles from Spain

Der Fliesenhersteller Decocer aus Spanien fertigt überwiegend kleinformatige Fliesen, oft in objektspezifischer Ausführung. Zur Messe Cevisama 2025 in Valencia stellte das Unternehmen Wandfliesen mit starken Farbakzenten vor.

Flexible modules

Studio Geckeler Michels sets new standards for modular lighting with the MAP ceiling and wall lighting system. A dynamic design was created in collaboration with Lodes and will be presented at Euroluce in Milan.