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Football fans as neighbours

In the Finnish city of Tampere, JKMM Architects have created an unusual hybrid block that combines a football stadium with residential and commercial buildings.

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.

A pair of buildings in brick-red

On the site of the historic Winternitz Mill in the Czech city of Pardubice, Šépka Architekti have accommodated two uses in very contrasting structures. However, the brick-red colour palette helps to give the building a unified appearance.

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.

Infrastructure as sculpture

With the Halo project, Noarq, AM2 Arquitectos and the engineering firm Arenas Y Asociados have created a spectacular sculpture of urban infrastructure over a motorway.

Working with a view of the greenery

With the Pavillon Jardins in the Parc de la Villette, Atelier du Pont has created a timber hybrid building with clean lines and flexible working areas.

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Basketball hall with a view

Dream's new building in the Olympic Village in Saint-Ouen, north of Paris, combines seven floors of offices with a sports hall on the top floor. Like most of the new buildings in the area, it was built using a hybrid timber construction method.

Prefabricated timber-hybrid building

For its new primary school, the city of Ludwigsburg has opted for timber as the main construction material. With the exception of the central stairwell and the emergency staircases, the entire structure is made of this renewable raw material.

Residential building as a timber-concrete hybrid

In the former industrial harbour of Buiksloterham in Amsterdam, a seven-storey timber-concrete hybrid residential building was built on the walls of a former cable warehouse. The living levels can be freely configured by the users.  

An exposed crystal

At Copenhagen airport, the new research centre opened by pharma producer Ferring juts into the strait known as Øresund (or simply the Sound in English) like a bastion of steel and glass.

Rural living in the city

After decades of vacancy, the listed 18th-century farmhouse was renovated, and a new building with 17 flats was added.

Micro-exhibition series in London

With the three-year micro-exhibition series Architecture Window, the Royal Academy of Arts offers young architecture and design graduates a platform to present their work to the general public.

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.

A flexible event venue

Subsequent use considered: This multifunctional sports complex that was home to the 2023 Asian Games will be available for use as a venue for events of all kinds.

Closing a gap in the urban fabric

At this single-family home in Olot, a city in Catalonia, Arnau Vergés Tejero and his studio deployed a limited range of materials, using exposed concrete, pine and larchwood for the structural system, facade and interior finishing.

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