New Projects
Museum and bridge in a fierce landscape
- Bundanon Art Museum and The Bridge _ Kerstin Thompson Architects
- Interview _ Charlie Emery + Herbert Wright
Former factory site transformed into a public park
- Hangzhou Xiaohe Park _ Kengo Kuma & Associates
- Interview _ Kengo Kuma + Hee Joon Lee, YuMi Hyun, SoWon Kim
Historic college reborn with a modern entrance
- New entrance facade of the Baroque Museum of Catalonia _ David Closes I Núñez
- Interview _ David Closes I Núñez + Idil Ayral
Connecting individual blocks within the landscape
- Bandhan Residential School of Business _ Abin Design Studio
Curvilinear corridor surrounding courtyard
- Tenjincho Place Apartment _ Hiroyuki Ito Architects
- Interview _ Hiroyuki Ito + SoWon Kim
The Revolution will be Laminated
The Revolution will be Laminated _ Herbert Wright
Mass timber landmark made for roaming
- World of Volvo _ Henning Larsen
- Interview _ Martin Stenberg + Herbert Wright
Two curved timber masses embracing a garden
- Gaia - Nanyang Technological University Singapore _ Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects + RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
- Interview _ Toyo Ito + Herbert Wright
Structure with local roots displays root craft
- Rehmannia Root Crafts Exhibition Hall _ LUO studio
Thoughtful campus duo with asymmetric roofs
- Mills Hall and Gibbons Center at Bowdoin College _ HGA
Ele Arkitektura
New Landscape and Basque Topography _ Marta Gonzalez Anton
- Interview _ Eduardo Landia + Marta Gonzalez Anton
Community space overcoming urban disconnect
- Plaza El Sol _ Ele Arkitektura
A reddish geometric scenario on a green hill
- Geometric Landscape 2.0 _ Ele Arkitektura
C3 no.432 (2024-4/6)
The Revolution will be Laminated
Timber buildings had a history of spreading disaster. Numerous cities had to be rebuilt following great fires fuelled by wooden structures, including much of Rome (64 AD) and most of London (1666) and Chicago (1871). Now, the tables have turned. Another surging temperature rise threatens us, this time from anthropogenic climate change. Reforestation, which sequesters more carbon, is a big solution. Meanwhile, construction generates 37% of global CO2 emissions1. That calls for a revolution in how we build. Again, wood offers a solution, but the mass timber of today is very different from the wood we’ve always known. [...]
Ele Arkitektura
Ele Arkitektura is a multidisciplinary studio founded by Eduardo Landia and Eloi Landia in 2013 in Durango, Basque Country, Spain. It is relevant to consider this architectural practice within the context of its geographical location. The Basque Country has traditionally been a very industrialized part of Spain, where large manufacturing industries have thrived, including those around metal construction, naval engineering, and general steel manufacturing. Such rich industrial activity over the 19th and 20th centuries contributed to the development of important centers like Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz, and San Sebastián. The port industry around the estuary of Bilbao has been particularly important for the economy of the entire region through the centuries, with import and export industries from Spain to the rest of Europe. During the Spanish economic crisis in the 1970s through the 1980s, the economy of this part of Spain changed radically, opening up to new sectors like lighter manufacturing and engineering services, logistics, energy, new technologies, and financial services. [...]
C3 no.432 (2024-4/6)
The Revolution will be Laminated
Timber buildings had a history of spreading disaster. Numerous cities had to be rebuilt following great fires fuelled by wooden structures, including much of Rome (64 AD) and most of London (1666) and Chicago (1871). Now, the tables have turned. Another surging temperature rise threatens us, this time from anthropogenic climate change. Reforestation, which sequesters more carbon, is a big solution. Meanwhile, construction generates 37% of global CO2 emissions1. That calls for a revolution in how we build. Again, wood offers a solution, but the mass timber of today is very different from the wood we’ve always known. [...]
Ele Arkitektura
Ele Arkitektura is a multidisciplinary studio founded by Eduardo Landia and Eloi Landia in 2013 in Durango, Basque Country, Spain. It is relevant to consider this architectural practice within the context of its geographical location. The Basque Country has traditionally been a very industrialized part of Spain, where large manufacturing industries have thrived, including those around metal construction, naval engineering, and general steel manufacturing. Such rich industrial activity over the 19th and 20th centuries contributed to the development of important centers like Bilbao, Vitoria-Gasteiz, and San Sebastián. The port industry around the estuary of Bilbao has been particularly important for the economy of the entire region through the centuries, with import and export industries from Spain to the rest of Europe. During the Spanish economic crisis in the 1970s through the 1980s, the economy of this part of Spain changed radically, opening up to new sectors like lighter manufacturing and engineering services, logistics, energy, new technologies, and financial services. [...]
