The roof landscape of the “Bälliz”, the shopping mile in Thun, Switzerland, shapes the cityscape. This includes house number 12, which is one of the showcase houses from the period around…
The industrial Culver City in California now has one more architectural highlight. A roof structure shaped like a flying pterodactyl was built on top of a car park. Along with Los Angeles,…
In harmony with nature: Integration into the landscape instead of dominating technology. This was the main idea behind the modernization and expansion of the observatory in the North…
Since 1965, Austria’s first glacier ski area has also been open to skiers in the summer. In subsequent years, the region was increasingly equipped with new cableways and lifts. By now, the…
Bondi Beach, one of Australia’s most famous beaches, was entered on the Australian National Heritage List as a national monument in 2008. Solidly built blocks of flats sprang up around there…
A detached home in a municipality near the Czech town of Pardubice became a creative challenge for building owners and architects. Sometimes the building plan which determines exactly how…
A different take on the single-family home: in Johannesburg, South Africa, is a single-family home that looks like a small city at first glance. This is because two larger and a few small…
Medical care in rural areas is a difficult issue not just in Germany but also abroad. The small town of Nozay, situated between Rennes and Nantes in France, has long had to deal with the…
A different interpretation of having an office and home under the same roof. The twins among buildings can be found in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg. The architect wanted to combine a workspace…
The small suburb of Repino of the city of St. Petersburg is located about 45km northwest of the city center on the Gulf of Finland and is idyllic home to about 2500 inhabitants. The resort…
