Articles by Amy Peacock

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SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa win Le Prix Charlotte Perriand

September 9, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

SANAA founders Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa have been named the recipients of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand for 2025 by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards. Sejima and Nishizawa were chosen as the year’s winners for being “at the forefront of architectural innovation” and in recognition of their “minimalist yet profound designs”, said Créateurs Design

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Pratique and Fanum add “imposing” plywood pavilion to Villa Medici gardens in Rome

September 4, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

French architecture studios Pratique and Fanum took cues from Roman architecture when creating the Forum des Vestiges plywood pavilion, which is located in the gardens of Rome’s historic Villa Medici. Pratique and Fanum designed the pavilion, which was informed by ancient Roman forums, to encourage social interactions and conversation. “The main design goal was to create

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Porsche reveals plans for first residential tower in Asia

September 2, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

German car brand Porsche has unveiled the design for its third residential high-rise building, Porsche Design Tower Bangkok, which it describes as an “architectural masterpiece”. The brand’s luxury goods company, Porsche Design, worked with real estate company Ananda Development on the luxury apartment block in Thailand’s capital city. Once complete, the 95-metre-tall building will be Porsche’s

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Mould growing on Toyo Ito-designed “largest wooden building in Asia”

August 30, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Mould is growing on Gaia, a mass-timber business school in Singapore that was completed last year for the Nanyang Technological University by Japanese architect Toyo Ito and Singapore-based studio RSP Architects. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) claimed the 43,500-square-metre school was “the largest wooden building in Asia” in terms of the volume of timber used when it

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“Ukraine had a shortage of adequate housing before the war” says UN’s Richard Evans

August 15, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The United Nations’ refugee agency is repairing Ukrainian homes damaged by Russian attacks, but they need to be built back to a better standard than before the war, says project lead Richard Evans in this interview. Richard Evans, the emergency shelter and housing lead for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is working

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Eight public buildings in France made from bio-based materials

August 13, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Schools and libraries are among the latest public buildings in France to be designed with natural materials, following a French law informed by the sustainability aspirations of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Environmental Regulation 2020 (RE2020), which came into effect in 2022, aims to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of France’s new builds and

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Eight cleverly organised homes with rooms divided by storage solutions

August 10, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

For our latest lookbook, we’ve collected eight homes that make the most of space by using storage units and shelving as room dividers. The examples below show how much-needed storage space can be integrated into a home’s design to form partition walls between rooms or create different zones within one space. Many of the designs feature

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BIG tops waterfront art museum in Suzhou with swooping roof planes

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by Danish studio BIG, engineering firm Arts Group and architecture studio Front has topped out in China, with curved metal roofs designed as a “fifth facade”. Located on Jinji Lake near the Suzhou Ferris Wheel, images of the museum’s construction progress show a series of tiered buildings connected by

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GMP Architekten tranforms Santiago Bernabéu into “sparkling” Madrid landmark

August 7, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio GMP Architekten has completed its remodelling of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium for Real Madrid, wrapping the exterior in sinuous metal louvres. Home to the Real Madrid football team, GMP Architekten collaborated with Spanish architecture studios L35 and Ribas & Ribas to transform the stadium into a multifunctional arena with an underground retractable pitch. Aiming to create

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