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AD Classics: Grundtvig’s Church / Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint

October 10, 2018 Luke Fiederer 0

This article was originally published on July 28, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Six million yellow bricks on a hilltop just outside Copenhagen form one of the world’s foremost, if not perhaps comparatively unknown, Expressionist monuments. Grundtvigs Kirke (“Grundtvig’s Church”), designed by architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen Klint, was built between 1921 and 1940 as a memorial to N.F.S. Grundtvig – a famed Danish pastor, philosopher, historian, hymnist, and politician of the 19th century.[1] Jensen Klint, inspired by Grundtvig’s humanist interpretation of Christianity, merged the scale and stylings of a Gothic cathedral with the aesthetics of a Danish country church to create a landmark worthy of its namesake.[2]

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Aireys Ramp House / Irons McDuff Architecture

October 10, 2018 Rayen Sagredo 0

Intent was to create a strong sense of escape to the coastal bushland, for a client looking for spatial reprieve from their small dwelling and a timber dwelling. The challenge was its location in a bushfire prone, suburban sub-division. Simple principles of defence against cold ocean winds and hot westerly sun, maximising north light and tightly planned circulation, led to the idea of an arm of enveloping the private space within, wrapping itself around as protection against the prevailing conditions.

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Café Parallel / TEMP

October 10, 2018 Collin Chen 0

Beijing-based architecture studio, TEMP has designed a café in the old hutong area near the Drum Tower, Beijng. Café Parallel occupies an old wood structured space that was close to being collapsed. Reinforced with steel structures and refinished with bricks, cement, and metal mesh, it has been renovated into a modern café.

Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg HQ wins 2018 Stirling Prize

October 10, 2018 India Block 0

Bloomberg’s European HQ designed by Foster + Partners has been awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018, the third time the practice has won the prize for the best building in the UK. The British international studio, founded in 1967 by Norman Foster, won the biggest prize in UK architecture for a £1 billion office, described as

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Francesc Rifé Studio designs greyscale Avianca Lounges at Bogotá airport

October 10, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Spanish firm Francesc Rifé Studio has chosen a minimal grey palette to decorate Colombian airline Avianca’s lounges at Bogotá airport. The expansive Avianca Lounges occupy 37,673 square feet (3,500 square metres) of El Dorado International Airport, creating rest and relaxation spaces for passengers on Colombia’s national carrier. Francesc Rifé Studio designed the interiors for the

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Plugin House built in Boston to demonstrate potential for use in US backyards

October 10, 2018 Katie de Klee 0

Chinese studio People’s Architecture Office is using a pop-up pavilion to show how a prefabricated home designed for China’s hutongs could be used by cities in the US to help tackle the housing crisis. A Plugin House prototype was first installed at Harvard University and then moved to Boston City Hall to engage local residents through a series of in-situ

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Watch our discussion on smart design and wellbeing live from Barcelona

October 10, 2018 Calum Lindsay 0

Dezeen speaks to designers including Irina and Olga Sundukovy and Natali Canas del Pozo about the future of wellbeing in this talk hosted by ceramics brand Villeroy & Boch. Watch it live from Barcelona at 7:30pm Spanish time. The stream is now live. You can watch it here or on Dezeen’s Facebook page. In the talk, Dezeen’s

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