The Architecture of the City

Ayant un long passé de militant politique, je compte parmi les élus et responsables politiques beaucoup de proches et d’amis. Sur les réseaux sociaux (Facebook ou Twitter), je les vois se féliciter à longueur de temps de constructions dont ils sont les instigateurs, les maîtres d’ouvrage, les partenaires ou un peu moins de tout ça. A chaque fois ou presque, je me sens obligé de leur rappeler de citer l’équipe de maîtrise d’oeuvre et plus précisément le nom de l’architecte de l’opération. Peu d’entre eux me répondent car peu d’entre eux connaissent le nom du ou des concepteurs. Cette situation peu flatteuse ne fait que souligner un manque d’amour et de reconnaissance que la France a pour ses architectes.

Architects: GEO Arquitectos
Location: Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
Architects In Charge: Álvaro Galmés, Arturo Grinda, Miguel Olazábal
Area: 2,570 sqm
Year: 2011
Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán

Architects: Takato Tamagami
Location: Sapporo, Japan
Structural Engineering: S.FORM / Akira Ouchi
Contractor: MORINAGA Co.,Ltd.
Area: 131.0 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Masaya Yoshimura

Fears of a 'towering inferno' disaster in the Gulf are growing after fires left residential buildings gutted in the United Arab Emirates cities of Sharjah and Dubai, reports the BBC's Bill Law.

One expert in the UAE has estimated that 70% of the high-rise buildings there have panel facade cladding made of a combustible thermoplastic core held between two sheets of aluminium.

Architects: Cobaleda & García Arquitectos
Location: Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
Architect In Charge: Luciano Cobaleda Hernández y Raúl García García
Structures: José Miguel Melo
Technical Architect: Ramón Chivite García
Area: 400 sqm
Year: 2012
Photography: Courtesy of Cobaleda & García Arquitectos

Architects: Agence Bernard Bühler
Location: St Pierre du Mont, France
Area: 5,270 sqm
Year: 2009
Photographs: Vincent Monthiers, Courtesy of Agence Bernard Bühler

Gridshell SUTD Library Pavilion covered in galvanised steel scales by City Form Lab at Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the world's tallest twisting tower opened this week after seven years of planning, design, and construction.

Today, SANAA (Sejima & Nishizawa and Associates) unveiled plans for a 400,000 square-foot building in Jerusalem that will form a new, interdisciplinary downtown campus for the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The competition-winning proposal, designed by the 2010 Pritzker laureates in collaboration with Israel’s Nir -Kutz Architects, features an array of stacked horizontal slabs that react to the area’s topography and surrounding context in order to create a series of outdoor terraced viewing platforms and multi-level interior spaces where students and teachers can meet, study and display their work.

Architects: GLUCK+
Location: Lake George, New York, USA
Project Team: Shannon Bambenek, Richard Bednarczyk, John D’Agnone, Peter L. Gluck, Charlie Kaplan, Eric Schaefer, Robert Wall, Douglas Weibel
Year: 2009
Photographs: Paul Warchol, Amy Barkow, Erik Freeland

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Les concours d'architecture ont fait de la France un eldorado pour les cabinets étrangers. La création hexagonale s'en trouve pénalisée sur son propre terrain, alors même qu'elle peine à s'exporter.

Architects: Op.N
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Project Team: Ali Fard and Ghazal Jafari
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Op.N

Architects: AM Architecture
Location: Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
Architect In Charge: Andrew Mellios
Graduate Architect: Antry Lau
Area: 205.0 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Dianna Snape

Queensland’s Cox Rayner Architects has won an international competition to design the National Maritime Museum of China.

Dedicated to football and designed by Proiect Bucuresti, the new 40,000-seat Craiova stadium will replace the existing “Ion Oblemenco” stadium on the site in Romania. As a tribute to the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, the form of the main roof lines were inspired by his work entitled “Miss Pogany”. The external volume obtained is expressive in daylight and the enhancement of architectural lighting at night will emphasize the building when viewed from the center of the town. The building will be iconic in the city and will be, along with other components of the sports complex, a modern insertion that will boost the development of the local area.

Architects: H-Architecture
Location: Yeosu, Korea
Architect In Charge: H-Architecture
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of H-Architecture

A retrospective on the life and work of Le Corbusier opens today at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. This selection of drawings and paintings by the architect documents the various stages of his career, as presented in the exhibition.

This past May, Apple filed plans to close its existing flagship retail store at 1 Stockton Street in San Francisco and move it three blocks north to one of the city’s most popular spots: Union Square. This plan was met with enthusiasm from city officials until they realized that Apple, and the store’s architects at Foster + Partners, were disregarding a beloved bronze folk art fountain by San Francisco sculptor Ruth Asawa that currently occupies the site. Many have also criticized the store’s design for being a characterless box of metal and glass that contributes nothing unique to the local landscape, raising awareness of a commercial architecture defined more by trademark and less by its surroundings.

Stop complaining, says Bruce Mau. It's a great time to be an architect.

Pritzker Prize jury rejects Denise Scott Brown petition to be retroactively recognised for the award that her husband Robert Venturi won.