The Architect, Jerde Partnership designed Kanyon, one of Europe’s largest mixed-use districts, introduces a new concept for urban living in Levent, Istanbul, Turkey’s central business district to be an open, vibrant and green project. The design is envisioned as a family of bold architectural shapes, each housing a different use, that come together to form [...]

Situated in the City Park of the renaissance town of Kalmar, the new Kalmar Museum, designed by Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter of Sweden, is built next to a restaurant pavilion dating from the 1930s by moderninst architect Sven-Ivar Lind.
The four storey black cube clad with large scale wooden panels punctuated with large glazed openings [...]

“This century has seen an architecturally frantic attempt to escape from the tyranny of the notorious “shoe-box” shaped concert hall. However, after researching the acoustic quality of existing concert halls we had to conclude together with our acoustic specialist that the best halls in the world have a shoe box shape.