The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, opened for spring semester classes at Brown University. Providing performance space, exhibitions, installations, and an outdoor amphitheater, the Center’s long structural spans, high ceilings, and large floor plates stimulate a necessary collaborative environment with flexibility. Sculptor and visual art [...]

Commissariat de Police is public service building designed by Ameller, Dubois & Associés located in Provins, France. Situated on the Place du 29e Dragons – the planning of which is part of the project – the police station is on the edge of what is essentially a pavilions zone near the northern gate to the [...]

The new Hall F is an ingenious addition to the previously less developed southeast side of the monumental complex of Wiener Stadthalle, creating impact even on its own. The concert, show, dance, fashion and even circus venue sits 2,000 spectators. Furthermore, congresses and conventions can be facilitated. Even though the location is particularly appealing in [...]

This was once the site of the Montfort, a hotel built in Bregenz in 1877 during the Gründerzeit era. In 1921, the architect Willibald Braun erected an adjoining and historicizing building with a neo-classicist façade for the Provincial Parliament of Vorarlberg. 1984 it was replaced by a postmodernist office and commercial building with an inclined [...]

Kiefer technic showroom is new office building of the Austrian metal company Kiefer technic designed by the Graz based practice Ernst Giselbrecht + Partner is characterized by a dynamic façade system of electrically driven folding elements made of perforated aluminium. The building presents a new facade as the day progresses, defining it as a dynamic [...]

Twenty-two years ago, the Seattle-based architecture firm NBBJ was one of the first major companies to move back into Pioneer Square, the city’s then-neglected historic heart. The firm’s 200 employees helped spur a neighborhood renaissance. But having grown to 330 employees, and hampered by offices that were spread across six floors, in 2004 it decided [...]