BIM - Building Information Modeling

For Assael Architecture, what started as a humble beginning with two staff members grew into an award-winning practice comprising several teams, directors, associate directors, and managers. With over…

When you meet architectural office and general contractor IttenBrechbühl AG, you’ll find approximately 320 employees who are able to realize large and complex buildings from basic design to…

The ARP ArchitektenPartnerschaft office is located in Stuttgart with over 80 employees and has been in existence since 1970. Valuing partnership at the core of their thoughts and actions, the firm…

From their design approach to their finished projects, the team at Flansburgh Architects doesn’t want to be typical — they want to be better. For over 50 years, the Boston-based firm has led its team…

Eco-friendly living combines with a distinctive design

The Villanova Icône project was designed by the award-winning firm Hamonic+Masson & Associés of Paris, France. This 17-story residential tower…

First museum in passive house construction

The new building of the Ravensburg Art Museum in Southern Germany is the world's first certified museum in passive house construction and was awarded with…

With the precision of Swiss clockwork

A project of the century which began in several locations at the end of the 1990s is coming to a close with commissioning planned for December 2016. With a…

Tripla comes into being through Open BIM

The Helsinki metropolitan area is one of the fastest growing regions in Europe. Central Pasila, located only three kilometers from downtown Helsinki, is the…

Multifunctional Building opens Gateway to the Campus

An irregular polyhedron of colliding granite planes is broken by large fissures of glass, opening the interior space to the sun and sending…

Football icon Santiago Bernabéu faces complete revamp

The stadium, inaugurated in 1947 and named in honor of Spanish soccer star Santiago Bernabéu, has been renovated and extended several times…

Lichtwiese Campus of Darmstadt Technical University awarded "The German Sustainable Building Certification"

Darmstadt Technical University was awarded the silver "German Sustainable Building…

Pearwood ensures listening pleasure

The Austrian Feldkirch is nestled in the cultural landscape of Felsenau and is home to an event building which was completely rebuilt after its predecessor was…

A luxury-class weekend retreat

This family weekend retreat is located on South Pender Island, BC. The building is approximately 2,500 square feet and contains a simple program—an open social space…

Ecological contexts between two rivers

Within the scope of the UNESCO’s global “Man and Biosphere” program, Germany’s national garden show 2015 (BUGA2015) and the “Natura 2000” concept, the “House of…

The oldest evidence of creative intelligence

The Schöningen spears and other wooden instruments have made the archeological site one of a kind worldwide; a place where one can find out how Homo…

Spacious conference rooms enhance a modern parliamentary work

The new Brandenburg State Parliament building was designed on the basis of the 18th century Potsdam country castle. A modern palace in a…

Building’s floor plan is based on furrows of a ploughed field

The residential home, designed by architecture office LEVENBETTS, is located in upstate New York in the USA. Vectorworks was used to…

A milestone in high alpine architecture

Like a shimmering mountain crystal, the Monte Rosa Hut (Monte-Rosa-Hütte, in German) lies nestled between the glaciers of the Pennine Alps in Switzerland at…

Paris is growing skyward

After more than 30 years, a change in municipal planning allows for the construction of the 50 meters tall residential and office building ZAC Masséna on the left bank of the…

DIGITAL WORKFLOW ON A MEGA PROJECT

The advantages of the BIM working method are fully exploited during implementation. Stuttgart 21 as a part of the Stuttgart-Ulm rail project is one of the largest…

"Green" architecture and historic conservation

Red River College Campus is a state-of-the-art business, multi-media, and information technology learning centre. The project was built on a brownfield…

Honorable Mention on the Environment Top Ten Green Projects Awards

Coney Island's Stillwell Avenue Terminal is the largest above-ground station in the New York City subway system. For the…

1,700 trees for a good climate

The Sagamihara Campus of the Aoyama Gakuin University near Tokyo comprises 20 buildings on an area of more than 160,000 m² and provides space for around 10,000 students…

Bowden Centre won Australia's most prestigious architecture awards

The Bowden Centre, completed in February 2007 is a new educational and multipurpose resource building at Mt Annan Botanic Garden,…

“There’s no going back after using Solibri for 30 minutes.” states HKP’s BIM expert, architect Michael Palm. We spend time talking with Michael to better understand how him, HKP and Solibri are…

Örebro in Sweden is going through an exciting development as a knowledge city with the transformation of the expansive university campus. In 2010, JUUL | FROST Architects (JFA) won the competition for…

Revitalizing the Space "Where the Waters Meet"

For the Australian landscape architecture and urban design firm McGregor Coxall, a design has to be more than just a quick solution to a client’s…

While the names Justin Timberlake, Jay Z, Coldplay, Beyoncé, and Britney Spears conjure up images of incredible concert experiences, the lighting designers behind such great shows are often an…

For designers at ROJO Architecture, working in a space that's suited for play provides just the right mental break to spark their next great idea. Their office sits inside of what was once a busy…

Combining energy in the local district heating network

The aim of this project was to supply heat from renewable energies to a primary school complex and neighboring residential area. The…

Mathias P Nilsson is a lucky man. He works in probably the best project room I have ever seen. It’s like the result of an interior designer’s perfect brief. On the one wall is an interactive screen…

We meet Jonas Thornqvist in the clouds. Well, not literally but we’re on the top floor of the WSP Stockholm building. There’s a great view over the city and the interior design team must have taken…

Maybe others forget the ‘I’nformation in BIM but that’s what defines our models – we input as much information into them as possible and, of course, what is demanded by customers.” explains Jaakko…

We talk a lot about ‘quality’ here at Solibri. What is quality and why does it matter? How do you offer quality and how do you change the perception of quality in the construction industry? It was for…

Newcomer to the Frankfurt skyline

Frankfurt am Main is known across Europe for its unique skyline. It will soon be enriched by a dazzling tower. The OMNITURM will be built right in the middle of the…

Three centuries of bridge building over the Firth of Forth

The Queensferry Crossing near Edinburgh in Scot­land is a cable­stayed bridge with three pylons over 200 m in height. It is one of the…

An exciting path across the gorge:
The Tamina Bridge in the canton of St. Gallen

With an arched span of 265 meters, a superstructure length of 417 meters and a height of 220 meters above the valley…

Big, bigger, The Circle

„The Circle“ comes to live 

The biggest high-rise project in Switzerland is becoming a reality: After six years of intense preparation, the end of April 2015 marked the…

The Advantages of BIM

“Thanks to BIM, we can achieve a very high level of cost accuracy, which we used on the Giessen Tower project for both the preliminary design and construction.” – Matthias Moog,…

Rehab unit meets all patient's requirements

Architecture office wörner traxler richter designed an urban novelty in the form of the Health Center of the Tübingen University Clinic: Its extraordinary…