An unusual tea pavilion has appeared in Tokyo, built specifically for the opening of the Olympics.Evgeny IonovEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteArchitect Terunobu Fujimori installed a pavilion with a tea room in front of the Tokyo National Stadium. Keeping true to his playful style, the Japanese architect designed it in the shape of a pyramid,

The German studio Tchoban Voss Architekten has built a building in St. Petersburg with a sculptural facade made of Korten steel.Ekaterina KarpukhinaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe Ferrum 1 office building is located on the historical site of the Rossiya factory in the Polyustrovo district of St. Petersburg. Even earlier, at the end of the

The editor-in-chief of the AD website Sofia Rauf and the creators of the “Cities" project & People” walked through the unique Moscow quarter — the town of artists on Maslovka, looked into the workshops of artists and sculptors, and also got acquainted with the unique process of creating lithographs in

An art object “Hymn to the Big Wheel” by British artist Liz West was installed in the Canary Wharf quarter in the east part of London. The project became part of the exhibition “Summer Lights” dedicated to natural lighting.Nadezhda PavlovaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe installation consists of two octagons: a small figure is inside

To design the Hans Christian Andersen Museum, the architects had to immerse themselves in the worlds of his fairy tales.Ekaterina KarpukhinaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteAndersen was born in 1805 in Odense. And he became famous all over the world with fairy tales “The Little Mermaid”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Snow Queen" and others. On

Instead of restoring dilapidated old buildings, the architects integrated modern elements into places that were in particular need of repair.Ekaterina KarpukhinaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe southeastern coast of China is the beginning of the Maritime Silk Road and has been considered an important transport hub since ancient times. Therefore, the influence of several cultures,

Our author Yulia Kuznetsova went to Alupka and brought us an exciting story of dachas from there. Read and view photos of abandoned architectural monuments.AD RussiaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteAlupka received the status of a city only in 1938, before that it was a village, but a very atypical village. Already in 1904, the

Asymmetric red facade, metal mesh staircase and ergonomic use of space in the project of the Ismail Solehudin Architecture bureau.Ksenia OshchepkovaEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteIndonesian architect Ismail Solehudin came up with the optimal layout for a hostel located on a small plot in a densely built-up area of the city of Bogor. Instead of

PIG Design Bureau designed an exhibition space inspired by the style of the Memphis design group.Evgeny IonovEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe two-story showroom, paneled in stainless steel, looks like a rock. The thing is that the residents of Memphis call their city “rocky” — in Chinese, the word ya corresponds to this concept, which

Zaha Hadid Architects, a group of Block Research Group researchers from the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich, incremental3D (in3D) and Holcim have teamed up to create the Striatus Bridge, an unreinforced concrete structure whose strength is achieved through geometry.Ekaterina GoncharenkoEmailPinterestVKonkakteEmailPinterestVKonkakteThe first non-reinforced concrete bridge printed on a 3D printer