In the Civilities series, a+t magazine did a study on civic facilities based on the influence of social changes. The first issue highlights the following changes, among others...

Throughout its 20 year history, a+t magazine has published an essential collection of architectural articles and projects.

Most of the issues containing them are now out of print regarding the print version so as a result a+t architecture publishers have decided to retrieve all this material which gives a view of recent architecture and to facilitate pdf access.

Author of the video: VAUMM
Project publshed in a+t n.30 Civilities II

The project shown is the second remodelling phase at the Parma Station. Its beginning phase corresponds to the MBM Arquitectes studio.

Interior images of the academy, The Riba Sorrell Foundation Schools award winner in 2008.

This section of the Technical University of Graz is made up of three entities: the  Institute of Information Technology, the Secure Information and Communication Technologies Foundation and the Information and Computing Systems Institute.
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The Allianz Arena stadium replaced the Olympic Stadium (see post Frei Otto, Günther Behnish. Olympic Stadium. Munich) as home of local teams' football matches.

In its favour it has the fully-covered seating, a host of commercial spaces underneath the stands, comparable to that of.
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In a conversation which took place with Juan María Songel (GG Barcelona, 2008 p 91) Frei Otto regrets that the Olympic stadium roof could not be lighter, owing to the necessity to adapt it to a form previously designed by the winner of the competition, the architect Günter Benisch.
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Located in the Museum district of Munich, the new Brandhorst Museum is a rectangular box three-storeys high, including the basement, which houses a private contemporary art collection.

The authors' intention was to create a facade which was also an abstract painting. The exterior skin is made up of several layers: in front of the structure and the insulation layer, comes a sheet of two-tone folded microperforated metal which absorbs traffic noise. In front, the glazed ceramic pieces a.
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