Over the past few decades, architectural design has been becoming increasingly more advanced, with quite a significant amount of impressive buildings being designed. Because of that, more people have been awestruck by how visually appealing they are while also serving a variety of purposes. As many people have noted buildings are no longer just for serving a specific purpose, such as housing or office space. Instead, how well designed has become increasingly more important, with many people putting a considerable amount of emphasis on how a building looks.
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Zhengzhou Linkong Biopharmaceutical Park is the largest innovative and entrepreneurship base for R&D and production of life science and biotechnology in Henan Province, China. Its innovation, cutting-edge and unlimited potential for development are all important factors for designers to consider.
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Themed as “A School of Schools”, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), will discuss the challenges faced by design education in today’s changing world and it will explore alternative models of design education in general, conceiving design education as a new experimental space.
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The program for Brera Design week – April 4th–8th – will include a façade gardening installation and a show on the façades that Piuarch has designed in 20 years of work

Milan, April 4th – 8th, 2017. As part of the Brera Design Week, Piuarch presents an installation and an exhibition called “Façades: the Skin of Architecture”.

The façade of the building where Piuarch is located – in the courtyard at Via Palermo 5, Milan – will hold a façade gardening installation, in which a garden decorates the entire front of the building from ground to roof.
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Matthew POTTER presents the award-winning glass project “Gardens by the Bay”
2014, February 4, INGLASS Warsaw International Architecture Conference

Matthew Potter joined Wilkinson Eyre Architects in 2004, was made an Associate in 2008 and Associate Director in 2012. He has been involved in a number of award winning projects across the commercial, cultural and education sectors. He has recently finished his work as Project Architect for Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay Conservatory Complex – two sustainably cooled glasshouses with a combined footprint of more than 2ha. Matthew has worked on this scheme throughout its development from the competition winning scheme submitted in 2006 to its completion; the project opened to the public at the end of June 2012, and was recently awarded the World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. He worked in Singapore for 18 months, liaising with the client, local consultants and contractor and overseeing the delivery of the façade and interior displays.
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The fourth edition of INGLASS International Architecture Conference will take place in Warsaw on November 27, 2013. INGLASS is about glass and glass construction, architecture and engineering, facade systems, energy efficiency and sustainability.

INGLASS 2013 is addressed to architects, engineers, glass producers, glass processors, equipment providers and end-users.

This year’s topic is “glass architecture and engineering“.

INGLASS presents the latest applications of glass in architecture, examples of best practice and architectural projects that bring out the importance of glass.

Internationally renowned architects, awarded for their recent and most representative projects for the built environment and leading companies in the glass industry will present solutions, products and state-of-the-art technologies. The Special Guest of the third edition of INGLASS, held on March 5, in Bucharest, was Prof. Wolf D. Prix, co-founder, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, AUSTRIA.

INGLASS Warsaw 2013 is the 11th international architecture conference organized by ABplus Events and partners, alongside GIS (interior architecture, design, lighting design) and RIFF (architecture and habitat, roofs, insulations, facades).

Alongside Wolf D. Prix, other special guests of the conferences organised to date have been: Giorgio Borruso (GIS 2013), Tony Fretton (RIFF 2012), Nini Andrade Silva (GIS 2012), Paolo Brescia (INGLASS 2012), Werner Sobek (RIFF 2011), Alan Leo Plestina (GIS 2011), Dan Sergiu Hanganu (INGLASS 2011).

More about INGLASS Warsaw 2013 on the official website of the event: www.ieglass.eu

The event is called ‘Architecture Whispers’ and it is a series of intimate multidisciplinary and cross-cultural conversations between emerging, established and visionary international architects. They take place in the Silencio Club in Paris, an exclusive venue for writers, directors and musicians, established by American filmmaker, visual artist and musician David Lynch.
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Contribution with social housing project to David Chipperfield’s motto ‘Common Ground’

Rotterdam, 28th of August 2012 – ‘Common Ground’ is the topic of the 13th International Architecture Exhibiton, directed by David Chipperfield and organized by la Biennale di Venezia. Invitations went to a list of contributors who invited additional architects to join their attendance. biq stadsontwerp is part of the group gathered by London architects Peter St. John and Adam Caruso. The Biennale gives the Dutch architects, who are based in Rotterdam, but have a European focus, the opportunity to demonstrate that affordable housing is still recognized for its architectural relevance. And to underline with their work the idea of the ‘Common Ground’, by asserting that architecture should have an impact on volume building and the design of cities, rather than producing solitaires and loose icons. The Biennale will open its doors on the 29th of August.
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