Participatory design lies at the heart of Peter Hübner’s practice, and in this new school in Germany it comes into its own as students and teachers collaborated with the architects to create a space of their own
Tempering programmatic pragmatism with the nuances of light and colour, this new church in Cologne is a meditative, multivalent space
Scharoun’s school in the mining town of Marl has been saved from demolition and is being converted for use as a music school
The enormous cultural pretensions of La Villette: it is supposed to be nothing less than the first piece of Deconstructivist architecture
Implanted within Haarlem’s city centre, this town hall and cinema complex reconstitutes the urban grain and adds a contemporary layer to a historic palimpsest
Ten years ago, the AR published a new secondary school at Caudry in northern France by Lucien Kroll, which marked an important advance in green building. The result of an architect/contractor competition, the school had to meet a demanding list of ecological criteria. As reported in January 2002 these were…
Designed in the 1960s by two pioneering architects, Park Hill thronged with international visitors for the next decade. Yet as Modernist high-rises and equality fell out of fashion, the socialist ideal turned into a ghetto. Today, developer Urban Splash is animating its streets again with a bold programme
Not only is the Wales Institute for Sustainable Education mainly daylit, but you are led by inviting vistas through a spatial sequence of obvious logic. Photography by Timothy Soar
The completion of a library by Bolles+Wilson in The Netherlands raises great expectations – which are not disappointed. Photography by Christian Richters
Günter Behnisch, champion of socially responsive architecture and place-making, dies aged 88
