2018 was a great year for architecture. The building industry is booming in Norway, a lot of public money is going into cultural buildings and infrastructure and the sale of new housing projects are up after a small dip in 2017. We…
In 2016, we saw great advancements in AI and robotics capabilities, and began working on several projects that will help define how these new technologies will be integrated into the mainstream. This year, we'll see a number of these ideas come to…
We fortunately had a busy and successful year at SevilPeach and 2016 saw the completion, the commencement on site, and the beginnings of a number of exciting projects all around the world. 2016 has also been a year of fruitful collaborations…
I had just relocated from Atlanta to Chicago so my focus in the beginning of 2016 was primarily on renovating our new home, an inner city 450 sq meter "brownstone" townhouse. I have a few new clients scheduled, kitchen design for…
2016 has been another important year for my design projects but also for the ones of Lightweight Architecture. In 2017 I am presenting some projects that are the result of a hard work and a deep collaboration with great companies and I…
Nikolino, in Russia was the most important project to me in 2016. From the outset, the client’s brief was to design with no limitations. ARRCC is currently working on several luxury residential projects in Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Angola, Australia, UAE, The…
Last year our focus was in the field of educational architecture and we did some interiors and two TimeShare kindergartens. My personally favourite project is TimeShare kindergarten and School Podgorje. The priority for 2017 will continue to be in the field of…
2016 was a year of research for the studio: I organised Salons in London exploring the future of furniture design and the changing position of the designer. An important project for this year though will be my solo exhibition in Kunsthalle Vienna…
In the U.S. we have gone from an average house size of 700 sq ft that was home to 4.6 people in 1900, to 2,400 sq ft with 2.4 residents today. So larger homes, fewer people. Over time, as technology improves, we…
2017 was our first year in our new office, which we built ourselves exploring ways of building. Building processes will move towards and become more streamlined and product-based with prefabrication coming to the fore…
When I first came in contact with 3D printer technology in 2001, it was a very expensive toy. 10 – 15 years later, home variants are available at affordable prices. This enables everybody to design and produce their own products. This trendof…
There seems to have been an increasing focus on good design for social housing, especially in Asia and South America, which is a good thing. I do think architects will show more social responsibility in the future. Perhaps they may begin by…
We, as Marcel Wanders, during 2017, saw a real shift toward consumers wanting immersive, multisensory experiences. That's why we crafted our interior designs to be destinations where guests can be transported within a journey of the senses. I think one of the…
Last year we witnessed a significant shift in architecture and urban design towards finding solutions that can solve pressing issues related to the future of the built environment. These included a reinvigorated and more holistic approach to sustainability, circularity and resilience…
2017 was all about digitalization, automation, artificial intelligence on the one hand and human-centered solutions, invisible technology and experience design on the other. Interestingly, two opposing trends, yet both emerged at the same time and have a different importance depending on the…
I'm not sure how to describe 2017, it's often easier to get the picture many years after an event. Thought, it seems there was a tendency towards more daring, bold, extravagant look than before. And, on the other hand, a direction pointing…
2017 was a pivotal year for my firm. We were awarded to be the global design architect for Avenues, a very prestigious private school company based in New York. We are now commissioned to design their Shenzhen campus in China. 2017 was…
On the surface of it, 2018 was a relatively uneventful, if not somewhat disappointing year for design and architecture, for all too often consumed with quantity not quality of conversation, the sectors' print and digital press tended to circulate one too many…
I'm pretty positive about the direction the whole design business is moving towards these days. There have been many great introductions and relaunches this year and most important of all, the business began to look deeper into its own footprint on the…
2018 had, in my opinion, a single recurring theme, a search for curvilinear and rounded shapes dictated above all by the nostalgia for a bygone era, a reference to the sixties and seventies. Warm and natural shades - earthy colours like green…
The year of 2018 was a major milestone for me, as V&A Dundee which we designed in Scotland was successfully brought to completion and I could celebrate the opening of the building with the local people. The year of 2019 should also…
Difficult to have enough perspective to assess the state of design in 2018. Overall, I observe a smoothing of the proposals despite an increasingly prolific offer from the publishers and a growing number of designers on the market. I guess there will…
1,375,398 residential units swapped hands in 2018. This number was 1,409, 314 in 2017. Despite the economic fluctuations, housing sales in 2018 decreased by only 2,4 percent compared to 2017. I believe Turkey's economy will grow in the mid-long term into…
2018 was an amazing year for Mecanoo. The highlight was the opening of the Wei-Wu-Ying National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts in Taiwan, which is the largest performing arts centre in the world. We're looking forward to numerous upcoming openings…
2018 certainly hasn't been our strongest year to date. But still, we have done some great work. It has been a very turbulent year in the Swedish building industry. 2019 will be an even bumpier ride than 2018 in Sweden…
Rather than looking for incremental differences between architecture in 2018 and 2019 I will address the ongoing revolution in how projects emerge. This revolution has two key components: a shift from newbuild towards refurbishment and the replacement of the traditional architect-client relationship…
In general, 2018 was a year in which architecture became of larger importance again within cities. In many cities in the world the real estate market has picked up again, but it is not about enlargement of cities any longer it is…
2018 was a very exciting year for the studio. We opened the MO Museum of Modern Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. I have been lucky to have designed many museums, but this is the first museum for modern art. For 2019, I have…
In contemporary architectural idiom, it has been inevitable to follow western trend. Because the existing architectural education system, which is the source of questioning and forming creative minds for architecture, is rather shallow and repetitious. Still, the creative contributions as the nature…
Business-wise, it has been a reasonably good year. We started to do more work in India and China. Our own research work had also progressed and advanced our ideas on creating an ecology-based architecture through the biomimicry of ecosystems which we refer…
In 2017, we, DP Architects completed Emaar Square Mall. It was part of the mixed-use development of Emaar Square. The Mall drew inspiration from lively urban streets of Istanbul. Moving ahead, we feel that mixed-use developments like these will become more prominent…
Most part of the time of 2018 was dedicated in our office to develop studies. We are preparing phase on the constructions for several projects. For example, in Australia we've quite finished developing the studies. We are in the good way to…
On 2016 I worked on several projects with different countries and in different areas. Office furniture for Cassina IXC (Japan), a big collection of Urban Lighting for Landscapeforms (USA) and a whole collection of home appliances for Challenger (Colombia) among others…
I believe that in 2019, the general trends from 2018 will be further amplified especially the trends based around the sustainability issues as the problem is ever more present in the public debate. More meaningful design that is always made in a…