Futurecities – cultivating innovation
At the time of writing, more than half of mankind, some 3.3 billion people, are living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. We are simultaneously experiencing a ...
Future cities – biomimicry
Michael Pawlyn is a conceptual and functional pioneer. As the founder of Exploration Architecture, a practice that challenges the fundamental processes of traditional design by initiating schemes derived fr...
New Designers CLAMcollective launch at London Design Festival
London’s Design Festival is almost halfway through its' week-long parade, and with designjunction opening last night so did a host of smaller exhibitions. The melting pot of established and newcomers to the des...
Out of the status quo and into the real world
“The exhibition is about putting the physical artefacts we’ve collected and present them in raw state‚” Keigo Kobayashi and Norihito Nakatani talk to Glass about their pavilion at this year’s Architecture Bie...
Open House returns to London this weekend
Every year Open House tempts the architecturally curious side in each of us to roam around both public and privately owned buildings and spaces. Over one weekend, this coming weekend, we’re permitted access to ...
Futurecities – urban promise
Glass traces the path of the utopian city, from the sci-fi visions of the ’60s to Norman Foster’s zero carbon project and a tower to rival Everest. But which holds the key to our survival?
Two major fact...
Tadao Ando reflects on how architecture can bring people closer to their original values
Mirroring the promise
of the individual – Tadao Ando reflects on how architecture can bring
people closer to their original values
The architecture of Tadao Ando bears the conceptual mark of mirrors and re...
From Architecture, SCANning Art
To scan is to glance and examine the particulars of an object or a condition. Yet it is also to scrutinise and observe sweepingly, as a large expanse. In summary, these are the actions and ambitions of Pedr...
Foyles’ London transforms previous Central St Martins building
William and Gilbert Foyle started selling books from their parent’s home in the early 1900s so when demand outstretched the kitchen table they opened a shop on Charing Cross Road in London’s West End. The two b...
Sky high luxury in East London
Cast an eye over the East London skyline, and apart from the small cluster of commercial buildings in Liverpool Street, you’ll see few skyscrapers, and even fewer residential ones. It’s a differen...
Roberto Cavalli opens the Cavalli Ibiza Restaurant & Lounge
Now that Roberto Cavalli’s newest Restaurant & Lounge in Ibiza is officially open, you’ll know where to find Glass next time we are nearby the Mediterranean Island’s mega marina. Situated on the most exclus...
A fire, fjords and ferries
The fire that broke out in the town of Ǻlesund in western Norway in 1904 became an act of creative destruction. There was one unfortunate fatality but the other 10,000 inhabitants, escaping the co...
The dilapidation of the modern
During a recent visit to several of the new capitals in the countries of former-Yugoslavia, I came across several magnificent post-war buildings. Some better kept than others, and particularly in ...
Smiljan Radić’s Serpentine Pavilion opens in Kensington Gardens
Despite the UK's longest day flitting by this weekend, we can rejoice that summertime in London is still on our side, and certainly in our favour as the Serpentine Pavilion – which for the past 14 years has enc...
Design houses
SANAA
Lausanne, Switzerland
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa are carrying out a quiet revolution. Through their firm SANAA the Japanese architects have been constructing buildings that appear diaphano...
The Bow-Wow factor
With a population of nearly 13 million living in an area of just 2,187 square kilometres, Tokyo is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Architecturally speaking, Tokyo is a young developme...
London Festival of Architecture begins this week
This week the London Festival of Architecture returns for its’ 10th anniversary, yielding its reputation and industry contacts by hosting a series of discussions and debates, exhibitions, and interactive tours ...
Pacific Pace X RIBA HK SHOP!
This week will see the launch of a collaboration between RIBA Hong Kong and the luxury shopping mall, Pacific Place in Hong Kong – entitled SHOP! Over the next three weeks, visitors to the shopping mall can see...
A sojourn in Sardinia
If you feel your life is somewhat lacking in the romance stakes, an Italian trip abroad might be just what is in order. But if the bustling cities and tourist hotspots of the mainland aren’t your firs...
Museum of Art and Design presents the first exhibition to explore jewellery and photography
The Museum of Art and Design in New York City will present a new exhibition to examine the interplay between photography and jewellery. Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography will be the first museum exhib...
Get caught up In the Pradasphere – the makings of Miuccia
A new day dawned for Prada yesterday, and on said day, the all-encompassing Pradasphere took flight. Prada, “a cosmos of its own”, is now Harrods’ honoured guest for the duration of this month, and, just our lu...