The first of three buildings to be designed by David Chipperfield Architects – part of a new mixed-use quarter in Lyon’s Confluence district being coordinated by the practice – is now complete. The office building is prominently located on the river front and is designed for flexibility and a potential future conversion into apartments, ensuring its long-term sustainability. Balconies run along the two principal façades, facing the river and a newly created garden respectively. These are articulated by in-situ concrete columns that stand proud of a recessed timber façade.

Image © Simon Menges

David Chipperfield is one of four people to have been elected to the Orden Pour le mérite, one of the highest honours that can be bestowed on a scientist or artist in Germany. He joins conductor Peter Gülke, philosopher Jürgen Habermas and physicist Stefan Hell as one of 39 German and 38 foreign members. The decision was made by the Chapter of the Order at its meeting in Berlin on 18 June and announced by its Chancelor Professor Hermann Parzinger. Continue reading

At the opening of the Morland Mixité Capitale project, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, presented David Chipperfield with La Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris ‘Échelon Vermeil’ – the highest award the City of Paris can give to individuals to honour them for their work in the city. Morland Mixité Capitale is the largest project within the mayor’s Reinventer Paris initiative which aims at reinventing 23 public spaces and buildings to offer a better quality of life in the city.

Images © Leo Ridet

On the occasion of opening of the Morland Mixité Capitale project in Paris last week, Neue Zürcher Zeitung correspondent Nina Belz spoke to David Chipperfield about the project as well as the Kunsthaus Zürich extension, which opened last year. David Chipperfield elaborates on what makes Morland Mixité Capitale so unusual and explains why it is only with government pressure and a robust planning system that private development can be expected to contribute meaningfully to the city.

Following an international design competition, the Canadian Ministry of Public Services and Procurement has announced that the scheme designed by David Chipperfield Architects and Zeidler for Block 2 of Canada’s Parliamentary Precinct in Ottawa has been selected as the competition Laureate.

The urban block – which encompasses eleven buildings – will be redeveloped to provide office space for the Senate and the House of Commons and allow for the future consolidation of parliamentary accommodations, including space for the Library of Parliament. As a site of national importance, the project carries an additional responsibility to represent the values of a nation and a vision for its future. Continue reading

The Mayor of London has appointed David Chipperfield as one of 42 new Design Advocates – independent experts whose role is to ensure quality buildings and public spaces that benefit all Londoners. The new cohort will support the updated Good Growth by Design programme, reflecting the importance of an inclusive recovery from a pandemic that has highlighted inequalities in the capital and the need to counter racism and other forms of prejudice in the built environment. The Design Advocates will work on three main objectives: quality, recovery and representation.

This monographic volume compiles articles by German DETAIL magazine. It takes a look behind the scenes, describes processes and shows many photographs and construction details of 23 projects of the office. Third expanded edition. Bilingual publication in German and English.

Publisher: Edition Detail, Munich
Date: 2022
ISBN: 978-3955535834
Hardcover, 240 pages
23.5 x 2.6 x 32.7 cm

This residential project, won in competition, is located at the south-west corner of the Colville Estate, a housing development in Hackney, east London, built in the 1950s. It forms part of Hackney Council’s programme of redevelopment across the borough that calls for around 2,500 new homes to be built over the coming years. Karakusevic Carson Architects was originally commissioned to develop a comprehensive masterplan, which was adopted in 2011. The two residential towers, 16 and 20 storeys respectively, form part of this masterplan and are intended for private sale to co-fund the larger redevelopment of the estate.

The 136-page publication is arranged by season through the work of photographer Risaku Suzuki who visited the cemetery over the course of a year. Suzuki’s images interleaf the texts which include an essay by Japanese author Toshiyuki Horie; a conversation between the photographer Thomas Struth, David Chipperfield and Hideyuki Osawa, Director of the Boenfukyukai Foundation; and reflections by Hideyuki Osawa and David Chipperfield on the ambitions and collaborative process of conceiving, designing and building the project. The book is designed by John Morgan studio and produced by the Boenfukyukai Foundation in collaboration with David Chipperfield Architects.

Inagawa Cemetery is located on a steep site in the Hokusetsu mountain range of Hyogo prefecture, approximately 40 kilometres north of Osaka. The cemetery is laid out across terraces and bisected by a monumental flight of steps leading up to a shrine at the highest point – an axis that orients the whole project.