1. Products
  2. Gallery

Frac-ing creates turbulence

A government funded arts and architecture programme for the French regions, patronised by the likes of Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, has built up a collection of more than 600 works, 800 models and over 15,000 architects’ drawings. Now French/New Zealand duo Jakob+MacFarlane has reconfigured a former military supply depot in the city of Orléans to create the 3000m2 FRAC Centre. Forming permanent galleries, temporary exhibition spaces, education zones and archive, the whole lot is crowned by its ‘Turbulences’- a 500m2 reception area, auditorium, public cafe and bookshop that bursts like three strange glass, steel and aluminium tubers from the inner courtyard of the original building. 

Latest

Now that higher education comes at some cost, student accommodation is increasingly blurring the boundaries between learning, working and living

Halls get more sophisticated to attract top students

From concrete tunnelling to self supporting stone facades and Range Rover Shopping Trips, how could an innovative engineering approach inject sustainability into design teams?

Engineering structures and energy with flair

The Klutch is a washroom accessory that temporarily stores laptops, mobile phones and bags and is easy to install in toilet cubicles and common areas

Klutch provides secure storage for laptops, mobiles and bags

We have a tradition of preservation but how early should it start?

Don’t wait for an anniversary or you might be too late

For more than 3,000 years stories of the mythical city have beguiled western imagination. As the British Museum exhibition demonstrates, the facts are fascinating too

Myth and reality are equally evocative at the British Museum