source: O’Donnell + Tuomey, Mies van der Rohe Foundation The brief was to provide an eight classroom school to the Department of Education and Science standard schedule on a very restricted site. The site is at a key location on the route from the city centre across the Grand Canal towards Ranelagh village. The neighbouring Georgian Square and terraces form an intact and significant urban design compositio

Source: Afasia Photography: Luke Hayes The British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank accommodates the UK’s largest independent cinema house and National Film Archive. It was originally built beneath the arches of Waterloo Bridge in the 1950s as the National Film Theatre. Its prominent location facing the River Thames benefits from the footfall of the South Bank, one of the busiest pedestrianised promenades in Europ

Source: Afasia Photography: © gustav willeit The new belvedere hotel is set on a rocky slope taking its round-shape and its reddish color. The project becomes part of the landscape allowing the suites to look at the valley from various points of view.                                   Architect: Bergmeisterwolf Architekten Locat

Source: ALA architects / Plataforma arquitectura Photography (recent): Tuomas Uusheimo, Marc Goodwin Dipoli is the main building of Aalto University, located in the university’s Otaniemi campus in Espoo, Finland. It was designed by architects Reima and Raili Pietilä and opened in 1966. Dipoli was initially owned by the Student Union of the Helsinki University of Technology who sold it to Aalto University i

‘10 llibres i 1 cadira’ amb Moisés Puente Presentació ’10 llibres i 1 cadira’ amb Moises Puente. El passat dimecres 15 de Maig es va presentar «10 LLIBRES I 1 CADIRA», un escenari on convidem a diferents amics i socis de la Capell a fer una selecció de 10 llibres al voltant d’un tema i 1 cadira on passarien l’estona fullejant aquests llibres. El primer dels convidats és l’

Source: Afasia Photography: © luc boegly On parcel 04b, between the new street and the new Martin Luther King urban park, the project stands out with two distinct constructions, alternating full and empty places and offering in its center a privatized garden as a continuation of the park. «Such a design allows the building to release remarkable views of the city. This choice made it possible to build upwards and

Mayo 2019 Entrevista Ricardo Devesa BBCONSTRUMAT HIC> La arquitectura tiene una componente cultural e intelectual indiscutible, pero para materializarse precisa del mundo de la construcción, un entorno más técnico y prosaico en donde parece que los únicos valores son la economía, la productividad y la eficiencia. El contacto entre esos dos mundos tan distantes parece a veces un diálogo en idiomas distintos. ¿

Source: Afasia Photography: © damian poffet The school center Sous-Ville is located southwest of the historic center of Avenches in a steep sloping terrain. With additional space for the primary and secondary school as well as a triple gym, the facility is to be expanded. The new secondary school building is set in the hillside as an L-shaped, three-storey building on the east side of the perimeter. It spans int

  Fuente: Berta Sumpsi Fotografía: Luis Villalba Suñol Berta Sumpsi, (Barcelona, 1981) trabaja en el ámbito de la Joyería Contemporánea. La entiende como un terreno de la creación actual donde se mezclan con libertad arte, diseño, artesanía y moda. El 2016 abre IsNotAShop, su propio estudio-taller en Barcelona, un espacio donde experimentar con las maneras de mostrar y ver las cosas, un espacio que funciona

Source: Afasia Photography: Javier Miguel Verme The exhibitions are held in the new visitors centre. The administration is in the old castle building; the hall, foyer and seminar space are in the stables. From outside the new building seems extremely regular, it has no emotional expression, so to speak. The inner spatial development is the product of antitheses: of concealing and revealing, heaviness and lightne

Library and students’ Center, 1974-1982 Erskine was asked to compete in a parallel sketching competition with four other Stockholm architects for a new library at Frescati University. The competition process involved design development with university staff and students. The outcome was that Erskine’s design won approval. The student’s center building completed in 1981 has a roof structure, reminiscent of Borgaf

Source: afasia Stripped back to bare its thick stone walls, with externally insulated slate-clad facades, this early-twentieth century house has seen a complete reconfiguration of its internal volumes and a transformation of the visual and physical connections with the surrounding coastal landscape. Previously raised on a plinth above a basement, the ground floor has been lowered to the level of the surrounding

  Source: Collectief Noord Photography: Filip Dujardin & Collectief Noord A house-sized plot in the bourgeois 19th century urban fabric of Antwerp is the site for an extension of an existing school within the city block. The opened up ground level and the generous facade define the unambiguous public character of the school. The building is composed of large urban fragments: a scaled bay window in the s

Fuente: BB Construmat Las zonas comunes de BBConstrumat, obra del estudio de arquitectura Josep Ferrando El prestigioso estudio de arquitectura Josep Ferrando será el responsable de diseñar los espacios temáticos sobre los que se articulará la oferta de la próxima edición de Barcelona Building Construmat, el Salón Internacional de la Construcción de Fira de Barcelona. Así, Josep Ferrando dará forma a los espacio