Font: Raamerk Photography: Stijn Bollaert The existing house served as a single-family home with doctor’s practice and consisted of a long range of switched spaces without mutual relationship or contact with the spacious garden behind it. The challenge was to transform the house back into a quail contemporary single-family home with thoughtful interventions. The ground floor is stripped to the main volume

Source: E2A Photography: Jon Naiman, Rasmus Norlander The surrounding context is animated through its two-sidedness: on one hand, panoramas towards the lake, and on the other hand, the warmth of the sun. This dialogue between view and sunlight results in a compact building volume oriented towards both of these elements. Due to the regulations regarding property lines and parcel setbacks, a slightly skewed square

Source: 31/44 architects Photography: Rory Gardiner An existing 1960s light industrial building was adjusted and extended to create a 16-room boutique hotel with a café and retail space at ground floor.  Gentrification is too often synonymous with homogeneity; stripping areas of the innate character and interest that kick-started their regeneration. This project very carefully seeks to find an architecture that

TRANSFER Architecture Video Award presents the winners of its first edition TRANSFER Architecture Video Award announced the winning works of its first edition at a ceremony held on 23 November in the framework of the AFTZ Architektur FilmTage Zürich. Winner: The first winner of the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is the video by Luís Úrculo, Brazilian Embassy / Ipiña + Nieto Arquitectos, Chile, 2019 In the jur

Source: Bevk Perovic Photography: David Schreyer Este proyecto es el resultado de una competencia celebrada en 2016 que estableció el encargo de hacer que las ‘casasmatas’, una estructura de almacenamiento de municiones de la fortaleza medieval sea accesible al público en forma de un nuevo centro cultural y lugar de exhibición para la pequeña ciudad de Wiener Neustadt. El proyecto aborda el tema de l

Source: Monadnock, De Zwarte Hond Photography: Stijn Bollaert The new Park Pavilion of the National Park De Hoge Veluwe is part of the new heart of the park; the place where visitors will start their journey, meet and will experience the beauty of the nature, art and architecture. The new building will accommodate the Park Restaurant, an information desk, a variety of the conference rooms and the Park shop. The

Font: Group work  Photograph: Timothy Soar The brief began with a requirement for a loose fit building able to accommodate apartments and offices/studios across column free floors. Enough time was available to investigate context and a number of possible solutions for a replacement building that would sit within the all but vanished boundaries of an C11th limestone Norman abbey. One able to integrate, extract an

Fuente: Peter Böhm Architekten Fotografia: Herr Lukas Roth La ubicación entre la plaza de la catedral y la costa nos llevó a formar este patio como una plaza pequeña y tranquila en la entrada al nuevo «Philosophikum». Sin embargo, la antigua entrada de la plaza de la catedral debía reactivarse como otro acceso, por lo que el nuevo edificio forma una sola unidad con el antiguo, conectado a través de un atrio que

Source: SVNM Photography: SVNM The projects of residence Brigerberg is located in the village of Ried-Brig, Switzerland and consists of 24 assisted housing apartments, a set of collective functions and an underground car parking. The site stands out by the magnificent views over the surrounding mountains and the Rohnetal. Preserving these views from the village and allowing each of the 24 apartments to have an o

Fuente: Roldan + Berengué Fotografía: Jordi Surroca Transformación de la nave de almacenaje de hilo en un complejo de vivienda social en la antigua fábrica textil de Fabra & Coats, Barcelona. 46 viviendas sociales y sede de la Colla Castellera Jove de Barcelona vivienda social Se trata de un proyecto en el que los espacios colectivos, de intercambio y encuentro vecinal, construyen un recorrido de escaleras e

Source: Gus Wüstemann Photography: Bruno Helbling CONTEXT This housing project is a building of nine flats in the outer green belt of Albisrieden in the city of Zurich. The urban structure is characterized by simple linear buildings from the 1950s with generously sized gardens, which are arranged at right angles to one another. The new building is inside such a green area as part of the rising density within the

Source: Stephen Taylor Architects Photography: David Grandorge The project at Cadix is for a new residential building over five levels and comprises a mix of 27 triplex, duplex and single level apartments. It was commissioned in 2015 by the housing association Woonhaven Antwerpen following a competition won in 2014 in collaboration with Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven. The brief was for two apartment buildings at op

Source: Vincent Van Duysen Photography: Hélène Binet, Koen Van Damme, Dirk Caremans On reclaimed land close to the sea, with views delineated by an urban coastline, a limited number of trees, shrubs and centrally sited farm buildings define the spatial organization. The brief was to replace existing structures with a contemporary farming business, stables and surrounding orchard. By implementing three elongated

  Fuente: Josep M. Julià i Capdevila Fotografia: Adrià Goula Desde su nacimiento, en 1878, en los terrenos de Can Mangala anexas a la antigua «Carretera del Llobregat», el recinto de Can Batlló y el Barrio de la Bordeta han evolucionado en paralelo al crecimiento y transformación de la ciudad de Barcelona. Después de una larga evolución, que incluye desde la construcción de los sucesivos bloques con el auge