Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: Bas Princen ‘Tondo’ is a footbridge in the centre of Brussels that connects the offices of the Chamber of Representatives with its recent extension, the Forum building, on the other side of the street. The bridge was explicitly designed as a spatial element rather than a technical solution. Named after the Renaissance tradition of the tondo, a circular work

Source: Casa Ter Photography: Salva López Casa Ter surges from a process of truly listing to the cultural and natural environment it inhabits. The decisions behind its shape and materiality are rooted in touching as little of the natural surroundings as possible and interpreting the local building culture of the area (the rural fields and towns of l’Empordà), using contemporary construction techniques. Following this

Source: Ensamble Studio Photography: Iwan Baan & Ensamble Studio Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives us, as a found space; which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into built work, in Ca’n Terra, the process is inverted and history interpreted to transform

Source: Max Enrich Photography: Meritxell Arjalaguer & Claudia Mauriño Made by the junction of an arch carrying light and a secondary arch behaving as a support, this family of 8 self-standing light structures play with equilibrium and projection of light. The arches are repeated along the series in three different proportions, doubling in size between them. Their disposition in pairs and just by a point of tange

Source: Beatriz Alés Atelier Photography: José Hevia The historic Tercio y Terol quarter was designed by Rita Fernández Queimadelos and constructed during the 1940s in the Carabanchel area of Madrid. Originally a Francoist social housing project for families of limited means, it is now protected as part of Madrid’s urban heritage. Casa Witiza is one of the 640 terraced houses which comprise the project. It boasts 70m

Source: Vora Arquitectura Photography: Adrià Goula Partial refurbishment of the Nau Ivanow, an industrial building from the 60’s, which is nowdays an arts center based on scenic arts. The Nau Ivanow is an artistic center (Creation Factory) that focuses its activity mainly on scenic arts. It is an industrial building placed in the neighborhood of La Sagrera, near the train tracks, a former industrial area. The buildin

Source: BLAF architecten Photography: Stijn Bollaert Text: Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume. In our quest for buildability, affordability, circular, energetic and economic efficiency, we allow ourselves to be guided by geometric abstraction. Circle and square become for