Source: Afasia Photography: Iwan Baan The design for the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion takes roofs, the most common architectural feature, as its point of departure and inspiration. It is reminiscent of roofing tiles seen around the world, bridging both architectural and cultural references through this single architectural feature. The roof of the Pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a canopy that alludes to na

Open call TRANSFER Architecture Video Award 2019 Application deadline: July 1, 2019 Purpose TRANSFER Global Architecture Platform launch the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award 2019, an independent award to recognise the most creative and innovative short films in the field of architecture, city and landscape worldwide. Video is becoming increasingly instrumental in analysing architecture and the human environment, and

Source: Edvard Ravnikar. Architect and teacher Photography: Damjan Gale. In times of uncertainty, change of briefs and interests, wavering of opportunities and functional needs, it is difficult to avoid the established working processes that go back to the Renaissance and its tendency towards a static finality. From our practice it still follows that we should look upon a city as a large group of things — objects, bu

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Roy Gardiner A New Members’ Room for the Victoria & Albert Museum has opened. Carmody Groarke have converted a magnificent top-lit gallery on the top floor of Aston Webb’s Grade I Listed 1909 wing into a new dedicated space for V&A Members. The design has subtly restored and retained the existing spatial or detail character of the space and where appropriate reinve

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Christian Richter The new museum will rehouse an internationally significant boat collection on the shores of Windermere in the Lake District National Park. The new building will include exhibition spaces for the display of steam launches, motorboats, yachts and other vessels, telling the stories of their construction and use on the lake. A wet dock will allow the display

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Johan Dehlin Hill House is one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most significant works, one of Scotland most acclaimed buildings, and a seminal part of early 20th century European architecture. The building has had huge influence on architecture and design in Scotland, Europe and globally. Built in 1928, 30km west of Glasgow, the unusual hybridisation of tradition and invent

Fuente: Ordine degli Architteti di Milano Fotografía actual: Marta Cassany El proyecto trabaja la reconstrucción de todo el convento, excepto una pequeña parte adherida a la iglesia y a la sacristía. La irregularidad geométrica del solar, la necesidad de construir en continuidad a la arquitectura preexistente y el respeto al contexto, determinan la compleja implantación planimétrica y volumétrica. El esquema es el de

Fuente: Alison y Peter Smithson. De la casa del Futuro a la casa de hoy. Dirk Van Den heuvel, Max Risselada. Puesto que los Smithson experimentaron la tensión entre campo y ciudad como una energía positiva potencial en su propia vida y en su propio trabajo, en 1959 decidieron comprar parte del complejo de una granja en la finca Fonthill. La parte que adquirieron los Smithson consistía en un gran patio amurallado con

Source: Afasia Photography: Lucas Peters, Andreas Buschmann The existing school building from the 1970s is a very extensive, spatially expansive two-to-three storey volume with 16 classrooms in the centre of Hünenberg. The façade had to be replaced due to its poor condition. The small classrooms needed enlargement to fulfil today’s requirements and were extended to include four new classrooms. To avoid occupying furt