Source: Vatican Chapels presskit Photography: 1,2,3,11: Alessandra Chemollo the rest: HIC team construction pictures: vatican chapels presskit no, it is not… …no, it is not a chapel, not a sanctuary and in any case not a tomb. It is simply a place enclosed by four stone walls, while another stone at the center might be the altar. The entrance is screened by a tree we want to conserve. The walls, inside, have a ledge

Artículo escrito por Esteve Bonell en la Vanguardia. ‘Elogio de la discreción’ Fuente: La Vanguardia Jo soc qui soc; si vols veure’m em veus” (Ovidi Montllor) La muerte de Juan Carlos Cardenal ha llegado como una sorpresa para muchos y, además, ha pasado bastante desapercibida. Sólo una discreta esquela en La Vanguardia y la noticia de su muerte en la página del Col·legi d’Arquitectes se han hecho eco de la desaparic

Source: La Bienale di Venezia Photography: La Bienale di Venezia, Hic aquitectura An Island To be on an island and then inside a garden, allows a state of being where one’s mind can drift to a peaceful place of reflection. The garden in San Giorgio has a fan structure of walks, starting from Palladio’s Cloister towards the Lagoon. The Morning Chapel is along one of these long paths, and sits right before this walking

Source: La Biennale di Venezia | Dua Studio Photography: Ary Indra | Andrea Avezzù | Italo Rondinella | Francesco Galli | Jacopo Salvi 16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE Sunyata: The Poetics of Emptiness What if architecture has no form and shape? It will be freed. Emptiness here is comprehended as an active entity; a singularity that functions as a prominent agency in life

Source: La Biennale di Venezia Photography: Francesco Galli, Maria Azkarate PARTICIPANT: Architecture wants to be an architecture of relationships. Relationships arise through a closeness to people and things. In understanding them, the essential questions of architecture  are answered: the approach to topography, construction and material, the meaning and value of building types and their hierarchies. Beyond their m

Source: La Biennale di Venezia Photography: Francesco Galli, Andrea Avezzù, Maria Azkarate PARTICIPANT: We chose to use acrylic to create transparent circular space. We imagined an installation which lets the visitor perceive the space in different ways. By having several layers of acrylic panels positioned close to each other, the view of the surroundings will be subtly distorted while walking around it, depending o

Source: Pavilion of Chile Curators: Alejandra Celedón Photography: Gonzalo Puga A building that renders the image of a city Chile’s National Stadium was a building and a city for one day. On the 29th of September 1979, the building was filled by 37,000 people for a massive operative which provided ownership titles to dwellers (pobladores), settling decades of makeshift land occupation and policies. A blueprint of the