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

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

  «A short time after its opening, RiffRaff 1+2 expanded. Once again, open projection allowed for considerable space savings, with the distorted reflection now forming the restaurant’s ceiling ornamentation. In the large hall, the projection itself becomes a part of the room’s architecture in the form of moving “video wall paper.” The apartments on the top floors combine elements of urban middle class apart

Fuente: Arquitecturia Fotografía: José Hevia Site The plot is located in the Mira-sol district in Sant Cugat del Vallès, dominated by isolated houses with gardens. A space of spaces or a house of houses, in the middle of a garden. Every small pice turns into an interior courtyard and looks different towards the four sides of the plot. The volums that form the house are visually related through the patio. The dialoge

Source: Barozzi Veiga Photography: Simon Menges In 2011 Barozzi/Veiga won the international competition for the masterplan of the new Art district in Lausanne, Switzerland – Platform 10 – and the design of the Fine Arts Museum. Located in the city centre, the project proposed a master plan for the city´s three main museums: the Museum of Fine Arts MCB-A, the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts MUDAC and th