Source: Maniera In 2014, architect Anne Holtrop begins tracing the ruins of the Barbar Temple in Bahrain, thought to honor Enki, Sumerian god of water and craft. The temple, first built in 3000 BCE and reconstructed several times since, sits in what was Dilmun, a sacred port, the original garden of Eden. Long before Adam made Eve, Enki met Ninhursag, Mother of the Rock, and together they created the world. Enki and N

Source: alcolea+tárrago / Roberto Ercilla Photography: Javier Callejas The Government Building is located at the Teatinos campus, west of the city of Málaga in Spain. It hosts the presidency of the University among several other administrative and representative services, which were scattered through the city until now. The project also includes an additional 800-seat Auditorium –the largest in the city of Málaga–; a

Source: afasia Photography: Pauline Sauter Hospitalfield House is a Category-A listed building in Arbroath. The house is a complex amalgam of medieval buildings and mid-nineteenth century Scottish Baronial construction with early Arts & Crafts interiors. Since 1900 it has been a place for artists and for arts education and has been run continuously as a charitable trust. The fabric of the building has been deteri

Fuente: José María Sánchez García Fotografía: Roland Halbe “Un edificio como una ciudad”. Nuestra propuesta se basa en el entendimiento del antiguo edificio del Hospital como un espacio urbano, capaz de incorporar en su interior la actividad que se produce en la ciudad. Los pasillos se convierten en calles y los patios en plazas, generando un espacio único. Para ello se recuperan los espacios y los elementos históric

Source: Chinese Architects Designed for an artist, this studio building has a floor area of 500m2. It consists of a reinforced skeleton-frame structure left exposed internally with reddish brick infill panels. An outer skin of grey facing bricks is drawn over the structure and articulated with a few carefully proportioned window openings. The principal element of the scheme is the two storey-high studio space set at

Fuente: penccil.com (Sculptures Habitacles. By: I Am An Architect. Anca Timofticiuc and Carolina Bianchi) André Bloc (1896 – 1966). Pintor, escultor, arquitecto, ingeniero y editor. De 1962 a 1966, André Bloc creó varias esculturas habitadas que también experimentó en forma de “pabellones” en su jardín de Meudon. Esta investigación marca la evolución del escultor de la abstracción geométrica a la forma libre. La arqu

Source: Afasia Photography: Luis Díaz Díaz For the inaugural edition of the Architekturwoche Basel, the Mallorca-based architecture studio isla -winner of the competition for the Basel Pavilion- proposes Loggia Baseliana, an urban passageway, and veranda that opens up to the former industrial district of Dreispitz, in the south of Basel, Switzerland. Envisaged as an open, democratic structure that invites passage or

Fuente: Ander Bados Sesma & Betsaida Curto Reyes Fotografía: Eleazar Cuadros, Mikel Beaumont Tras las inundaciones que sufrió Arequipa en el año 2013, la ONG All Hands and Hearts reconstruyó el colegio Villa Magisterial, ubicado en la comunidad de Cerro Colorado, en el cono norte de la ciudad y a los pies de los volcanes Misti y Chachani. Los llamados “conos” en el Perú son asentamientos humanos en la periferia d

Source: Book > a+u E9104 (Architecture and Urbanism, Herman Hertzerberger) The idea was to make an office building, which would be a working place where everybody would feel at home: a house for 1000 people. The building has been designed as a structure, comprising a basic structural zone, that manifests itself all through the building, and an interpretable and variable zone, complementary to the basic structure.