Source: Trazia Arquitectura Photo: milena villalba The building is a two storeys townhouse dated on Barroco period when it was a Dominican convent. It is placed in a rectangular plot of 16 x 45 m approximately and includes a backyard. During the time of the confiscation it became a private residence. The most renowned occupant was Ms. Dolores Ayota Olcina. that belonged to an oil trader family which was able to enric

Fotografías actuales, planos y texto: Antoni Garcés Los hogares Anna Gironella de Mundet són un conjunto de edificios situados en Vall d’Hebron, en el límite de la ciudad de Barcelona con la sierra de Collserola. El complejo se construyó entre los años 1954 y 1957 siguendo el diseño del arquitecto Manuel Baldrich i Tibau; el principal arquitecto de la Diputación de Barcelona durante los años cincuenta del siglo

Source: Buchner Bründler Architekten Photography: Rory Gardiner Not far from the Spalentor, a narrow path leads into a park-like courtyard shielded from the street. In its rear part, a carriage house was built around 1880 in addition to the villa located on the property. The service building was separated by a massive Quarrystone wall into a utility area with stables, carriage room and hayloft and a living area for t

Fuente : Vora Arquitectura Fotografía : Adrià Goula Extensión de la urbanización de los entornos del Born en dos tramos de la calle Comerç, hasta la calle Princesa por un lado y hasta la avenida Marquès de l’Argentera por el otro. Esta extensión se plantea desde la continuidad material y al mismo tiempo desde el contraste de carácter, intencionadamente doméstico. La calle Comerç hace de frontera entre dos tejidos urb

Source : Atelier Kempe Thill Photography: ULRICH SCHWARZ HIGH-DENSITY LOW-RISE Towards high-density low-rise This project is in its core a typological experiment: a maximum of individual homes with private gardens on a relatively small urban plot; a model for the development of more compact settlements with a density of approx. 40 houses per hectare. It aims to offer an alternative to living on the periphery of big c

Source: Harquitectes + Christ & Gantenbein Renderings: Filippo Bolognese Presently housed in a building opened in 1995, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) requires a significant increase of its exhibition space. Addressing this need, the design for the new MACBA was developed in partnership between Harquitectes + Christ & Gantenbein as a new volume opposite the current venue. Positioned around o

Source: E2A Photography: Rory Gardiner, Rasmus Norlander & Yasu Kojima Due to its prominent street corner location, the new taz building must mediate between the urban fabric of a traditional Berlin block and solitary buildings from the IBA era. Our design combines the urban block and the corner: it adopts the height of the eaves characteristic to Berlin, in order to continue the block, and a subtle setback of th