Source: Karamuk Kuo Architekten Photography: Mikael Olsson The extension for the Weiden secondary school, housing a gymnasium and 24 classrooms, sits on the eastern part of the site between the existing secondary and primary school buildings. The compact form of the new building preserves the park-like character of the campus and turns the existing plinth into a collective schoolyard that connects the old and the new

Source: Dezeen Photography: Eckhart Matthäus, Felix Friedmann, John Pawson A small path leads to the chapel’s entrance, located at the transitional point between woodland and open ground. The architecture is framed as the simplest of gestures. From certain perspectives its mass appears as a pile of logs stacked up to dry; from others the considered placement of the elements on a concrete plinth creates a more formal

Fuente: El croquis, Herzog & de Meuron by Wilfried Wang. Ediciones: StudioPaperback La casa se sitúa en un promontorio, sobre un ondulado paisaje de olivares abandonados, formando parte de una terraza natural de piedra. El concepto del diseño de la casa se basa en la fusión de planta, sección y alzado. El edificio queda caracterizado por una cruz que se hace visible en las paredes laterales, donde la piedra, a ju

| Pascal Deschenaux and Simon Zemp | 2015 | Spring Semester | ETH  | Professor: Adam Caruso  Starting from Martin Heidegger’s text ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ the studio investigated how we can design new coherent neighborhoods with coherent spaces and clear identities. Nowadays city planning often limits itself to demarcating areas in different colors and the market takes the lead from there. Especially at the frin

Source: Dominique Coulon & associés Schiltigheim is the third largest town in the Bas-Rhin département (eastern France) in terms of population, and is the most densely populated town in the Strasbourg metropolis. It developed in the nineteenth century, centred on brewing and related industrial activities. These activities declined in the late twentieth century, leaving much industrial land lying waste. The rehabi

E2A Architecture. Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert Hatje Cantz Available online at La Capell This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert see their work as an interpretation of contemporary living conditions. In today@2019s context, expectations, experiences, and ambitions characterize places and clash with reality. The incompatible becomes the platform of the

Source : afasia Photography by Helène Binet, Georg Aerni and Kuster Frey This project won first prize in the invited competition for a 30,000sq m mixed use building of commercial space and housing. The project is located on a key site within the masterplan for the redevelopment of former railway land on the south side of Zurich Hauptbahnhof by the SBB (Swiss National Railways). The project is one of several large new