Source: Collectief Noord Photography: Filip Dujardin & Collectief Noord A house-sized plot in the bourgeois 19th century urban fabric of Antwerp is the site for an extension of an existing school within the city block. The opened up ground level and the generous facade define the unambiguous public character of the school. The building is composed of large urban fragments: a scaled bay window in the street

Fuente: BB Construmat Las zonas comunes de BBConstrumat, obra del estudio de arquitectura Josep Ferrando El prestigioso estudio de arquitectura Josep Ferrando será el responsable de diseñar los espacios temáticos sobre los que se articulará la oferta de la próxima edición de Barcelona Building Construmat, el Salón Internacional de la Construcción de Fira de Barcelona. Así, Josep Ferrando dará forma a los espacios Fut

Source: Arrhov Frick Photography: Mikael Olsson Hammarby gård – Hus 2 is one of seven houses within the residential block, HG7, in Hammarby, Stockholm. Primarily longitudinal, one face of the building absorbs the morning sun, while the opposite, captures the evening sun. Early conceptualization of the project idealized each apartment to span between both faces, permitting sunlight exposure throughout the day. The flo

Source: 51N4E Photography: Filip Dujardin & Stefano Graziani The tower is part of the ambitious new master plan for the city, which converges around ten towers. The main program of the tower consists of office and housing program. Shopping and restaurant facilities are located in the base and at the top of the building. Our first investigation was to resolve the dilemma of elegance – a clear ambition stated in th

Source: Architecture and Urbanism a+u 564. Bernt Nyberg. Working with landscape architect Per Friberg, Nyberg made the normal extraordinary. His low-slung composition of three black volumes stretches into the landscape, with exquisite detailing and surprisingly simple plan based entirely on the repetition of a square grid. Of the admittedly banal plan, the architect stated “It is in the execution where richness is bo

Source: Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten Photography: Helène Binet In this house, a twenty unit low rent apartment building set in the remains of a garden city, the shape of the building and its plan are strangely at odds with each other. The building’s polygonal shape consists of a series of planes that create a kind of demarcation line, enforcing and responding to different spatial qualities of the site. Its plan re

Source: Arrhov Frick Photography: Mikael Olsson Atelier Lapidus was conceived as a summer house for a writer and his family. The design process began with a series of ambitions: a small and flexible structure placed in the forest, open facades with direct connection to nature, a pool as a lake, and a writing desk facing the evening sun. The decision to create a clear and minimal structure allowed the house to be pers