source: Lina Ghotmeh photography: Takuji Shimmura Designing a national museum for Estonia was an extraordinary challenge given the country’s many decades of tumultuous history, a history that is recent enough to still remain in the nation’s memory. Following a brief period of sovereignty in the early 20th century, Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union until 1991. After regaining its independence, the country went

Source: Russell Jones Photography: Hélène Binet This six level residential building in the heart of London’s Bayswater Conservation Area, fills a space between existing listed terraces that was reputedly the last undeveloped bombsite in West London from the 1940 Blitz. A lengthy planning and consultation process with Westminster Council and English Heritage influenced the decision to build using load bearing brick co

Source: Aretz Dürr Architektur Photography: Aretz Dürr Architektur Residential house in Oberberg The design task was to construct a low-cost and sustainable single-family dwelling in the Oberberg region, which incorporates the surrounding landscape area into the living space and creates covered outdoor spaces for the rainy summer days in the region. In its typology, the new building follows the traditional, one-room

| Goran Travar | 2020| MA| TUM | Profesor: Stephen Bates, Bruno Krucker For a long time, I have been interested in contemporary and the mood of today. This interest is undoubtedly intertwined with my desire to know history. Not for the sake of knowing it, but really understanding why things happened the way they did. We live in times, in which we are busier than ever before, suffer under different inequalities and ar

Source: O`Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects Photography: Rory Gardiner The This intervention at the rear of a home in Dollis Hill in London replaced a 1970’s extension that divided the space into separate kitchen and dining rooms and allowed little connection to the garden. The client’s brief called for more light, more space with ample storage yet without reducing the garden. The response of the re-structured room plac

Source: Andrea Frapolli Architetto Photography: Alessandro Malpetti Ca’dal Mantova stands on two adjoining grounds (4125 and 5112) owned already by the client’s family in the core area of Prosito. An ancient building and a stable stood on the parcels, the first dating back to the mid-1400s, divided in half between the two parcels, already partially altered during the 1970s; the second dating back to the e

Source: César Portela Photography: César Portela ES La Galicia litoral es una permanente dialéctica entre la tierra y el mar que se convierte en paradigma en las Rías Bajas, especialmente en la de Arousa. En el fondo de esta ría, y formando parte del paseo marítimo que une el puerto de Vilagarcía con el de Carril, se construye este edificio que, avanzando perpendicularmente a la costa, se introduce en el mar. Su alar