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

Source: Atelier Kempe Thill Photography: ULRICH SCHWARZ A new school of art During the 19th century, art schools were built as important public institutions that took the form of classical palaces which celebrated the public character of the arts. Cities were proud of their newly founded art academies and celebrated the future artists within monumental architecture. Since the 20th century, this situation has undergon

Source: Harquitectes Photography: Adrià Goula Ningún contexto es irrelevante para un nuevo edificio. Y a menudo el propio sitio genera condicionantes, afectando el proyecto en casi cada decisión. No es el caso de esta casa. El sol, la geometría de la parcela (casi cuadrada con un chaflán), un vecino excesivamente cercano a sur, y una torre de viviendas a norte, más propia de un polígono residencial de los sesenta que

source: Afasia photography: James Ewing On the north-western edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District, Jane Street is characterised by a mix of red brick townhouses and larger apartment blocks, mainly dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively. This new apartment building is located on a site previously occupied by a 1920s, two-storey parking garage. The six-storey building comprises basem

source: Afasia We were told that when resources are scarce, intensity compensates for high performance (because there seems to be a deep gap between ingeniousness and intelligence). Of course, we knew that any project is a reaction to its circumstances. This is an apparently simple, stable and regular building that contains an unexpected and exaggerated interior. This is the world of innovation; a continuous, fluid a

Fuente: Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos Fotografía: Pedro Pegenaute El proyecto aborda dos cuestiones complicadas, por un lado resolver un programa de una importante complejidad derivada en gran medida de su diversidad funcional y, por otro, dar respuesta a un contexto urbanístico incierto y difícil. Se pretende ubicar el nuevo edificio como resultado de ese contexto, respondiendo a las necesidades desde la ciudad exis