Source: BLAF architecten Photography: Stijn Bollaert Text: Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume. In our quest for buildability, affordability, circular, energetic and economic efficiency, we allow ourselves to be guided by geometric abstraction. Circle and square becom

Source: Sergison Bates architects Photography: David Grandorge The project involves the redevelopment of a former Engineering works used to process sheet metal, close to Lavender Hill, Clapham. The complex infill site, which is embedded within a residential urban block, has been transformed into a residential development of nine dwellings arranged around a communal garden and accessed via an existing cobbled mew

Fotografía: Oriol Gómez Texto: Karl Flieg Debido al gran número de encargos, la oficina necesitaba más espacio para trabajar. El edificio se encuentra a pocos pasos de la propia casa de Aalto, donde se encontraba su oficina anteriormente. El tratamiento en blanco, como si fuera un muro y cerrado la masa del edificio hacia el exterior, esconde un jardín con forma de anfiteatro en su patio interior. El personal de

Source: David Chipperfield Architects Photo: Simon Menges The refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, an icon of twentieth-century architecture, is now complete. In a digital ceremony on 29 April, the keys were handed over to the clients – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). Designed by Ludwig Mies van der

  source: lenschow & pihlmann photos: © hampus berndtson Fanø’s longhouse has been the inspiration for a new single-family house on Fanø an Island in the Wadden Sea. The typology is characterised by its elongated shape where the barn and habitation were traditionally placed under a continuous roof. To protect against the harsh west winds of the island, they are oriented from east to west. They are

Source : KAAN Photo : Fernando Guerra FG+SG The distinguished and welcoming new building of the Amsterdam courthouse has begun operation, replacing the old complex on Parnassusweg in Amsterdam. The first sessions take place here on Monday the 3rd of May. This scintillating and functional building in the Zuidas area was designed and built by the consortium NACH (New Amsterdam Court House) at the behest of the Cen

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

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

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 tejido

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

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 aro

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

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 und

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 sesent