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

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 bri

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-

| 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 a

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

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

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

| Marta Cendra Vilardebo | 2020 | PFC | ETSAB | Professors: Jordi Ros, Angel Solanellas This project finds its starting point in the time in history where two urban fabrics collide. In the city of Barcelona, the realisation of the Eixample urban fabric by Ildefonso Cerdà created a new continuity between the city center and those which used to be detached urban nucleus. Nevertheless, the inherent strict geometry

Source: Sapiens Architects Photography: Atmospheriques narratives. Cyrille Weiner and Giaime Meloni English: This project proposes a discourse on the form and the durability of the common and ordinary architecture. And more exactly on his ability to adapt, evolve and transform. Not everything is Monument. But everything is Heritage. Each existing element deserves to be explored with attention. At the beginning,

Fuente: Anna & Eugeni Bach Fotografía: Eugeni Bach y Javier Antón En medio del calado de San Gregorio ha aparecido un artefacto extraño. Se trata, a simple vista, de una pared de madera que bloquea el paso y que ocupa toda la sección de bóveda de cañón del espacio. Es claramente un elemento externo; está realizado en madera de contrachapado, y unos tornapuntas nos cuentan que es algo inestable, y probablemen

Source: David Leech Architects Photography: David Leech Architects The character of this modest garden extension is created from the expression of a simple structural construction. Standard timber joists, at 600mm spacings, cross in both directions to allow for a free span between 2 rendered blockwork cavity walls. The timber beams sit on shallow pilasters formed where the blockwork is turned through 90 degrees

Referencias: Arquitour, Plataformaarquitectura Fotografías: Usuarios de Flickr Estas tres torres de apartamentos llamadas Las Torres del Parque hoy dìa son reconocidas como una de las mejores obras arquitectónicas latinoamericanas del siglo XX. Llegar a esas formas generadas por espirales y la magnífica integraciòn de las torres con el parque de la Independencia y la Plaza de Toros La Santamaria, le llevò al arq

| Marc Sánchez | 2020 | Diploma | USI Mendrisio | Professors: Quintus Miller The project is located in the bordering city of Chiasso, entrace to Switzerland from Italy, theme of the 2020 Mendrisio Diploma. Located near the city center and the station, forms part of a larger urban intervention designed by the Q. Miller atelier which planned to redesign the urban center of Chiasso. In this common intervention, the

Source: O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects Photography: O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects The proposal for this end of terrace, three storey 1980’s red brick house in south London, incorporates garage space into the overall plan, with the new kitchen centrally located, flanked by the living space facing the garden and the dining orientated towards the street. The client’s brief called for an unbroken connection on