| Oana Gramada + Makoto Hayashi | 2018 | 3r curso | ETSAB | Profesor: Josep Ferrando El proyecto trata sobre la tectónica y las masas, investigando cómo una pieza aparentemente rígida y compacta, que une las dos medianeras, consigue adaptarse al lugar volviéndose transparente y permeable. El sistema de bóvedas de hormigón apiladas una encima de la otra que cambian de tamaño a cada planta habla sobre la preeminen

Source: afasia Photography: João Morgado The Monte da Charneca Center, scheduled to open in early 2021, is a privately funded initiative that will offer visitors to Portugal’s Algarve region a peaceful, spirit-restoring retreat. Conceived by a Swiss-American couple who have lived in the area since the mid-1980s, the Center has as its focal point a non-denominational Christian chapel designed by the Pritzker Priz

Asnago Vender and the Construction of Modern Milan. Adam Caruso and Helen Thomas. gta Verlag, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 2015. Available online at La Capell Mario Asnago (1896-1981) and Claudio Vender (1904-1986) operated outside the fertile Milanese architecture scene of their time, yet the design of their buildings captures the essence of mid-twentieth century Milan. Combining the qualities of modernity and cont

Source: Dezeen | afasia Photography: NOSHE photography The new headquarters for Amorepacific, Korea’s largest beauty company, is located in the centre of Seoul at a site which has been occupied by the company since 1956. It is situated next to a former US military zone that is being transformed into the spacious public Yongsan Park and a business district, which was part of a masterplan representing the largest

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: © Bas Princen The center of Brussels has a periphery inside. A piece of landscape, green, open, idyllic, as if it were on the fringes of the city (where it touches the forest) is to be found in the midst of it. This particular condition is easy to destroy. In order to double the surface of a seemingly freestanding house in this strangely lush environmen

Source: archipicture  | The Architecture of Peter Celsing. Wilfried Wang. Pb. Internos Books. After an architectural competition in 1952, the Swedish architect Peter Celsing was commissioned to build the Härlanda church. The competition design was highly praised by the jury members. After some planning adjustments, the ground-breaking ceremony took place on October 31, 1956. The opening of the church was celebra

| Antoni Garcés + Bàrbara Ferrer | 2018 | 3r curso | ETSAB | Profesor: Jordi Badia Can Ricart es una de las principales muestras del pasado industrial del Poblenou y tiene el mayor grado de protección patrimonial al estar catalogado como bien cultural de interés nacional. La parcela del proyecto se sitúa en el extremo norte del complejo, en una zona donde se mezclan edificios de viviendas con naves industriales

Fuente: Emiliano López Mónica Rivera Arquitectos Fotografía: José Hevia ES. Estos seis apartamentos turísticos son el resultado de la minuciosa rehabilitación de una casa que data de 1666 situada en la calle antiguamente llamada Inferniño de arriba (hoy avenida de Raxoi) junto a la plaza del Obradoiro, en Santiago de Compostela. La actuación ha sido sumamente respetuosa con los elementos catalogados del edificio

Source: Per Kirkeby, The Art of Building. Lars Morell Photography: Jens Lindhe Text: Interview to Per Kirkeby (Book:  Per Kirkeby, The Art of Building. Lars Morell) PK: My wife, Vibeke, rebuilt our farm on Laso. The old stable used to be dark and unpleasant, so she removed everything and made the house transparent. Outside, we sit in the former dunghill, which is the only place with sufficient shelter for us to

Source: Henley Halebrown Photography: Nick Kane The brief from the university sought 210 ensuite student bedrooms. These are accommodated in three separate buildings, the work informed by both the Georgian and Modernist traditions. Each residence employs a distinct plan type; two are domestic villas, the third takes the form of a pinwheel plan. Two are paired around an existing sunken garden. The West Residence

Fuente: Ordine degli Architteti di Milano Fotografía actual: Marta Cassany El proyecto trabaja la reconstrucción de todo el convento, excepto una pequeña parte adherida a la iglesia y a la sacristía. La irregularidad geométrica del solar, la necesidad de construir en continuidad a la arquitectura preexistente y el respeto al contexto, determinan la compleja implantación planimétrica y volumétrica. El esquema es

Fuente: Santa&Cole Fotografía: Iris Humm   Una línea de luz y una fina lámina, en tenue pero eficaz levedad. Equilibrio entre poesía y razón, Lámina es un sistema que defiende las bondades de la luz reflejada con formas sencillas, evidentes, en distintos formatos y pantallas que nada esconden y todo lo muestran.                          

Fuente: Edvard Ravnikar. Architect and Teacher. Ales Vodopivec, Rok Znidarsic. Ed. Springer Wien NewYork. pag 203-215. Edvard Ravnikar (1907-1993) es la figura central de la arquitectura eslovena de la post-guerra. Sus edificios y escritos son un reflejo de la historia del siglo XX. Fue uno de los estudiantes más destacados de Joze Plecnik y trabajó con Le Corbusier en París en 1939. Ravnikar consiguió crear una

Fuente: Europaconcorsi Fotografía: © Simon Menges The ten-storey office building is located in a diversely built area on Moganshan Road near Hangzhou’s tranquil Shuyhan Park. Within this dense context the new building asserts its object-like presence with a clear geometric form. The positioning of the slim building in the middle of the site provides spatial distance to the neighbouring buildings. Placed above st