Source: Ensamble Studio Photography: Iwan Baan & Ensamble Studio Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives us, as a found space; which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into built work, in Ca’n Terra, the process is inverted and history interpreted to trans

Source: Max Enrich Photography: Meritxell Arjalaguer & Claudia Mauriño Made by the junction of an arch carrying light and a secondary arch behaving as a support, this family of 8 self-standing light structures play with equilibrium and projection of light. The arches are repeated along the series in three different proportions, doubling in size between them. Their disposition in pairs and just by a point of

Source: Beatriz Alés Atelier Photography: José Hevia The historic Tercio y Terol quarter was designed by Rita Fernández Queimadelos and constructed during the 1940s in the Carabanchel area of Madrid. Originally a Francoist social housing project for families of limited means, it is now protected as part of Madrid’s urban heritage. Casa Witiza is one of the 640 terraced houses which comprise the project. It boast

Source: Mae Architects Photography: Rory Gardiner Enhancing the social and leisure offer in the local area, Mæ’s completion of the Sands End Arts and Community Centre in Fulham will be a welcome addition for the local community. Sited beside the Clancarty Lodge in the north western corner of South Park, the centre caters to a wide range of users; providing a café alongside spaces for social and educational funct

Fuente: Enric Rojo Arquitectura Fotografía: Del Rio Bani Estudio Situado en el casco antiguo de Badalona, en un entorno de casas entre medianeras, el edificio se integra en el entorno alejándose de la apariencia de bloque de viviendas -repetitiva y monótona- y acercándose a la aleatoriedad y particularidad de las casas. El edificio pretende ser “una casa más de la calle”. La materialidad de la fachada se asemeja

Text: Janne Ahlin On Djursholm, a small wooden house was built, discreetly set on a south-facing wooded plateau. From there the view over the valley to the south and to the west was beautiful. Lewerentz was rather pleased with the commission which in his modest way he described in the magazine Arkitektur: «The house contains living quarters for the master and mistress of the house, as well as guest rooms and kit

Source: NORRØN Photography: Torben Eskerod The latest addition to Copenhagen-based NORRØN’s body of work is Åstrup Have – a new recreational farmhouse gazing at Haderslev Fjord and built upon the dream of the countryside. Coined around concepts of biodynamic food production, freely grazing animals and farm to table, Åstrup Have evokes the region’s vernacular building tradition and inquisitively reinterpr

  Fuente: Óscar Miguel Ares Fotografías: Ana Amado Castromonte, se ubica en la comarca de Montes Torozos, en la provincia  de Valladolid. Su censo contabiliza 309 habitantes y 106 aerogeneradores. Un municipio tallado en piedra y atravesado por el Camino de Santiago de Madrid, a los pies del río Bajoz. Desde hace años, la despoblación y el paso de los años deja sin sonidos sus calles y el interior de sus vi

Source: Bak Gordon Architects Photography: Francisco Nogueira Built in the vast territory of Alentejo, the house emerges from the figure of an extensive water tank attached to a wall, facing south, as if it was a resonance box of the entire landscape. On the other side of the wall the social spaces and two fresco rooms are kept, places of transition between interior and exterior, considered as foundational for t

Source: Studio Anne Holtrop Photography: Anne Holtrop The Qaysariyah Suq and Amarat Fahkro played an important role in the pearling economy as it hosted coffee shops where some of the pearl purchasing deals took place, as well as the place where wood for building the pearling fleets would be received and stored. For both parts, the renovation of the Amarat Fahkro and the new stores for the Qaysariy suq, we conti

Fuente: unparelld’arquitectes Fotografías: José Hevia Una casa de dos plantas amoldada entre dos palios. Esta es la respuesta al conflicto habitual entre un deseo –disfrutar de los atributos espaciales una vivienda aislada- y el planeamiento –parcelas pequeñas y separación mínima a lindes de 3m-. La posibilidad de instalar elementos ligeros en el espacio no edificable es el resquicio de la ordenanza que se

  Architecture Video Award, un premio independiente para dar reconocimiento a los videos más creativos e innovadores en el ámbito de la arquitectura, la ciudad y el paisajismo a nivel internacional. El Premio tiene un alcance global y está abierto a creadores de video, arquitectos, artistas, fotógrafos o cualquier persona o colectivo cuyo trabajo audiovisual esté relacionado con los ámbitos mencionados prev

Source: Vora Arquitectura Photography: Adrià Goula Partial refurbishment of the Nau Ivanow, an industrial building from the 60’s, which is nowdays an arts center based on scenic arts. The Nau Ivanow is an artistic center (Creation Factory) that focuses its activity mainly on scenic arts. It is an industrial building placed in the neighborhood of La Sagrera, near the train tracks, a former industrial area. The bu

Source: KAAN Photography: Sebastian van Damme De Walvis: an intruder becomes a pleasant neighbour In historical Amsterdam, the office building De Walvis on Bickerseiland has been stripped down to its bones and completely revitalised by KAAN Architecten. The client Maarsen Groep requested a «hip and industrial feel» that would leave everyone in awe and fit with their envisaged future tenants from the advertising,