Source: XDGA Photography: XDGA In the harbour area a narrow stretch of land along a dock is freed from port activities. A very simple ‘chop stick’ urban plan is developed by O.M.A. in which green open pockets alternate with dense construction. In order to offer a notion of centrality to the linear plan, a public path is meant to cross the whole strip. The site for the school faces one green area at its south sid

Source: Cécar Portela Arquitecto EN The project for upgrading two carballeiras located on a bank of the Pontiñas River on the outskirts of the town of Lalín, has provided a spatially favourable occasion to embark upon a process with the objective of building a public place within the natural environment. The design scrupulously respects the existing oak woodland and introduces to it and enriches it with two type

Fuente: TEd’A arquitectes Fotografías: Luis Díaz Díaz Una casa patio adaptada a la topografía del terreno. Esta sería la definición resumida del proyecto. En la definición encontramos dos conceptos: primero, se trata de una casa patio; segundo, es una casa adaptada a la pendiente del terreno. Primero: La casa patio forma parte de la tradición arquitectónica mediterránea. El proyecto no hace más que continu

Source: Michèle ORLIAC y Miquel BATLLE Photography: Michèle ORLIAC y Miquel BATLLE En Francia, los enclaves urbanos de cierta importancia tenían, extramuros, una gran explanada plantada de plátanos, el “Champ de Foire”, donde se organizaba el mercado de ganado. En Treffort, pequeño pueblo de la Región de Bresse situado sobre una colina, su Champ de Foire se sitúa en el encuentro de la colina con la llanura. Este

Source: Roldán + Berengué arqts. Photography: Jordi Surroca, Gael del Río, Roldán + Berengué arqts. El proyecto de rehabilitación de Rambla 124 tiene como objetivo convertir el antiguo Hotel Montecarlo en un edificio comercial, de oficinas y vivienda, poniendo en valor los elementos originales del edificio histórico y adecuándolos a su nuevo uso. La propuesta se define comercialmente como core&shell, una def

Source: McGonigle McGrath Photography: McGonigle McGrath This project is the second of 2 proposed Homes from Home for Clic Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people and their families. The site lies within Queens Conservation Area and comprises a 5 storey Grade B2 Listed townhouse and yard, spanning from College Gardens to Elmwood Mews. The immediate context is of a tall, hands

Source: ,,Sverre Fehn, opera completa” Christian Norberg- Schulz, Gennaro Postiglione Reaching the small town of Skedsmo from the road coming from Oslo, it is almost impossible to see the house which, with its slender wooden pillars, is camouflaged among the dense vegetation that characterizes the area. The pressing rhythm of the wooden structure evokes that of nature, and alludes to the continuity between built

| Bianca Suarez Steckelmacher | 2020| PFC | ETSAB | Profesor: A. Linares, K.Hofert, M. Alonso, O.Pons, M.Costa Lugar para escapar del ruido y movimiento frenético de la ciudad sin necesidad de huir de ella. Conjunto, microcosmos cultural formado por tres elementos que se conectan a través de un primer espacio de abstracción, el Hall. Se sitúa en un emplazamiento céntrico que posee un gran espacio vacío que permi

Photo: Ros Kavanagh  Source: McCullough Mulvin Architects The military archives and storage block are set within the context of the 19th century military barracks close to Dublin City Centre and are separated by a small courtyard. The existing buildings form key edges to the fabric of the barrack streets and ceremonial parade grounds. A new extension has been added to both buildings transforming them into new us

Source: ArchiWeb, ARQA, El Croquis Photography: Oriol Gómez The basis of this proposal is the preservation of a building on the corner of Calle Serra Xic and Plaza Sant Agustí Vell which was to be replaced. Although its exact construction date is unknown, it is almost undoubtedly part of the common typology of old districts, which began with a mud-brick wall structure and later had stone masonry walls added on t

Source: Josep Ferrando Photography: Federico Cairoli La propuesta para el nuevo edificio de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella se presenta como una organización rigurosamente abierta que integra la diversidad del campus en un único sistema espacial y estructural. El predio contiene particulares ritmos y secuencias: por un lado, el gran volumen sobre la Avenida Figueroa Alcorta con su grilla de imponentes columnas

Sources: Cinpoints , Boudardjeansebastien.tumblr, Leucatepourtous, Courtier-et-pret, Pinterest Photography: Arnau Roca Massana The Carrats holiday village, designed by architects Georges Candilis (1913-1995), Georges Wursteisen, Pierre Raoux and Zygmund Knyszewsky, occupies nearly five hectares by the beach, almost at the western end of Port-Leucate For the Candilis team, the Carrats operation becomes a place of

Source: Henley Halebrown Photography: Henley Halebrown Akerman is as much about the street and the city as it is about a building. ‘Those who fear for the future of the NHS will be proud that the Akerman gave its architects a chance to prove that one of the great institutions of the post-Victorian age could create a civic monument at least as imposing as any of its predecessors’ Timothy Brittain-Catlin, 2013 The

Source: David Leech Photography: David Leech  Nos.27A and 27B are the lower and upper ground floor flats within the envelope of a Victorian townhouse at No.27 Belsize Crescent. The two flats are within one ownership but do not have direct internal connection or vertical access. The proposal as granted planning permission seeks to convert the two flats into one 3 bedroom family dwelling, of 130sqm, within the bod