| Ignasi Sarria i Alex Pleisch | 2018 | Autumn Semester | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio  | Professor: Jonathan Sergison Zúrich, actualmente afectada por el rápido aumento de población, prevé que sobre el 2040 ascienda de 400.000 habitantes a 680.000. Bajo el voto de la población se ha decidido actuar dentro de los actuales límites con el objetivo de obtener una ciudad más densa y compacta.

Source: Inches Geleta Architetti  Photography: Simone Bossi MeCri Museum began with the dream of a 80 year old woman to realize a museum in memory of her father Aldo Crivelli, who was a famous archaeologist and painter of the southern Swiss region of Ticino, and her daughter that passed away at a very young age. The idea was to refurbish an existing building in her beloved old town of Minusio and convert it into

Disponible online en La Capell Publicada ininterrumpidamente desde 1944, QUADERNS ha ofrecido una visión crítica y de referencia de la arquitectura catalana e internacional. Con la voluntad de garantizar la continuidad de la revista y darle un nuevo impulso inicia una nueva etapa en la que cada número de la revista tendrá un equipo editor específico. La periodicidad de la revista será semestral (primavera, otoño

Source: 51N4E  Photography: Blerta Kambo / Filip Dujardin This project for the restructuring of Skanderbeg Square is the result of an international architecture competition won by 51N4E in 2008. The competition’s proposal, conceived in collaboration with Albanian artist Anri Sala, reorganizes Tirana’s central square, a vast ex-communist space, in a simple yet radical way. In a complex and dense urban context, on

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Source: Whitherford Watson Mann Architects Photography: Hélène Binet, Manuela Barczewski, David Grandorge, Ian Fussell, Yannick Guillen, George Massoud Nevill Holt Opera – Witherford Watson Mann Architects The brief was to design a permanent festival theatre for opera in the yard of 17th– and 19th-Century stable block, replacing a temporary scaffold and canvas theatre. We were asked for a 375 – 400 seat au

Fuente: 6a architects | Afasia Across a long and narrow plot in West London, 6a architects has designed a series of three buildings and gardens for photographer Juergen Teller. With few views out, daylight comes through concrete beams that march the length of the site and support north lights in the roof or from the gardens that separate the buildings. Poured concrete external walls mesh the new building into th

Source: BAST Photography: BAST construction of fences integrating a semi underground dependency in bottom of parcel: housing / workshop and buanderie _masonry fence defining a semi-buried outbuilding at the bottom of a plot: room / workshop and cellar cast-in-place concrete casing, high concrete slab floor, galvanized steel half-girder frame, galvanized steel deck and ceiling, wood wool insulation, 37.5 mm monom

| Rafael Martínez Sarrión | 2016 | PFC | ETSAV (Valencia) | Profesores: Salvador J. Sanchís, Clara E. Mejía y Jorge Torres “El verdadero constructor, el arquitecto, puede construirnos los edificios más útiles porque conoce todo lo relativo a los volúmenes. De hecho, puede crear una cajita mágica que contenga todo lo que vuestro corazón pueda desear. Escenarios y actores materializan el momento en el que la cajit

Source: KAAN Photography: Fernando Guerra| FG+SG, Sebastian van Damme Robust and elegant, while essentially open in character, ISMO building is distinguished by a harmonic coexistence of nature and scientific research. It unites two architecturally expressed realms, housing theoretical and practical research, into a single entity. While the laboratories are situated along the north-facing side of the building be

  Source: Muoto Photography: Maxime Delvaux | Holcim Award The project is a public facility, situated on the new campus of Paris-Saclay. The building hosts a mix of activities including indoor and outdoor sports facilities, a restaurant, cafeteria, and various public spaces: a pedestrian square, street terraces, park areas for deliveries, bikes and cars. The building is organised vertically with its differe

Source: studio muoto / afasia Photography: studio muoto / afasia The project responds to the challenge of combining three different programs along Rue Stendhal in Paris : social housing, nursery and emergency centre. The organization of the building allows all three programs to coexist peacefully and take advantage of the unique features of the site such as: privacy, natural lighting in the nursery, independence

  Source: architects Henley/ archdaily Photography: architects Henley/  archdaily London’s first co-housing scheme consists of six homes. The architecture supports an “intentional” community and, with it’s shared facilities, heralds radical changes in the urban home. It shows how architecture can respond to a new social need that has arisen through changes in both lifestyles and economics, making home owner

Fuente: Santa & Cole Venta online : La Capell  (por la compra de una Tatu, te llevas de regalo unas pinzas para hielo Tong, que André Ricard diseñó en 1964) El tatu,  o  armadillo,  es  un  simpático  mamífero  provisto  con  un  caparazón  dorsal  que  le  defiende cuando  se  recoge  sobre  sí  mismo.  En  un  vuelo transoceánico,  entre  la  lectura  sobre  la  fauna  argentina  y  la  meditación  sobre