Source: Døgen/ Pierre Zoelly: Elements of an architect’s language/ Peter Hächler book Photography: © Andreas Fuhrimann & Gabrielle Hächler/ Peter Hächler book The idea of structure mimicking nature. Pierre Zoelly ’s house for the sculptor Peter Hächler is one of several projects designed by the architect referencing naturally occurring forms. A concrete “tree” sits at the core of the house, the branche

Source: Haptic architects Photography: Simon Kennedy Haptic Architects has designed a striking new build development, Rosemoor Studios, near to Sloane Square for Banda Property. Compositionally, the façade reinterprets the townhouses of adjacent Rawlings Street, with a precast stone base providing a distinction between the ground floor and upper storeys, which borrow from the same language of brick walls punctur

Source: La Bienale di Venezia Photography: La Bienale di Venezia, Hic aquitectura An Island To be on an island and then inside a garden, allows a state of being where one’s mind can drift to a peaceful place of reflection. The garden in San Giorgio has a fan structure of walks, starting from Palladio’s Cloister towards the Lagoon. The Morning Chapel is along one of these long paths, and sits right before this wa

Freeing Architecture by Junya Ishigami Exhibition at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 30 / o3 / 10  -  09 /09 / 18 I wish to think about architecture freely; to expand my perspective on architecture as flexibly, broadly, and subtly as possible, beyond the stereotypes of what architecture is considered to be. The society that we live in is gradually changing, accepting an array of values mor

Source: La Biennale di Venezia | Dua Studio Photography: Ary Indra | Andrea Avezzù | Italo Rondinella | Francesco Galli | Jacopo Salvi 16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura – La Biennale di Venezia, FREESPACE Sunyata: The Poetics of Emptiness What if architecture has no form and shape? It will be freed. Emptiness here is comprehended as an active entity; a singularity that functions as a prominent agen

  Límits. Presentación del Libro Mañana martes 12 JUNIO 19h en La Capell, en el COAC. Plaça Nova, 5, Barcelona. Gráfica: Albert Romagosa Disponible en: -Amazon  -La Capell LÍMITS es un libro que agrupa una serie de artículos y entrevistas que reflexionan sobre el concepto de límite urbano. Pere Joan Ravetllat en el primer texto del libro define el límite a partir de la definición que hace Richard Sennett en

Winner of the 2018 Architecture Interiors FAD AWARD Font: TEd’A arquitectes Fotografía: Luis Díaz Díaz i TEd’A arquitectes La intervenció consisteix en la reforma interior d’una edificació existent per a transformar-la en uns petits apartaments turístics. A un solar passant, situat davant la mar, ens trobem una construcció formada per dos cossos: un de planta baixa més u, que mira cap a la mar i que s’acompanya

Proyecto ganador del Premio FAD Internacional 2018 Fuente: Bonell i Gil Fotografía: Lluis Casals El nuevo parlamento del Cantón de Vaud, Lausanne (suiza), diseñado por el estudio de arquitectura Bonell i Gil. En el 2017 se inauguró en Lausana, la nueva sede del parlamento del Cantón de Vaud. El edificio es una obra de los arquitectos catalanes Esteve Bonell y Josep Maria Gil, en colaboración con Marc Collomb. A

Winner of the 2018 International FAD AWARD Source: TEd’A arquitectes Photography: Luis Díaz Díaz and TEd’A arquitectes A FARM SCHOOL (GRANGECOLE) The proposal reads the environment and reinterprets it. The new school is born on the basis of the traditional farm models of this zone. These farms are characterized by a clear structural order that stars the inside, a honest construction and a neutral volume. S

Winner of 2018 FAD AWARDS – Architecture Source: Divisare Photography: José Hevia Design: Carles Oliver, Antonio Martín, Joaquín Moya, Alfonso Reina. The proposal includes the construction of a prototype building and its monitoring with the collaboration of University of the Balearic Islands to verify the correct functioning of the solutions adopted, with the aim of providing contrasted data to the Europea

Source: La Biennale di Venezia Photography: Francesco Galli, Maria Azkarate PARTICIPANT: Architecture wants to be an architecture of relationships. Relationships arise through a closeness to people and things. In understanding them, the essential questions of architecture  are answered: the approach to topography, construction and material, the meaning and value of building types and their hierarchies. Beyond th

Source: Per Kirkeby, The Art of Building. Lars Morell Photographs: Jens Lindhe Text: Artnet Per Kirkeby is a Danish artist whose interest in geology and natural environments exerted great influence over his paintings and brick sculptures. Entrenched in the conceptual understanding of structures, Kirkeby worked within specific parameters to contain the urgency of mark making. “A structure-less painting is, to me,

Source: David Sebastian Photography: Adrià Goula | Jordi Salinas Selected FAD Arquitectura 2018 Summerhouse for 3 famílies in a small village in Teruel. A place to shelter from August heat, built with a very low budget and in different phases. With the architect always on site. A “slow cooked” project built over THREE SPRINGTIMES. Built on what was a hay barn, the old stone walls and wood beams have been salvage

Source: La Biennale di Venezia Participants: Kieran Long ; Johan Örn; James Taylor Foster with ArkDes; Petra Gripp; Mikael Olsson Photography: Alex Clarà (1st to 15th), Italo Rondinella (16th to 18th), Petra Gipp (19th), Mikael Olsson (20th), Laurian Ghinitoiu (21st to 24th) Participant Freestanding presents three canopies from three Sigurd Lewerentz’s (1885-1975) most significant sacred buildings: the Res