Fuente: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Fotografía: Bas Princen House extension The expansion of a 19th century town house in the heart of Ghent resulted in two houses. In the irregular outdoor space alongside the existing ‘winter house’ a ‘summer house’ was marked out by a precise modular frame of steel sections, overgrown with grapevines . A narrow strip of this frame, right against the winter house, was roo

Fuente: David Closes Fotografía: José Hevia  El proyecto tenía que desarrollar una escuela en un solar de pequeñísimas dimensiones: una parcela de unos 630m2 donde se tenía que situar un edificio de unos 700m2 construidos. La parcela, ubicada en el pueblo catalán de Santa Margarida de Montbui, estaba situada al fondo de una pista polideportiva ya existente que se tenia que utilizar como patio de la escuela. El e

Fuente: David Kohn Architects Fotografía: Ioana Marinescu New house, Norfolk 2008-9 The project is conceived as an agglomeration of houses from the scale of an aedicule to that of the landscape. The house is entered through two small brick pavilions built within the ruins of a 19thcentury stable block. Precast concrete aedicules at each door evoke the memories of household Gods and mark the beginning of a sequence of

L’altre dia a l’ETSAB, al mig de la correcció, es va parlar d’aquest complex d’edificis residencials de David Chipperfield. Es va parlar de la relació entre les les peces, i de l’espai públic que aconseguien en els espais intersticials, de la façana construida a partir d’una terrassa que resegueix tot el perímetre i va agafant fondàries diferents, però sobretot varem parlar de la t

Volvemos con otra ‘Semana de’. Esta vez la queremos dedicar a los arquitectos OFFICE Kersten Geers y David Van Severen. A lo largo de esta semana, cada día os iremos mostrando uno de sus proyectos. Os animamos a que la sigáis! *** We come back with another ‘Semana de’ (‘Week of’). This time we want to dedicate it to the architects OFFICE Kersten Geers and David Van Severen. Through

Source: David Chipperfield Architects | afasia Photography: Simon Menges Founded in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts is the oldest arts institution in Britain. Since 1868 it has been based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, in central London. In 1998 the RA acquired 6 Burlington Gardens, an Italianate building of comparable size located immediately to the north of Burlington House and oriented in the opposite directio

Fuente: Afasia Fotografía: © Simon Menges, e-architect The new MBA Building for the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) is located on the school’s campus near the historic Paris suburb of Jouy-en-Josas. The existing 1964 campus consists of a series of pavilions in a wooded landscape. The original design intent had been compromised over the years, resulting in a campus which lacked focus and was in need of a cl