Source: David Chipperfield Architects Photography: Simon Menges The Adolf Würth company is one of the world’s largest retailers of assembly and fastening materials, with its headquarters situated near the town of Künzelsau in southern Germany. The brief called for a large events hall and a smaller hall for chamber music recitals. The complex not only serves the needs of the company but can also be used for external e

Source: David Chipperfield Architects Photography: Simon Menges As a continuation of Friedrich August Stüler’s forum architecture, the James-Simon-Galerie serves as the new entrance building for Museum Island, completing the ensemble between the Kupfergraben canal and the south-west façade of the Neues Museum. Together with the ‘Archaeological Promenade’, it forms the backbone of the masterplan that was developed in

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

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

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