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

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: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: © Bas Princen The center of Brussels has a periphery inside. A piece of landscape, green, open, idyllic, as if it were on the fringes of the city (where it touches the forest) is to be found in the midst of it. This particular condition is easy to destroy. In order to double the surface of a seemingly freestanding house in this strangely lush environment, it

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

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

Fuente: Afasia Fotografía: © David Chipperfield Architects The west bank of Lake Garda is characterised by its mild climate and richly cultivated landscape. David Chipperfield Architects has built two villas on the hillside looking over the resort town of Gardone Riviera. Both buildings are carefully inserted into the landscape with its olive groves and cypress trees. Their volumes are divided into individual one or

Fuente: Arquine, Metalocus Fotografía: Michel Jean Philippe, Castelán Foglia El sitio destinado para la nueva Fundación/Colección Jumex en Polanco está acotado por la avenida Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, las vías que integran el Parque Lineal en la calle Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca y Plaza Carso. A un costado del Teatro Cervantes (Ensamble Studio) y el Museo Soumaya (FR-EE) se erige el reciento cultural desplantado so