Source: Collectief Noord Photography: Filip Dujardin & Collectief Noord A house-sized plot in the bourgeois 19th century urban fabric of Antwerp is the site for an extension of an existing school within the city block. The opened up ground level and the generous facade define the unambiguous public character of the school. The building is composed of large urban fragments: a scaled bay window in the s

Fuente: BB Construmat Las zonas comunes de BBConstrumat, obra del estudio de arquitectura Josep Ferrando El prestigioso estudio de arquitectura Josep Ferrando será el responsable de diseñar los espacios temáticos sobre los que se articulará la oferta de la próxima edición de Barcelona Building Construmat, el Salón Internacional de la Construcción de Fira de Barcelona. Así, Josep Ferrando dará forma a los espacio

Source: Arrhov Frick Photography: Mikael Olsson Hammarby gård – Hus 2 is one of seven houses within the residential block, HG7, in Hammarby, Stockholm. Primarily longitudinal, one face of the building absorbs the morning sun, while the opposite, captures the evening sun. Early conceptualization of the project idealized each apartment to span between both faces, permitting sunlight exposure throughout the day. Th

Source: 51N4E Photography: Filip Dujardin & Stefano Graziani The tower is part of the ambitious new master plan for the city, which converges around ten towers. The main program of the tower consists of office and housing program. Shopping and restaurant facilities are located in the base and at the top of the building. Our first investigation was to resolve the dilemma of elegance – a clear ambition stated

Source: Architecture and Urbanism a+u 564. Bernt Nyberg. Working with landscape architect Per Friberg, Nyberg made the normal extraordinary. His low-slung composition of three black volumes stretches into the landscape, with exquisite detailing and surprisingly simple plan based entirely on the repetition of a square grid. Of the admittedly banal plan, the architect stated “It is in the execution where richness

Source: Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten Photography: Helène Binet In this house, a twenty unit low rent apartment building set in the remains of a garden city, the shape of the building and its plan are strangely at odds with each other. The building’s polygonal shape consists of a series of planes that create a kind of demarcation line, enforcing and responding to different spatial qualities of the site. Its pl

Source: Arrhov Frick Photography: Mikael Olsson Atelier Lapidus was conceived as a summer house for a writer and his family. The design process began with a series of ambitions: a small and flexible structure placed in the forest, open facades with direct connection to nature, a pool as a lake, and a writing desk facing the evening sun. The decision to create a clear and minimal structure allowed the house to be

Source: Dorte Mandrup Architekter Photography: Torben Eskerod Nicknamed “The Crystal” because of its semitranslucent “skin” made out of polycarbonate that allows for the inner light to escape into the dark Copenhagen night, The Crystal has become somewhat of a local landmark. Flexibility and coherency are other keywords regarding The Crystal. The inner landscape is painted green, which creates a coherency that a

Source: Henley Halebrown Photography: Nick Kane, Jim Stephenson & Peter Landers Kings Crescent Estate represents an alternative model to large-scale estate regeneration, demolition and rebuild. It responds to an ambitious brief from Hackney Council; to create a high-quality, tenure blind housing scheme, integrating rejuvenated existing social housing and new buildings within a transformative public realm, in

Source: Bruther Photography: Julien Hourcade, Maxime Delvaux, Marvin Leuvrey, Salem Mostefaoui Located on the southern edge of the majestic park of the Cité Universitaire, the “Maison Julie-Victoire Daubié” (home of a residence for young researchers) has the privilege of enriching one of the capital’s most beautiful collections of modern architecture. Building in a park, without apparent common ownership,

¡Este Sant Jordi llega cargado de libros y arquitectura! Des de HIC -y junto a nuestros compañeros de La Capell- queremos compartir nuestra selección de 5 libros y revistas. – El Croquis n. 192. 6a architects 2009-2017 – Limits. Habitatge i Ciutat – Construir y habitar | Richard Sennet – Architecture and Construction Details | David Chipperfield Architects – El Croquis Enric Miralle

Lluis Clotet Premio Nacional de Arquitectura 2010 Editado por el Ministerio de Fomento. Gobierno de España. Texto por Jordi Badia Amazon Eupalinos Lluis Clotet me parece uno de los arquitectos más interesantes de la arquitectura catalana reciente. Coincidió con Oscar Tusquets en el estudio de Federico Correa y Alfonso Milà en el año 1961 y junto a Pep Bonet y Cristian Cirici fundaron el studio PER. Sus primeras

  Texto por Jordi Badia TED’A Esta es probablemente la primera monografía de un estudio que seguimos y publicamos en este blog desde hace tiempo con gran interés. La arquitectura de Ted’A utiliza materiales y técnicas populares del lugar. Materiales nobles como la piedra de Marés, el hormigón, la madera, etc que se han utilizado durante siglos en Mallorca, pero que ellos utilizan de una manera nueva otorgán

The book Atelier 25/35A joins up forty student projects developed during four semesters in the studio Florian Stanciu, at Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, between 2014-2016 and edited by Oana Grămadă and Cezara Lorenț. Forty projects have been redrawn, redistributed and put under another light in order to better show what is at stake in the studio: regaining the irreductibility of th