Source: Knut Hjeltnes Photography: Rickard Riesenfeld The house is introvert due to the site being without much view, instead turning the attention towards the six small atriums (some covered), a beautiful pine tree and a shallow forest of maple and birch. Walls and floors are brick constructions while the roof is massive wood. The house won the Bærum municipality’s architecture award in 2014, and in 2015

Fuente: TEd’A arquitectes “Quero ser velho, de novo eterno, quero ser novo de novo.” Gilberto Gil y Caetano Veloso … El Toro is a new development, built on the eve of the Majorca tourist boom. The estate sits on the cliffs of Ses Penyes Rotges, in Calvià. The main streets run north-south, delimiting the variably sized rectangular plots. The house is on an 800 m2 plot, roughly 20 x 40 m, facing east-west. T

WICONA > Campus Airbus de Estudio Lamela Estudio Lamela proyecta con WICONA el Campus Airbus “Futura” en Madrid Las fachadas modulares WICTEC EL EVO y WICTEC 50 han sido los sistemas WICONA empleados La nueva sede corporativa de Airbus en España, Campus Airbus “Futura”, ubicado en Getafe (Madrid), proyectado por el prestigioso Estudio Lamela, tiene entre sus principales objetivos el de convertirse en un lugar

Source: Studio Anne Holtrop Photography: Anne Holtrop The buildings floor plan consists of two identical sized rooms and a core in between. The plan is very shallow in depth and has one long main facade with two short end facades. With the shallow depth of the plan, the facade itself is the main spatial element. The facade is made out of sand casted structural wall elements with a strong relief. The elements are

Source: BLAF architecten Photography: Stijn Bollaert Text: Architecture has an influence on nature, and nature has an influence on our architecture. Art also influences our architecture. A sculpture forms the basis of this residential volume. In our quest for buildability, affordability, circular, energetic and economic efficiency, we allow ourselves to be guided by geometric abstraction. Circle and square becom

Source: Sergison Bates architects Photography: David Grandorge The project involves the redevelopment of a former Engineering works used to process sheet metal, close to Lavender Hill, Clapham. The complex infill site, which is embedded within a residential urban block, has been transformed into a residential development of nine dwellings arranged around a communal garden and accessed via an existing cobbled mew

Fotografía: Oriol Gómez Texto: Karl Flieg Debido al gran número de encargos, la oficina necesitaba más espacio para trabajar. El edificio se encuentra a pocos pasos de la propia casa de Aalto, donde se encontraba su oficina anteriormente. El tratamiento en blanco, como si fuera un muro y cerrado la masa del edificio hacia el exterior, esconde un jardín con forma de anfiteatro en su patio interior. El personal de

Source: David Chipperfield Architects Photo: Simon Menges The refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, an icon of twentieth-century architecture, is now complete. In a digital ceremony on 29 April, the keys were handed over to the clients – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). Designed by Ludwig Mies van der

  source: lenschow & pihlmann photos: © hampus berndtson Fanø’s longhouse has been the inspiration for a new single-family house on Fanø an Island in the Wadden Sea. The typology is characterised by its elongated shape where the barn and habitation were traditionally placed under a continuous roof. To protect against the harsh west winds of the island, they are oriented from east to west. They are

Source : KAAN Photo : Fernando Guerra FG+SG The distinguished and welcoming new building of the Amsterdam courthouse has begun operation, replacing the old complex on Parnassusweg in Amsterdam. The first sessions take place here on Monday the 3rd of May. This scintillating and functional building in the Zuidas area was designed and built by the consortium NACH (New Amsterdam Court House) at the behest of the Cen

Source: Trazia Arquitectura Photo: milena villalba The building is a two storeys townhouse dated on Barroco period when it was a Dominican convent. It is placed in a rectangular plot of 16 x 45 m approximately and includes a backyard. During the time of the confiscation it became a private residence. The most renowned occupant was Ms. Dolores Ayota Olcina. that belonged to an oil trader family which was able to

Source: Buchner Bründler Architekten Photography: Rory Gardiner Not far from the Spalentor, a narrow path leads into a park-like courtyard shielded from the street. In its rear part, a carriage house was built around 1880 in addition to the villa located on the property. The service building was separated by a massive Quarrystone wall into a utility area with stables, carriage room and hayloft and a living area

Fuente : Vora Arquitectura Fotografía : Adrià Goula Extensión de la urbanización de los entornos del Born en dos tramos de la calle Comerç, hasta la calle Princesa por un lado y hasta la avenida Marquès de l’Argentera por el otro. Esta extensión se plantea desde la continuidad material y al mismo tiempo desde el contraste de carácter, intencionadamente doméstico. La calle Comerç hace de frontera entre dos tejido

Source : Atelier Kempe Thill Photography: ULRICH SCHWARZ HIGH-DENSITY LOW-RISE Towards high-density low-rise This project is in its core a typological experiment: a maximum of individual homes with private gardens on a relatively small urban plot; a model for the development of more compact settlements with a density of approx. 40 houses per hectare. It aims to offer an alternative to living on the periphery of