Fuente: Dierendonckblancke Architects Fotografía: © Filip Dujardin Team: Alexander Dierendonck, Isabelle Blancke, Benoît Streicher, Pierre de Brun, Pieter Mouton, Delphine Van Aerde, Marie Decoene, Sarah Bijtebier, Menelik Jobert Consultants: Boydens – Technical engineering, Daidalos – Peutz – Acoustics, TTAS – Theater technics, Stabec – Structural engineering, Cluster – Landscape d

Fuente: VAV Architects Fotografía: VAV & Stephen Deasy, Eddie Callaghan, Annamaria Corrigan El coffee shop está situado en Main Street, Blackrock Village, Dublin. Dentro de un presupuesto ajustado, nuestro objetivo era encajar las diferentes funciones relacionadas con el café, en un espacio mínimo predeterminado y con limitaciones constructivas. El concepto del diseño trata de explorar y cuestionar la materi

Fuente: Afasia Fotografía: © Jan Bitter This new housing ensemble is based on a concept of urban residence at the heart of the capital. The development is in the form of a semi-public park flanked on three sides by five- to seven-storey housing tracts and open to the street on the fourth side. The park thus forms a point of identification for the residents, while serving as a neighbourhood garden during the day.

Fuente: La Biennale di Venezia Por: Gonzalo Heredia Ya está en marcha la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia 2014, comisariada por Rem Koolhaas, bajo el lema “Fundamentals” que se inaugurará el próximo 7 de Junio. Esta Bienal va a ser la más larga y la que ha necesitado un tiempo de preparación más extenso desde que se inaugurara el certamen en 1980, extendiéndose durante seis meses y habiendo necesitado casi un a

Fuente: Europaconcorsi Fotografía: © Jan Bitter  The Allianz Headquarters is a hybrid-office and the pinnacle of a master planned mixed-use dis- trict on the edge of Zürich’s city center. Comprised of a 20-story tower and a 5-story annex, these two components are externally linked by a series of four bridges, and vertically linked by numerous interior voids and staircases; as such, the Allianz Headquarters can

Fuente: Archdaily Fotografía: Cristobal Palma / Estudio Palma In the middle of a recently populated suburban area which could be anywhere, this house for a couple of engineers and their two children has a square floor plan divided into asymmetrical quadrants that spiral up to a height of four storeys. Four steps (which add 70 cm in height) separate one quadrant from the next. Installed at the intersection of the

Fuente: Europaconcorsi Fotografía: © Roger Frei Paradoxically, the charm of the existing Cinémathèque lay in its simple and utilitarian appear- ance. The home of the national collective film memory presented itself as an unpretentious accumulation of sheds, concerned more about the contents than the packaging. The extension project accepts this starting point and makes it its own. The structure of the existing