Source and Photography: Various Kay Fisker is one of the most important housing architects in Denmark. The Hornbaekhus is his first housing scheme that has been implemented. Its rational facade is in neo-classicist style. The pleasantly green inner courtyard compensates for the austere appearance of the block. Kay Fisker (1893-1965) Kay Otto Fisker was an architect exponent of a nationally-shaped version of func

Source: Harris + Kurrle architekten bda Photography: Roland Halbe, Stuttgart The new town library is built in the town centre, between the medieval town centre and the Episcopal palace, serving on this prominent site as a new public meeting place. The result is a communicative building in the urban fabric. Communication meaning, on this urban-spatial level, that topics of the environment are recorded, interprete

Idea original y coordinación editorial: Ariadna Perich y Roger Such. (Bajo dirección Cultura ETSAB 2014-2017) Disseño gráfico: Julia Doz y Helena Fradera Fuente: ETSAB Son muchas las voces que han pasado por la Escuela y han dejado una fuerte huella en el pensamiento de generaciones de alumnos y profesores. Este conocimiento, a menudo transmitido y disipado de forma oral, ha contribuido a la construcción de la m

Fuente: unparelld’arquitectes Fotografía: José Hevia Una plaza cuadrada, definida por dos porches y abierta a los campos de fútbol. Este es el centro de la “ciudad deportiva” del Morrot en Olot. Es también la respuesta a las contrariedades entre el uso y el emplazamiento: un polígono industrial y una calle de acceso casi sin aceras. La plaza conecta visualmente con los hechos geográficos natura

Fuente: Bevk Perović, Afasia Fotografía: © miran kambič Apartment building Prule is located on the riverbank of Ljubljanica river, in a protected neighbourhood of urban villas from 1930’s , bordering the centre of Ljubljana. It replaces an older structure, a villa that once stood on the site.  The new project, conceived as a ‘stack’ of 3 large apartments, builds its character on the duality of 2 conditions – tha

Fuente: Boltshauser Architekten Fotografía: Boltshauser Architekten The school pavilion next to the Allenmoos schoolhouse, constructed by Jacob Pardutt in 1958, was originally intended to give way to a new remedial pedagogic school. However, this school was never realized, and the existing pavilion was instead transformed into an attractive pre-school following the plans of Roger Boltshauser. During the renovati

Photography: Simon García (actuality) | others The Glass House is best understood as a pavilion for viewing the surrounding landscape. Invisible from the road, the house sits on a promontory overlooking a pond with views towards the woods beyond. The house is 55 feet long and 33 feet wide, with 1,815 square feet. Each of the four exterior walls is punctuated by a centrally located glass door that opens onto the

| Maria Azkarate + Elisa Vegué | 2018 | 5º curso | ETSAB | Visiting Studio: Tony Fretton + Estel Ortega El proyecto se implanta en el masterplan de la Marina del Prat Vermell (Barcelona) que propone una serie de manzanas cerradas en si mismas con unas fronteras entre público y privado muy marcadas. La intención de nuestra propuesta es romper los bloques para permitir que aparezcan espacios de identidades variada

Source: H arquitectes Photography: Adrià Goula The stone wall that marked out the boundaries of the estate went around the whole site, revealing just the tops of the trees inside. The materiality and the irregularity of the geometry of the wall endowed it with a special character and presence, but the current regulations made it compulsory to extend the width of the street, so preserving the wall was impossible.

source: FIRMA / Thorup + Skov-Carlsen photography: Hampus Berndston Rotunda is situated in the city of Aarhus, Denmark and is a temporary pavilion celebrating the city’s title as European Culture Capital 2017. As part of the headline Rethink Architecture the pavilion is rethinking temporary architecture in relation to social and environmental sustainability. The pavilion is conceived as an installation that refi

Source: Buchner Bründler Architekten Photography: Ruedi Walti, Rory Gardiner Als Olten Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts zum Knotenpunkt des schweizerischen Eisenbahnnetzes wurde, entstanden zahlreiche repräsentative Bauten, die entweder als geschlossene Blockrandbebauung oder Abfolge von Solitären auftreten. Diese Mischform beherrscht das Baufeld an der Schnittstelle Bahnhofstrasse, Amthausquai und Jurastrasse. Neben

Fuente: Ronal Rainer: Das Werk Des Architekten 1927-2003. Ed. Springer-Verlag/Wien – ISBN 3-211-83838-4 Sommerhaus beim Römer-Steinbruch in der pannonischen Landschaft. Aun einem Gefüge langgestreckter, fast fensterloser Mauern aus handwerklich bearbeitetem kalksandstein, unverputzt, durch weinbewachsene Pergolen verbunden kaum als “Haus”, sondern eher wie niedrige Gartenmauern in einer mit Man

Fuente: Bearth & Deplazes Architekten Fotografía: Ralph Feiner, Malans Eight-story slab house in exposed concrete. Borders the town center of Landquart to the north from the open fields of the Bündner Herrschaft and in the south, together with the ensemble of ÖKK’s office building, encloses a courtyard with garden. The condominiums, with loggia on both sides framed by arched openings opening the view into th

Source: Hidden Architecture Photography: Guillaume BXL In 1972, Juliaan Lampens received the commission from Albert Van Wassehove, a professor with interest in art and architecture, to build a house in middle class residential area near Ghent. Lampens started to stand out as an architect after the Brussels Expo of 1958 making a series of projects in concrete with specific references to the architecture of Mies V