Source: Dezeen | afasia Photography: NOSHE photography The new headquarters for Amorepacific, Korea’s largest beauty company, is located in the centre of Seoul at a site which has been occupied by the company since 1956. It is situated next to a former US military zone that is being transformed into the spacious public Yongsan Park and a business district, which was part of a masterplan representing the largest high-

Berlin Neues Museum wins 2011 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award The Neues Museum in Berlin is the winner of the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation announced today. The building is a reconstruction, blending old and new, by UK architect Sir David Chipperfield. The ‘Emerging

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

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

Source: David Chipperfield Architects | afasia Photography: Simon Menges Founded in 1768, the Royal Academy of Arts is the oldest arts institution in Britain. Since 1868 it has been based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, in central London. In 1998 the RA acquired 6 Burlington Gardens, an Italianate building of comparable size located immediately to the north of Burlington House and oriented in the opposite directio

Fuente: David Closes Fotografía: José Hevia El parque, de dimensiones muy modestas, se encuentra situado en el barrio de la Plaza Cataluña, un barrio manresano muy denso, desprovisto de zonas verdes. Con la configuración topográfica planteada y, especialmente, con la ubicación de los elementos más característicos del parque (los umbráculos y las pérgolas) se pretende fragmentar visualmente el parque y singularizarlo.

Fuente: Europaconcorsi, Mies Arch Fotografía: Hufton + Crow The Hepworth Wakefield, named after Barbara Hepworth an artist born in Wakefield in 1903, sits on the bank of the River Calder. With water on two sides and exposed to views from all directions, the site was particularly challenging, making it imperative that the building had no privileged elevation. Constructed from pigmented in-situ concrete, the 5,200m2 bu