Fuente: Christ & Gantenbein, dezeen The Swiss National Museum is expanded and thus enabled to show changing exhibitions dedicated to recent Swiss history. The concrete walls of the new building form a bridge that closes the U-shaped existing building and proposes a new path within the museum. The roof landscape of the extension clearly refers to the wild pitched-roofs composition of the original. The extensi

Source: Bearth & Deplazes Photography: Ralph Feiner, Malans Williman-Lötscher House, Sevgein, 1998 A house with lots of different rooms – a kind of “labyrinthine mousehole” – was what this family of four wanted. The result is a tower-like arrangement of rooms offset at each half-storey and following the slope of the land. Situated in a small woodland clearing on the edge of the village of Sevgein, the house

Source: 6a architects Photography: Johan Dehlin The concrete framed structure of this apartment building adjusts to its irregularly shaped corner plot. Exposed beams and columns support lime-washed interiors and a scratched stucco facade forms an abstract expression to the street.                             Location: London

Fuente: Hidden Architecture Housing Develpoment at Giudecca Island Giudecca Island, Venezia, Italy. 1984-1986 Architect: Gino Valle “Al ambiente se ha contrapuesto el monumento; el monumento, además de que está históricamente determinado, tiene una realidad propia y analizable. Podemos, por otra parte, proponernos construir monumentos; pero como se ha observado anteriormente, para hacerlo necesitamos una a

  Source: Bearth & Deplazes Photography: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti The antithesis to a house on a slope: one in a cavern, or better yet: a house in a fortified cavern, which is more of a reinforcement of the steep vineyard, a type of primal architecture or architectural archaeology. The entrance: an opening in the vineyard’s quarry-stone retaining wall, a stairway to the open terrace—pure outdoor space with a view

Fuente: Cuadernos de Arquitectura, N.54, 1963, p.5-9 Fotografía: Stefano Carlo Ascione Escorial 50, Barcelona | Mitjans, Perpiñá, Ribas, Bohigas, Martorell y Alemany | localización La manzana queda delimitada por cuatro vías, la más importante de las cuales es la calle Escorial que atraviesa en dirección SE/NO un extremo de Gracia, antiguo municipio de calles estrechas con casas de 4 ó 5 plantas y plazuelas arbo

Fuente: Bearth & Deplazes Architekten Fotografía: Ralph Feiner The narrow lot is developed with maximum cubature and utilization: on the very top, the living space with a view of the Rhine valley and the Drei Schwestern mountain range. The sleeping quarters are retracted, cross-shaped reduced to the private spaces. The ground floor, open, resting on pillars, is entrance, terrace, and garden in one. Far below

  Source: Bearth & Deplazes Photography: Ralph Feiner, Malans Of­fice build­ings of an in­sur­ance com­pany. Ori­ented to­wards the pub­lic in terms of ex­pres­sion and of­fer; with res­taur­ant, aud­it­or­ium, and front square. In­teg­ral, noble shell-con­struc­tion concept: facade frame and in­terior walls in ex­posed con­crete as load-bear­ing walls, max­imum per­for­a­tion with arched open­ings – th

Fuente & fotografía: Marià Castelló Bosc d’en Pep Ferrer es el topónimo tradicional de una parcela de gran extensión ubicada junto a la playa de Migjorn, en la costa Sur de la isla de Formentera. En ella hay una lugar que desata el deseo de habitar una onírica panorámica donde el horizonte solo queda recortado por la bella silueta de la Torre des Pi des Català, erigida en 1763. El proyecto se gesta en la dua

Andrea Deplazes. Construir La Arquitectura. Del material en bruto al edificio. Un manual. Ed. Gustavo Gili Fuente: Editorial Gustavo Gili Amazon Eupalinos GG Este libro es un innovador tratado de construcción que, partiendo de la premisa de que proyectar y construir forman una unidad inseparable, aborda las diferentes ramas del conocimiento constructivo tanto desde la vertiente técnica como desde la compositiva

Fuente: Bearth & Deplazes Fotografía: Ralph Feiner Gallery of contemporary art, Marktoberdorf, Germany, 1998–2001 Two cube-like volumes and a walled forecourt constitute this gallery of contemporary art. They mediate between the public space in front of the town hall and the private sculpture garden behind the gallery, where the building housing the Dr Geiger foundation is also located. The urbanistic situat

Fuente: Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Architectural History Foundation.                       ISBN: 0-262-11130-6 “The program was simple. Space was needed for about 800,000 books, exhibition areas, staff offices, and a reading room. The program could have been satisfied by a one-story building above ground to be used for exhibitions, reading rooms, and offices, with the books stored undergr

Fuente: aixopluc Fotografía: José Hevia El encargo consistía en añadir seis aulas, un comedor y una biblioteca a la escuela existente, pro-yectada a mediados de los setenta por MBM (Martorell Bohigas Mackay). Nuestro objetivo es diseñar hábitats de aprendizaje interiores y al aire libre, que regalen experiencias estimulantes, ricas y compartidas a los niños que la pueblan. Las aulas se transforman en un soporte

Source: Architekturbüro Garrigues Maurer GmbH Photography: Ariel Huber, Rasmus Norlander Located not far from the center of Basel, directly at the border to Germany, close to the Rhine lies Switzerland’s biggest cemetery. The so called Hörnli is a place of mourning and devotion, which at the same time is a sensitive and precisely cultivated garden. It is placed on the border in an ambiguous sense. Likewise, it i