Source: Dominique Coulon & associés Schiltigheim is the third largest town in the Bas-Rhin département (eastern France) in terms of population, and is the most densely populated town in the Strasbourg metropolis. It developed in the nineteenth century, centred on brewing and related industrial activities. These activities declined in the late twentieth century, leaving much industrial land lying waste. The r

E2A Architecture. Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert Hatje Cantz Available online at La Capell This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert see their work as an interpretation of contemporary living conditions. In today@2019s context, expectations, experiences, and ambitions characterize places and clash with reality. The incompatible becomes the platform o

Source : afasia Photography by Helène Binet, Georg Aerni and Kuster Frey This project won first prize in the invited competition for a 30,000sq m mixed use building of commercial space and housing. The project is located on a key site within the masterplan for the redevelopment of former railway land on the south side of Zurich Hauptbahnhof by the SBB (Swiss National Railways). The project is one of several larg

Source : afasia Photo : assemble + aj Assemble were commissioned by Goldsmiths, University of London, to create a new public art gallery within the Grade II listed former Victorian bathhouse at Laurie Grove, New Cross. The 1000m2 building accommodates seven new gallery spaces, a café, curators’ studio and event space. As a critical testing ground for exploration and discussion, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary

Source: archipicture  | The Architecture of Peter Celsing. Wilfried Wang. Pb. Internos Books. After an architectural competition in 1952, the Swedish architect Peter Celsing was commissioned to build the Härlanda church. The competition design was highly praised by the jury members. After some planning adjustments, the ground-breaking ceremony took place on October 31, 1956. The opening of the church was celebra

| Eugenio Cappuccio | 2018 | Diploma year 1 | Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow | Professor: Mark Baines Food is the most universal and accessible of cultural manifestations, as we all need to eat to live. Like dialect and architecture, food traditions are a main component in the intricate and impulsive system that joins culture and geography into regional character. The proposal is a building that cele

fuente: muller van severen texto: Jonathan Barrie With both Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen being artists, it’s natural that the collection sits somewhere between design and art – it’s obviously ‘furniture’ but the emphasis is not completely concentrated on function and suggests different ways of living and use of space… an uncanny twist on universal forms. Fien Muller’s photography is suggestive of someone w

Source: afasia Photography: Mikael Olsson Brf Solsidan is a unique housing project at Brunstorp in the northern part of Huskvarna, right on the waterfront of Vättern. The building, with its three main parts, is located in the relatively new residential area between Vättern in the west and Sweden’s most beautiful part of the E4 in the east. Today there are a number of chain houses and punk houses in the same loca

  Fuente: RICARDO BOFILL. TALLER DE ARQUITECTURA. Edificios y Proyectos 1960-1985, Ed. Gustavo Gili. Páginas 23-25. Fotografía: Oriol Gómez Este edificio de siete plantas de altura se levanta en un barrio típicamente residencial de Barcelona. Tiene dos accesos diferenciados que se abren respectivamente a las calles Juan Sebastián Bach y Maestro Pérez Cabrero; la curvatura de la fachada ayuda a definir la forma c

Source: + az awards Photography: Pedro Pegenaute The chapel is a feature building within the larger Village zone. As such, it occupies a prime location visible from the main road and along the waterfront. Its architectural language is derived from similar elements found elsewhere in the project, such as the undulating brick walls and floating white volume—but they are here, taken to another level of articulation

| Jack Huang | 2016 | Master Course | TU Wien  | Professor: Ines Nizic The Kulturhaus, to me, is an institution of man; as it holds the aspiration of man. Culture exists through people, different people, new and old. It requires a simple unified space, a concentrated space; where men relives, reinterpret, and creates culture. Friedrichshafen, like the other ports, share the lake, Bodensee. They also share the sa

Source : afasia Photograph by Johan Dehlin 6a architects has completed the conversion and restoration of the oldest surviving purpose-built fire station in London, now an annexe to the South London Gallery. The project is the latest in a series of projects for the SLG, following the initial works to the main gallery site in 2010, and the Orozco Garden in 2016.               &nb

Adolphe Appia, (1862-1928) was a Swiss architect, stage designer and theorist of stage lighting and décor. His theories and realized works transformed the practice of stage design and he had a great influence on the development of performing arts. His sets and his drawings didn’t look for pictorial realism, their intent was rather to create and underline a believable mood for each scene. Symbols and metaphors pr

Fuente: Pereda Pérez arquitectos Fotografías: Pedro Pegenaute Texto: Mario Galiana Liras Cuando me propusieron escribir una pequeña descripción o introducción a esta obra en Pamplona de Carlos y Oscar, me sentí tremendamente halagado, no solo por el hecho en si mismo, de escribir sobre una obra que considero magnífica, sino por la posibilidad de poder acercarme de manera algo mas íntima a la manera de mirar de l