Erskine built his own house near Djupdalen on a piece of ground given by a farmer who also lent his horse and sledge for transporting materials. The present day building is a copy of the original which is the property of the Swedish Architecture museum, it is situated close to Erskine’s present day home on the island Lovö to the west of Stockholm . The building is in principle a single room with dimensions

Source: 6a architects website Photography: Johan Dehlin & 6a architects Blue Mountain School unfolds behind the shimmering silver façade of this corner site on Redchurch Street. In the tradition of house museums, the building is a puzzle of rooms and uses, playing host to a fashion archive, exhibition spaces, a kitchen and wine room, a perfumery, listening spaces and various room sets by international design

AUTOCONSTRUCCIÓN. POR UNA AUTONOMÍA DEL HABITAR (ESCRITOS SOBRE URBANISMO, VIVIENDA, AUTOGESTIÓN Y HOLISMO)                   John F. C. Turner, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, José Luis Oyon, Volker Zimmermann Esta selección de reflexiones de John F. C. Turner quiere acercar al lector en español escritos poco conocidos del arquitecto, textos que abarcan todo su recorrido vit

Source: Buchner Bründler website Photography: Rory Gardiner The residential area in Münchenstein is a quiet and very green place, with the gardens behind single-family houses extending to the railway embankment. The original house of the client, with an interior defined by a traditional closed floor plan, blends into this spatial logic. The desire to make maximum use of the area for open living led to a new cons

Source: Afasia Photography: Jeroen Verrecht The project involves the Belgian artist Stief Desmet’s painting and sculpting studio. On the street side you will find the family home, flanked on the left by a narrow brick garage. On the right side there is a lower studio and studio that no longer meets the expectations of the artist who creates ever larger sculptures. The site is characterized by organically grown b

El Llull convoca un procés de selecció d’un projecte de comissariat per a la participació de Catalunya a la Biennal d’Arquitectura de Venècia 2020 El projecte guanyador d’aquesta convocatòria ha d’aconseguir sobresortir entre les nombroses propostes que es presenten a la Biennal de Venècia, aportant valor al discurs proposat per Biennal des de la singularitat de l’arquitectura catalana, entesa en el seu sentit m

Source: Afasia Photography: Iwan Baan The design for the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion takes roofs, the most common architectural feature, as its point of departure and inspiration. It is reminiscent of roofing tiles seen around the world, bridging both architectural and cultural references through this single architectural feature. The roof of the Pavilion is made by arranging slates to create a canopy that alludes

Open call TRANSFER Architecture Video Award 2019 Application deadline: July 1, 2019 Purpose TRANSFER Global Architecture Platform launch the TRANSFER Architecture Video Award 2019, an independent award to recognise the most creative and innovative short films in the field of architecture, city and landscape worldwide. Video is becoming increasingly instrumental in analysing architecture and the human environment

Source: Edvard Ravnikar. Architect and teacher Photography: Damjan Gale. In times of uncertainty, change of briefs and interests, wavering of opportunities and functional needs, it is difficult to avoid the established working processes that go back to the Renaissance and its tendency towards a static finality. From our practice it still follows that we should look upon a city as a large group of things — object

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Roy Gardiner A New Members’ Room for the Victoria & Albert Museum has opened. Carmody Groarke have converted a magnificent top-lit gallery on the top floor of Aston Webb’s Grade I Listed 1909 wing into a new dedicated space for V&A Members. The design has subtly restored and retained the existing spatial or detail character of the space and where appropriate r

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Christian Richter The new museum will rehouse an internationally significant boat collection on the shores of Windermere in the Lake District National Park. The new building will include exhibition spaces for the display of steam launches, motorboats, yachts and other vessels, telling the stories of their construction and use on the lake. A wet dock will allow the dis

Source: Carmody Groarke website Photography: Johan Dehlin Hill House is one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s most significant works, one of Scotland most acclaimed buildings, and a seminal part of early 20th century European architecture. The building has had huge influence on architecture and design in Scotland, Europe and globally. Built in 1928, 30km west of Glasgow, the unusual hybridisation of tradition and i

Fuente: Ordine degli Architteti di Milano Fotografía actual: Marta Cassany El proyecto trabaja la reconstrucción de todo el convento, excepto una pequeña parte adherida a la iglesia y a la sacristía. La irregularidad geométrica del solar, la necesidad de construir en continuidad a la arquitectura preexistente y el respeto al contexto, determinan la compleja implantación planimétrica y volumétrica. El esquema es

Source: Afasia Photography: Lucas Peters, Andreas Buschmann The existing school building from the 1970s is a very extensive, spatially expansive two-to-three storey volume with 16 classrooms in the centre of Hünenberg. The façade had to be replaced due to its poor condition. The small classrooms needed enlargement to fulfil today’s requirements and were extended to include four new classrooms. To avoid occupying