Source: Tham & Videgard Photography: Lindman The site is located on the south western coast of Sweden in an old agricultural area gently sloping down towards the sea. In the midst of a vast and open cultivated landscape, this plot constitute an exception as it is planted with many different trees and flowering bushes, lending it the character of a small botanic garden. The big trees stand close together and

Source: Studio MK27 | Wallpaper | Squircle Capital | Francesc Macià, 10 Photograhpy: Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen Inside a former 1960s office block, three floors above Barcelona’s bustling Plaça de Francesc Macia, the Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27, is inspecting the perfectly executed details of his newly finished residential design, Francesc Macia 10. Kogan and his team, headed by directors Diana Rad

ource: Alfredo Payá This house is an exercise in blending with the landscape. It is set on a sequence of stepped agricultural terraces backed by an intense pine forest. Built in local stone, the walls that retain these terraces bear witness to the determined effort by successive generations of farmers to win back land from the mountainside. Architectural evidence suggest that ruins rural architecture has prehist

Fuente: Subtilitas Photography:  Georg Aerni Según el Genius Loci, los edificios de “clase alta” con una “vestido” diferente y un tejado de gran poder iconográfico caracterizan. La parte principal del programa de la sala se organiza en un edificio de 3 plantas. En la planta baja, Horte, el jardín de infantes y la biblioteca se agrupan alrededor de un vestíbulo atravesado en longitud. Las clases están organizadas

Chiharu Shiota (2017). Photo: Sunhi Mang © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2017 and the artist Texto: culturacolectiva.com Chiharu Shiota es una artista especializada en la realización de performances e instalaciones. Es conocida por la creación de obras que llenan espacios vacíos y por lo que ella llama: ambientes poéticos, monumentales y delicados. La obra de Shiota trata sobre la memoria y el olvido, los sueños, las hue

Gráfica: Albert Romagosa Disponible en: -Amazon  –La Capell LÍMITS es un libro que agrupa una serie de artículos y entrevistas que reflexionan sobre el concepto de límite urbano. Pere Joan Ravetllat en el primer texto del libro define el límite a partir de la definición que hace Richard Sennett en su libro “Borders and Boundaries”, en el que lejos de entender ese concepto como una muralla infranqueable tal y com

Source: Subtilitas | Tham & Videgård Photography:  Åke E:son Lindman Two six storey housing blocks located on the quayside in central Jönköping, Sweden. An outer layer of balconies provide all apartments with outdoor spaces. A screen of aluminium trellis diffuses the light and creates a buffer zone between inside and outside. Starting with a low-energy, long-term sustainable perspective, this project set out

Fuente: Hidden Architecture Barcelona, 1923 Arquitecto: Josep Maria Jujol En 1922 el contratista Evelí Planells encargó un proyecto para una casa unifamiliar en un solar que había comprado en la Gran Vía-Diagonal, en la esquina de la calle Sicilia. El primer proyecto era una casa con un jardín para un médico que tenía su quirófano en la planta baja. La casa iba a ser construida en tres niveles más un ático-loft

Source: Divisare | Ernesto Pereira Photography:  João Morgado Looking at this project, it is indeed the sensations we experience that leave their mark as we think, walk and live through it. This project was clearly inspired by the place, a piece of land surrounded by chestnut trees, incredibly ripped into the mountain, flanked by a stream that flows down the hillside and a magnificent open view of the other side

Fuente: Aldo van Eyck – Works, Ed. Vincent Ligtelijn. Páginas 134-141. ISBN 3 7643 6012 7. Sonsbeek Exhibition, Arnhem 1965-66 Rietveld, who made the previous pavilion on the same spot, must have approached the problem quite differently, judging from the structure which stood there – frail and weightless – twelve years ago. It was a beautiful thing in an uncontroversial way and widely appreciated for it; a fairy

Por Carlos Garmendia Fernández Fotografía: Pedro Pegenaute No sé vosotros pero yo ya estoy cansado de proyectos de interiorismo de papel maché, de bares y restaurantes que, en algún momento del camino, confundieron la sinceridad constructiva, el reciclaje y el respeto por lo preexistente con los fuegos de artificio. Estoy cansado de comercios que esconden una idea inexistente mediante capas y capas de estampado,

Fuente: San Rocco Book of Copies is a database comprised of images that may be copied in order to produce architecture. As such, Book of Copies is a receptacle of a collective form of knowledge that we can provisionally call “architecture”. Book of Copies is organized according to a precise set of rules and is produced by a multitude of producers. Book of Copies is based on an inherently derivative and collectiv

Source: Igual&Guggenheim Photography: ajshdjahsdhkas The estate is intended for the delicate and historically significant village centre of Mühlau, Switzerland. The loose, compartmentalized development is laid out with seven point blocks that are offset in a marquetry-like pattern. The positioning and proportions of the new buildings have been interpreted and developed from an analysis of Mühlau’s existing,

Source: Jean Paul Architects Photography: David Grandorge A housing development that gives a Swiss twist to the classic London terrace model. Ellie Duffy reports on a new residential project by Jaccaud Zein Architects that provides a welcome rethink of what defines a house or a flat – and even a possible exemplar for shaking up the tired models of the UK’s volume house building market to better reflect the chang