Source: Selgascano Photography: Iwan Baan The new Second Home in Hollywood, holLA, is a collection of several recipes and ingredients of a California Cocktail. HolLA lays in East Hollywood on a 90,800 square feet site with two existing buildings, of which we have to maintain one with two floors, designed in 1964 by Paul Williams, the first recognized African-American architect working in Los Angeles. This buildi

Fuente: Josep Ferrando Architecture Fotografía: © Federico Cairoli Un recinto y un porche Una tapia de ladrillo abriga y garantiza la seguridad necesaria en un solar de 30x24m. El recinto se expresa en tres de sus lados con el grosor del propio material, y en el cuarto se ensancha para ubicar en 6m los espacios servidores (quincho, estacionamiento y servicio), liberando un espacio ajardinado de 24x24m. Un porche

Fuente: Bajet Giramé Housing in Polinyà. Competition entry. Two irregular pentagons enhance garden city qualities and landscape permeability, while providing a generous corner for each apartment. This way, rather than a narrow “ring garden” as expected by planning, quality exterior space is offered for habitation delight.        

Source: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen Photography: Bas Princen A crematorium is an important public building. It has, however, a conflicted attitude towards self-expression, torn between its technical content and its ceremonial character. To overcome this, we designed the building as a big inclined table, of which the roof – as a ‘nature morte’, developed together with the artist Richard Venlet – is the

The London Design District in the Greenwich Peninsula is a new one-hectare neighbourhood of 16 buildings that will provide a permanent base for creative businesses to trade, interact and grow. Eight emerging architectural practices selected across Europe have been given a pair of buildings to design independently and ‘blind’ from each other, creating a provocative diversity of colours and forms. The

Fuente: TWO BO Arquitectura Fotografía: José Hevia La casa se ubica en un viejo asentamiento pesquero del noroeste de la isla de Mallorca, tocando la Serra de la Tramontana. Un lugar donde confluyen cuatro calas de aguas claras dominadas por el perfil rocoso del “Cavall Bernat”. Una figura inconfundible que ya desde hace un siglo atrajo a pintores a establecerse aquí, les siguieron turistas extranjeros con sus h

Source: afasia Photography: Stefan Müller Right in the centre of Zürich’s lively inner city, Max Dudler has created a new residential quarter, the Grünhof-Areal. A network of varied inner courtyards develops out of the lively arrangement of the buildings, imparting the feel of an urban oasis. As re-densification inside a block development, the new quarter combines the urgent need for new living space in the city

Source: Bak Gordon Architects Photography: Francisco Nogueira House 2 was built as a complement to an existing house from the end of the 19th century. It works as a kind of annex building or garden pavilion. Located at the far end of the property, it is also a backdrop for the garden. Its communal space is a generous double-height winter garden, which ensures the transition between the intimacy of the rooms and

Source: archdaily Photography: Alex Shoots Buildings Text description provided by the architects. Our new home was created in a historical part of a small South Bohemian town, which, although neglected, possesses a rather strong atmosphere and potential. The place attracted us from the beginning for its distinctive character and great location. In the narrow sleepy streets, next to the grassy patch of Kozina Squ

Source: Jean-Christophe Quinton In the heart of the density of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, this seven storey housing building atempts to find a balance between a discreet presence in the Parisian street, and an intentionally contemporary architectural style. By its shape and its location, the building completes the street and reinforces the typical alignment of buildings along the continuous morpholgy of th

Source: BDR bureau Photography:  ©Simone Bossi, ©courtesy of BDR bureau The existing school building, built in the 1960s in the Nizza Millefonti district between the former industrial area of the Lingotto and the Po river in the south-east area of Turin, has been extended and it is functionally rethought. The new educational needs – in which the school becomes an integral part of the community and merges with th

Fuente: Óscar Miguel Ares Fotografías: Ana Amado El espacio público es el lugar de las relaciones, la memoria y el recuerdo futuro; el lugar donde los ciudadanos deben disfrutar del espacio compartido. Numerosas intervenciones  – no siempre afortunadas y con perspectiva parcial- en el ámbito de Los Jardinillos, han provocado una distorsión en la identidad del parque – pensado a modo de salón de recepciones de lo

Source: Tom Munz Architekt Photography: Ladina Bischof Starting point The building site is in Romanshorn, a town on the shores of Lake Constance with an important railway branch junction. The main body of the settlement is a densely built-up area, with three main arms. The railway station is at the centre. Further inland, workers’ housing districts were built according to plans. The historic castle and chu

Source: Witherford Watson Mann architects Photography: David Grandorge Over the last century in London, the nature and scale of work has changed fundamentally, and continues to do so. Small and Medium Enterprises now generate 48 percent of all business turnover in the city, and sustain 52 percent of all jobs. With a dynamic, competitive business environment, nearly 20 per cent of active businesses in London are