«A short time after its opening, RiffRaff 1+2 expanded. Once again, open projection allowed for considerable space savings, with the distorted reflection now forming the restaurant’s ceiling ornamentation. In the large hall, the projection itself becomes a part of the room’s architecture in the form of moving “video wall paper.” The apartments on the top floors combine elements of urban middle class apart

Fuente: Arquitecturia Fotografía: José Hevia Site The plot is located in the Mira-sol district in Sant Cugat del Vallès, dominated by isolated houses with gardens. A space of spaces or a house of houses, in the middle of a garden. Every small pice turns into an interior courtyard and looks different towards the four sides of the plot. The volums that form the house are visually related through the patio. The dia

Source: Barozzi Veiga Photography: Simon Menges In 2011 Barozzi/Veiga won the international competition for the masterplan of the new Art district in Lausanne, Switzerland – Platform 10 – and the design of the Fine Arts Museum. Located in the city centre, the project proposed a master plan for the city´s three main museums: the Museum of Fine Arts MCB-A, the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts MUDAC a

Source: Afasia Photography: Johan Dehlin & 6a architects Milton Keynes is a utopian urban project of the late 1960s. LA and the Garden City are woven together into a carpet grid laid over the rolling Buckinghamshire landscape. The new building for MK Gallery in Milton Keynes is located at the top end of Midsummer Boulevard where the city meets Campbell Park, establishing the centre of a new arts quarter. A n

Source: Mary Duggan Architects Photography: Simone Bossi Following an open competition in August 2016, Mary Duggan Architects were appointed by the Science Museum Group to oversee the design of a new event and exhibition facility. The project involves the conversion of the museum’s former History of Medicine exhibition spaces housed on the top two floors of the building in a purpose-built structure, erected in t

Source: AFGH architekten website Photography: Valentin Jeck Before making the decision to build a new home, the owners lived in a small gabled house for 25 years, situated in the very popular residential area along the Trottenstrasse in Zürich-Wipkingen. The new volume should be as high as possible to make sure that the breathtaking view is ideally captured from the upper floors. The architects’ task was to deve

Fuente: James Stirling. Edificios y proyectos 1950-1974. Editorial Gustavo Gili, S.A. Barcelona. Introducción de john Jacobus. El Assembly Hall es un aditamento a una escuela victoriana. Los edificios contiguos presentan gran variedad de tipos y alturas, y en este entorno de caos arquitectónico y barrios bajos superpoblados , consideramos necesario crear una isla de verde césped y espacios abiertos. La planta es

source: O’Donnell + Tuomey, Mies van der Rohe Foundation The brief was to provide an eight classroom school to the Department of Education and Science standard schedule on a very restricted site. The site is at a key location on the route from the city centre across the Grand Canal towards Ranelagh village. The neighbouring Georgian Square and terraces form an intact and significant urban design compositio

Source: Afasia Photography: Luke Hayes The British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank accommodates the UK’s largest independent cinema house and National Film Archive. It was originally built beneath the arches of Waterloo Bridge in the 1950s as the National Film Theatre. Its prominent location facing the River Thames benefits from the footfall of the South Bank, one of the busiest pedestrianised promenades in Europ

Source: Afasia Photography: © gustav willeit The new belvedere hotel is set on a rocky slope taking its round-shape and its reddish color. The project becomes part of the landscape allowing the suites to look at the valley from various points of view.                                   Architect: Bergmeisterwolf Architekten Locat

Source: ALA architects / Plataforma arquitectura Photography (recent): Tuomas Uusheimo, Marc Goodwin Dipoli is the main building of Aalto University, located in the university’s Otaniemi campus in Espoo, Finland. It was designed by architects Reima and Raili Pietilä and opened in 1966. Dipoli was initially owned by the Student Union of the Helsinki University of Technology who sold it to Aalto University i

‘10 llibres i 1 cadira’ amb Moisés Puente Presentació ’10 llibres i 1 cadira’ amb Moises Puente. El passat dimecres 15 de Maig es va presentar «10 LLIBRES I 1 CADIRA», un escenari on convidem a diferents amics i socis de la Capell a fer una selecció de 10 llibres al voltant d’un tema i 1 cadira on passarien l’estona fullejant aquests llibres. El primer dels convidats és l’editor Moi

Source: Afasia Photography: © luc boegly On parcel 04b, between the new street and the new Martin Luther King urban park, the project stands out with two distinct constructions, alternating full and empty places and offering in its center a privatized garden as a continuation of the park. «Such a design allows the building to release remarkable views of the city. This choice made it possible to build upwards and

Mayo 2019 Entrevista Ricardo Devesa BBCONSTRUMAT HIC> La arquitectura tiene una componente cultural e intelectual indiscutible, pero para materializarse precisa del mundo de la construcción, un entorno más técnico y prosaico en donde parece que los únicos valores son la economía, la productividad y la eficiencia. El contacto entre esos dos mundos tan distantes parece a veces un diálogo en idiomas distintos. ¿