Source: Francesca Torzo Helsinki is a lively contemporary metropolis, though the urban character is sober and calm. The historical city is a rather homogeneous being, where building heights mostly vary between 5 and 6 floors and streets are wide. The location for the new Guggenheim is in the South Harbour, Eteläsatama, where boats and ferries arrive and depart for the Baltic sea. The waterfront, walking among wild cr

Fuente: Vora Arquitectura Fotografías: Adrià Goula Vallirana 47 es un edificio entre medianeras, construido en 1923, bastante anónimo y discreto. Su valor no radica en ninguna singularidad, sino en el sentido de continuidad de una época. Tenía una distribución convencional de pasillo y estancias pequeñas, poco alterada, e interiores con pavimentos de mosaico hidráulico, molduras de escayola en algunos techos, puertas

Source: David Chipperfield Architects Photography: Simon Menges The Adolf Würth company is one of the world’s largest retailers of assembly and fastening materials, with its headquarters situated near the town of Künzelsau in southern Germany. The brief called for a large events hall and a smaller hall for chamber music recitals. The complex not only serves the needs of the company but can also be used for external e

Source: Mendoza Partida El nuevo edificio para el MUPAC, tiene la vocación de albergar de forma amable y representativa uno de los acervos más significativos de la historia arqueológica de España. Partiendo de esta premisa, el leitmotiv que da forma y materialidad al nuevo edificio surge de una serie de capas o “estratos” que ponen en manifiesto las distintas etapas de su historia. A nivel urbano, el edificio es sens

Source: a+t architecture publishers, Ignazio Gardella e il professionismo italiano. Alberto Samonà. Officina Edizioni, Roma, 1981. Texto: GARDELLA. DPA 25 , Edicions UPC, Barcelona, 2009. Casa per impiegati della Borsalino, Alessandria, 1952 Gardella parte del rechazo de los bloques racionalistas, aquellos bloques del área “Milano Verde”, proyectada durante la guerra por Pagano y otros, que nunca había llegado a acep

Source: Stephen Taylor The project introduces four three-storey houses to a constrained infill site in Fulham. Each house is carefully oriented; facing inwards to a private courtyard and outwards towards a newly defined lane. Porches lined with a glazed brick face on to the lane and project over it, providing cover. The arrangement of all elements: the porches, the chimneys, the roofs serve to intensify the urban sce

Source: Francesca Torzo Photography:  Balthasar von albertini Z33 belongs to the Beguinage of Hasselt, a monument and a part of the city. The historical complex resembles an island in the urban tissue, due to the exceptional size of the void and for the permanency of its border through history, an incongruous but continuous system of brick constructions. Z33 is part of this wall of buildings around the park. The park