Source : afasia Photography by Helène Binet, Georg Aerni and Kuster Frey This project won first prize in the invited competition for a 30,000sq m mixed use building of commercial space and housing. The project is located on a key site within the masterplan for the redevelopment of former railway land on the south side of Zurich Hauptbahnhof by the SBB (Swiss National Railways). The project is one of several large new

Fuente: Archdaily, Dezeen, BD online Fotografía: Hélène Binet Architecture firm Caruso St John has completed a £45 million renovation of London’s Tate Britain art gallery, which includes a spiral staircase descending to new underground classrooms. Following the opening of ten new exhibition spaces at the gallery earlier this year, Caruso St John has overhauled the oldest parts of Tate Britain‘s Millbank b

Fuente: Caruso St John Architects The architects were awarded this commission following an invited competition in which they were asked to make proposals for the conversion of the Veemgebouw, a monumental warehouse building at the former Philips industrial site in Eindhoven. The historic building was constructed in 1943, and is the most impressive and prominent of a series of large industrial buildings on the Strijp

Source: Caruso St. John Architects The site for the new Zurich Arena is at the edge of the city, a place where the urban structure has run out. This is a good place for a new sports arena and is an opportunity to mark the beginning of the city with a public building that makes a festive place for ice hockey and volleyball. The design proposes a building with qualities somewhere between a monument and a tent. The clar

Fuente: ESARQ El próximo martes 24 de abril, dentro de la programación del ciclo de conferencias “Foros Esarq 2012: Modos de ver” que organiza La Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, ESARQ-UIC, el reconocido arquitecto Peter St John impartirá la ponencia Almost Everything (Casi todo), cuyo título lleva el mismo nombre que uno de sus últimos libros y recoge gran parte

El despacho londinense Caruso St. John ha ganado el concurso para proyectar los 23.000 nuevos metros cuadrados de la sede del Landesbank, en el centro histórico de la ciudad de Bremen. Link al proyecto

Ya hemos hablado muchas veces de este estudio de arquitectura de Londres, tanto en clase como en este mismo blog. Pero vale la pena volver a recordar este proyecto a raíz de unas reflexiones hechas en clase sobre la materialización de la arquitectura. La fuerza que emana de este proyecto, su personalidad, viene especialmente del material escogido (un ladrillo de una excepcional belleza y con un aparejo muy estudiado)