source: Afasia photography: James Ewing On the north-western edge of the Greenwich Village Historic District, Jane Street is characterised by a mix of red brick townhouses and larger apartment blocks, mainly dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively. This new apartment building is located on a site previously occupied by a 1920s, two-storey parking garage. The six-storey building comprises basem

source: divisare photography: noshe The new Kunsthaus Zürich extension, designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, expands the existing Kunsthaus museum, situated between the Grossmünster church and the university. The Kunsthaus Zürich now represents the largest art museum in Switzerland, comprising four buildings from different eras – the Moser building (1910), the Pfister building (1958), the Müller buil

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: David Chipperfield Photography: David Chipperfield Architects As a continuation of Friedrich August Stüler’s forum architecture, the James-Simon-Galerie serves as the new entrance building for Museum Island, completing the ensemble between the Kupfergraben canal and Neues Museum. Together with the ‘Archaeological Promenade’, it forms the backbone of the master plan that was developed in 1999 and adopted as th

Source: David Chipperfield Architects Photography: Simon Menges As a continuation of Friedrich August Stüler’s forum architecture, the James-Simon-Galerie serves as the new entrance building for Museum Island, completing the ensemble between the Kupfergraben canal and the south-west façade of the Neues Museum. Together with the ‘Archaeological Promenade’, it forms the backbone of the masterplan that was developed in

Fuente: David Chipperfield Fotografía: © Simon Menges Xixi, a national wetland park located on the outskirts of Hangzhou, is a built landscape and an area of nature, which has been shaped by man for over a thousand years. The omnipresent relationship between landscape, architecture, and water is key to the atmosphere in Xixi. This atmosphere has been integrated into a new development of apartment buildings. The apart

Source: David Chipperfield Architects | afasia Photopgraphy: Simon Menges This private home is located in Munich’s Bogenhausen neighbourhood, a residential district to the north east of the city centre, not far from the River Isar and the English Garden. The house occupies a corner site on a small square at an intersection in an area characterised by buildings of various architectural styles. The house is composed of