| Pascal Deschenaux and Simon Zemp | 2015 | Spring Semester | ETH  | Professor: Adam Caruso  Starting from Martin Heidegger’s text ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ the studio investigated how we can design new coherent neighborhoods with coherent spaces and clear identities. Nowadays city planning often limits itself to demarcating areas in different colors and the market takes the lead from there. Especially at the frin

Source: Dominique Coulon & associés Schiltigheim is the third largest town in the Bas-Rhin département (eastern France) in terms of population, and is the most densely populated town in the Strasbourg metropolis. It developed in the nineteenth century, centred on brewing and related industrial activities. These activities declined in the late twentieth century, leaving much industrial land lying waste. The rehabi

E2A Architecture. Piet Eckert & Wim Eckert Hatje Cantz Available online at La Capell This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the Swiss architects E2A. Brothers Piet and Wim Eckert see their work as an interpretation of contemporary living conditions. In today@2019s context, expectations, experiences, and ambitions characterize places and clash with reality. The incompatible becomes the platform of the

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

Source : afasia Photo : assemble + aj Assemble were commissioned by Goldsmiths, University of London, to create a new public art gallery within the Grade II listed former Victorian bathhouse at Laurie Grove, New Cross. The 1000m2 building accommodates seven new gallery spaces, a café, curators’ studio and event space. As a critical testing ground for exploration and discussion, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

Source: archipicture  | The Architecture of Peter Celsing. Wilfried Wang. Pb. Internos Books. After an architectural competition in 1952, the Swedish architect Peter Celsing was commissioned to build the Härlanda church. The competition design was highly praised by the jury members. After some planning adjustments, the ground-breaking ceremony took place on October 31, 1956. The opening of the church was celebrated o

| Eugenio Cappuccio | 2018 | Diploma year 1 | Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow | Professor: Mark Baines Food is the most universal and accessible of cultural manifestations, as we all need to eat to live. Like dialect and architecture, food traditions are a main component in the intricate and impulsive system that joins culture and geography into regional character. The proposal is a building that celebrate