Maipu Building / Nicolás Campodonico
Architects: Nicolás Campodonico Location: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina Design Team: Nicolás Campodonico, Martin Lavayen, Tomas Balparda Collaborators: Mássimo Triches, Carolina Dangelo, Ylenia Arca,...
View ArticleInnovative, Bioclimatic, European School Complex Second Prize Winning...
Designed by architects Costandis Kizis, Platon Issaias, Theodosis Issaias, and Alexandra Vougia, the second prize winning proposal for the Innovative Bioclimatic European School Complex in Crete...
View ArticleDay Care ThyssenKrupp Quarter Essen / JSWD Architekten + Chaix & Morel et...
Architects: JSWD Architekten + Chaix & Morel et Associés Location: ThyssenKrupp Allee 1, Essen, Germany Client: ThyssenKrupp AG Area: 2,100 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Thomas Lewandowski The...
View ArticleValenciennes Technopole for Sustainable Mobility Competition Entry / Mikou...
The Transalley Technopole is a metropolitan scientific and technological project of an international dimension, dedicated to transportation and mobility, located on a strategic site of the...
View ArticleHanging Home / Chris Briffa Architects
Architects: Chris Briffa Architects Location: Naxxar, Malta Design Team: Chris Briffa, Darren Cortis, Ivan Buttigieg, Lawrence Briffa Structure Consultant: Ivan Buttigieg Area: 311.0 sqm Year: 2011...
View ArticleGraduating in 2013? You’re in Luck…
Phil Bernstein is a Vice President at Autodesk and teaches at Yale (see our interview with him here). Last week, we published his “5 Pearls of Wisdoms for Architecture Grads,” originally written in...
View ArticleVigdis Languages Center Proposal / OOIIO Architecture
Designed for the “Vigdis Foundation”, the Languages Center aims to be a rational building, where modulation is a key aspect. Designed by OOIIO Architecture, there is no architectural excess that might...
View ArticleFilms & Architecture: “Inception”
This time we want to share a very contemporary film. An amazing story stunningly described by Christopher Nolan, in which dreams within dreams can be manipulated by “architects” who can construct an...
View ArticleAlmagro´s Courthouse / Estudio MMASA
Architects: Estudio MMASA Location: Ciudad Real, Spain Authors: Patricia Muñiz, Luciano G. Alfaya, César Escudero, Paula Monedero, David de Miguel, Jorge Lamas, Francesca Tiri, Ezequiel Fernández,...
View ArticleÁlvaro Siza Pavilion Will Remain at Venice Biennale Until 2016
“Recognized by all for its efficiency,” the pavilion that Álvaro Siza designed for last year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture will remain on display and be utilized as “additional space” by the new...
View ArticleTorre David: Informal Vertical Communities / Urban-Think Tank & Iwan Baan
Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an...
View ArticleGag Order Released on London Olympics’ Architects
Although the 2012 London Olympics concluded last August, RIBA president Angela Brady and New London Architecture chairman Peter Murray continued to lead a fierce campaign against the strict...
View ArticleTalstation / Partnerundpartner-architekten
Architects: Partnerundpartner-architekten Location: Baiersbronn, Germany Photographs: Courtesy of Partnerundpartner-architekten The Talstation (i.e. valley station) was planned by PARTNERUNDARTNER...
View ArticleThe Gold Line Bridge / Rivka Night + Andrew Leicester
Architects: Rivka Night, Andrew Leicester Location: Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California Architect In Charge: Rivka Night Artist: Andrew Leicester Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Metro Gold Line...
View ArticleFaena Aleph Residences / Foster + Partners
Architects: Foster + Partners Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Area: 17,500 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Nigel Young Faena Group is pleased to announce the completion of the Faena Aleph Residences,...
View ArticleHouse in Shimoda-Chou / EANA
Architects: EANA Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan Design Team: Kohei Iwasaki, Tota Abe Area: 77.8 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Koichi Torimura Construction: Eiko Kensetsu Structural Design:...
View ArticleSteven Holl Architects to design Kennedy Center Expansion
Steven Holl Architects have been selected to design a new, 60,000 square foot addition to the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The $100 million project,...
View ArticlePassive Kindergarten Oostduinkerke / BURO II + ARCHI+I
Architects: BURO II + ARCHI+I Location: Koksijde, Belgium Area: 1,246.38 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Klaas Verdru Project Director: Arch. Tom Vandorpe Design Architect: Ir. Arch. Isabel Vlaeminck...
View ArticleHouse M / Fritz + Fritz Arquitectos
Architects: Fritz + Fritz Arquitectos Location: Lujan, Buenos Aires, Argentina Authors: Fernando Fritz, Eric Fritz Design Team: Hernán Feldmann, Christian Moroni Structural Engineering: José Zaldua...
View ArticleCORMAC Residence / Laidlaw Schultz Architects
Architects: Laidlaw Schultz Architects Location: Corona del Mar, California, USA Design Team: Craig Schultz, Scott Laidlaw, Kathy Troutfetter, David Kilpatrick Structure: Michael Gabriel Area: 3,000...
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