M6B2 TOWER OF BIODIVERSITY . PARIS

Edouard François . + baunetz

The relationship between building height and sustainability is a subject that currently occupies the minds of many city planners.

RECLAIM Remediate Reuse Recycle

+ a+t

h2eau . barrage with hydropower-plant and recreational use

Antonia Blaer . + archiprix

The utilization of the potential of hydropower within the gravitational field of the earth is naturally produced by a never ending hydrological cycle.

L House . Niseko

Florian Busch Architects . photos: © Florian Busch Architects . © Hiroyuki Sudo

The L House in Hirafu is a private holiday residence in Niseko, Hokkaido.

Wood Wharf new residential tower . London

Herzog & de Meuron . + richard rogers

Canary Wharf Group has appointed Herzog & de Meuron to design a new residential tower at Wood Wharf, an eight-hectare redevelopment adjacent to Canary Wharf in London.

Ensayo sobre la ruina . 2012

Luis Úrculo . Galería Eva Ruiz

Luis Úrculo's works deal with this fall from power and its manifestation on the basis of monumental architecture.

FORMWORK Artist studio . Dublin

Architecture Republic . photos: © Paul Tierney photography

The client, an artist, needed a studio at the end of his garden.

Infill apartment Södermalm . Stockholm

Johannes Norlander Arkitektur

HEINRICH TESSENOW GOLD MEDAL 2012

Alberto Campo Baeza

The Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza has been awarded the HEINRICH TESSENOW GOLD MEDAL 2012. The award of the Heinrich Tessenow Society will be received at a public ceremony on January 30, 2013, in Hamburg. The HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) cooperates closely with the Heinrich Tessenow Society with regards to their common concern for the building culture.

Villa . Appenzell

Peter Kunz Architektur

The Space Beneath Us . 2012

José Dávila . Galería Travesía Cuatro . photos: © 2012 Silvia Ros

Untitled (The Space Beneath Us) represents a spatial and architectural reinterpretation of the ’Homage to the Square’ series of paintings by Joseph Albers.

Pabellón y Centro de Investigación . Vega de Salobreña

Jesús Torres García . fotos: © Jesús Torres García

El programa es muy simple: una sala polivalente con un pequeño estrado en la cara este.

SSI TOWERS . JAKARTA

OMA

One is constantly moving in Jakarta through traffic, inevitably perceiving the city under momentum.

Intervento al Polo Territoriale di Mantova



Polo Territoriale di Mantova

Extension of ‘Hardbrücke’ Railway Station . Zurich

Valerio Olgiati . Stadt Zürich

Aether Apparel Retail Store . San Francisco

envelope A+D . Chris French Metal . Aether Apparel . + selectism . Por Homme

A placeholder for a more permanent building, proxy is a temporary two-block construct that imagines a vibrant focal point for commerce and community.

Los Encargados . 2012

Santiago Sierra . + HELGA DE ALVEAR

Schulhaus Neuheim . Eschenbach

roeoesli + maeder . photos: © roeoesli + maeder

formas de ver lo ordinario

Universidad San Jorge

Memory Reloaded . Reforma de una Plaza pública . Schweinfurt

Manuel Ocaña

La Zeughausplatz es hoy un lugar complicado.

Man 071 . 2007

+ David Kordansky Gallery

Elad Lassry makes intimate, framed photographs that slip effortlessly between genres and iconographies—capturing plastic still-lives, uncanny publicity portraits, collages, animals, and landscapes, all to hyper-stylized effect.

CASA PARA UN MAGO . Ilusiones urbanas . Granada

Juan Domingo Santos . fotos: © HISAO SUZUKI

La magia convierte la fantasía en realidad, hace participar un hecho común de acontecimientos extraordinarios.

vivienda unifamiliar . La Guardia

ER arquitectos

El proyecto responde a la necesidad de crear una vivienda unifamiliar exenta en su parcela, intentando en la mayor medida posible respetar las condiciones topográficas de la misma; así pues, como estrategia de intervención se plantea una ordenación de las cotas altimétricas de la parcela para crear en ella un gran jardín entre niveles intermedios que minimice en la medida de lo posible los movimientos de tierra.

HOUSE THAT OPENS UP TO ITS INSIDE . Tokyo

Florian Busch . photos: © florian busch architects

This project is a case study for affordable small-size houses in the densely built suburbs of Tokyo.

Solo house . Cretas

Didier Fuiza Faustino & Bureau des Mésarchitectures . + Solo house

In the Center of the Infinite.

Casa . Redonda

CREUSeCARRASCO

El lugar que lo envuelve todo se llama Redonda. La construcción, solitaria, por la que habían pasado muchas manos, domina un gran espacio cultivado que, con pendiente suave, llega hasta el mar. Se trata de una casa que también es otra. Deliberadamente antigua y nueva a la vez.

Detumescence and/or its Opposite (from a Torment of Follies) . 2012

FRANCES STARK . + Marc Foxx Gallery

NUEVA CASA CONSISTORIAL Y DE LA CULTURA EN VALDELUZ . YEBES

HGO Oficina de Arquitectura (Juan Carlos Herrera, Fernando Garrido) . Davide Olivieri

El actual panorama ha traído consigo una revisión de las estructuras de control que la ciudadanía tiene para con sus representantes políticos.

Europan 11 . Nynäshamn

Project team: Jan Derveaux . Franz Reschke . Rita Leal . Anna Vogels . Frederik Springer . Europan

Nynäshamn and its surrounding coastal landscape are part of the Stockholm skärgård.

Solstici d´hivern . 1989

Galería Carles Taché

Songwon Art Space . Buk-Chon

Mass Studies . photos: © Kyungsub Shin . + dezeen

ANYTHING CAN SUBSTITUTE ART

+ 41 COOPER GALLERY

Centre du village . Troistorrents

bfik architectes

En date du 23 septembre 2012, la population de Troistorrents a accépté, en votation populaire, un crédit de construction pour la réalisation d'un parking communal d’environ 200 places qui prend place sous la route cantonal, d’une nouvelle administration communale, de locaux paroissiaux, une nouvelle cure et de nouveaux espaces publics.

Casa Martos . Villa Adelina . Buenos Aires

Adamo-Faiden . photos: © Cristobal Palma . + dezeen

The house is located in Villa Adelina, a neighborhood in the north area of buenos aires where great commerce, industries and housing
coexist.

House M . Asahikawa

Jun Igarashi Architects . photos: © Sergio Pirrone . + MORFAE

This is a house built in the centre of Hokkaido, on a very tight site. The neighboring houses vary in height and quite high buildings around it are expected to be built in the near future.

Highlight Gallery

FILIP DUJARDIN . Highlight Gallery

NURSERY SCHOOL . BERRIOZAR

Javier Larraz . Iñigo Beguiristain . Iñaki Bergera . photos: © Iñaki Bergera . + archdaily

According to Louis I. Kahn the first school began under a tree, when a man who knew he was a teacher began to discuss what he had learned with others who did not know they were students. Like those students, children under 3 years old learn intuitively and unconsciously.

55 micro unit apartments . New York

nARCHITECTS . renders: mir.no . ledaean.com . + bustler

nARCHITECTS' design for My Micro NY, in collaboration with Monadnock Development and the Actors Fund Housing Development Corporation, is the winning proposal in the adAPT NYC competition sponsored by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development (HPD).

Atmospheres, the sense of things

+ ESARQ-UIC

Archäologisches Besucherzentrum Petriplatz . Berlin

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos . Planorama Landschaftsarchitektur . + competitionline . berlin

An einem der Ursprungsorte von Berlin, dem historischen Kernbereich von Alt-Cölln, ein Achäologisches Besucherzentrum zu bauen, bietet die einmalige Gelegenheit, den Besuchern unmittelbar am Petriplatz die Vermittlung der Erforschung von Geschichte auf Basis von archäologischen Quellen in und an einem Gebäude zu veranschaulichen.

house t . tokyo



Shinkenchiku-Sha

ridisegno sede di Via Corte d’Appello . Torino

Lapo Ruffi

La prima necessità emersa dopo il sopralluogo è stata di liberare lo spazio. La forma disegnata dai limiti di progetto diviene interessante, relazionandosi morfologicamente a via Corte d’Appello.

THE NEW LAW COURTS . CAEN

BE Hauvette Paris . Atelier d’Architecture Pierre Champenois . images credits : rsi-studio

Concerning urbanistic planning, the law courts of Caen redefines a new domain in the centre of the City.

The Pledge

+ THE DRAWING CENTER

This project takes interviews that the artist conducted throughout 2011 with noted scientists, artists, writers, and filmmakers, and transforms them into fictional dialogues visualized according to Singh’s signature format of collaged photocopies connected by hand-drawn pencil dots on the wall.

HOUSE N . NOORDWIJK

maxwan . photos: © Filip Dujardin

The seaside villa in Noordwijk was built in 1938 as a holiday home for the owner of a concrete factory.

Human Opera XXX . 2007

Meiro Koizumi . + moma

In Amsterdam, I invited a man to my film set. On agreement, I asked him to tell his sad story in front of the camera.

Extension of ‘Hardbrücke’ Railway Station, Zurich

em2n . Stadt Zürich

HOUSE OF WOULD . Prefabhouse . Pedrezuela

elii . fotos: © elii (maquetas) . © Miguel de Guzmán (obra)

This house is located in a 1,316 m2 sloping plot of land in the district of Pedrezuela, 45 km north of Madrid.

ELECTRICITY PAPER VINYL . 1968 - 2013

+ Petzel Gallery

Daniel Buren is best known for his use of contrasting stripes as a visual tool that reveals the specific features and dimensions of a site, often transforming the environment for which it was specifically designed.

Detached House . S. Abbondio

Wespi De Meuron . photos: © Hannes Henz Architekturfotograf . + wallpaper

La arquitectura moderna y sus creadores. De Frank Lloyd Wright a Frank Gehry

+ Alba Editorial

Hotel Shanghai Techno Club extension . Essen

courtesy of DRATZ&DRATZ Architekten . photos: © Tomas Riehle