by Robbrecht en Daem

Robbrecht en Daem . photos: Marc De Blieck © Robbrecht en Daem architecten . © Franky Larousselle + baunetz . architectuur nl

Life-size model to a 1930 design by Mies van der Rohe by Robbrecht en Daem.

Badel Block . Zagreb

Cláudio Vilarinho . images: © VÖSA studio

Respecting the existing façade alignments, Zagreb’s Cloud is a Multipurpose Building including shopping, services, housing, cultural spaces, sports area, etc.

Intervenciones en el espacio público . hondarribia

autores: txomin balanzategui & thomas loisier

En Francia, el espacio publico no es lugar de exploración, jamás interrogado, no propone real experiencia al par del recorrido. La mirada que lleva el arquitecto sobre lo que pudiera ser el espacio publico tiene que evolucionar.

Aten Reign . 2013

PHotos: David Heald . RenderingS: Andreas Tjeldflaat © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation . + Guggenheim

James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site specificity in his practice.

zion Christian church + Mihato kindergarten . Chigasaki-shi

Tezuka Architects . + WAF

The defining essence of the Chigasaki-Zion Church comes from a desire to blur the traditional distinction between a church and its community.

Pavilhão Multiusos . Viana do Castelo

photo: © João Morgado - Fotografia de Arquitectura

Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light . 1977



+ Whitney Museum of American Art

alvenaria social housing . lisbon

fala atelier (filipe magalhães + ana luisa soares)

The competition sought a new identity for the "Alvenaria" neighbourhood in Lisbon. After many years of indifference, a single intervention should be able to resolve the whole site while bringing it back to the present.

anna van buerenplein tower . the hague

Wiel Arets . photos: © Jan Bitter . + archello

The Anne van Bueren Square serves as the lobby for AvB Tower, where a hybrid programming of shops, lobby, restaurant, offices, lecture hall, and library – where the academic dweller finds a communicative atmosphere – when fluidly linked, can be seen as an extension of the 'commuter-leisure' concept currently emerging in the world's major metropolises.

entrevistado por Pilar Pinchart



SKFANDRA

MAQUINNEXT . Barcelona

MVRDV

Maquinnext represents an intense encounter between nature and the city.

Suspended weapons . 2013

photo: © Andy Keate

photos: © Annalisa Sonzogni . + DRAF

Benoît’s work often involves collage and assemblage, forcing structures, references and materials into paradoxical but productive relationships.

Bird College . Sidcup

Carmody Groarke . images: © Forbes Massie

Bird College competition proposal.

Villa Schor . Brussels

Office KGDVS . + bd online

Ground floor excavation addition to a suburban villa

at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin



+ Kapoor in Berlin

sede del Gobierno Civil . Tarragona

fotos: © Josep Maria Torra . plano: © Juan Pedro Alías | Universidad CEU San Pablo . + archivo Alejandro de la Sota

Se cree debe ambientarse como de hoy un sector nuevo de una nueva población. El respeto a lo viejo debe traducirse en su conservación cuando su calidad lo aconseje; no debe entenderse como obligación de repetirlo.

Cuestionario impertinente

Pregunta. ¿Rossi o Koolhaas?
Los dos y muchos más.

Barriódromo en la Latina . Madrid

Taller PFC: Eva Hurtado + Camilo García . pfclab

El Barriódromo se plantea como un espacio híbrido semejante al barrio, basado en la interacción entre actividades y vecinos, que solucione carencias como la falta de un mercado de abastos competitivo, la supresión de espacios deportivos por parte del Ayuntamiento y la falta de espacios públicos activos y equipados.

Bodega Benjamin de Rothschild & Vega-Sicilia . Samaniego

Emilio Tuñón Arquitectos . renders: © Estudio AGraph

Propuesta para concurso restringido.

ELITE 88 . 1988

images: © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne . + moma . CAROLINA NITSCH

"Everything in moderation," counseled Aristotle. Martin Kippenberger never got this message, as a good friend pointed out after the artist's death at age forty-four in 1997.

National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) . Beijing

Jean Nouvel . + ideasgn

International competition. 1st Prize.

Escuela de Arte y Diseño . Amposta

David Sebastian y Gerard Puig . photos: © Adrià Goula . + tectónica

El concurso planteaba la construcción de dos edificios de programas y escalas muy diferentes.

“Els Colors” Nursery . Manlleu

RCR Arquitectes . + archdaily

In a construction game, the shape is threaded from the juxtaposition and superposition of simple parts. Ease in composition comes from the equal size of the parts, and the identification of each of them in the entire assembly comes from their color.

FAR ROC Design Competition . New York City

FRPO . + FAR ROC Design Competition

The implementation of a new urban model n the Rockaway Peninsula, in Long Island, represents a great opportunity to think about the typological models appropriate to combine urban life styles, suburban structures and high ecologic-value (and sometimes even aggressive) natural contexts

La expansión de las artes



+ Museo Reina Sofía . EL PAÍS

esto no es un solar . Vadorrey

Grávalos Di Monte arquitectos . + esto no es un solar

El objetivo inicial del programa era la elaboración de un Plan de Empleo, en el que se debía implicar a 50 trabajadores, parados de larga duración, para la limpieza de los solares en Casco Histórico de una ciudad española.

Biennale di Venezia, 2013



Biennale di Venezia

Ajijic . Jalisco

Tatiana Bilbao . photos: © Iwan Baan . + archdaily

An adaptable, integrated, vernacular and low maintenance was requested by the client for her summer house in the Chapala Lake in Jalisco. Combined with a simple housing program the geometry responds to the way it is constructed.

Werkraum House . Bregenzerwald

Bregenzerwald . photos: © Adolf Bereuter . + wallpaper

The Werkraum House is a platform for exhibitions and information regarding the culture of craftsmanship in the Bregenzerwald.

Do M a/d nº 1 . 2013

+ Ana Pérez Ventura

MdBG Bavarian museum . Regensburg

Zamboni associati architettura . Looc-m Architekten

Competition. 3rd round.

Roof Addition | Brombacherstrasse . Kleinbasel

Reuter Raeber

The starting point for the design was an apartment building in Kleinbasel from the turn of the 20th century. In the context of neighborhood gentrification and reduced traffic through the Horburg Tunnel, the design intent was to renovate and vertically extend the existing building.

Getting into bed . 2011



Ikon Gallery . + Sociedade Internacional de Abissologia

Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva have worked together since 2001, creating objects, installations and short films which they describe as ‘poetic philosophical fiction’.

Cadogan Cafe . London

Duggan Morris Architects

It was the intention of this project, to place a refined and sculpturally crafted building into the Duke of York Square, chelsea as a memorable and unique landmark.

Ciclo de conferencias ARA ARQUITECTURA

PLAzA DE LES CASERNES . Vilanova i la Geltrú

Autores: Sergi Carulla (Scob Arquitectes) y Jordi Miralles . fotos: © Adrià Goula

La Plaza de las Casernes se sitúa en el límite del Casco Antiguo de la ciudad. Su posición de borde, entre dentro y fuera de murallas, ha ido y sigue propiciando sus distintos usos.

Rain Room . 2012



+ Random International . MoMA PS1

Flinders Street Station . Melbourne

Hassell . Herzog & de Meuron

Flinders Street Station is located in the centre of Melbourne, sandwiched between the linear edge of the Central Business District (CBD) and the embankment of the Yarra River.

Café des Visions: City Studio – idea for space – forum

Café des Visions . + eme3

As a mobile village square, Café des Visions moves from place to place by means of a bike trailer and questions its respective locations about their potential as social spaces.

Desde el interior



+ Fundació Tàpies . MNAC

Hornsbruksgatan mixed use building . Stockholm

Tham & Videgård

New building to replace the old and run down metro station building and electrical substation with an innovative and environmentally friendly mixed use building.

Torso . 2011

photos: Todd-White Art Photography © White Cube . + bellwether gallery . White Cube

Since leaving Yale School of Art Ellen Altfest has developed her own distinct and devoted approach to a figurative and representational painting.

Lake Rotsee Refuge . Lucerne

AFGH architekten

Livsrum Cancer Counseling Center . Næstved

EFFEKT . + WAF

Livsrum is EFFEKT's 1st prize project in the competition for a new cancer counseling center at Næstved hospital in Denmark in collaboration with Hoffmann and Lyngkilde.

Rem Koolhaas interviewed by Joseph Grima

+ domus interview

8 low cost renovation flats . Barcelona

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT . photos: © Marcela Grassi . + WAF

The main aim of the process of adaptation of the houses was searching the building's historical footprints using creative resources at the lowest cost, through a cleaning job, approach and discovery was possible to achieve optimal results.

cuestionario impertinente

Pregunta. ¿Rossi o Koolhaas?
R. Los dos y ninguno.

House K . Nishinomiya

Sou Fujimoto Architects . photo: © Iwan Baan . + domusweb

Technical School Library . Eberswalde

Herzog & de Meuron . photos: © Dieter Janssen Photography

The Eberswalde Senior Technical School is divided amongst a group of buildings constructed in the XIX century, although they differ considerably in size and style.

RETURN . 2004 – Ongoing

Michael Rakowitz . +

In 1946, my grandfather, Nissim Isaac David, was exiled from Iraq with his family (pictured above).

Clínica Veterinària d’animals exòtics . Barcelona

dataAE . fotos: © Adrià Goula

El projecte consisteix en crear una infraestructura d’interès per una clínica veterinària d’animals exòtics amb mínima economia.

bus station and public library. Ronda

Ulargui arquitectos . UP arquitectos

An interior garden. As a new palace: this is what this building tries to offer to the city of Ronda.

Downtown mixed-use development project . Santa Monica

OMA . + dezeen . The Architect's Newspaper

Santa Monica’s City Staff has announced their recommendation of OMA’s competition proposal for a mixed use development that encompasses civic plaza, cultural venue, retail, residences, offices and a boutique hotel in the heart of downtown Santa Monica.

Serralves Museum . Porto

photos: © edouard cailliau

JGC HOUSE . Sant Cugat del Vallès

MDBA . photos: © Adriá Goula

The form and the position of the house is a response to the shape and aspect of the plot, closed on the street side and open to the city landscape.

apartment Refurbishment in Akabane . Tokyo

Junpei Nousaku

This project is a refurbishment of a rental apartment that was originally owned privately.

Ravel Ravel Unravel



BIENNALE DE VENISE 2013 . PAVILLON FRANÇAIS

Manglar de Emergencia

is arch

Se trata de un proceso de cooperación entre una comunidad científica y la población local para la conservación y autogestión del Manglar.

for emerging architecture 2013

+ arcon

SUPSI University Campus. Mendrisio

BASSICARELLA ARCHITECTES

Competition proposal. 1st prize.