AINA . Palma de Mallorca

TEd'A arquitectes

Bipolar Moon . 2012

+ Modern Art

Katy Moran’s exhibition at Modern Art is comprised of paintings made over the course of the past two years.

The Øya Festival icon . 120 HOURS Competition

design team: Matej Cunat . Daniel Hakulin . Miroslav Chmel | TUL Liberec . Czech Republic . + 120 HOURS

We propose a round pavilion which encircles set of trees in southern part of park. The location is chosen carefully so the pavilion does not block space in front of the stages. It is also situated strategically that creates a heart of both the festival area and the park itself.

Transformation of 530 dwellings, block G, H, I . Bordeaux

Lacaton & Vassal . Frédéric Druot . Christophe Hutin

The project consists of the transformation of 3 inhabited social buildings, first phasis of a renovation program of the 'Cité du Grand Parc' in Bordeaux.
Built in the early 60's, this urban housing counts more than 4000 dwellings. The 3 buildings G, H and I, 10 to 15 floors high gather 530 dwellings and give a capacity of transforming into beautiful dwellings with redefined qualities and comfort.

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+ Guardian . Frith Street Gallery

Quatemary . 2014

+ Marian Goodman Paris

Quatemary, une photogravure monumentale en dix parties d’un paysage de roches imaginaire et énigmatique.

MOA ElementHouse

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Ninetree Village . Hangzhou

David Chipperfield Architects . photos: © Christian Richters . Shu He . + dezeen

A small valley, bordered by a dense bamboo forest, forms the site for this luxury housing development, situated near the Qiang Tang River in Hangzhou, south-eastern China.

on Venice Biennale: 'Without the balcony, the history of the world would have looked completely different'

+ The Guardian full article

"What we see is that more and more elements of architecture are becoming risk averse," says Koolhaas.

Ferner D (For Robert Frost) . 2012

+ Peter Blum

Helmut Federle’s latest body of work, The Ferner Paintings, created in 2012 and 2013 all represent one form: the circle.

Welcome to URBAN Wellness! . Europan 12 . Gjilan

Runner-up . Estudio Lunar

The current situation of Gjilan is not the result of a controlled planning, it has been the consequence of multiple historical and, also recent, events that induced to the emergence of urban figures that were answering to the immediate needs but not responding to a planning with an idea of future for the city. Wars, political events, earthquakes, economic crisis … have left in Gjilan several scars and erroneous situations that now it’s time to be corrected.

Cadogan Café . london

Carmody Groarke . + Malcolm Reading

Our design proposes a pavilion as a ‘solitaire’ - a building which will be viewed and approached from all sides. As such it is a building without a front or a back, but is presented equally well from every direction. Its unique identity has emerged from a careful examination of the pavilion’s context and also its purpose.

Urban House with Big Window . Cambridge

Alessandro Armando + Manfredo di Robilant Architects . photos: © Paolo Rosselli . + domus

Private house for a family living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

EPO (European Patent Office) Main Building . Rijswijk

Ateliers Jean Nouvel . Dam & Partners Architecten . + EPO

The European Patent Organization (EPO) announced on last year June the 27th, that a consortium of four companies belonging to the Group TBI, one of the largest construction company in the Netherlands, in co-operation with two leading architectural firms, Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Paris) and Dam & Partners Architecten (Amsterdam), has won the international competition to design and construct its new "Main Building" in Rijswijk (The Hague).

Children’s pavilion . Milan

homu architecture

The project is homu's proposal for the international competition “Padiglione Infanzia” in Milan.
The project takes place into a heterogeneous district, in a lot surrounded by buildings varying in size and function in a space shaded by the architecture surrounding it.

House O . Hokkaido

Jun Igarashi Architects . photos: © Iwan Baan . + archdaily

The site sits in Northern Japan, in a small city of Eastern Hokkaido with a mere population of 7000. The forestry industry has been lasting since long ago, however depopulation advances while the factory industry declines.

Jardins de la Florinda . Manresa

David Closes . Núria Bayó . fotos: © David Closes

El projecte ha convertit en jardí l’espai lliure d’edificació de l’illa de la Florinda, al barri de Valldaura de Manresa. Aquest espai travessa l’illa tot enllaçant els carrer del Bruc i Dos de Maig. En el futur, l’espai formarà part d’un passeig que ha d’unir el centre històric de la ciutat amb el parc del riu Cardener. L’actuació pretén assegurar aquesta continuïtat del futur passeig sense malmetre el caràcter més recollit d’un jardí.

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+ Fundación Mapfre

TOYOTA NO. 467053 . 2013

Jumana Manna . + CRG Gallery

These are a series of sculptures made from seatbelts and metal rods. Sourced from car junkyards, the strips are sewn alongside one another, constructing a series of banners. Displaced from their original function as precautionary safety devices, they take on anthropomorphic poses.

Axel Springer Campus . Berlin

OMA . Axel Springer

OMA has won Berlin Axel Springer Campus headquarters competition.

Allianz Headquarters . Zürich

Wiel Arets Architects . photos: © Jan Bitter . + baunetz

The Allianz Headquarters is a hybrid-office and the pinnacle of a master planned mixed-use district on the edge of Zürich’s city center. Comprised of a 20-story tower and a 5-story annex, these two components are externally linked by a series of four bridges, and vertically linked by numerous interior voids and staircases; as such, the Allianz Headquarters can be experienced as horizontal and vertical landscape of neighborhoods. Fluidly connected to the city center by a multitude of public transportation options, the building encourages the blossoming of twenty-first century office culture, which demands flexibility in space and its use, via its hyper-hybrid programming that amplifies ‘interiority’.

Cheung Fai building . Hong Kong

MVRDV

The conversion of Cheung Fai building is one of the pioneer projects in Kwun Tong district of East Kowloon, a former industrial area which is currently being redeveloped to become one of Hong Kong’s newest business center.

Visions of the Alhambra



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SONNENBLUME . Europan 12 . NÜRNBERG

Segundo premio . autores: Pau Bajet Mena, Oscar Linares de la Torre, Maria Giramé Aumatell, Laura Bonell Mas, Daniel López-Dòriga Sagalés . Europan

La propuesta planteada pretende dar respuesta tanto a las especificidades del lugar como a los numerosos requisitos del programa planteado por la promotora de vivienda de promoción pública de Nürnberg -wbg Nürnberg GmbH-. Estas necesidades se identifican como inputs o leyes auto-impuestas que, planteadas con anterioridad a cualquier decisión de tipo formal, vertebran todo el proceso de proyecto dando forma a la propuesta.

Housing Towers . Lima

Bakpak Architects + Ignacio de la Peña Muñoz

The project is conceived as a system of trays that concentrate its central part on housing and at its perimeter a series of terraces, opening the building and housing towards the district of San Isidro, the city of Lima, and the Pacific Ocean.

Revolution-ary House. 2013

Iñaqui Carnicero

A small budget and very restricted regulations led us to take this commission as an opportunity to explore the potential of mobile mechanisms in a small domestic program.
The site, located on the way to Santiago in a small village called “Carrion de los Condes,” is near a path were hundreds of pilgrims pass every day. Beyond the boundaries of the urban tissue, the site is catalogue as an agricultural zone, where only small constructions with less that 30 m2 are allowed to be built.

G-Star RAW Headquarters . AMSTERDAM

OMA

Situated next to the A10 in the industrial Zuid-Oost area of Amsterdam, the new HQ for G-Star RAW will consolidate G-Star RAW's disparate facilities into a single building that aims to stimulate interaction between various departments.

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+ Christian Falsnaes

MUNICIPAL THEATRE and AUDITORIUM . Torrevieja

Foreign Office Architects: Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo

Torrevieja is one of the main tourist towns in south-east Spain, and it is now involved in an ambitious program of infrastructural improvements aimed at raising the profile of the town beyond its current mass tourist destination.

The Easy Way to Quit New York . 2013

+ Lars Friedrich

How are new senses generated? One has the sense that there is some impossible, ungraspable truth embedded in separation.

Elizabeth House development . London

David Chipperfield Architects . + elizabeth house development

The Elizabeth House site has long been identified as key in Waterloo, and the redevelopment of the site presents the opportunity to transform the entire local area.P&O Estates proposed a redevelopment plan in 2007, with three tall towers, but the proposals were refused. Our new proposal aims to overcome the objections to the 2007 scheme.

Museo diocesano . Milán

SANAA

Concurso. Finalistas.

'77 . 2014

+ Andrea Rosen Gallery

Musée Soulages . Rodez

Agence Observatoire . Photos: Cedric meravilles © photothèque Grand Rodez . + Musée Soulages . afasia

Le 31 mai prochain, le musée Soulages ouvrira ses portes à Rodez, ville natale du peintre. Le musée abritera les donations exceptionnelles de Pierre et Colette Soulages accordées à la Communauté d’Agglomération du Grand Rodez.

Ghost . 2007

+ Galerie Christian Nagel

In Ghost, a large installation of a group of Muslim women in prayer, Attia renders their bodies as vacant shells, empty hoods devoid of personhood or spirit.

new sintra music conservatory . rinchoa

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tender by invitation . 2nd prize

exposición TALENT LATENT . Tarragona

NAM Arquitectura . fotos: © José Hevia

TALENT LATENT es una exposición que pretende mostrar algunas de las nuevas promesas de la fotografía moderna internacional y forma parte del festival SCAN que se celebra desde hace años en la ciudad de Tarragona. En la cuarta edición (2012), situada en el edificio de la Tabacalera, se pretendía como en ediciones anteriores reciclar todo material existente planteando en este caso una celosía de madera a partir de un módulo de 59 x 17cm y un sistema constructivo a base de encajes.

Faculdade de Arquitectura . Porto

photos: © Clement Guillaume

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+ CIRCO

...hay dos planos verticales y otros dos horizontales que forman un largo corredor. Grupos de gente deambulando. Los cuatro planos se convierten en dos paredes, un techo y un suelo. Ninguno de ellos es paralelo a su opuesto. El techo y una de las paredes están inclinados. Esta inclinación fuerza la fuga hacia una puerta situada al final del corredor.

Concurso Plaza las Glorias . Barcelona

Martínez Lapeña Torres Arquitectos . Ravetllat Ribas

La vocación de centralidad que Cerdá atribuyó a la Plaza de las Glòries sigue siendo un tema pendiente. Las sucesivas intervenciones que se han realizado – con la intención de resolver los aspectos de conectividad -han consolidado este espacio como una especie de paréntesis urbano. Habría ahora recuperar la voluntad de configurarlo como auténtico espacio de relación y actividad.

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Reforma de la Casa Parroquial . Vila-rodona

Lis Figueras i Toni Vidal, arquitectes . fotos: © Toni Vidal

Se interviene en el edificio anexo a la Iglesia del pueblo, muy deteriorado por el tiempo y falto de luz y ventilación debido a la singular medianera. La planta baja se destina a las actividades parroquiales y la planta primera, a vivienda del párroco.

La Montaña Mágica . 2013

Lúa Coderch . + Fundació Joan Miró

Lúa Coderch presentó del 19 de diciembre de 2013 al 16 de marzo de 2014 en el Espai 13 de la Fundació Joan Miró La montaña mágica, una exposición que gira alrededor de la paradoja del llamado «presente histórico», que define los momentos convertidos en memorables a partir de acontecimientos que han tenido lugar en la montaña de Montjuïc.

Vineum Bodegas Subterráneas . Girlan

Emilio Tuñón

La propuesta para el Vineum de Girlam parte de la idea principal de tratar de ofrecer a los visitantes una experiencia espacial de las bodegas enterradas en sí misma.

Centro educativo y deportivo . RIAZ

Pau Vidal . Jaime Aballí

El proyecto para el nuevo Cycle d’orientation de la Gruyère en Riaz significa la implantación de un centros de unas dimensiones considerables en una población dominada por las edificaciones pequeñas y dispersas.

“Propagate Skyscraper” . eVolo Skyscraper Competition

+ eVolo

Third place in 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Competition.
Link to 2014 eVolo Skyscraper Competition awarded entries.

Children’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation . Hokkaido

Sou Fujimoto . photos: © Daici Ano . © Sou Fujimoto . + archdaily

If It was possible to make a building with such a method how something was merely scattered, I thought it was a dreamlike building. And, as for this method, surprisingly precision planning is possible. As opposed to the complicated program called for, moving a box delicately, the plan can be flexibly packed just because it is random.

concurso Piensa Sol . Madrid

Jurgen H. Mayer . Juan Rey . + archdaily

La Puerta del Sol fue en sus orígenes uno de los accesos de la cerca que rodeaba Madrid en el siglo XV, un paso coronado por un sol haciendo referencia a su orientación hacia levante.

Restaurant Alpenblick . Uetendorf

Büning-Pfaue Kartmann . photos: © Ruedi Walti . + baunetz

Established in the former “Alpine View” spa hotel 90 years ago was the deaf and dumb home. With the expansion of the current facility for hearing disabled residents, the old spa buildings yielded to more recent residences, workshops, stables and sheds. This loose ensemble, grouped around the landscaped inner courtyard, was no longer oriented toward the surrounding scenery.

Collectiegebouw Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen . Rotterdam

Harry Gugger Studio . BARCODE Architects . + Museum Boijmans

The new Collection Building designed by Harry Gugger Studio & BARCODE Architects responds unequivocally to the layering of it’s location and is characterized by a creative, contemporary transformation of the Dutch archetype ‘PakHuis’ (warehouse).

Secret Strike Lleida . 2005



La Aventura del Saber . + musac

Re-hub Wittenberge_health/wellness/food . Europan 12 . Wittenberge

Winner . OPERASTUDIO

Wittenberge, halfway between Hamburg and Berlin, is a city with a strong naturalistic tourism, due to the presence of the Elbe, its valleys and meadows. The Elbe biosphere, recognized by UNESCO, is among the most beautiful river landscapes of Europe and extends to the historic town of Wittenberge.

Untitled (Bogotá) . 2013

+ Henrique Faria Fine Art

We live in a world that has largely lost touch with spirituality. In art, there is a long history of representation of religious iconography and spiritual traditions.All of Emilia Azcárate’s work is related both formally and conceptually with vital processes, one of which is spirituality...

Three-In-One Sports Center . Visp

Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes . photos: © Thomas Jantscher . + archdaily

The valais canton and the visp vocational college had a sports centre constructed at one end of the existing college complex. The building is a single, compact structure consisting of the sports halls part, which is orthogonal, and the service part, which is lower and whose shape is adapted to the outline of the existing buildings.

Plaça del Carme . Manresa

David Closes

L’actuació s’emmarca en l’estratègia de conversió en espai de vianants del conjunt del centre històric de la ciutat de Manresa. El projecte incloïa la urbanització de la plaça del Carme i dels carrers adjacents del Carme i dels Amics.