Parque del RíO . Medellín

MTMarquitectos . Miguel Angel Guerrero . Juan David Bocanumenth

Arrancamos nuestro proyecto desde la necesidad de conocer y clasificar lo existente con la minuciosidad de un taxonomista, y también desde el convencimiento de proponer desde un cierto y casi obligado desapego sobre lo aprendido. Esta mezcla de conocimiento e inocencia nos permitirá realizar una relectura de la ciudad sin tantos apriorismos, planteando problemas y soluciones sin las limitaciones y ataduras de una visión demasiado cercana de lo existente, con planteamientos que respondieron a otra época y necesidades que ahora precisan ser revisados y actualizados.

The river Sihl | Changing the conditions of a river and its city . Zurich

Matthias Winter . ETH Zürich . Tutor: Christian Kerez . + archiprix

The riverbed of the Sihl is dimensioned for high-water scenarios even though the water level is very low most of the time. This leads to huge distances between the city and the river and a barely usable riverbank. By means of a retention area in Zurich’s Allmend, the project completely eliminates the risk of flooding in the inner city, and thus creates new possibilities for the treatment of the riverbank and for the water level itself. In the city centre, the water surface is raised several metres to a steady level. Thanks to the new border, the city and the water level meet and thus establish a new connection between the city and the water. The newly gained free space along the river is restored to the city.

Shikatebukuro ANNEX . Saitama

Ikimono architects . + japan-architects

Open building and guest house in Saitama.

SOLO HOUSE . MATARRAÑA

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

The SOLO HOUSE circular concrete roof with a diameter of 45 meters has been placed on top of four rows of steel columns. Construction will now continue with sealing the building envelopes, and is expected to finish in summer 2015.

New Arquia office . Girona

Javier de las Heras . photos: © Adrià Goula

Pattern
Arrange a floor plan that comes from adding irregular areas using an orthogonal pattern that will organise the new space in a clear and simple way.

PYRAMIDEN – REMEMBERING THE FUTURE . Experimental preservation competition

design team: Kelly Neill . Devin Braun . Mary Llyod-Lynch . University of Toronto . + 120 Hours

120 Hours competition proposal.

stairs JUCHE TOWER

huis marseille . photos: © Eddo Hartmann

Setting the Stage: Pyongyang sees photographer Eddo Hartmann and North Korean art specialists Koryo Studio collaborate on a project documenting the North Korean endeavour to shape the ultimate socialist city and the lives of the people in it. In any socialist regime, architecture plays a key part in the process of building up a new social and political environment.

Students hall of residence . Mureaux

Architectures Raphaël Gabrion

2013 Competition entry.

Vivienda y patio en el Poblenou . Barcelona

CAVAA . fotos: © Filippo Poli

Este piso principal tiene un patio interior, tranquilo y aislado de las calles del ensanche del Poblenou de Barcelona. En una estructura de vivienda en chaflán, centramos los esfuerzos del proyecto en transformar el ámbito de la cocina, el salón y su relación con el patio. Desde nuestros primeros bocetos, invitamos el patio a entrar dentro de la casa, dando valor a la cocina y a todos los espacios de estar anejos.

What is architecture?



What is architecture?

Nhow Hotel Rai . Amsterdam

OMA . + Rai

In June 2014 City of Amsterdam and Amsterdam RAI opened the tendering procedure for the development, realisation and exploitation of a headquarter hotel RAI. Among the eleven entries submitted the winning concept of OMA, COD and NH Hotel Group stood out because of the additional special facilities such as a television studio, gallery, sculpture garden, spa, restaurant and bar. Above all, the iconic design of the building was decisive.
The construction of this 91-meter high hotel is planned for mid-2016. The hotel is located in the triangle of the Europa Boulevard, the highway A10 and the Amsterdam RAI Convention Centre.
With its 650 rooms nhow Amsterdam RAI will become the biggest hotel in the Benelux.

Espacio expositivo Feria DEARTE . Madrid

Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos

La planta alta de LaSede del COAM es una galería acristalada, bañada en luz y con magníficas vistas de los tejados de Madrid.
La superficie expositiva de la propuesta es un sencillo panel pintado de color negro mate para que la luz natural destaque al máximo las obras de la feria.
Los paneles se disponen en bahías sucesivas, de manera que la espina central se estabilice con los laterales y estos con unas piezas singulares colocadas en los extremos.

Río Blanco Pavilion . Guadalajara

Estudio Carme Pinós . fotos: © Jordi Bernadó . + archdaily

The project consists of a small resting pavilion facing a spectacular view of the Barranco del Rio Dulce, in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, next to a horse riding practice arena.

House with art studio . Warsaw

Piotr Brzoza . Marcin Kwietowicz . photos: © Juliusz Sokolowski . + East-CentricArch

As we began working on the project, our goal was not to build a house on a plot, but to convert the plot to a space one could call home, an area that would exist as a work-life space for its inhabitants. The chosen concept allowed also an efficient use of current situation – deep and surrounded by walls of nearby houses.
The design is an outcome of a search for an optimal position for individual functions; the cross sections are rather reactions for its spatial context. Overlapping these two contexts created a series of interiors with a consistent geometrical logic, but different proportions and heights, sometimes surprising, due to being determined by an invisible factor.

Queda protegida gran parte del histórico edificio Clesa.

Alejandro de la Sota

La Comisión Local de Patrimonio Histórico de Madrid ha decretado la protección de la antigua central lechera de Clesa, a través de su catalogación en el Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de Madrid.

CA Crédito Agrícola . Viana do Castelo

Marques Franco Arquitectos . photos: © José Campos Architectural Photography . + archdaily

Designing a bank is always a delicate affair. On the one hand it is important to highlight the transparency and accessibility necessary to an institution that holds our money. On the other hand, it is always necessary to ensure a sense of security and robustness. The exterior of the building looks for that, the ground floor is transparent, easy to see through and access, the upper floors have less fenestrations and more solid construction.

Ringen pavilion . Copenhagen

design team: Sofia Adolfsson . Camila L. A. Stadler Buschle . Teresa Fernández

Kongens Have is the oldest garden in Denmark and a very popular place to meet and relax in the center of Copenhagen. King Christian IV established the Renaissance style of the garden in the early 1600s, reflecting in very simple geometrical shapes. After that, the garden passed throughout different stylistic periods, as baroque and a romantic period. And influenced by the historical landscape pattern, Ringen was designed, challenging the old with the new, with a contemporary space shaped as a circle, an united element, to support the geometry dialog.

Jardín portátil . 2009

+ GALERIA LUISA STRINA . Galería Elba Benítez

Nicolás Paris was born in 1977 in Bogotá, Colombia, where he continues to live and work. Academically trained in architecture, Paris was a primary school teacher in Meta, Colombia, before pursuing a career as an artist.

Bolling Municipal Building . Boston

Mecanoo Architecten . Sasaki Associates . photos: © Mecanoo

As a testimony to the vision of the late mayor Thomas M. Menino, the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building stands proudly over Dudley Square. It was Menino who decided the City of Boston would develop the vital plot of land by consolidating 500 civil servants from the Boston Public Schools department into a new municipal office building for education, in conjunction with a community centre and retail space.­­­

sda . Camp Clar

NUA Arquitectures . fotos: © Pixelmoreno

El barrio de Camp Clar, creado a principios de 1960 para alojar a los trabajadores de las empresas petroquímicas que aparecieron durante la industrialización de la ciudad, forma parte de esta familia de polígonos de rápida construcción que funcionan normalmente vinculados a las ciudades pero mantienen a la vez su propia autonomía y adoptan una morfología urbana clásica basada en la disposición orientada de grandes bloques aislados con plantas bajas libres y espacio público a su alrededor. Con el paso de los años, Camp Clar ha ido acogiendo a las sucesivas llegadas de inmigrantes a la ciudad gracias a unos alquileres muy asequibles. Camp Clar no que no se puede entender sin su vinculación con la zona industrial de la ciudad.

Quinta da Malagueira



The Architectural Review

Telegrama, no tuit

Los defectos en que los habitantes de otros países caen al hablar una lengua extranjera nos suelen poner en la pista de los que nos son propios. Las vocales y consonantes que ellos apenas pronuncian

Telegrama, no tuit

La tristeza, la melancolía, la desilusión, impulsa en no pocas ocasiones nuestros pensamientos más clarividentes. ¿Es necesario

Telegrama, no tuit

Si en lo pequeño está la virtud, ¿por qué se sienten tan grandes

Peek & Cloppenburg Flagship Store . Vienna

David Chipperfield Architects . photos: © Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects

The historic centre of Vienna is rich in architecture, including Baroque castles and gardens as well as the late-nineteenth-century Ringstraße lined with grand buildings, monuments and parks. Since 2001 the historic centre has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Peek & Cloppenburg flagship store is situated on Kärntner Straße, the central shopping street within this protected area. The new building is sensitive to the historic context while asserting its own identity as a modern department store.

Sled . 1969

+ Mitchell-Innes & Nash

The multiples carry a special significance in Beuys’s oeuvre; he once said: “If you have all my multiples, then you have me completely.” Connected to his ambition to affect social change through art, the multiples allowed Beuys an avenue to disseminate his ideas at greater range.

House transformation . Meilen

Buchner Bründler Architekten . PHOTOS: © RUEDI WALTI

Das bestehende Einfamilienhaus wurde 1966 erbaut und seitdem bewohnt. Das Grundstück liegt am Ende der Eichholzstrasse, direkt angrenzend an die Landwirtschaftszone. Durch die überhöhte Hanglage hat man vom Grundstück aus eine einmalige Bergsicht und Sicht über das Zürichseebecken.

ikuta church . Kanagawa

Ryue Nishizawa . + esna . SAPS

Two story church complex on the hillside of Kanagawa, Japan, comprising a church and an administration building.

ZAC centre-ville "L'illot place" . Mérignac

RCR Architectes . ARTOTEC . Mérignac

Restricted Competition. 1st place.

La trama de lo complejo

teks: tejer, fabricar, ensemblar, carpintería
complexus: abarcar, rodear, enlazar, tejer conjuntamente

1. Dos tipos de entramado según Semper.

+ David Obon

Una dinámica común describe la evolución de lo biológico, lo social y lo cultural. Se trata de una dinámica muy patente en la actualidad y que atañe a la disciplina arquitectónica en todas sus dimensiones. Puede ser descrita de manera sencilla: la complejidad tiende a aumentar 1.

PEAR TREE HOUSE

Edgley Design . photos: © Nicholas Worley . + baunetz

The concept for this backland house began with a 100 year old pear tree, a remnant of the site’s history as a Victorian fruit orchard. The house has been built around this tree in two volumes, linked by a glass walkway.
The clients wanted to preserve the character of the site and evoke its history through the building. To this end there is a simple aesthetic concept to emphasis the vertical articulation of the building with views through the building defined by slender vertical elements which echo the experience of looking through trees.
Board marked concrete to the ground floor walls supports a timber box at first floor, with openings framed by gold aluminium trims.

Museo Munch . Oslo

estudio Herreros . fotos: © Geir Hansen, AF Advansia . + NRK

Fotos de la simulación de fachada del Museo Munch.

Proyecto Madrid 0,0 . Torrejón de Ardoz

Bakpak Architects . Ignacio de la Peña Muñoz

Concurso. Segundo premio ax equo.

Stadtmuseum . Aarau

Diener & Diener Architekten . photos: © Yohan Zerdoun . + Stadtmuseum Aarau

After three years of work the Aarau Stadtmuseum designed by Diener & Diener has reopened.

Torre Neruda . Guadalajara

Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA . + ouest

Tree House Townhomes . Toronto

5468796 Architects . + The Tree House

The Tree House Townhomes is a new townhouse development by Symmetry Developments, Engine Developments Inc. and Fortress Real Developments in Toronto, currently in preconstruction.

GH-5631681770 entry

Guggenheim Helsinki competition . + finalist proposals

Detailed proposals from the six finalists -AGPS Architecture, Asif Khan, Fake Industries Architectural Agonism, Haas Cook Zemmrich STUDIO2050, Moreau Kusunoki Architectes, SMAR Architecture- of the Guggenheim Helsinki competition have been released.

Villa Mörtnäs . Stockholm

Fourfoursixsix . photos: © Johan Dehlin . + wallpaper

Fourfoursixsix were approached to design a family home in the Stockholm Archipelago.
The building faces the sea to the north, so the design seeks solidity with selected key apertures revealing the view.
The living areas have been placed at the top of the building in order to enhance sunlight, with a southern terrace meeting a steep rock-face to the rear. Key to the design's proportion is the exaggerated floor to ceiling height compared with the bedroom level below, which allows vast amounts of light in, particularly through the large, south-facing, sliding glass doors.
The project was completed in 2014.

The Shepherds Building . London

Duggan Morris Architects . + The Shepherds Building

Duggan Morris Architects were commissioned by Helical Bar in 2013, through a competitive selection process, to conduct a site-wide refurbishment programme of an eight storey, 150,000sqft. post war concrete frame and brick faced building in Shepherds Bush, London.

Edificio Josefa López . Barcelona



+ DOCOMOMO

El edificio ocupa una esquina en la zona alta de Barcelona, y está formado por un total de seis viviendas dúplex, con un espacio a doble altura en la sala de estar. La elección del dúplex, que era una novedosa solución tipológica en ese momento, permitía reducir la superficie de las zonas de paso de las viviendas. Dentro del edificio encontramos todo tipo de artefactos técnicos, como tubos de recogida de basuras, ascensores con doble cabina (ascensor y montacargas), montaplatos, etc., que expresan la tendencia maquinista del edificio. Gracias a las dimensiones holgadas de las viviendas, Sert pudo explorar con gran intensidad las posibilidades expresivas del lenguaje purista de Le Corbusier, hasta el punto de que este edificio se puede considerar como uno de los más significativos de su época. En la fachada que da a la calle Muntaner se expresa la distribución interior de los dúplex, a través de la alternancia de ventanas, terrazas y balcones; en cambio, en la fachada que da a la calle Párroco Ubach, los balcones se repiten de arriba abajo. Las dos primeras crujías que dan a la calle Muntaner son de estructura metálica, las demás, de muros de carga. Los cerramientos de estuco están pintados de color gris y verde pálido (verde Bauhaus), los tubos de acero son blancos, las ventanas metálicas, de color gris oscuro, y la parte baja del edificio está revestida con paneles de vidrio, pintados por su cara interior.
Xavier Llobet Ribeiro - DOCOMOMO

BALNEARIO DE LA FUENTE SANTA . Fuencaliente de la Palma

Enguita & Lasso de la Vega

Dada la condición de Espacio natural protegido de los terrenos donde se propone la construcción del Balneario, el emplazamiento y la forma del conjunto termal han sido las primeras decisiones críticas tomadas en el proceso de proyecto. Decisiones que tienen como objetivo alcanzar el mínimo impacto ambiental posible.

Municipal Stadium . Osorno

Plan Comun (Felipe De Ferrari, Diego Grass, Kim Courreges, Marcelo Cox, Thomas Batzenschlager)

Sports container and urban landmark: The proposal considers the new Osorno Municipal Stadium as a sober, active and connected building with strong bonds with the entire Olympic Complex. It assumes its condition as a new sports landmark; it reorders and revitalizes the activities within the preexisting facilities; in addition, it makes the best out of its privileged location in the city, offering a new identity for this urban context. This is achieved by making a strategic use of fundamental resources such as orientation, typology, order, program, weather and character in two scales: local and urban –as both container and public facade.

Keyhole 3 . 2011

+ Hasted Kraeutler

Now a prominent name, Erwin Olaf has gained global recognition designing the Dutch side of the Euro coin in 2013, and winning the 2011 Johannes Vermeer Award, among other accolades. Known for stunningly stylized work throughout which a provocative tension reigns, Olaf employs high polish to both perverse and eerily seductive effect.

Micro-Yuan’er . Beijing

Standard Architecture . photos: © Su Shengliang

Micro- Yuan’er is a project by Zhang Ke’s ZAO/standardarchitecture team to renovate a typical “Big-Messy Courtyard” of Cha’er Hutong #8 in Dashilar area. Micro-Yuan’er is a new type of organic renewal in Beijing old city by inserting a mini art space and a mini library. The project is sponsored by leading international brand CAMERICH.

Casa Arturo Quintana . México

+ La Forma Moderna en Latinoamérica

Casa Arturo Quintana, Calle del Fuego 842, Jardines del Pedregal, México, D.F 1965. Arq. Augusto H Álvarez

Making Traces



+ Tate Modern

design competition proposal

Maritimt Vitensenter i Tungevågen

Not awarded entry.

BALNEARIO DE LA FUENTE SANTA . Fuencaliente de la Palma

Two-Bo Arquitectura

LAGUNA es un homenaje al lugar y a la memoria que éste encierra.
Quisimos que nuestro proyecto sólo fuera agua, una gran extensión de agua resguardada en el terreno y abierta al océano. La horizontalidad del agua nos revela la topografía existente que antes permanecía oculta, y en esa suave colisión contra las rocas se dibuja la geometría del proyecto.

DV house . Oudenaarde

Lezze . photos: © Koen Van Damme Architectural Photograpy

Dwelling between party walls.

THE INTANGIBLE TANGIBLE lecture



+ THE INTANGIBLE TANGIBLE

BALNEARIO DE LA FUENTE SANTA . Fuencaliente de la Palma

Federico Soriano . + Cabildo de La Palma

El proyecto denominado Piedra de fuego de Federico Soriano, ha obtenido el primer premio del Concurso de Ideas promovido por el Cabildo de La Palma para el diseño del futuro balneario de la Fuente Santa. Piedra de Fuego fue elegido entre 105 propuestas.

BALNEARIO DE LA FUENTE SANTA . Fuencaliente de la Palma

Tapia+Figueiras arquitectos

Propuesta no premiada en concurso abierto de ideas.

Hannoun . 1997- 2009

Taysir Batniji . + Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Batniji often works with media that disappear or disintegrate over time. In his performance installation, Hanoun (a Palestinian poppy), which was first presented in the Palestinian Pavillion at the Venice Biennale in 2009, Batniji demonstrates the impermanence of life and memory.

Cite Med Housing Complex . Marseille

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT . PietriArchitectes . 5+1AA . Carta Associés

Nous voyons la renaissance de Marseille. Nous croyons en une acceptation de la controverse en une acceptation des différences, tant qu’elles enrichissent plus qu’elles ne divisent.
Notre projet organise l’espace de façon stable, de façon à ce que les marseillais puissent y développer tour à tour une intimité protectrice et une sociabilité solidaire. Notre projet se développe selon une stratégie qui recherche l’équilibre, la lumière.

Neuroscience Institute & Peretsman-Scully Hall . Princeton

Rafael Moneo . LLP Architects . photos: © Michael Moran

Developed with the aim of pushing the university to the forefront of neuroscience and behavioral science research, the new complex will be part of a natural sciences neighborhood that Princeton is currently creating.

Philharmonie . Szczecin



Baron-Baron

linear Park La Sagrera . Barcelona

RCR arquitectes . aldayjover arquitectos . West 8

A new green Diagonal axis is extended into the core of Barcelona thanks to the burial of the existing railways. This new public space is a means to connect the sea, the city and its natural surroundings. The new La Sagrera linear park or Parc del Camí Comtal represents a new ‘Slow’ Barcelona that gives relief to the urban rush of the city of Cerdá. It greatly adds biodiversity as it introduces a new slow and easy green cross, facing the famous Diagonal avenue, paradigm of the urban life.

LANDLINE SKYLINE . 2014

+ Cheim & Read

Begun in 2013, Scully’s Landline series resonates with newfound urgency and freedom. Thick horizontal bands of subtly-layered color provide his compositions with rhythmic pulse, while the interactions between striations of paint bristle with energy.

Tsuchihashi House . Tokyo

Kazuyo Sejima & Associates . photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha . + ja+u

On a small site in tokyo, tightly surrounded by neighboring houses, the 72 m2 (775 ft2) home’s light penetrates into the lower levels.