Photographer Montse Zamorano has sent us his photographs of Álvaro Siza’s recently-completed auditorium for the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao. Called Paraninfo de la Universidad del País Vasco, the L-shaped upper storeys create a terrace at first-floor level. The project sits opposite the Nueva Biblioteca de la Universidad de Deusto by architect Rafael Moneo, opened in 2007, with the two ..
Architects: Sequeira Arquitectos Associados Lda Location: Guimarães, Portugal Project Architects: Mário Sequeira, Alfredo Machado Project Team: Nuno Veiga Site Area: 1018 sqm Project Area: 650 sqm Project Year: 2005- 2010 Photographs: Nelson Garrido 650 square meters were needed to solve all the requirements of the owner. The house would have to be spread over three floors in order to adjust to ..
YKB Banking Academy client: yapı kredi bank date: 2009 location: gebze, izmit construction area: 9.500 m² from teget
Geneva studio Clavienrossier created this home in the Swiss Alps by adding two tinted concrete volumes atop the remains of a stone house and adjacent barn. The project is located in Charrat in the Valais canton of Switzerland and involved demolishing much of the existing structure while retaining the original cellars and floors. The two concrete additions have faceted walls, angled inwards towar..
Competition for Izmir Opera House | 1.st Prize client: Izmir Metropolitan Municipality date: 2010 location: Karşıyaka, izmir total area: 33.064 m² Team Mehmet Kütükçüoğlu, Architect Ertuğ Uçar, Architect Mert Üçer, Architect Onur Akın, Architect Emiliano Bugatti, Architect Caner Bilgin, Architect Asistants İrem Güçlü, student Ali Can Atabey, student Technical Team - Consultants Uğur Seymen, Civi..
Teget Architectural Office designed the Ardesco Houses in Yalikavak, Mugla, Turkey. from contemporist
Architects: Marcio Kogan Location: Salvador, Brazil Co-authors: Suzana glogowski, Samanta Cafardo, Interior Design Co-authors, Diana Radomysler Collaborators: Henrique Bustamante, Sergio Ekerman Team: Beatriz Meyer, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Chalabi, Eduardo Glycerio, Gabriel Kogan, Lair Reis, Maria Cristina Motta, Mariana Simas, Oswaldo pessano, Renata furlanetto Project area: 2,165 sqm Pro..
Dutch practice HVDN architecten have completed this wood and aluminium-clad building to temporarily house a school in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Called Het 4e Gymnasium, the modular building has a square plan constructed around an internal courtyard and features a wooden façade, interrupted by coloured aluminium panels. The courtyard is the heart of the school providing an easy circulation rout..
This mountainside house by G2 Estudio in Argentine Patagonia is wrapped in a stone and wood facade. Called Ribbon House, the single-family home is criss-crossed internally by diagonal columns and windows. Here’s a bit of text from the architects: The juxtaposition of the different volumes between the public and private spaces of the house, the social and family life, gives place to a dynamic wal..
Architects: Architectural Bureau G.Natkevicius & Partners Location: Pučkorių st., Vilnius, Lithuania Sculptor: A.Šlapikas Structural Engineering: JSC KONSTRUKTORIŲ CECHAS, J. Vašeikienė Lightning: PROMODUS IO and sculptor A. Šlapikas Landscape Architects: E.Nomeikienė, I.Čepurienė Project area: 1,647 sqm Project year: 2007 Photographs: R.Urbakavičius The custumer is a banker and antique book col..
