El pabellón está elevado sobre tres núcleos estructurales y de comunicación liberando el espacio de planta baja para crear una plaza y ceder un espacio libre al conjunto de la expo. A esa plaza se superponen cuatro niveles. Inicialmente se construyen únicamente dos, para la exposición, durante la cual funcionará el pabellón de Aragón. Para su uso posterior, como departamento del Gobierno de Arag..
Architects: Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA Location: Frontenex, France Collaborator: Philippe Le Roy, Architecte EPFZ Engineering: Jean Regad, Geneve Project Year: 2004-2006 Photographs: Francesca Giovanelli The construction is located on an old property that comprises several high-quality buildings, among which an orangery dating from the early 19th century. The project includes the building..
Architects: Garduno Arquitectos - Juan Garduno, Ernesto Flores, Ricardo Guzman, Daniel Banda Location: Polanco, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico Project year: 2008 Site Area: 1,100 sqm Constructed Area: 6,300 sqm Structural Design: Diseno y Supervision S.C. Contractor: BICYQ Construcciones Photographs: Sofocles Hernandez, Paul Czitrom The lot was located in a difficult area, originally classified as hig..
Por su ubicación respecto de las áreas industriales y químicas del entorno, que no permiten un uso residencial, el edificio rehabilitado de una antigua serrería alberga ahora un taller de arquitectura. El proyecto recupera el edificio conservando su estructura y cerramiento perimetral. La rehabilitación se materializa en dos tratamientos diferentes para el interior y el exterior. El exterior val..
Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a visual and performing arts high school in Los Angeles, USA. The campus is comprised of seven buildings: four classroom buildings, a library, a cafeteria and a professional performing arts theatre. The comprehensive high school will accommodate about 1,800 students, organised into four academies. Here’s some more information from Coop Himmelb(l)au: – ..
An exhibition of work by french designer Matali Crasset called Living Wood is on show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France. Pieces include furniture that consists of orange leather seats arranged on a block of wood, and an animation entitled Spring City. The exhibition continues until 10 January. The following information is from Matali Crasset: – LIVING WOOD Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pl..
Here are some more images of the Welcome Back bus designed by Héctor Serrano Studio, Miñarro García and Javier Esteban, which won second prize in the New Bus For London competition last week. See our previous story for details of the other winners. Lighting in the entrance platform at the back of the vehicle alerts boarding or alighting passengers when the bus is about to move. The bus is compac..
First year students of the Vehicle Design course at London’s Royal College of Art presented concepts for light, compact cars at the Science Museum in London earlier this month. The students were asked to research Japanese light vehicles Kei cars, then design a version for a chosen European city. Above: Augustin Barbot, 25 from France Aimed at commuters who need to travel into the city from the r..
Proposals by architects MAD, BIG, INABA, and Mass Studies for an urban plan for the city of Ansan in South Korea are on show at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Ansan. Each of the four projects is meant to be viewed at two scales - asproposals for monumental buildings in the city and as furniture in thegallery where they are displayed. Top image: Rendered site view of newAnsan city plan. “Th..
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these photos of Casa Parr, a recently completed house by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos in Chiguayante, Chile. The single-storey house is built on the site of the owner’s childhood home. The new building comprises twelve rooms arranged around nine courtyards, constructed around the existing trees on the site. Each room has a high, pitched ceiling wit..
