Architect: Iñaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares Location: Los Peñascales, Madrid, Spain Technical Architect: Manuel Iglesias Contractor: Antón Iakobiny Pitch S.L. Client: Guirao-Carnicero Project Year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Courtesy of Iñaqui Carnicero The house is located in a small neighbourhood on the west boundaries of Madrid in a place called “los Peñascales”, that mean something as well as ..
Parque Humano Architects have designed a club house on a golf course in Morelia, Mexico. The house occupies a natural ledge on a hillside looking towards the panoramic valley of Montana Monarca, in Morelia, Mexico. The building has been conceived as a homogenous stone mass, hollowing out a huge opening that slopes from ceiling to floor, framing the hillside panorama. A sloped celosia grid meant ..
BCHO Architects have completed this house buried in the ground in Seoul, Korea. Called Earth House, the project was built to honour the late Korean poet Yoon Dong-joo. The concrete-lined residence has two courtyards with earth floors, to which all rooms are connected. Rammed-earth walls make use of the excavated earth while wood from a pine tree from the site is embedded in the concrete courtyar..
Architect: Enota Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Jernej Živic, Polona Ruparčič, Matjaž Drinovec, Eva Matjašič, Nataša Mrkonjič, Maruša Zupančič Landscape Architect: Bruto Size: 4,620 m2 Budget: 3,800,000 EUR Client: LIZ Inženiring Type: Invited competition, First prize Year: 2004 Status: completed 2007 Photo: Miran Kambič A residential building with 47 dwelling units l..
Portuguese architects Risco shared with us their project Arena Dragão Caixa, a pavilion for Porto Football Club. The project was completed in 2009 and has an area of 13,900 m2. You can see more images and architect’s description after the break. The site, which is irregular in shape, is actually the left-over of a network of road infrastructures. The construction of the pavilion is particularly ..
client: The municipality of Kolding place: Vonsild, Denmark year: 2009 function: Design Kindergarten size: 13,500sqm commission: Competition _1st.prize from cebra
Architect: DLR Group Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Owner: Phoenix Union High School District #210 Engineer: DLR Group Contractor: Adolfson & Peterson Construction Project Year: 2007 Area: 345,000 SF; 51 Acres Photographs: Mark Boisclair Challenge Adapt a school district’s commitment to the Small Schools Movement within a new 2,400 student urban high school. Beginning in 2000, the Phoenix Union High..
Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. Above photograph by Bruce Sutherland Called Green Point Stadium, the project is located in Cape Town and has a capacity of 68,000 on three tiers. Once the 2010 FIFA World Cup is over 13,000 of these seats will be removed and repl..
Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us his photographs of a centre for rescued turtles, dolphins and birds in Barcelona by Hidalgo Hartmann Arquitectura. Called CRAM Foundation, the project is situated on a former golf course and makes use of two existing swimming pools plus a former creche building. This refurbished building forms the administrative centre for the complex and also provides a vis..
Architectural photographer Joao Morgado has sent us some images of a house made of glass in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Wiel Arets Architects. Called H House, all the internal and external walls are a combination of transparent and opaque glass, however a series of curtains on the interior provide privacy. The building has no structural walls, with a few rectangular columns providing su..
