FORMER ALFA ROMEO FACTORY 2B-2C AREA URBAN PLAN NUOVO PORTELLO The project creates a new city part in coherence with the larger process of transformation affecting the area.The anomalous scale of the existing industrial Alfa Romeo precinct is opened to collective use by tracing a new series of pathways connecting it with the surrounding urban net. A new square along via Traiano generates a new d..
PARKRAND BUILDING Buurt 9 (neighborhood number nine) is a characteristic piece of the Amsterdam Western Garden Cities, a big housing development of the 1950s and 1960s built with the aim to house as many people as quickly as possible. But the design of the Garden Cities has enormous spatial qualities: sequences of spacious parks surround the neighborhoods and give the development its name. Recen..
Introduction This project aimed towards the creation of a small, though outstanding and unique residential building complex in the already densely built area of Varkiza.On the 379 m2 site, the building was positioned semi-attached on the side of the vertical circulation core, leaving the maximum possible distance from the road and allowing the creation of a spacious pool-garden. Additionally, th..
Architects: 57 STUDIO - Maurizio Angelini / Benjamín Oportot Location: Colina, Chile Collaborators: Felipe Zamora / Carla Uribe Project year: 2006-2007 Construction year: 2007-2008 Structural Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa Contractor: CYBCO Materials: Concrete / Steel / Stone Photographs: 57 STUDIO The assignment is a single unit house in a residential park in northern Santiago. The sites - about 50..
Architects: Marek Rytych Architekt Location: Warsaw, Poland Project team: Marek Rytych, Krzysztof Kryska, Joanna Kiepas Project Area: 436 sqm Photographs: MRA Through this house you can rush by and not even notice that you have trespassed a kind of a border. There is no threshold - literally and figuratively. Paved road, on which we step towards the entrance penetrates the interiors and comes ou..
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleo have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. The large block is divided into thirty smaller, staggered blocks of apartments, creating communal patios throughout the building and allowing air and light to penetrate between the homes. In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartment..
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Nagoya, Japan, featuring a room dedicated to plants. The house, situated on a narrow plot surrounded by neighbouring houses, accommodates the client’s desire for a vibrant garden by including a landscaped “garden room” bordering the main living space. The architects aimed to treat the rooms and garden in the same way. Object..
Architect: Studio Gang Architects Location: Chicago, IL, USA Owner: SOS Children’s Villages Completion: 2008 Photographs: Steve Hall @ Hedrich Blessing SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings. Multi-faceted public spaces in t..
Casa en la Cala Galiota, Mallorca, Spain, by Joan Riera + Francisco Barceló from dailyicon
German firm Architekten Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck have completed a copper-clad concert hall in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria. Called the Schloss Grafengg Concert Hall and located in the grounds of Grafenegg Castle, the new building has been integrated with the castle’s existing, heritage-protected, former riding-school buildings, to which it is connected by a series of glazed lobbi..
