Architects: Vora Arquitectura - Pere Buil Castells & Jordi Fornells Castello Location: Barcelona, Spain Competition year: 2000 Construction year: 2005-2007 Project team: Filipe Araujo, Ricardo Borges (lisboa), Arnau Boronat, Ruben Heras, Sonia Bom, Inigo Ribera, Sonia Gaspar (barcelona) Client: Foment de Ciutat Vella Contractor: Acciona Infraestructuras Structural Engineer: Manuel Arguijo y Asoc..
Gerard Veciana, from ARTEKS Arquitectura shared with us his latest project in Tarragona, Spain. Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura Location: Tarragona, Spain Architects in charge: Gerard Veciana Membrado & Elisabet Faura Pavia Collaborators: Miquel Mercé, Manuel Gonzalez, Rubén Alonso, Flavio Rezende Project Year: 2008 Structural Engineering: Ing.Joan Rovira, Ing. José María Velasco / www.amatria.co..
The spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, in places like the Dominican Republic..
More fresh portuguese architecture, thanks to photographer Joao Morgado for sharing this with us! Aires Mateus is an office that has been working on minaml projects, blending the new with the old in a subtle way. More pictures after the jump.
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Project Year: 2006-2008 Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Anna Breda, Luis Ferreira, Ana Kosi, Katja Aljaz Client: Mercator d.d. Interior Design: Mercator Optima Structural Engineering: Projecta d.o.o. Contractor: Gradis Skupina G d.d. Constructed Area: 2,000 ..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Opole, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny Collaborators: Marlena Wolnik, Łukasz Pra?uch Design Year: 2002-2003 Construction Year: 2003-2006 Site Area: 10,057 sqm Constructed Area: 660 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES Location The house is situated in Poland, close to Opole. Majority of low density settlement in the surroundings is formed of “cube - houses”, bu..
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects Location: Hokkaido, Japan Project Team: Hiroshi Kato Project Year: 2006 Site Area: 14,590 sqm Constructed Area: 2,536 sqm Photographer: Daici Ano & Sou Fujimoto This is the treatment center for mentally disturbed children where they live together to get regaining their mental health. It may be thought that it is a very special building when I write so, but it ..
Architects: Architecture W Location: Nagoya, Japan Project Team: Michel Weenick, Ayumi Sengoku, Yukiko Iwanaga, Brian White Client: Sadao Tokuda Project Year: 2004 Constructed Area: 597 sqm Structural Engineer: Astec Landscape: KK Design Photographer: Andy Boone The design of the m/f house was driven by the desire top create an unique multifamily housing project that addresses the needs of a con..
Las obras mínimas suelen condensar lo mejor de un arquitecto. Suelen también acabar entre las obras preferidas y mejor recordadas por sus autores. Ocurre esto, muchas veces, a pesar de ser tales obras las menos rentables, las que más trabajo han costado, las menos divulgadas. XXS disfrutará, sin duda, del lado bueno de ese destino. Located in Krakovo, the very centre of Ljubljana, a historical v..
A university faculty building in Milan by Irish practice Grafton Architects has been named World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival, held in Barcelona last week. Luigi Bocconi University was praised as a “magical subterranean realm” by judges including Robert Stern, Richard Burdett and Cecil Balmond. Here’s a statement from the World Architecture Festival, followed..
