Architect: Jordi Badia /Josep Val Location: Leon, Spain Project: 1999 Construction: 2000 Collaborators: Elena Valls, Tirma Balague, Albert Cibiach , Marcos Catalan, Juan Carlos Castro, Frans Massana, Lorena Maristany, Rafael Berengena, Francesc Belart, Santi Vinuesa, Barbara Camarero, Gines Egea, Josep Martinez, Luis Victori, Sergi Serrat, Lluis Carreras, Jordi Mercade Structure: Eduard Doce, ar..
Architects: Steven Holl Architects Location: Paradise Valley, AZ, USA Architects: Steven Holl (design architect), Martin Cox (project architect), Tim Bade (schematic design), Robert Edmonds, Annette Goderbauer, Hideki Hirahara, Clark Manning (project team) Project Year: 2002-2005 Structural Engineer: Rudow & Berry Mechanical Engineer: Roy Otterbein Civil Engineer: Fleet Fisher Engineering Electr..
Architects: dosmasuno arquitectos - Ignacio Borrego, Néstor Montenegro and Lina Toro Location: Madrid, Spain Construction beggining: September 2004 Construction ending: November 2007 Client: EMVS. Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda y Suelo de Madrid Contractor: Begar Structural advisor: José Luis de Míguel Consulting Engineers: Grupo JG Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán
Davide Marchetti Architetto have won a competition to design the new Australian Pavilion in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale in Italy. The 500 square metre concrete pavilion will be constructed for the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens 14 September to 23 November. Davide Marchetti Architetto’s design was the winning entry to a competition commissioned by Cafe Di Stasio. An exhibi..
Feldbalz is a new home overlooking Lake Zurich designed by Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann. The three-storey house includes space for children on the ground floor, which leads to the garden, family living rooms on the first floor and the parents’ rooms at the top of the house. A concrete path connects the garden with the house, bordering a swimming pool. Photographs by Bruno Helbing. See Wüstemann..
Chatou by h2o architectes Chatou by Paris-based h2o architectes is a garden pavilion where the furniture forms the entire interior. Arranged on four split levels, the 12m² building is intended for a teenager to live within the garden of the family home. Made from silver birch plywood, the furniture allows for sleeping, living, studying and washing. Chatou This little building, located in the own..
David Chipperfield Architects and artist Antony Gormley have designed the 2008 pavilion for the Kivik Art Centre in Österlen, Sweden, which opens this week. The concrete structure consists of three parts with equal volumes: an enclosed space in the base, an open viewing platform further up and a tower with spiral stairs leading to an 18 metre high viewing platform. Gormley says: “I see the work ..
Paulo David - Centro das Artes [Casa Das Mudas] in Calheta, Madeira Paulo David’s Centro das Artes, Casa das Mudas is based in Portugal’s Madeira island. It remains the memory of the unexpected angles, the cut of the volumes against the loaming landscape, the frames resting on the interior light, the strength of the texture and richness of the stone, the confrontations between the opaque darknes..
Chalu house 854 Scalabrini Ortiz Avenue. apartment 3. Buenos Aires. Argentina. Studio: Adamo-Faiden The “Chorizo (Sausage) Houses” constituted one of the most systematized typologies in Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century. They were built in deep narrow urban plots and they were organized through a runner that communicated all the units, which at that time were rented by European i..
