Architects: AMID (Cero9) / Cristina Díaz Moreno + Efrén García Grinda Location: Jerte Valley, Cáceres, Spain Client: Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, Junta de Extremadura. Program: Cherry Tree Fair and Convention Centre in the Jerte Valley Competition Team: Luis Cabrejas Guijarro, Jorge Saz Semolino, José Quintanar Iniesta, Bruno Gomes, Mireia Luzárraga. Project Team: Jorge Saz Semolino, Alex Mu..
Architects: TYIN Tegnestue Location: Min Buri, Bangkok Collaborator: CASE Studio Architects Project team: Pasi Aalto, Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen, Yashar Hanstad, Magnus Henriksen, Erlend Bauck Sole Client: Old Market Community Project: Community house Cost: 27,000 NOK Project year: March 2009 - May 2009 Photographs: Pasi Aalto TYIN tegnestue is a non-profit organization working humanitarian thro..
A museum dedicated to Belgian artist and Tintin author Hergé, designed by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, opened earlier this month in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (via yatzer). The Musée Hergé is situated in a forest and connected to the city of Louvain-la-Neuve by a footbridge. Large, comic-strip-like bay windows allow natural light to fill the large reception area, from which the four large ex..
spanish architecture studio menis arquitectos has been awarded 1st prize for the design of the auditorium and congress center in morro jable. the center is located on a rocky hillside right above the beaches south fuerteventura. the building will be embedded into the terrain, emerging from within the rocks. the design of the whole structure has been deliberately textured, coloured and finished t..
Studio Shift received an honorable mention for their design of the Taiwan Center for Disease Control. The complex, which fuses public landscape with scientific research, is poised to be one of Taiwan’s most important scientific centers. ”The complex will set a new standard in laboratory and research facilities design, paralleling the work that will inevitably take place behind its walls,” stated..
On May 13, 2008, Bouwkunde, the faculty of architecture building at Delft University, was unexpectedly consumed by a devastating fire. Before the incident, the building had created a social and education environment where ideas and criticism were shared freely. The faculty saw this terrible loss as a positive opportunity to take a fresh and critical look at the education of the future. Thus, an ..
Once more, Iwan Baan shared with the Za Koenji Public Theatre by Toyo Ito in Tokyo, Japan. An impressive black volume in the middle of the city of Suginami in Tokyo and managed by Creative Theatre Network (CTN), a non-profit organization led by president Ren Saito. from archdaily
Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Huarte, Navarra, Spain Project manager: David Eguinoa, architect Riggers: SIAT Structure: Tadeo Errea - DASEIN Contractor: OBENASA Project year: 2003 Finished year: 2004 Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas The genesis of the project starts from a basic minimum cell, which as the minimal optimal space can be multiplied, a..
Italian architects Massimo Mariani have completed the Benozzo Gozzoli Museum in Castelfiorentino, Italy. The museum takes the place of a now-demolished 1960s building. Its island-shaped base closely follows the floor plan of the preceding building. This footing replaces the function of traditional street furniture, offering an area for the public to congregate and sit, and can also act as a stag..
We are back with AD Futures, our series of articles that feature the most innovative young practices around the world, practices that i´m betting on their future. This week, i present you JaJa, a Danish practice funded by Jakob Christensen and Jan Tanaka, the two Ja’s. Why did i pick them? They are very young (pretty obvious for this section, but still worth mentioning). They are doing some inte..
