Il complesso edilizio destinato al mercato bestiame di corso Australia, a Padova, opera di Giuseppe Davanzo.

Just outside of JFK Airport Terminal 5, TWA Hotel—the airport’s first on-site hotel—is a jump into the swinging 1960s. Ideal for an overnight sleep or...

Víceúčelový komplex se nachází na rušné milánské třídě Corso Italia. Obchodní jednotky se nacházejí v přízemí. V prvním a druhém nadzemním patře směrem do Corso Italia jsou umístěny kanceláře a ve zbývajících částech jsou byty. Vzhledem k centrální poloze klient požadoval vysokou…

Photo essay by Mary Gaudin

In 1963, German architect Gottfried Böhm designed a church for the Neviges site and more than 50 years later, photographer David Altrath captures the brutalist which is known as Mariendom.

Photo essay by Alba Deangelis

In Tilburg, the former Peace Church has been converted into a co-living environment for young professionals. The entire residential program is situated in the side aisles, leaving the imposing nave of the church free for a diversity of places to live, wor

Geneva architecture practice Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés has led a phased renovation of the listed, modernist housing complex Le Lignon; restoring its original identity and retaining its patina and original materials, while reconditioning the fa

Residential complex project grouped around a central internal street, which once again employs the geometrical methodology of combining cubic volumes in space. While in Walden-7 the cubes were constructed in two floor units, in the Petite Cathédrale they

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Photo essay by Fabio Bascetta

Japanese magazines report that the Metabolist masterpiece, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972, may disappear in the next few weeks.

Villa Beer (1929-1930) was designed by Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach, many believe it is on par with other important Modernist buildings by architects such as Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Adolf Loos. I first became aware of Josef Frank's work last year when there was a show at the f a

Reportage Le Corbusier by Cemal Emden

58, rue de Mouzaia, Paris 19th: at this address, a representative work of brutalism was delivered in 1974, co-signed by Claude Parent and André Remondet. However, after 45 years of existence, the building had lost its visual strength: blackened surfaces,

From being disregarded by the post-WWII rebellious youth to becoming the symbol of the utopias of social housing, Brutalism, starting from the Seventies, has witnessed an aesthetic resurgence mostly linked to the post-punk counterculture.

Notre-Dame du Haut (English: Our Lady of the Heights; full name in French: Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut) is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France. Built in 1955, it is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbus

Stavba vlastního domu je pro architekta či architektku zpravidla úhelným kamenem jejich tvorby. Růženu Žertovou, kterou do té doby rodinné domy podle jejích vlastních slov nezajímaly,[1] dovedly k návrhu a následné realizaci rodinného domu existenční problémy, do nichž se společně s&nbsp…

PHOTO ESSAY BY FILIPPO POLI

Po druhé světové válce představovaly vybombardované evropské metropole velkou příležitost pro architekty, aby se vypořádali s urbanistickými neduhy měst, které byly na jedné straně lákadlem pro příliv nových pracovních sil z venkova, ale zároveň nedokázaly obyvatelům nabídnout adekvátní…

Photo essay by Fernando Schapochnik

El lugar en que se encuentra emplazada la Unidad Vecinal Portales (UVP) permite una posición estratégica en cuanto a la comunicación de la ciudad con la comunidad, estableciéndose cercano a la autopista central, terminal de buses, estación del metro, está

Francouzský architekt Jean Renaudie byl na konci 50. let minulého století jedním ze spoluzakladatelů L'Atelier de Montrouge, z něhož však 31. července 1968 vystoupil po nehodách kolem projektu Le Vaudereil vznášejícího se města pro 150 000 obyvatel, které sice naplňovalo ideje poválečného…

Dutch photographer Kim Zwarts photographed the residential house and office by architect Jan de Jong (1917-2001), constructed between 1956 and 1983. Jan de Jong House is one of the most remarkable buildings of the Bossche School-architecture. Also availa

André Jacqmain's emblematic Library of Science in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, is recently transformed in a museum. Designed and built between 1969 and 1975, it is one of the first buildings to have been erected after the University’s move to Walloon terri

PHOTO ESSAY BY ANDY LIFFNER