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Local firm Burr Studio is on a mission to guard the Madrid’s industrial heritage by turning vacant spaces into homes.

From the use of exposed structural concrete and large windows to the flexible and functional layout and the meticulous study of light in space, this elegant and contemporary house designed by Plural is inspired by Le Corbusier.

On ground floor of a 1930’s old house in Shanghai, Atelier tao+c transformed the former residential space into a boutique retail space for SPMA.

Japanese studio Nendo has created an archive to house its products and furniture from precast concrete box culverts in central Japan.

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.

Underground Patio is a minimal space located in Rovagnate, Italy, designed by Stefano Larotonda and Andrea Tregnago.

Set in the historic centre of Lugo (Ravenna), Edilpiù www.edilpiu.eu – the Italian market leader in the sector of high quality doors and windows – inaugurated “LuOgo – Building the common space”, on 23 June 2022 in its home city. Conceived in synergy wit

The Atelierhaus for the german artist Markus Oehlen is located in a formerly illigal settlement in the north of Munich. Inbetween makeshift buildings a house was formed with just one room, constructed with just one layer. The materials concrete, pumice st

Danish-based NORRØN Architects breathe new life to abandon, yet unforgettable building mass. On the Danish peninsula Jungshoved, in the outskirts of the small town Roneklint, is located the first version of a new housing typology titled The Danish Cottage

For the éé Versailles Summer School, EX FIGURA designed a performative space for AMA USI Mendrisio. Lasting for two days, the space was intended as a scenographic background - one that could attract and interact with everyone in the vicinity. Inspired by

MVRDV, working alongside co-architects StudioPOD, has completed construction of One Green Mile, transforming a series of neglected spaces below Mumbai’s Senapati Bapat Marg flyover. Turning an overbearing element of concrete infrastructure into a public s

In 1788 Captain Cook and his fleet entered the delta of the Hawkesbury and the sheltered bay of Sydney. At the entrance of the Dyirabun (Hawkesbury) River, he was first welcomed by the Darug People who had been living on these banks since the beginning of

Designed by Nori Architects for a young family with children, Minimum House located on a narrow plot in Toyota, Japan, introduces a new prototype of urban housing on a limited budget.

Photo essay by Alba Deangelis

The Riverside Tower is a high-rise development from the early 70s designed by Leon Stynen & Paul De Meyer, beautifully situated in the bend of the river Scheldt, a stone’s throw from the city center of Antwerp. It’s here, on the 13th floor, that found

2100 meters above sea level. El Retiro, Colombia A house as of two separate structures linked by a path and a large garden in a forest clearing. What could have been a single larger house was planned as dispersed volumes positioned in a steep slope, each

Basel Pavillon 2022

Baiziwan Social Housing (later referred to as Baiziwan) is the first affordable housing project by MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong. Situated near the CBD (central business district) in Beijing, the project covers the area of 93,900 square meters, with a

The traditional Chinese courtyard house or siheyuan is a typology well-known for its illustration of Confucian ideals, accommodating extended family units wherein many generations live under one roof. To live under the same roof means to live together, an

For over a thousand years Mount Emei has persisted as one of the most deeply spiritual places in China and was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The revered ground upon which our site sits has a rich history itself – through the centuries, this

Located between Ghent's inner ring road and a nature reserve, the request was to replace an decayed residential block with 44 ground-level homes. However, the structure of this building still has great potential. It is proposed to thoroughly renovate and

The team led by the Italian-French office LAN is the winner of the International Ideas Competition organised by the MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo as part of the GRANDE MAXXI project to design a new sustainable and multipurpose building (

Founded with the intention of expanding the knowledge of sneaker culture in Spain, sivasdescalzo (SVD), has been the protagonist of a long and productive pathway in the sector since its creation in 2011, when it already stood out by positioning itself as

A multi-family building with five apartments and two commercial spaces located in the Poblenou neighborhood, in Barcelona. The project, located on a corner lot with irregular geometry, is solved by placing the cylindrical vertical communications core in t

Constructeur, engineer, architect, industrial designer, and visionary—the list of Jean Prouvé’s titles is as vast as his creative output. With a staggering five-decades-long career, the...

Bernard Moninot is a French multimedia artist. Over the 1970s and the 1980s, he produced a series of drawings, (inks, crayons and acrylics) of greenhouses based on various modes of representation...

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

Milan vibrating city Milan, a metropolis in constant movement, dynamic and productive, always reinventing itself, today opens its secret heart. A heart in which others beat, with different rhythms, moved by skillful hands that forge treasures invisible to

The project for this Factory of Electrical Assembly transforms the industrial landscape of Don Benito, overcoming its anodyne context through the use of three strategies that build up a new lexicon: Embracing Floor Plan. As opposed to the traditional typ