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“... the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.” Akiko Busch Every material has its own characteristics and limits for its definition. To work on the threshold of its possibilities - but not defying it -

A charming, small-scale house wins Sweden’s oldest and most prestigious architecture award, beating out Bjarke Ingels Group and Wingårdhs.

Renovation of a nursery and day care center in Bern.

This small construction was made in the children's unity of the Lourenço Castanho School with a premise to be a pedagogical room that belonged to the yard and not to the school's main body. Art is made among the plants, on the sand, on the ground, and wi

Residential center for people with dementia Huis Perrekes was founded in 1986 and provides care and guidance for people with dementia in the context of small-scale, normalized living. The villa is the former home of the doctor of the village of Oosterlo a

The Anandaloy Building hosts a center for people with disabilities combined with a workshop for Dipdii Textiles, the tailoring project for women from Rudrapur initiated by Anna Heringer and Veronika Lang with the NGO Dipshikha. Unlike the other projects t

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…

Joint project with Anselm Reyle, plant planning with Harald Jeremias. Transformation of the dilapidated main building of a former dockyard into a ruin garden, which takes up and enhances the romantic atmosphere of the disused industrial site. The ruin for

A typical Swedish soldier’s cottage from the mid-nineteenth century, unfortunately with rot in the entire frame, was replaced by a new house with the same placement, footprint, volume and materials—a memory of the old. The ground floor maintains the origi

The process of La Borda begins in 2012 in the framework of the campaign to reclaim the brown site of Can Batlló, where a group of neighbors decides to self-organize to solve collectively the need for access to housing. This small group started the impleme

In 1969 Jorge Glusberg founded the CAyC (Center for Art and Communication) with the aim of developing experimentation and research in the areas of art and communication, under the conceptual axis of

FELT won the Open Oproep competition for a new primary school in Zarren. The new building aims at blending in with its surroundings and is designed in tune with the adjacent nursery school, the city center and the Zarren valley. The compact two-story volu

Since 1998 the Web Atlas of Contemporary Architecture

A design was made for an urban renewal area in the Hague Moerwijk district. It forms an ensemble of housing around a characteristic church, a monastery and a fraternity, built in the Bossche School architecture of the famous Van der Laan family. From this

The place: At the top of a mountain, in the Calandaíma river valley, it found La Cascajosa, a recreational house 2 hours away from Bogotá.

Can Sau was a residential property located within the old city centre of Olot, where nowadays it is not unusual to see vacant sites. Given that half of the building was affected by a future street alignment, it was demolished leaving an urban void charact

A former printshop. 227 square meters, 34 linear meters of facade, 10 meters deep. A 5 x 5 meters grid of concrete pillars and downpipes attached to the central pillars. « La Nave » is the transformation of an industrial space into a place for life, which

There are 2 main aspects of this project. The first one is reshaping the typicaly structured space arrangement of the apartment, originally from the 1950s, with the intention of creating a multipurpose living space for a young family, that would put an em

The plot geometry and its small size, 47m2, assume special importance in the typology and form of programmatic distribution. One program per floor: Floor 0 - studio, Floor 1 - Living and dining, Floor 2 - Sleeping area and Floor 3 – Roff top. The entrance

PHOTO ESSAY BY FILIPPO POLI

This work is situated at the end of a small street that finishes in stairs, like many others on the west slope of the Mauror hill. In the upper part is limited with Bermejas towers and Carmen Blanco, and in the lower part with the square Campo de Principe

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

The TEATRINO is a temporary pavilion designed to host interviews and conversations on architecture - in presence of an audience of about 90 people - to be placed in front of the main entrance of the Triennale building in Milan, or in the rear garden. It c

Dialogue of place and human.

Vardehaugen is an architectural studio based in Oslo, Norway. We work with a diverse selection of projects and clients, from private houses, to public processes and urban planning. We conduct our services both domestic and abroad. We keep a close dialogue with our clients through the design process and take pride in tailoring our projects to the people and places we work with. Every client is different; every place is in some way peculiar and unique. We aim to embrace this in all of our projects. Vardehaugen was established in 2015 by Håkon Matre Aasarød, – former partner and co-founder of ...

Jsou jedovaté a mají omezenou paletu barev. Tím výčet záporů končí. Ve všem ostatním pryšce neboli euforbie (Euphorbia) oslňují, překvapují a vůbec dělají radost nejen ostříleným zahradníkům, ale i těm, co se na zahrádce teprve otrkávají.

When John Pawson was commissioned by the Siegfried and Elfriede Denzel Foundation to design a wayside chapel for a site in southwestern Germany, he became part of a longstanding tradition of erecting chapels as spiritual and architectural features in the