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tato architects / yo shimada has completed a two-story, timber house with an inner courtyard for family near tsukimiyama station, in kobe, japan.

The request consisted in the construction of a new dwelling in the urban context. The client profile was particular – a retired couple who wanted to come back to live in Brussels. A very restricted budget, with the desire of an architecture with a low glo

On the sixth floor of an office building in Barcelona, Mesura designs a new Coworking space with 750 square meters.

When enlightened developer Aranya asked Neri&Hu to design an art center inside their seaside resort community, Neri&Hu seized the opportunity to question the notions of space for art versus communal space. Despite the straightforward brief of an a

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A conversion of a former warehouse overlooking Paddington Old Cemetery into a live/work unit for an artist and his family. Five rooms were introduced into the originally open plan 200 m2 space, with a continuous array of windows along all four facades, wh

A late 1960’s apartment, originally planned by Russian architect Vladimir Kaspé in central Mexico City, is radically transformed by Zeller & Moye to restore the modernist spirit of it’s original designer, whilst incorporating contemporary family-life

Kaeng Krachan Library is a project located on the rural part of Thailand, among the surrounded by shady tree and peaceful nature of Petchaburi Province. The initiation of this project started from the owner wanting to build a public library as a gift to t

Based on a slim V-shaped floorplan, La Dacha Mountain Retreat sits at the edge of a steep slope, amid a wood of local trees, hualle oaks. Located in Las Trancas, an emerging mountain village surrounding astounding views of the Nevados de Chillan, an activ

PHOTO ESSAY BY RUI CARDOSO

PHOTO ESSAY BY RUI CARDOSO

Ai Weiwei designed a new permanent project for Château La Coste, entitled Ruyi Path after the ceremonial scepter that symbolizes power and good fortune in Chinese history.

Completed in 2016 in Ámsterdam, The Netherlands. Images by Christian van der Kooy. Scarwafa (an acronym for the 6 owners) is a small-scale cohousing project of 3 befriended young families, who acquired three neighboring plots in the...

Today’s seat of the Federal Ministry for Work and Social Affaires was the first office to be installed in the skeleton of the former Reich Ministry for Propaganda on Wilhelmstrasse in 2000. The first construction stage of the rebuilding and extension acti

Constituye una obra absolutamente singular, y de difícil clasificación, al incluir temas de restauración, rehabilitación y nueva planta, que, sin embargo forman una unidad inseparable. El conjunto se apoya en las ruinas de la iglesia de las antiguas Escue

Un’architettura ecosostenibile nel Golfo di Baratti Quando si dice Destino. Tutto nasce da un caso, da un incontro inaspettato, quando una notte i due amici Alessandro Olsckhi e Vittorio Giorgini si ritrovano in barca in mare aperto, lungo le coste di Marina di Cecina. Il tempo non è dalla loro parte e una tempesta li […]

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Salou es un municipio que se encuentra en la costa catalana al Sur de la ciudad de Tarragona. Paralela al litoral y a unos 25km de distancia, emerge con alturas superiores a los 1000m la Sierra de Prades. Al encontrarse con las montañas, el aire húmedo pr

Am südlichen Gleisdreieck in Berlin definieren ROBERTNEUN™ Architekten und ATELIER LOIDL Landschaftsarchitekten innerstädtische Wohn- und Lebensformen neu und entwickeln städtebauliches Brachland. Als unkonventionelles, alternatives Experiment zukünftig

Winner of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2017. Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meter long, 10 + 1 stories high.

Residential building located at the intersection of two tree-lined and busy streets, a few meters from the main avenues and university centers of the city of Rosario, with an ideal environment for young people and students.

Reflecting the surrounding cherry blossom trees onto its transparent façade, the ‘KAIT’ studio/workplace by japanese junya ishigami+associates offers a range of experiences within the one open-plan volume. located at the kanagawa institute of technology c

From the architect. With the intentions of designing a transparent cultural media center that is supported by a unique system to allow complete visibility and transparency to the surrounding community, the Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito is revolutionary i

Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto finally completed after 30 years.

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In 1977, the architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan published his treatise Architectonic Space, Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat. This is a theory that seeks to capture the essence of spatial experience as a foundation for the des