Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates

House . Kasamatsu

Katsutoshi Sasaki + Associates . + archdaily

It may have become fewer these days, but many people still have experiences of eating or relaxing with families beneath a tree, or climbing trees to find their own space to play. It is just a metaphor, but the desirable place for a family to gather and spend time may be somewhere like beneath a tree, laid-back, with moderate sunshine and comfortable breeze.

read more . expandir

Thomas Demand

Daily #15 . 2011

+ Matthew Marks

In contrast to his usual practice of depicting scenes that are typically culled from news media, Demand created the Dailies by sourcing his personal cell phone photographs.

read more . expandir

RAW

centro sociocultural . reinosa

RAW | Carlos García Fernández . Begoña de Abajo Castrillo

Bajo la gran cubierta el espacio se desarrolla en continuidad con la plaza del antiguo Mercado de Abastos de Reinosa. Una cubierta que ofrece cobijo, produce sombra e invita a los usuarios a concentrarse bajo ella. El edificio se retira de la calle en su lado Sur y ofrece una plataforma a la ciudad como extensión del espacio que encierra.

read more . expandir

Irene Braojos Entrena

Hotel en la Favela Rocinha

PFC . uah

read more . expandir

Paul Klee

Making Visible



Tate Modern

natalia irazustabarrena otegui

New urban landscape - Intermodal station

+ isarch

A river carries all of its history along with it, it nourishes its needs and causes new activities to flourish, it transports sediments, it changes them from one place to another, it takes them away and joins the river banks as one as it flows by.

read more . expandir

Jason Rhoades

Four Roads



+ ICA

read more . expandir

Adrián Villar Rojas

La inocencia de los animales . 2013

+ MoMA PS1 . MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY

Adrián Villar Rojas’s La inocencia de los animales (The innocence of animals) is an immersive installation that resembles both an amphitheater of antiquity and a postapocalyptic cavern.

read more . expandir

Ensamble Studio

Cervantes Theater . Mexico

Ensamble Studio . photos: © Roland Halbe . + Cervantes Theater . + archdaily

Cervantes Theater, buried underground, evidences its presence through a large metallic structure lifted from ground level, named Dovela (Keystone), which acts as a lure.

read more . expandir

Jun Igarashi Architects

repository . Asahikawa

Jun Igarashi Architects . photos: © Daici Ano . + plataforma arquitectura

Se trata de una vivienda privada en el norte de Japón, ubicada en las afueras de Asahikawa, con sus amplias praderas vírgenes, que llevó a centrar la construcción en su relación con el paisaje.
Con grandes variaciones térmicas, en Asahikawa en el verano los termómetros sobrepasan los 30 grados mientras en invierno pueden descender a los 30 grados negativos.

read more . expandir

John Pawson

Hotel Puerta America . Madrid

John Pawson . + e-architect

Designed by John Pawson, the hotel foyer, reception, and meeting rooms offer a sense of tranquility in the heart of the hotel. This effect is achieved through his use of natural wood and a semi-circular reception area that shelters guests from the constant motion passing through the lobby.

read more . expandir

Tacita Dean

Roaring Fourties: Seven Boards in Seven Days . 1997

+ Fundación Botín

El mar ha desempeñado un papel crucial en la obra de Tacita Dean, sobre todo en sus inicios y después como tema recurrente.

read more . expandir

Anish Kapoor . Arata Isozaki

ARK NOVA mobile concert hall

ARK NOVA Lucerne Festival . photos: © lucerne festival arknova 2013

Using music to bring hope and promise to those who are suffering from the tragic major earthquake in Japan on March 11, 2011: this is the idea and goal of the ARK NOVA project initiated by LUCERNE FESTIVAL and Kajimoto Music. Under the direction of Arata Isozaki, one of the world’s most sought-after architects, a mobile concert hall is being built, one that can be transported to various locations in the devastated region. The multi-component design includes a hall with seating for between 500 to 700 spectators.

read more . expandir

Frank Gehry

bodegas Marqués de Riscal . Elciego

Frank Gehry . fotos: © javier1949 . Marqués de Riscal

Conformada como una serie de elementos rectilíneos, revestidos en piedra arenisca, combinados con arrebatadores paneles dorados y rosados de titanio, y acero inoxidable con terminación de espejo, la bodega de Vinos Herederos del Marqués de Riscal está situada en El ciego (Álava) y es una de las más viejas de la región.

read more . expandir

Amaia Rincón

Eco-habitat . Aranjuez

Amaia Rincón . + isarch

As an alternative to the obsolete urban models, we should think about a new urban system for the city, based on a sustainable land use model, with a specific density to collective housing, able to change its density to optimize the efficiency and integrated into its surroundings.

read more . expandir

El Paso

Abstracción y vanguardia



Sala Kubo Kutxa

Ferrando . Hauer . Ruiz . Saboia

Rehabilitación del Centro Histórico . Salvador de Bahía

Josep Ferrando Bramona

Assumimos que os largos são “miolos” de quadra que assumem o papel de espaços públicos, por isso decidimos recuperar o sentido de quarteirão, operando o fechamento dos seus limites e reconfigurando através de muros de fechamento a sua geometria original.

read more . expandir

Marco Merz . Marion Clauss

Primarschule St.Leonhard . St.Gallen

stadt St.Gallen

read more . expandir

Francesco Clemente

Tents



BlainSouthern

Wiel Arets

Jellyfish House . Marbella

Wiel Arets . photos: © Jan Bitter . + dezeen

This vacation house is located on a site close to the beach, where the view to the ocean is blocked at the ground level by a neighboring building.

read more . expandir

Javier De Andrés

Library and Urban Limit Regeneration . Fez

+ isarch

Meeting the programme demands, the idea of a library, as a place, it has been transformed from a space to read into a real Social Center with multiple responsabilities.

read more . expandir

Evers . Wezel

House Unimog . Tübingen

Fabian Evers Architecture . Wezel Architektur . photos: © Michael Schnabel . © Sebastian Berger . + dezeen

The unusual task and the difficult building site was at one hand a big challenge but on the other a big potential. The owner requested a workshop for his Unimog and a small residential unit.

read more . expandir

Carolina Pérez Rabelo

Water Museum . Rotterdam

Carolina Pérez Rabelo . + isarch

A water museum that wants to raise awareness towards the river and to activate the public space along its shore, making this space communicate a dynamic story of the shifting relationship between land and water.

read more . expandir

Louis I. Kahn

Salk Institute . La Jolla

photos: © Iñaki Bergera . + Salk Architecture

The Salk Institute was established in the 1960s by Jonas Salk, M.D., the developer of the polio vaccine. Salk selected the world-renowned architect Louis I. Kahn as the person who could design the facility that he envisioned.

read more . expandir

Local Architecture

Housing building . Chailly

LOCALARCHITECTURE . photos: © Mathieu Gafsou . + archdaily

The building on the avenue du Temple is located alongside of the wooded lanyard which follows the Vuachère River. This peculiar situation, in between urban and natural environments, characterizes the scenery of this four-apartment building.

read more . expandir

gonzálezgivaja_arquitectos

Vivienda unifamiliar . El Soto

imagINArquitecturas

La vivienda se sitúa en la parte superior de una ladera con pendiente hacia el NE, donde el paisaje ofrece las mejores vistas y donde los muros parcelarios empiezan a desplegarse, desligándose de los volúmenes densos del núcleo. Esta relación con el entorno y el modo de vida de los futuros ocupantes son los puntos de partida del proyecto.

read more . expandir

Verd . Solinas

Colegio Público "Ángeles Martín Mateo" . ALCALÁ DE GUADAÍRA

Gabriel Verd . Simone Solinas . fotos: © Jesús Granada

En tierra de nadie, en un entorno agresivo rodeado de tráfico intenso, industria pesada, junto a un barrio de carácter humilde y sobre una antigua escombrera se sitúa la parcela de la actuación.

read more . expandir

David Chipperfield Architects

Law Courts Complex . Salerno

David Chipperfield Architects . Alberto Izzo & Partners . fotos: secco

This design for a Palace of Justice in Salerno souther Italy is located on a former goods yard, peripheral to the city centre, in an area highlighted for renewal and regeneration as part of Spanish architect Oriol Bohigas masterplan for the city.

read more . expandir

Antoine Vaxelaire

120 hours architecture competition . Bergen

Antoine Vaxelaire | Architectural Association . + 120 hours

An actor with no scene will always stay anonymous.

read more . expandir