Ensamble Studio   Spain   Ca’n Terra is the house of the earth. The fruit that nature gives as a found space, which requires tillage and cultivation to imbue the received offering with domesticity. If the history of civilization has greatly evolved transforming ideas into bui

Ensamble Studio   The studio’s experience designing and building Structures of Landscape served as starting point for the research behind the Towers of Landscape, presented in the first edition of the Orleans Archtitecture Biennial. This research questions whether it

Ensamble Studio   Spain   With the purpose of reviving the popular knowledge accumulated in the remains of the old settlement, the proposal adapts material and formally to the orography, and creates new domestic spaces by interpreting the spirit of the place... [+]

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Embedded in the forested landscape surrounding the San Juan Reservoir, outside Madrid, Zigzag House is designed with the aim of living in the air, so it floats over the ground, touching the earth delicately and cascading down a slope that ends by the

Ensamble Studio   Spain   Ensamble fabrica is the new prototyping facility and fabrication laboratory of Ensamble Studio in Madrid. Besides serving its purpose as a work place, it is a proof of concept that tests the hybrid steel-concrete construction technology the firm has

Ensamble Studio   South Korea   Located north of Seoul, the project for a startup center is part of an urban regeneration plan that aims to transform this region into an economic and culture hub. The architecture defines a framework that supports and serves the different programs

Ensamble Studio   United States   The MIT Design Center transforms an existing, underused courtyard, delimited by academic buildings, into an active laboratory shared by different disciplines focused on advancing knowledge on design, a creative activity that has long ceased to be exc

Ensamble Studio   United States   The outdoor performance hall for music is one of the ‘structures of the landscape’ developed by the studio for Tippet Rise Art Center. A thick concrete slab resting on three supports shapes a covered stage below with an open viewing deck on top... [+

Ensamble Studio   United States   NY Reticula rests on Governors Island Park, a privileged site with a number of historic buildings in the process of being restored, and which has also become home to exciting landscape interventions looking to preserve and enhance the unique characte

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The project establishes a dialogue with three historical landmarks: the Imperial Palace, the old Collegiate Church, and the foundation of the medieval wall. The building traditions of the town of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, materialize in slate siding..

Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos   Spain   The project named ‘Batea en tierra’ proposes a continuous complex with a landscaped slope, a linear pergola over the existing premises, and a tilted roof for Capitanía; a large open and permeable ombrière defines the new image of Sanxenxo... [+]

Burgos & Garrido, Ayllón Paradela De Andrés   Spain   Two Madrid practices – one headed by Francisco Burgos and Ginés Garrido, the other by Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente – have worked together on a proposal that has won for them the competition

Linazasoro & Sánchez Arquitectura   France   The Madrid practice of José Ignacio Linazasoro and Ricardo Sánchez has won the competition for the commission to refurbish of the area around the Basilica of Our Lady of Miracles, a Romanesque work in the historical quarter of Mauriac, in France’s Au

Barozzi Veiga   Germany   The proposal for the central headquarters for the sports equipment company Dynafit in Kiefersfelden adopts the essence of the Inn Valley landscape as main design reference. Playing on the profile of the nearby mountains, two clear pyramidal forms, vi

Francisco Mangado   Belgium   The clear scheme of the fairgrounds will allow solving the massive attendance of people at very specific periods of time as well as to quickly and efficiently manage the exhibition spaces, minimizing transportation and assembly times... [+]

Arquivio   Lithuania   To establish a more direct connection between Tauras Hill park and the gardens of the Old Evangelical Cemetery, the project is fragmented into three pieces: main hall (1,780 seats), small hall (550 seats), and House of the Nation, joined by a foyer..

PKMN (pac-man)   Spain   A system of three mobile and transformable OSB timber containers, combining woodwork and a simple system of industrial guides, generate a flexible organization system, capable of adapting the house to the needs of each moment... [+]

Elii   Spain   The relocation of domestic elements and the addition of partitions as well as folding, deployable, and sliding elements permits organizing the space much like a black box theater, where the setting can change with simple operations... [+]

TallerDE2 Arquitectos   Spain   A catalog of 54 specialized units designed as exportable infrastructural elements, with a generic space around them that opens, unfolds, slides, or closes, allowing to restructure, expand, fragment, connect, or isolate the dwelling... [+]

Husos   Spain   The apartment is redistributed to let air circulate between the east and west fronts, and the kitchen-garden in the balcony reuses shower water. In the living room, a nap-capsule gives the owner a place to recover from his night shifts as ER doctor..

MINIMO   Spain   All the fixed elements of the house are concentrated in a central server core – a wooden box of 2.25 meters in height that allows the vision of the original wooden beams –, while the perimeter is freed up to generate a flexible and fluid living space

Mariana de Delás & Marcos Duffo   Spain   The 46m² apartment had a small cat staircase giving access to the level under the roof, which was not ventilated and only used for storage. The design project focuses on opening that space and turning it into a guest bedroom... [+]

Emilio Tuñón   Spain   After refurbishing the old Casa Grande – a building from the early 20th century that contained the houses of two brothers – and converting it into the Helga de Alvear Foundation Center for the Audiovisual Arts, the team of Emilio Tuñón is close to co

Sixteen years after The Weather Project, which drew crowds to the Turbine Hall in 2003, Olafur Eliasson (Copenhagen, 1967) returns to the Tate Modern with a retrospective that gathers 40 works completed since 1990. The exhibition includes pieces of d

Davide Curatola is the cofounder, with Alessandro Guida, Viviana Rubbo, and Isabella Sassi, of Urban Reports, a collective of documentary photographers that studies contemporary landscapes on a European scale. As part of the research titled Represent