With its facade showing Islamic patterns and a form that makes one think of a garment commonly worn by young Qataris, the new sport arena oozes with vernacular culture. The rhombic pieces of fiberglass that form the facade and roof create translucent
In 1995, with the opening of the new Mario Botta-designed building of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the museum led a profound transformation of the South of Market disctrict, a neighborhood which soon became the cultural hub of the
The new headquarters for BBVA go up on a site facing the A1 highway on the periphery of Madrid, surrounded by newly built offices, commercial buildings, and scattered residential developments. The site is placed on the north of the Paseo de la Castel
In 1995, with the opening of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s new building designed by architect Mario Botta, the museum spearheaded a profound transformation of the South of Market district, that soon became a cultural hub for the c
Both the house and the office prototype are constructed with fiberglass roofs and polycarbonate facades, with interior surfaces clad with bamboo. The space inside is subdivided by curtains and different floor heights to create furniture elements.
The natural resistance of Douglas fir tree wood to mildew has made it possible to build the pavilion cutting down on the number chemical treatments usually applied. The structure is completed with fiberglass to increase its curvature.
Located in a residential área of Rio de Janeiro, the building accommodates a cultural center for the Jewish Congregation of Brazil, a center that provides a space for the debate and study of different aspects of Jewish culture in the fields of litera
Hernán Díaz Alonso earned his degree in architecture from the National University of Rosario in Argentina and Columbia University. After completing his training in Barcelona with Enric Miralles and in New York with Peter Eisenman, in the year 2000 he
The pentagon-shaped fortress of San Roque, part of the 17th century wall upon which the bullring was inserted in 1859, for its part raised over the ashes of an old wood enclosure, is the place chosen for the construction of the new Congress Center of
Mariano Vázquez Sarah y Jeremy necesitaban casa y también oficina. En el norte de Londres encontraron un solar a un precio conveniente en el mercado de desperdicios de suelo a que dio lugar la privatización de los Ferrocarriles Británicos. Dispuestos
On the outskirts of Tokyo, where the hustle of city life gives way to an orderly landscape of rice fields and greenhouses, a family has made true a dream unattainable for many compatriots: to enjoy a house of more than one hundred square meters. Per
Zachary is a locality in the State of Louisiana lying between the oil refineries north of Baton Rouge and St. Francisville, an area of great ornithological interest. In this rural land of farms and small residential areas, a couple decided to build
Considerado normalmente como un mero instrumento productivo, el ordenador ha sido en el proyecto de la iglesia no sólo una herramienta conceptual, sino también el medio que ha permitido su diseño simultáneo desde tres localidades geográficamente muy
Ehrenfeld offers, amidst workshops and industrial warehouses, the easy-going and carefree environment that creators and freelance professionals look for in order to live and work under one same roof. In this Cologne neighborhood, the New Loft buildin
Dependiendo del punto de vista, la gran escultura diseñada para la Zona del Cuerpo parece una sola figura demediada o dos estrechamente abrazadas, cuyas entrañas encierran una exposición sobre genética y anatomía. Es una propuesta deliberadamente amb
¿Cómo se puede representar la mente sin recurrir a su manifestación física? El proyecto se ha desarrollado partir de la diferenciación entre el cerebro y los complejos mecanismos de la consciencia que alberga, de forma que el pabellón, configurado co
Aunque las primeras ideas para la construcción de la cúpula la situaban en Birmingham, finalmente se eligieron los terrenos de una antigua fábrica de gas londinense, en el extremo norte de la península de Greenwich, aprovechando la atracción que el c
Hay empresas cuyo nombre se asocia al de arquitectos concretos, incluso mucho después de haber superado la imagen corporativa que éstos definieron. Si la arquitectura de Peter Behrens despegó al tiempo que la tecnología de la AEG y los almacenes Scho
