Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   Three triangular concrete towers emerge from the inclined roof of an old storage hall reconverted into a public exhibitions space. These pierce the hall and permit natural daylight to enter the new space, where a series of platforms are inserted...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   Two entrances give access to the extension of the Accademia di architettura, surrounded by three historical buildings. The new structure pays tribute to the architectural topics of the place, such as repetitive elements and hierarchies, symmetries an

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Germany   The project to convert the old courthouse into the new Film House involves creating a facade of white concrete structural frames, reorganizing the interior space by means of two circulation axes, and inserting stairs that cascade through the building

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Germany   The new guest house integrates architectural topics of the vicinity – solitary positioning, staggering or repetition – to generate a volume of flowing contours and sculptural quality. Loggias and terraces permit a direct relation to the exterior...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   The urban scale, geometrical regularity of the structure, the linearity and proximity of the railway and bus lines are a few of the characteristics of the Altdorf station, which is going to be transformed into a New Railway Link through the Alps...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   The relocation of a paper mill gives an opportunity to transform an old boiler house into a building with a large public and work program. The conversion is reduced to the essential, integrating light construction elements of steel and glass in the e

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   The extension of the Aulage building generates a multifunctional complex with the capacity to adapt to the needs of future users; a light-filled entrance pavilion with a pitched roof acts as distributor towards the auditorium and library building...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   With the objective of fostering contact between student associations and business initiatives at ETH Zurich, the new building contains several multipurpose halls, flexible rooms, workshops, and spaces for inspiration, exchange, and creativity...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   The new library building goes up at the center of the market square, characterizing the transitional space and adapting its facades to the environment. The hexagonal floor plan makes for free-flowing, spacious rooms...

Buchner Bründler Architekten   Switzerland   To strengthen the link between the old building – with minimal typological and structural interventions – and the new structure – built with rammed earth and simple openings – a tectonic division is introduced to extend the cornice of the concrete bu

Barozzi Veiga   Spain   The Barcelona Ciutadella del Coneixement initiative aims to transform the area around Ciutadella Park into a southern European hub for innovation in biomedicine, biodiversity, and planetary well-being. The BIST, which will be the first piece in the d

Moneo Brock, BAAS Arquitectura, casa solo arquitectos   Spain   To meet the most convenient size standards for research labs, the project features two structures – one of concrete and another of steel – which offer views of the central atrium. A wrap-around terrace connects the workspaces with the outdoors while

IDOM, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Spain   A forest of columns – augmented by a grid of trees – supports the new volume, which is at once building and pergola, creating a shaded plaza at ground level. Vernacular building methods like the Catalan vault are also included in the project...

Picharchitects/Pich-Aguilera, Felipe Pich-Aguilera, Estudi 2BMFG   Spain   The building is conceived as a materials testing lab, with lightweight, low impact recoverable components that are assembled dry. The laboratories and offices are arranged around a bioclimatic atrium free of intermediate supports or drainpipes...

Woods Bagot   Spain   An intelligent facade reveals an interior atrium and wraps a hybrid structure of concrete in the labs (for longer spans) and wood in the workspaces (adding warmth), rotated 45º to mitigate the difference between building and parking...

O&O Baukunst, Bruther   France   The strict structural rhythm creates a module capable of accommodating different programs –housing, garages, and public or commercial spaces– and offers the possibility of reversing all of them to in the future adapt them to the needs of the campus..

bosch.capdeferro arquitectura   Spain   In a part of the city that creates a transition between the built-up fabric and the open urban expansion area characterized by the imposing presence of public facilites, the project proposes 35 apartments with a design based on principles of program

FAR frohn&rojas   Germany   This building located in Berlin presents a rigorous catalog of pieces of prefabricated concrete which are typically seen in warehouses and industrial sheds. Inside the studios and dwellings that make up the six-floor building, prefabricated finishes

LAN Architecture   France   The redevelopment of the Brossette site completes the transformation of boulevard Vincent-Gâche, hosting the largest construction site ever opened on the Île de Nantes. Formerly occupied by the warehouses of a manufacturer of bathroom fixtures, this

Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos   Spain   Stacking was one of the primitive activities of men, according to Semper’s classification. This project for 25 sustainable dwellings uses stacking as a means to build concrete tubes with an almost squared section (3,65 x 3,20 meters) that, as bases o

straddle3, Yaiza Terré, Eulia Arkitektura   Spain   The aprop program for provisional housing launched by the City of Barcelona is designed to offer a swift, efficient, and pragmatic response to emergency situations caused by shortage of housing, keeping neighbors from having to leave gentrified distr

Ingenhoven Architects   Germany   Like many other European cities in the 19th century, during the years of the railway boom Stuttgart grew around its central station. With the city center already packed, today the train tracks have become a barrier between the East and North district

In ‘The American Way of Life’ Josep Renau, through the images built with the usual iconography of the ads and magazines of the time, offers his critical vision of the American dream and of the deeply rooted capitalism and imperialism in the US.  With

The photographs in the ‘Memento Mori’ series capture the beauty of solitude in places of lost grandeur where nature has reclaimed its space, keeping the memory of what they once were for when there is nobody left to remember...