E2A   Switzerland   The building organizes sensitively the areas for mourners and the functional areas of the crematorium. The public and operational accesses are separated, and there is a private and peaceful garden for visitors, for whom the technical rooms are hidden

E2A   Switzerland   The workshop and the casual residence are related through a small articulating courtyard. The three environments are the result of the repetition of the same spatial module, with gable roof, that gives the construction rhythm and unity... [+]

E2A   Switzerland   The two aligned twin buildings accommodate residential spaces and workshops, reflecting in this way the proposal’s objective: to draw attention to the need to design for different ways of living, and to address a new social reality...

E2A   Germany   The sober brick facade of the new residential building echoes the image of the traditional industrial site, while in its interior, a non-hierarchical distribution of equivalent rooms in the dwellings allows users to decide how to occupy them... [+]

E2A   United Kingdom   Opposed to the conventional model with a single central core, the tower has 4 cores in the facade – one for access, one for kitchens, and two for bathrooms – and the space between is left for owners to configure according to their likes and needs...

E2A   Switzerland   Located in a renovated industrial area, this compact U-shaped volume opens up to a future park and embraces a piazza on the ground floor linked to an atrium that interconnects the laboratories, meeting rooms, and restaurant... [+]

E2A   Switzerland   School and kindergarten take up two independent volumes – though designed with the same formal resources – and separated by a public space that follows the sequence of squares in the city in order to adapt the complex to the urban fabric... [+]

E2A   Switzerland   The new volume is respectfully added to the old Herter and Wehrli buildings, placing the sports areas below ground. The public spaces, the library, and the kitchen are on the ground floor, and the secondary school classrooms are on the first floor...

E2A   Switzerland   The new university building combines two functions, teaching and research, and separates both programs in different volumetric areas within a single piece covered with a glass casing that reflects the environment, offering a kaleidoscopic image... [+

E2A   Japan   The center frames and offers spectacular panoramic views of the Seto Inland Sea. It rises from the ground in a gesture of respect for the landscape, freeing up the ground floor, and arranging the auxiliary spaces in distinct pieces attached to the ma

Foster + Partners   Italy   The Holy See is featured for the first time at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with a unique proposal curated by Francesco Dal Co. Consisting of ten chapels, the concept takes inspiration from the chapel Erik Gunnar Asplund built in Stockholm’s Woo

Studio KO   Morocco   Next to Jardin Majorelle, in the Moroccan city that so inspired Yves Saint Laurent, the museum devoted to his work features local terracotta brick, forming patterns that evoke the weft and warp of the fabric in an opaque envelope that protects from t

KIENTRUC O   Vietnam   The kindergarten is fragmented into a series of gabled brick volumes to offer a more human scale of relationship with the user. These brick pieces rhythmically overlap to generate an environment that encourages children to explore the surroundings...

murmuro   Portugal   The new volume of the extension is completed with a permeable brick facade that allows air and natural light into the rooms facing north, conceals the ventilation grilles, and protects the windows close to the sports areas from possible impacts... [+

MUKA arquitectura   Spain   On a plot with a 2.2-meter facade, the use of a paving of pressed clay taken from the edges of the slabs generates a latticework in which the alternating arrangement of the ceramic module with rope and sardinel filters incoming light. 

H&P Architects   Vietnam   Located in a suburban commune of Hanoi which has undergone a rapid process of urbanization, the house artificially evokes the natural environment of a cave using a double brick facade with cavities to filter light, dust, noise, rain, wind, and views.

Kengo Kuma   China   On the southern shore of Huangpu River, in the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, an old shipyard built in 1972 is transformed into a mixed-use complex with shops, a theater, and an exhibition space. The main challenge of the project was to ma

ArchStudio    China   The renovation of this Siheyuan-style residence is carried out using a gray brick pavement that curves to generate walls and ceilings and to produce a dynamic connection between indoors and outdoors, as well as to separate auxiliary spaces... [+]

WISE Architecture   South Korea   The enclosure is a curved and floating masonry on a concrete structure. The curved forms at the entrances and where the vertical and horizonal planes meet aim to merge the volume into the site, creating a transition between the open space and the pro

Light Earth Designs   Rwanda   The vaulted complex places several layers of hydraulically compressed earth slabs – with a small addition of cement, no firing, and reinforced with a geogrid to offer seismic protection –, on a timber skeleton that spans up to 16 meters... [+]

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Rockwell Group   United States   The western end of Manhattan, where the High Line meets Hudson Yards, is the home of The Shed, a new center for artistic creation and research designed by Diller Scofidio Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group. The complex, currently under con

Precisionism emerged in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, with a style clearly influenced by the European avant-gardes – especially Purism, Cubism, and Futurism –, as well as a willingness to reflect the economic and social changes result

Iñaki Bergera (Vitoria, 1972) is a photographer, architect, researcher, and teacher. He obtained his PhD from the School of Architecture of Navarre in 2002, and later studied photography with the British Chris Killip at Harvard University. Since then