On land cultivated by a rural cooperative, a new building hosts an internationally known circus training school in volumes that use the language of agricultural sheds. An enclosure made of corrugated fiber cement panels results in a unitary image tha
Located right on the boundary of the city, the complex of six blocks faces on one side the open field, the urban fabric on another side and the busy railway track on the third side. The existing scheme – a series of buildings placed symetrically on a
Within the program for the renovation of Trinitat Nova neighborhood, a decaying area northeast of Barcelona, the Catalan institute for land development decided to increase the number of residential units with a total of 249 state-subsidized houses,
In the Marshy lands of the French region of the Marne, amidst a wooded vegetation of apple, cherry and pine trees, this green metallic house feeds on the landscape with the purpose of making itself invisible. The long plot, with a strong slope of fif
The competition convened by the City of Leipzig and the owners of the plot aimed at creating a residential development that could give an answer to the need for housing of the young families of the city. The winning proposal fulfills the demands of a
La vertiente norte de la sierra de Collserola, en el Vallés Occidental, viene absorbiendo desde hace años la expansión de la gran urbe, convirtiéndose en un área residencial a una veintena de kilómetros de Barcelona, con la que se conecta mediante un
In 1538, after the Protestant reformation in Denmark, Bagsværd Church was demolished per order of the king to use its stones in the refurbishment of the bishop’s old palace, where Lutheran theology would be imparted. Four centuries later, in 1969, th
El mítico Teatro Luxor de Rotterdam ha sido, desde su construcción en 1920, una pieza clave para esta ciudad holandesa, donde la cultura musical —desde la ópera hasta el cabaret— se encuentra firmemente arraigada. Tras cumplir 75 años a pleno rendimi
At approximately thirty kilometers to the south of Fukoaka – the main urban center of the Japanese island of Kyushu – lies the national park of Genkai, a wooded terrain with a precipitous topography which extends between the mountains and the ocean.
Este pabellón es la prueba de que se puede hacer arquitectura sin contar (en un principio) con un solar, ni con un cliente, ni con una función concreta. El proyecto se inició tan sólo con la voluntad de edificar, de experimentar de forma tridimension
Laufen, in the Swiss canton of Jura, is best known outside the country for being the headquarters of the famous throat lozenge manufacturer Ricola. A new warehouse was required to automate the storage of lozenges and medicinal herbs. The starting poi
Estas viviendas sociales se sitúan a las afueras de Kempten, en un polígono periférico que se empezó a construir en los años sesenta. Desde el principio, el barrio adquirió la imagen de desaliño cotidiano caracterizada por la carestía de medios; los
Lee Simon, the character Kenneth Branagh plays in Celebrity, wants to be successful. One day he realizes that his life has been reduced to the unbearable domestic dimensions of a ‘teaspoon’. He decides to become famous, but to do so, he needs to dist
The climate and rural architecture of the region of Galicia were the principal references in the designing of this dwelling for a young married couple. Measuring slightly more than a hectare, the lot is situated in the town of Ames, not far from the
The emotion involved in building one’s own house often results in a made-to-order sort of project wherein every object and function is assigned a specific place. But a building designed in this manner in the long run proves too rigid to accommodate v
