In the context of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, focused on Africa, the triangular pavilion of dark wood designed by David Adjaye takes its place just outside the Arsenale. Kwaeε means forest in Twi, a dialect of the Akan language spoken by m
This four-story building in Brooklyn houses the studios and offices of the artists Lorna Simpson and Jim Casebere. The front and side facades are clad in black polypropylene panels, while the rear is almost entirely made of glass. The canted profile
On a hillock overlooking the environs of Byron Bay, in the western coast of Australia – a forested landscape as virginal as when Captain Cook first sighted it –, a house is designed as a sanctuary for its owner to escape to from a busy professional l
The CIT (Centro Integral de Transporte) is an initiative of Metro de Madrid to build a transport center in the old sheds of Plaza de Castilla in Madrid. The competition was called in 2016, and the team formed by the architects Lourdes Carretero, Manu
The construction of a large leisure facility like this casino entails the need to distribute – in a single building – the services and uses associated with the gambling areas, restaurant, kitchens, car park, conference hall, and facilities. The proje
The privileged site is on a southwestwardly slope facing the sea in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. The programme, consisting of a rehabilitation facility for mentally disabled people, required an ambiguous atmosphere between the intimacy
The complex is located in the small town of Yufuin, known for its thermal baths. Built for Comico, one of the largest digital comic websites (‘webtoons’) in Japan – part of NHN Japan Corporation –, the ensemble includes a small museum for contemporar
Located close to the old south gate into the city of Seoul, the Namdeamun Market is the largest in South Korea and also the oldest, dating back to the 15th century. In the past decades it has become an important commercial destination and a popular t
The Baztán Valley is an area in the north of Navarre, bordering with France, with a spectacular natural environment, surrounded by mountains and dotted with towns made up of individual houses.
The decisions taken in the design were the reaction to an accident. It was created for an artist couple: he works with paper, engravings and digital publishing; she, with enamelled ceramic. They had previously been living together in a big old house
Located in the State of Mexico, the Bruma House had to address three fundamental questions: the first was how to build in the middle of a forest without felling a single tree; the second was how to open up the home to both the morning and the afterno
An 18th-century building, compact and traditional, combined with an industrialized light porch, forms a dwelling that opens up to its beautiful natural surroundings.
El encargo consistía en el proyecto y obra de un espacio educativo infantil desarrollado en tres unidades: aulas y áreas de descanso para edades de 4 a 11 meses, de 12 a 23 meses y de 24 a 36 meses. Se completa con una sala de usos múltiples, servici
The Swedes Bolle Tham and Martin Videgård Hansson founded their studio in Stockholm in 1999 with the ambition of presenting their work as an experimental alternative to conventional Swedish architecture. Their interventions cover different areas that
A couple decided to leave the capital and settle in the slope of a hill covered by a dense jungle of native species. After the first meetings it became clear that the couple’s romantic decision was being replaced by a slight, though persistent, appre
An average city (unknown) somewhere in western Japan houses the new residence-studio of a famous Japanese artist, whose name is not mentioned here for privacy reasons. Amidst the neighboring constructions – two-story single family housing units hapha
This dwellng and studio for London-based artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble occupy the remains of an old public house in East London. The design is based on two strategies: the use of the walls of the old building and the construction of a new volume
The snow capped and perfectly conic top of Mount Fuji – so many times represented in paintings, calendars and tourist brochures – identifies the veneration of the Japanese towards nature, a complicated relationship within the dense chaos to which lar
Located in London’s East End, the house was designed for an artist couple who wanted to transform the old belt factory they used as a studio into a container which could serve at once as family dwelling and workplace. The house was conceived as a lar
El parque automovilístico aumenta sin cesar, con mucha más rapidez de lo que se habilitan espacios destinados al aparcamiento. Aunque en muchos casos se trata de recintos anejos a otras tipologías y no estudiados con el suficiente interés, pueden pla
La nueva sinagoga de Maguncia (Mainz en alemán), diseñada por Manuel Herz, se levanta exactamente en el mismo lugar que ocupaba la que fue quemada por los nazis en 1938. Esta dramática huella histórica ha constituido uno de los desencadenantes del pr
El edificio de viviendas de protección oficial más alto de España acaba de estrenarse. La torre Vallecas 20, en el área de Las Suertes, tiene 22 plantas y una altura total de 74 metros. Sus autores son María y José María Hurtado de Mendoza y César Ji
