Jonathan Tuckey Design   United Kingdom   This theatre for Horris Hill School in Newbury, a town in the county of Berkshire, England, is built with cross laminated timber (CLT) and Viroc composite panels – with a mix of wood fibers and cement particles – whose reddish tones resemble those of

MOS Architects   United States   The pitched roof extends 7.30 meters symmetrically covering the house’s two floors – the top one for parents, the lower one for children. Each space looks out to the lake through cutouts in the exterior cladding of corrugated cement panel with aggreg

Andrea Frapolli   Italy   Located in a rugged landscape within the Alpine municipality of Lodrino, the house is the result of combining old elements – a dwelling dating back to the 15th century that was partly altered in the 1970s, and a small stable from the year 1900 that s

TAO | Trace Architecture Office   China   Kept open on its longer sides in order to maximize ventilation, the factory is built with cheap and locally available materials, such as bamboo stalks and concrete blocks and tiles. 

Harquitectes   Spain   Located in a residential complex of L’Escala, the house goes up on a rectangular-shaped plot with a gentle topography, facing north-south and without preexisting conditions, neither vegetation nor built elements. The program was simple, a second resi

Ábalos & Herreros   Spain   A las afueras de Madrid, en la última parcela de una urbanización situada en una ladera junto a un encinar protegido del cauce del río Guadarrama, se ensaya una casa compacta, un prisma ortogonal de planta rectangular de 12x 8 metros, nacido como pro

Carvajal+Casariego Arquitectos   Spain   in the south of Madrid, began in 1959 and, ever since, several buildings (in most cases blocks of over ten floors) have seen how time has caused a severe deterioration in their structure. The problems, initially ascribed to the quality of the terrain

Miralles Tagliabue EMBT   Spain   The university of Vigo offers its students the possibility of studying in three Galician cities: Pontevedra, Orense and Vigo. In this last city, the different schools take up a green, undulated terrain close to mount Marcosende, which serves to name

MVRDV   Netherlands   In a residential environment of macroblocks, these 37 pieces create a small multicolor neighborhood within a larger one, on grounds that had once served as an airfield. The project, designed as a pedestrian island, materializes a place with a domesti

Morger & Degelo Christian Kerez   Liechtenstein   Vaduz is not a village, but it isn’t a city either. It is a collection of houses crammed against the mass of rock topped by a castle overlooking the landscape, the princely residence and the government headquarters of a tiny country whose main indust

Archteam   Czech Republic   For much of the 20th century, architects have put a lot of effort into formulating accessible housing typologies. Residential building, however, is so inexorably tied to local traditions and economic circumstances that the term ‘cheap’, applied to ho

Hans Kollhoff   Germany   Tras la reunificación alemana y la caída del muro de Berlín, el futuro de la Potsdamer Platz se confió a la iniciativa privada, buscando devolverle la actividad comercial que tuvo antes de la división en dos mitades de la ciudad. La ordenación de est

Carlos Puente   Spain   Popular references are woven with others originating from classic funerary architecture in the extension of this necropolis in a small agricultural town of the Castilian plateau. An ordinary plaster wall surrounds the new graves, the order of which,

Rubiño García Márquez Arquitectos   Spain   El Guadalquivir discurre por las estribaciones del lado sur de Sierra Morena. A lo largo de su cauce se suceden las poblaciones ribereñas donde se situaban los antiguos vados de la corriente. Cantillana es uno de los más tradicionales. A 35 kilómetro

Fité & Mejón   Spain   This new center for secondary education is situated at the edge of town, on land terraced in three levels that already featured a number of school constructions beforehand. The brief for this public high school basically stipulated a classroom block,

Francisco Domouso Ginés Garrido Emilio Rodríguez   Spain   Serranillos del Valle belongs to the Sagra region, which is shared between Madrid and Toledo. Its invasion by weekend residences has not altered the rural character of the place, whose urban core still preserves splendid farmhouses. The old Town Hall

Heikkinen-Komonen Architects   Guinea-Conakry   Depending on how one looks at it, the suggestion that this African house by the Finnish partners Heikkinen and Komonen could have been built with any other palette of materials – corrugated metal and glass, for instance, like Glen Murcutt’s projects

Scientific American   Mark Fischetti   Nick Bockelman   Wil V. Srubar   New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production. We make more concrete than we do any other material on Earth. Cement is one of the most energy-intensive products on the planet.

The Economist   It is a big source of emissions, but might one day be the reverse. The romans perfected concrete, and their legacy still stands in the form of the magnificent roof of the Pantheon, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Since it was complete

Scientific American   Mariette DiChristina   Concrete, the most widely used human-made material, shapes much of our built world. The manufacture of one of its key components, cement, creates a substantial yet underappreciated amount of human-produced carbon dioxide: up to 8 percent of the globa

Aniceto Zaragoza   Public works have always – amd especially since the 19th century – been an engine for social and economic growth. In the world’s underdeveloped countries, almost any building work can have extraordinary transformative power; nevertheless, as national