Hanoi ARB Architects, directed by Nguyen Ha, was commissioned by the artist Xuan Hinh to build a museum devoted to Dao Mau, the worship of mother goddesses which was established in Vietnam in the 16th century, and declared a UNESCO-listed religion in
The character of the new center is in keeping with the industrial past of the site: walls and roofs are clad in brick and big tiles made of clay in the same tone. The steps and chamfers form the entrances and articulate the building...
A refined cottage for excursionists helps itself to the local building tradition of solid stonework walls and tiled roofs to blend into a beautiful natural spot in the province of Soria. Clad in panels of black bakelite, a space unfolding around a fi
This home is located in Amagansett, an early English and Dutch settlement in Long Island. The site served as communal grazing pasture for the early settlers, who divided the land into parcels where farmers rotated their livestock from one parcel to t
A leading producer of spirits has opened its first distillery on Chinese soil, set in a beautiful landscape with views of Mount Emei, one of the four sacred spots of Buddhism.
With over three centuries of history, Bodegues Ribas is the oldest winery on the island of Mallorca. Since its foundation in 1711, its wines have been produced in Ca’n Ribas – an 18th-century manor house kept intact to date – and the lands around it,
Zhang Xiaochun In September 2015, with an exhibition themed ‘Heavenly Creations: A World of Southern Rural Crafts,’ the Folk Art Museum of the China Academy of Arts – a project designed by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma – officially opened to the
Built in 1959 and in 1963 respectively, the Kingo and Fredensborg houses share one same system of organic growth based on the repetition of the same residential type. In both cases, the main idea is to combine the privacy of domestic life – through i
Built in 1959 and in 1963 respectively, the Kingo and Fredensborg houses share one same system of organic growth based on the repetition of the same residential type. In both cases, the main idea is to combine the privacy of domestic life – through i
The school’s compact walls of rammed earth and its heavy roof clad with ceramic tiles are both in keeping with the traditional typologies, materials, and techniques of Burundi.
El encargo consistía en la construcción de unas oficinas para los veinticinco trabajadores de una agencia de viajes en un pueblo a treinta kilómetros de Bruselas, en un solar entre casas rurales, un convento y un colegio. Este entorno tradicional con
Siguiendo una convención más o menos histórica, el muro blanco no se considera sólo algo neutro, sino la expresión de la abstracción pura, en tanto que el papel pintado se asocia de inmediato a lo decorativo. Si el ornamento es un medio más fácil que
Vallejo de Orbó es una pequeña localidad que pertenece al término municipal de Brañosera, en la zona norte de la provincia de Palencia, próxima a los municipios de Aguilar de Campoo y Barruelo de Santullán. Desde la carretera comarcal que une estas d
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,
The 4,000 square meter site of this one-story residence is a sloping land oriented southward, offering splendid views of the Montseny. With its total floor area o f300 square meters, the building poses on the highest of the three terraces forming the
The entire lifework of Luis Peña Gauchegui could be understood in terms of the postulates of ‘critical regionalism’, the current spearheaded - among others - by the British critic Kenneth Frampton, who preconizes that local traditions be tied to the
Against some excessively orthodox and reductionist interpretations of International Style was the stand of Fernando Higueras, who was aware of the need to broaden the architectural language. This was evident in his 1960 project for artists' apartment
Tejas Verea announces its first round of awards – organized in collaboration with the Galicia Institute of Architects –to distinguish efficient and sustainable roof solutions carried out with ceramic tiles produced by the firm. The competition is ope
Veamos, para empezar, lo que afirma un anuncio reciente aparecido en la prensa nacional: «MARBELLA HOUSE» es un oasis de tranquilidad y belleza junto al mar» (...) «Un paraíso privado donde la belleza del diseño, la calidad de la construcción y la se
