The New York practice of Sharon Davis worked with the NGO Possible Health and the Nepalese government in raising new medical facilities in Achham, one of Nepal’s poorest and most remote regions. Surrounded by mountains in the Seti River Valley, the c
Converted into a new civic center, the project defends the inclusion of all agents in the transformation of the city, integrating the layers that operate in it through mixed infrastructures and wooded areas that open up to a controlled scale...
Jojutla in the Mexican state of Morelos is the location of this community center envisioned as part of the plan to restructure the municipality’s main public buildings, damaged by an earthquake that shook the area on 19 September 2017. The original s
Public life in the city of Shenzhen thrives in semi-open spaces, so the center takes the shape of a 150m tower that breathes and lets in sunlight, opening up at street level and inviting pedestrians into a square filled with vegetation... [+]
Villa Urania is a small residence from the late 19th century – home of the astronomer Josep Comas i Solà (1868-1937) –, the last example of the garden-city of El Farró in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district. The redensification of the neighborhood left
Three starting points: understanding the historic value of Lleialtat Santsenca (1928), an old working class cooperative in the Sants neighborhood; knowing to the detail the building’s (physical) state to maintain as much as possible; and being sensit
This public facility houses an adult education center, a language standardization consortium, and a hotel on a triangular plot in the Les Corts district. Two of the three sides of the site are defined by the heritage-listed frontage of the former Pla
Located in Moscow, the GES-2 is a magnificent historical power station built between 1904 and 1908. The project consists in the reconversion of this building in a space conceived as a very articulated experience going from visual arts to performing a
In Ayase, a city in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, stands this multipurpose space for the local community, designed by Aki Hamada. For better blending into the heterogeneous enviroment, with its mix of houses and factories, the two-story building combi
Eighteen architecture students from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern worked with twenty-five refugees for three months in building this wooden pavilion in a camp located in the old Spinelli barracks that the United States had in Mannheim, s
The Sean O’Casey Community Centre goes up over the roofs of the East Wall area of Dublin. The main program – including a kindergarten, a daycare center for the elderly, sports halls, and a theater – is organized in four volumes that are hinged by fou
In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit
Recientemente terminado, el centro cívico-cultural proyectado por el estudio madrileño Exit Architects, puede concebirse como una especie de palimpsesto en el que conviven lenguajes arquitectónicos distintos. Surgida de la rehabilitación del edificio
La localidad de Tortosa cuenta con un nuevo centro cívico firmado por el estudio Arquitecturia —Josep Camps y Olga Felip—. La intervención ha comprendido la rehabilitación del antiguo mercado de Freires, construido en los años sesenta, y su ampliació
De almacén de alcoholes municipal a espacio cívico, la centenaria Alhóndiga ha cambiado de función sin perder carácter público; por el camino han quedado proyectos insólitos.
