A cylindrical pavilion clad in folded aluminum sheets gives ancillary service to the world’s only theater found on the premises of a fully operating daily market of fresh food produce. Facing the brutalist hangar designed by Hermkes that now includes
Elevated above the ground, the Center for Hearing and Language is accessed by means of a slender path that winds towards the ground level. The new school, surrounded by grand existing trees, replaces two massive provisional buildings. The L-shaped vo
Critical of intensive practices, a family long engaged in raising livestock makes organic cheese in an environment that improves the quality of life of the animals and blends into the landscape. Deviating from the picture of an opaque industrial
Standing on a small rocky hillock that offers panoramic views of the valley, the mountains, and the town of Artá, this second residence becomes a privileged observatory of sunrises, sunsets, and storms. The project consists of adapting the traditiona
The owners, a couple with two children, wanted a house needing practically no maintenance, with a lot of privacy as well as a good relationship with the garden all year round, and with a large workspace. Only the sun, the geometry of the plot (almost
Instead of being simply a facility for the safeguarding, display, and dissemination of the work of Edvard Munch, the building is conceived to be a dynamic hub for contemporary culture and a cohesive element for Oslo and the country at large. Designed
The upshot of a competition organized by the Badajoz provincial government public works department, the complex designed by Madrid-based Estudio Arquitectura HAGO – Antonio Álvarez-Cienfuegos Rubio and Emilio Delgado Martos – rises in Los Monteros in
Right in the heart of the city, a building conceived as an infrastructure concentrating a number of different uses seeks to create a hub of activity on a local and a metropolitan level alike. Public programs are accommodated within a grid of screen s
Ever since the first cargo ship carrying intermodal containers docked in Bremen in 1966, their growth and development in international trade has been spectacular. Shipping containers are icons of our globalized society. Almost everything we buy trave
Located on the outskirts of the city of Toluca, at the edge of an anonymous indrustrial area filled with monothonous prismatic buildings, this is the first museum of chocolate built by the Swiss company Nestlé. Located next to the factory, the new bu
The residential development of Mendillorri was created ten years ago in the valley of Egüés in order to meet the growing demand for social housing of the neighboring Pamplona. Since then, more than 5.000 housing units have been built, transforming M
Próxima a las ciudades francesas de Caen, Le Havre y Rouen, Pont-Audemer es una pequeña localidad normanda que todavía conserva pequeñas casas con entramado de madera y tejado a dos aguas, vestigios de antiguas curtidurías, al borde de pintorescos ca
El antiguo muelle de depósitos de almacenaje portuario deAmsterdam ocupa una privilegiada situación urbana, y entre sus edificios destacaba un almacén de carbón obra de un discípulo de Berlage, cuya dignidad fabril el Ayuntamiento deseaba conservar e
A stream divides into two almost equal halves the plot in the outskirts of Vammala where a Finnish couple decided to build their home. Since the owners – a language teacher and an expert in marine biology – found that either of the two shores of the
Three hundred kilometers to the south of Sydney, the plot remaining from the partial subdivision of a large agricultural property was purchased by a couple of intellectuals to build a house for the holidays which has gradually become a more frequent
Zachary is a locality in the State of Louisiana lying between the oil refineries north of Baton Rouge and St. Francisville, an area of great ornithological interest. In this rural land of farms and small residential areas, a couple decided to build
The popularization of winter sports since the Second World War has scattered the idyllic Alpine landscape with hotels, cabins, shelters and, most of all, small but abundant technical installations to allow the massive access of sport enthusiasts to t
Spain literally rests on the bits and pieces of its own History, and proof of this are thenumerous Greek, Roman and Muslim remains that frequently appear in the subsoil. In the farming region that extends over the prairies of the River Douro, to the
The plot designated for the extension of the Reina Sofía Museum, at the rear of the Madrid art center, has inspired a medial solution by which its peripheral position with respect to Atocha square is made up for by an architecture which displays the
The heterogeneous character of the activities which take place within this ‘business incubator,’ also headquarters of the Institute for the Small and Medium Enterprise, is expressed by means of five elongated prisms arranged at regular intervals and
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
In 1996, the local government of La Coruña organized a competition aimed at endowing its small municipalities with sports infrastructures. A first phase summoned participants to propose models for outdoor swimming pools adaptable to the specific requ
Este encargo residencial localizado en el límite del Regenboogbuurt o Barrio del Arcoiris, en la localidad holandesa de Almere, incluye 56 viviendas en propiedad y 28 en régimen de alquiler, situadas a la orilla de uno de los innumerables canales que
Fifteen years after completing Reliance Controls, Norman Foster returned to Swindon with another industrial commission, but this time executed in a bold expressionist language which offers a strong contrast with the confident restraint of the earlier
Between the completion of the Sainsbury Centre and the start of the Hong Kong project, Foster benefited from the relaxation of commitments to undertake a personal project, a house for himself in Hampstead. The design, of which full size mockups were
If the family was changing, so was the workplace. And this electronics factory, designed and built in ten months of 1965 and 1966, gave Team 4 the opportunity to develop a system which was both a model of industrial construction and a paradigm of ind
¿Artesanía o industria? La chapa metálica se ofrece hoy con formas muy diversas que responden a los últimos avances tecnológicos en producción y puesta en obra. Sin dejar de lado las soluciones artesanas, la chapa se ha convertido en un producto que
