Facing the Pacific Ocean, on a rocky stretch southeast of Tokyo, House O twists to face the sea and frame different views. The uniqueness of its floor plan, conceived as the branches of a tree, is its spatial continuity. All the spaces – entrance, li
With the purpose of offering an incentive for creative people and keeping students from moving to cities like London or Birmingham, the Royal Institute of British Architects, on behalf of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, called a competition to build eig
Each unique and individual piece of laminated fir wood used to build the roof structure curves in three directions; prefabricated from threedimensional models, their design, modeling, and manufacturing use digital and manual processes... [+]
sP+a, the Mumbai practice headed by Sameep Padora, has enlarged a small children’s library for Sharda School in Kopargaon, a town in the largely rural Indian state of Maharashtra. Its complex undulating roof is inspired in the brick tile vault techni
Drawing inspiration from the idea of a grove of trees, the paivlion is built with slender wooden footings holding up an inclined roof, which creates a microclimate of shade.
Balancing Barn is situated in the English countryside near Thorington in Suffolk. It is a summer residence built for Living Architecture, a company that offers temporary rentals of signature houses, under the motto “Holidays in modern architecture.”
With its hypertrophic triangulations and huge crystalline surfaces, the envelope of the four new residential blocks recalls the industrial past of this riverside area.
Designed for a Japanese collector of modern and Buddhist art, this house was conceived as a contemporary retreat with traditional influences. The house occupies a site rich with historical associations, including a Shinto shrine and man-made caves th
Hearst Tower revives the dream of William Randolph Hearst, the publishing magnate who envisaged Columbus Circle as a new media quarter in Manhattan. In 1920, Hearst commissioned the Viennese Joseph Urban to build a six-storey Art Deco block on Eighth
Located across across from the Kamiari-mon Gate of the old Buddhist temple of Sens?-ji, in the busy neighborhood of Asakusa in Tokyo, the cultural and tourist information center piles up small volumes of sloping roofs, generating a non-conventional l
Carried out on a very tight budget and with the help of the participation of the local population, the project takes the structure of traditional Hindu temples as reference.
El sistema constructivo del edificio permitirá su desmantelamiento parcial una vez finalizados los Juegos, además de optimizar los materiales y reducir su huella ecológica.
