Surrounded by trees and plenty of greenery, the three residential blocks that form the Chilestieg complex rise on a large plot of land in the municipality of Rümlang. The Swiss commune of 8,000 inhabitants – located close to Zurich’s airport – is mai
Until the year 2003, Luxembourg did not have a university of its own. To compensate for this, the government decided to build a campus in Esch-sur-Alzette, the small country’s second largest city. Known as the ‘Cité des sciences,’ the new premises ar
Ijburg is one of Amsterdam’s new urban developments, extending over seven artificial islands in the southeastern part of the Dutch capital. The largest, Haveneiland, is the location of Solids, a seven-building complex that marks the entrance to the d
The new e-Science laboratory at ETH Zurich had to tackle two fundamental challenges: characterizing the place and giving architectural form to the future of scientific work. The innovative program – research using computational tools and big data – r
The site of the Hilti Training Centre is at the borderline between the municipality of Schaan and the Rätikon mountain range, in Liechtenstein. The challenge of the project lay in creating a coherent identity in both formal and functional terms, depa
Consisting of hundreds of glass panels, the bright and homogeneous exterior shell is the main feature of the Eichgut building. The skin that covers the whole L-shaped volume protects the 90 units from the nearby presence of railway tracks, and at the
Ocupying the old site of Wiener Molkerei (Vienna Dairy), close to the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Wiener Prater park, this student residence recreates the essence of the late 19th-century architecture that characterizes the up
Like many other cities in China, the capital has in the past few decades grown at a dizzying pace with little regard for the environment. The MOMA towers, developed by the company Modern Group in 2002, were a pioneering example of sustainable residen
The arcade was the starting point of this office building in Oosterdokseiland, an island close to Amsterdam Central Station. The masterplan specified that all constructions within this new urban development area include a public zone. This naturally
Los muros masivos y los huecos controlados mantienen estable la temperatura interior de este edificio sin necesidad de calefacción, refrigeración o ventilación mecánicas.
On the shore of Lake Constance, close to the natural reserve of the Rhine Delta, Nordwesthaus serves as a meeting point for users of the Rohner Yacht Harbour. Located in the village of Fußach, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, the premises belong
Established since 1913 in the Schwabing area, the insurance company Münchener Rückversicherung has expanded steadily in Munich’s center with buildings whose architectures bear witness to the consecutive phases in which this institution has grown. One
Within a dense urban context composed mainly of housing blocks of four heights and sloped roofs, a new building and renovated shed transform the image of the place in order to house nine apartments. The old building is aligned with the street whereas
The housing complex Achslengut II is located in the Swiss city of St. Gallen, between Lake Constance and the Alps. When Baumschlager Eberle Architekten obtained this commission in 1998, the principal parameters of the project had already been establi
In the state of New York, at approximately three hundred kilometers to the north of the city of skyscrapers, a plot of 140 hectares was chosen to build a dwelling with no further pretense than to become a weekend retreat. Located almost at the edge o
From the closed perimetral block to the highrise, an entire catalog of urban forms graces the site outside Innsbruck that was staked out to accommodate a large number of subsidized apartments. Bordered to the south by the 1960s buildings of the univ
Philip Arcidi «Nos interesa hacer arquitectura apropiada, pero nos interesa también hacer arquitectura contemporánea», asegura Rodolfo Machado, del estudio bostoniano de Machado y Silvetti. Su observación es un indicio de la naturaleza híbrida del Sc
Austria’s architectural scene today is multiform. Vienna and Graz, the capitals wielding power since the fifties, have progressively passed on competencies to other regions, giving rise to the current tapestry. The case of Vorarlberg, the nation’s we
The architects were commissioned to build a house for an unmarried mother in a scenic green zone outside the Austrian town of Lochau, on grounds belonging to the client’s parents. The project was subject to a single condition: that the new building b
La fusión de la sede central de la compañía electrónica Graf con dos de sus sucursales, que hasta entonces habían sido independientes, para formar un conjunto empresarial único, planteó la necesidad de ampliar el edificio original, localizado en Dorn
