Immersed in the extensive garden of a 1930s villa in a residential neighborhood, a small wooden structure stands as a contemporary interpretation of the backyard barn. It is built with rough and inexpensive material: a simple structure of prefabricat
The project takes up a portion of land adjacent to the Municipal Gallery building, in the heart of the center of Montijo, in the Portuguese district of Setúbal. A kind of hortus conclusus featuring two outdoor ‘rooms’ varying in altitude, the 80-squa
On the slope of Mount Pindo stands A casa das silvas, the oldest house in the Galician town of Panchés, the roof of which collapsed close to forty years ago. With the passage of time, a piece of mountain pierced through the walls, making it a home fo
The client wanted a garden, and decided to leave an apartment in downtown Stockholm for a home on the Mälaren lakefront. In response to this desire, the house proposed becomes part of the vegetation by wrapping it in a trellis for vines and seven dif
This landscape intervention by the Granada-based firm KAUH – Vincent Morales Garoffolo and Juan Antonio Sánchez Muñoz – reclaims the unique heritage site of La Hoya for the city of Almería. La Hoya is a gorge located on the edge of the historic quart
After the fire that destroyed this old Castilian house only the stone walls remained. Its refurbishment has been carried out through the insertion of a concrete structure that completes and visually replicates the original construction...
A faceted building in the middle of a landscape of terraces has the mission of preserving the memory of a people currently displaced and dispersed, but strongly united in identity.
Six dwellings in two buildings – four identical and two exceptional – surround a communal garden hidden inside a city block, with one architecture tying together the fragmented reality...
In the courtyard of a large old house in the Polanco neighborhood rises a slender mixed-use building that is considered the first ever to incorporate a high-rise timber structure. The framework of the upper levels rests on the party wall and a single
Through a project carried out by Francisco José Padilla and Juan Manuel Nicás on the initiative of Fundación Juegaterapia, the roof of Gregorio Marañón Hospital’s maternity and neonatal building – a 2003 work of the architect Rafael Moneo, in collabo
In order to ensure growth in a competitive market while maintaining strategically crucial areas of research and development in Switzerland, Trafag relocated their headquarters to a 10,000-square meter industrial zone located in between Zurich’s Oberl
The refurbishment project proposes a landscaped roof based on a new topography. This garden is covered at specific areas in the tradition of orangeries and greenhouses, turning the vegetation into the key component of the design...
Ubicado en los históricos jardines de Versalles, el conjunto escolar evoca el rigor técnico y la optimización formal de los invernaderos. En su cubierta integra un pequeño jardín hortícola que sirve como herramienta pedagógica y favorece la biodivers
Between the consolidated city and its peripheral areas – in what is a crossroads of rivers, obsolete industries, airports, and logistical parks – lies this huge, almost 300,000-square-meter development containing residential, retail, and office uses.
The Mistral residential complex is part of EuroMed, a mixed-use development built in Mar-seille on the grounds of the old port. In accordance with the masterplan, the complex pre-sents an urban scheme of a certain density; an intermediate volume made
The complex borrows the density and scale from the old city, and the idea of filling the interstitial space of the old cloister upon discovering, in the historic description, that the layout of the Jesuit school-church (17th-18th centuries) is based
The building is separated from the back area of the plot (south) and inserts lightwells that also provide ventilation, transformed into gardens to bring sunlight in. The windows and materials used help differentiate common and private areas...
This set of gardens was designed and built for the 11th Sharjah Biennial, directed by the Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa. After developing a strategy to urbanize the existing heritage area of Sharjah, the design proposed a set of pavilions that compl
This enclave in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, has two main defining features. One is its combination of low density and extensive occupation of land, which gives rise to an expansive fabric built close to the ground. The other is the presence of hedges th
The signature postmodern landmark in Midtown Manhattan, Philip Johnson’s 550 Madison will undergo an ambitious transformation of the public realm and exterior renovations. The design re-envisions the building’s public space as a generously expanded,
The building is a box whose image varies depending on how much sunlight falls on the facade, built with 20.000 rectangular glass blocks with extended edges or wings, which allows reducing the width of the grouting to 2mm... [+]
This house in Hyogo (Japan) pursues two principal objectives which could well be seen as contradictory: on the one hand, to create an intimate abode on a barely 140-square-meter lot with neighbors in all four directions; on the other, to make the dom
The stone wall that marked out the boundaries of the estate went around the whole site, revealing just the tops of the trees inside. The materiality and the irregularity of the geometry of the wall endowed it with a special character and presence, bu
The philosopher Byung-Chul Han felt a strong need to be close to the earth, so for three years he worked in a garden which he called Bi-Won, Korean for ‘secret garden.’ For her part the architect Teresa Clara Martínez, after a year of exploring Zen g
This is a personal exploration of gardens that the author is drawn to, and her aim is to grasp the meaning of these somehow ‘unreal’ places without which “architecture feels incomplete.” She follows no clear order, preferring an erratic round of visi
Architecture longs for the exact pleasure of the garden. Photographer José Manuel Ballester – who was already on the cover of ‘Utopías útiles’ with his stripped-down version of The Garden of Earthly Delights – is showing De arboris perennis at the Bo
The fitting out of a space for holding events has transformed El Jaral de la Mira, a peaceful estate located up in the sierra of Madrid, once upon a time used by King Philip II as a hunting ground. Although a large part of the property is still taken
The French philosopher Michel de Montaigne wished death to find him planting his cabbages, and it is a similar devotion to gardening that we find in Íñigo Segurola, a Basque agricultural engineer and landscapist who for a time was also the presenter
Set to open on 29 April, the exhibition ‘Parque del Drago, 1998-2023: 25 years around the thousand-year-old dragon tree,’ curated by Fernando Menis, will be presented by Luis Fernández-Galiano at the Visitor Center of Dragon Tree Park, in the Tenerif
The exploration of domestic intimacy that inspired the exhibition ‘El espacio privado: cinco siglos en veinte palabras’ (‘Private Space: Five Centuries in Twenty Words’ at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1990) is abridged and extende
The idea that architecture is a form of nature has become a maxim that the firm Junya Ishigami + Associates faithfully follows in its work, an oeuvre now enriched by the Botanical Garden Art Biotop: Water Garden in Tochigi, Japan. The singularity of
A pesar de las espléndidas fotografías, las tapas duras, el formato más bien grande y el título sólo aparentemente ambiguo, nada más lejos de la intención de este libro que servir de decoración bajo la mesita del café. La historiadora de jardines Jan
After the towers of Hong Kong and Tokyo, the Commerzbank headquarters in Frankfurt is Foster’s third high rise building and, with 53 storeys and 300 metres, the tallest in Europe (Century rose to 20 storeys, and Hong Kong to 28, 35 and 41). In the of
Dobles y encontrados sentimientos, los que provienen de la necesidad de mantener una imborrable memoria y del deseo de alcanzar un balsámico olvido, parecen darse cita en la convocatoria para el Concurso cuando en ella se nos describe cuál ha de ser
Teresa Clara Martínez A London Suburban Garden Through Time
Byung-Chul Han Un viaje al jardín
Marta Llorente El remanso del jardín
Dominique de Courcelles Jardines, palacios y moradas espirituales en la España de los siglos XV al XVII
Julian Raxworthy Practices between Landscape Architecure and Gardening
Marc Treib Thoughts on Landscape, Restraint, & Attending
Mario Satz El espíritu de los jardines
Jane Brown
Barcelona 2002
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