The village of Santa Lucía Alto, in the region of Yungay, is surrounded by fertile plains and high peaks. One of its lush forests in the foothills of the Andes Mountains becomes the site for his house-studio, an ambitious project of over 2,400m² that
The hotel complex seeks to distance itself from the voracious American touristic business. Its geometric distribution in plan, its formality overall, and the chosen materials are guided by an organicity that reduces both the visual and the environmen
The traditional organization of the hotel, in which the services are distributed vertically, disappears in this project design. The family units are broken up and connected horizontally, providing privacy and comfort for women guests...
The north terminal, inspired by the mountains in the backdrop of the station, is a geometric response to the vaulted system of the south terminal. In both cases, the double-height floors offer visual and spatial continuity with the exterior…
This is a part of the Dublin coastal area beloved of James Joyce and immortalized in Ulysses. Located overlooking Dublin Bay, with Booterstown Marsh at its south-eastern boundary, and a frontage onto the main road connecting the sea port of Dun Laogh
A building formed by 36 concrete columns set against the sky and a circular ramp that leads up to a viewing point help to give character to what is otherwise a dull suburban commercial area.
Situated near Jægersborg Deer Park, north of Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard houses Northern Europe’s most comprehensive collection of French and Danish art from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally built as a three-winged country mansion in the neo
A residence located on gently sloping land in a narrow valley faces the landscape in the manner of a pedestal that stands out on account of its strict geometry and straw-like color tone.
Molina de Segura (Murcia) is a formerly-rural county where vast stretches of land have been exploited to create suburbs. The result is a flattening of the land’s topographies and the destruction of its ramblas (territorial system of ravines) and loca
Located in Riviera, a Johannesburg suburb, the new library is to be a space for learning, investigation, and cultural exchange from the perspective of the African continent. Apart from the usual library program – including reading rooms and archives
The client – a prominent businessman from Foshan – wished to contribute to the cultural scene of his home city, and decided to promote the construction of a museum for his personal collection, ranging from traditional Oriental art to modern art. Fro
The project is an opera house in a cultural complex that is anticipated to shape the core of the cultural zone of Jiading New Town, a suburb which is developing rapidly based on its car industry, and that is 30 km northwest of Shanghai. Owing to the
Located in the second largest industrial city in Mexico, the University of Monterrey is a private institution with more than 12,000 students. Its large campus was rounded off with this building, the RGS Center, designed for newly-established schools
The regeneration of Naoshima, a small island on Seto Inland Sea, is a cultural project that was launched in the second half of the 1980s. The first building within this initiative was Benesse House Museum, an ‘overnight stay’ museum that includes lod
A parish center located in the very heart of Calabria presents solutions for an architecture that is loaded with references but does not forget to incorporate sustainable mechanisms. The temple is fitted into a sinuous white volume around which the S
In 2015, the joint proposal presented under the choral signature MXSI – the Barcelona studio of Mara Partida and Héctor Mendoza (Mendoza Partida), and Boris Bezan (BAX Studio) – and the local office SPRB Arquitectos, led by Carlos Rodríguez and Laura
The project is based on the need to respond both to the lack of use and internal functioning of the original building that became obsolete due to the unplanned arrival of new technologies, and to problems of security and sustainability. The task has
We were told that when resources are scarce, intensity compensates for high performance (because there seems to be a deep gap between ingeniousness and intelligence). Any project is a reaction to its circumstances. This is an apparently simple and re
The firm of the Madrid architects José de Villar and Carlos Chacón won the competition to design a park included in the plan for Valle del Puebla in Mexicali, capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. Spaces of different scales interconne
After leaving Australia in 1966, Utzon decided to build a getaway where he could spend time with his family, and in Mallorca he found the ideal place. However, as time went by Can Lis became, as happened with his other few works, a pilgrimage site fo
The new Magazzino Italian Art building, a renovated and enlarged old storehouse for dairy products, proposes a parallel structure that filters natural light and organizes the circulation elements.
The new ICA Museum in Miami has been conceived as an urban atrium which can be adapted to accommodate a broad diversity of art forms, thanks to the flexibility of its exhibition spaces.
Built as the prize in the traditional annual Tec lottery of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) with the purpose of raising funds for projects as grants for its students, this house is a tribute to Mexican architecture.
Material austerity, importance of light, and connection with nature are key aspects of the existentialist work of the Japanese master.
Based in Hong Kong, the young architect and photographer has brought together his training and his passion in a search for the order and rhythm present in landscape. The abstract and poetic compositions of the traditional fishing structures he discov
La condición geométrica de buena parte de la escultura contemporánea, y sus fértiles intersecciones con la arquitectura, es el argumento de una exposición celebrada en el CaixaForum de Madrid, fruto de la fusión de las colecciones de la Fundación La
Beyond architectural documentation, Hélène Binet’s work reinterprets the buildings she photographs transcending the representation of reality to be exhibited as a work of art proper. Born in Switzerland and currently living in London, it was during h
The romance between modern architecture and the automobile was just an adventure among youngsters born around the same years, and who claimed to have the future in their hands. But the conquest of the world by the combustion engine radically transfor
The landscape is humanized by geometry, and that apparent paradox bears the seeds of its dissolution. Mathematical order, whose tautological and abstract nature is so far away from the organic, is however the clearest sign of human intervention on th
We pretend to keep organizing the world with the geometry of the eye, but contemporary landscapes are subordinated to the double discipline of density and movement. Human reason interprets the environment with the same tools that it uses to make it u
La construcción ha evolucionado más en este siglo que en los veinte anteriores. Hasta el inicio de nuestra centuria, los métodos y materiales de la construcción eran muy similares a los que utilizaron los clásicos. Olvidando la reducción de espesores
Like Stansted Airport, the American Air Museum at Duxford took ten years from design to completion, and in this case no environmental debates could be blamed for the delay. Perhaps because of its protracted development, this museum has not been fully
Art museums fuse with the world of fashion, creating an amalgam that is irreverent or frivolous to some, but enigmatic and seductive to many more.
Following a fruitful Sabbatical year at the American Academy in Rome, driven by the same spirit which had inspired David, that outstanding member of his stock, Louis Kahn, an obscure professor of architecture, decided in the early fifties to hurl him
The affirmation that modern architectural theory and practice do not always coincide is not exactly a great critical revelation. The identification of the reason for this contradiction, however, is of great interest when analyzing the advances of an
