Developed by a group of owners constituted as a cooperative, this project for 34 dwellings in Santiago de Compostela is situated in the area around the Ermite de Santa Marta, next to Rúa Monte de Conxo. This way of associating reduces construction co
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Set within the Riviera Maya’s Aldea Zamá, in the Mexican city of Tulum, 38 apartments make up this residential complex designed by the firm Sordo Madaleno. The objective of the project was to blend architecture into the natural environment of the sit
Placed on an axis running parallel to the coastline, the linear house is closed to the street but opens up gradually to the landscape towards the west. The long piece culminates in a tall, open porch that offers views of the Mediterranean Sea. The ki
IIntegrated into the landscape of Pals, a municipality of the comarca of Baix Empordà, in Catalonia, this house rises over the remains of an old farmhouse named Mas Geli, of which only two facades with buttresses and a pair of spaces with stone vault
The residential building on Carrer Palamós is integrated into an urban fabric of La Trinitat Nova, a Barcelona neighborhood characterized by isolated blocks. Volume-wise, it presents a series of setbacks that break up the large scale of the developme
The Cabonon is a fully equipped apartment with a floor area of just 6.89 square meters, including an infrared sauna and a whirlpool bath. Its inside dimension are: height 3 meters, width 1.97, length 3.6. A large window overlooks the city. The Cabano
Amid pine trees and sand formations, this dwelling rises on irregular terrain near the Entrepeñas reservoir, in the Peñalagos development of the municipality of Pareja (Guadalajara), in La Mancha region. With a built area of 253 square meters, it com
A university residence run by the Dominican order presents a rigorous composition of brick volumes that nevertheless maintain a certain degree of formal autonomy. The bedrooms take up the vertical block, arranged in pairs along continuous balconies,
Point William, a region on the Canadian Shield, is the location of this house surrounded by water and vegetation which was built and rebuilt following a scheme by the Toronto firm headed by Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe. A 1980s building that st
The Czech firm RDTH Architekti —René Dlesk and Tamara Horová Kolaříková— has transformed an old mill and farm in Slovakia into a house, putting in wooden elements that refer to preexisting rural constructions. Beside a small stream in Trenčín stands
The project takes off from the idea of building two homes for a family in Rupiá, a municipality in the Baix Empordà region of Girona province. Combining bioclimatic, functional, and integration arguments, the intervention analyzes the relationship be
Designed in collaboration with the client, the designer James Perse, this house is located in the Mexican state of Nayarit, on the Pacific coast. Independent low pavilions – containing nine rooms, communal spaces, swimming pools, and a spa – are dist
The Old School House of Pitcombe, in the English county of Somerset, was built in 1864. The listed building was turned into a house in the 1940s, and enlarged thirty years later with a bedroom wing. This extension has been demolished and replaced by
With a simple design and a bioclimatic focus, the LA House is laid out around a central fireplace, surrounded by four brick volumes. These four solid-looking ceramic boxes are placed at the ends of the house and contain the rooms. In contrast with th
Gianni Botsford’s project respectfully integrates the enlargement of a house built by Norman Foster in the late 1960s in Hampstead, north of central London. The result is a four-story building with…
With a built area of 140 square meters, this house of exposed concrete – poured into a formwork of wooden planks – stands at the extreme point of a simple town-block of doubly open-ended plots, in a neighborhood of dwellings raised by the Housing Min
Though it is only a 19th-century addition, the tower of the castle of Hagenberg – with four bulbous pinnacles at the corners of its roof – gives the Austrian village its characteristic image, and the iconic profile of this vertical structure has even
The DVS 03 project – comprising two blocks that contain 33 dwellings – is part of Villa Serena, a residential development in Ciudad Juárez, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. It rises on flat land in the existing brick-clad complex. Analysis of the a
The result of a collaborative effort of the VELUX Group, the architects at EFFEKT, and the engineers of Artelia, Living Places Copenhagen presents seven real-scale prototypes in the Jernbanebyen neighborhood of the Danish capital. Five open pavilions
This design was based on a respectful grasp of the nature that inhabits the city of Valle de Bravo. The open upper floor engages directly with the surrounding treetops, giving the project its essence. The dwelling adapts to the natural topography, ab
On a farm in Zafra de Záncara, a municipality of fewer than a hundred inhabitants in Cuenca province, this new-build rises on a plot that is completely flat but for a slight slope toward the southeast, which the design of the building takes advantage
A conifer forest in Costa Esmeralda, in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires, is the location of this building of fluid, organic shapes, organized in partly buried, single-level pavilions and crowned with green roofs. They adapt to and take advan
What makes a house a home? The walls that shape it? The people who live in it? Maybe the objects that adorn it? Answering these seemingly obvious questions has been the obsession or dream of many. So, beyond its purpose as a shelter, ideas on the hou
As part of the new concept masterplan being developed for the city of Kharkiv, the Norman Foster Foundation along with the Kharkiv City Council, UNECE, Arup and the Kharkivproject Institute are launching an international competition to improve housin
The housing problem
When in a famous essay Friedrich Engels denounced the living conditions of workers in Victorian England, the construction of dwellings became one of the principal themes of socialism, and eventually it found its way into the list of fundamental right
In the ruined Milan of the postwar, a distinguished group of architects committed itself in both theory and practice to the city’s physical and symbolic reconstruction. The likes of Gio Ponti, Luigi Moretti, Ernest Nathan Rogers, and Ignazio Gardella
Ten people have perished in a conflagration which in a matter of minutes wrapped the facades of the fourteen-story building in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia. A combination of combustible facade materials, air chambers between the building’s sk
The building, completed in 2009, incorporated a facade system consisting of an insulation material and a cladding applied by means of a substructure attached to the outer side of the wall. An air chamber between those two layers improved acoustic ins
Arquitectura Viva gathers in one volume of 320 pages, with a special price of 60 euros, hardbound and in fully bilingual Spanish-English edition, 50 housing projects built in Spain since the year 2000. Always at the center of the architectural debate
This single-family dwelling, built in 1982, is a work of the Argentine architect Ricardo Gomara, located in one of the most favored areas of Punta del Este, Uruguay. Situated on the front line at stop 20 of Playa Brava, this house illustrates a perio
Friends of Residential Treasures: Los Angeles (FORT: LA) is collaborating with Frances Anderton, longtime architecture advocate and author of Common Ground: Multifamily Housing in Los Angeles, on an innovative online resource called “Awesome and Affo
Since 2014, the price of housing in Portugal has been increasing more than 6% per year. Lisbon was the municipality in the country most affected by this problem, infecting the surrounding districts and pushing inhabitants out of the centre. The exhib
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Perhaps because they came from trees, human beings have always had a yearning for heights. First there were the pyramids, the ziggurats, and the towers of Babel, stairs up which to climb to the heavens in pursuit of the gods. Then came the spires of
The only oceanfront home designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright has sold for $22m in California’s Carmel-by-the-Sea, the dreamy coastal enclave where Clint Eastwood once served as mayor... The Guardian. ‘Delicate as the seashore’: rare Frank Lloyd
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The right to the city and the issue of housing can nowadays be tackled through an emphasis on the communal, for which urban villas offer a plausible model.
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Interior life needs the outdoors. During the recent viral pandemic, lockdowns reminded us that we need contact with others and with nature. From this intimate withdrawal, which is both shelter and cell, we must open up to others and to the world. Per
On view through 15 January 2023 at the Museo ICO in Madrid is ‘Domestic Dawns: Collective Housing Issues in 21st-Century Europe’, an invitation to reflect on the main concepts on which the new livability of residential buildings is based. Curated by
Nave Fabra & Coats With Fabrizio Barozzi at the helm and joined by Agnès Blanch, Daria de Seta, Manel Marín, Pedro Matos Gameiro, and Rosa Rull, the jury of the 2021 FAD Awards bestowed the Architecture prize on the 46-unit social housing development
The house has traditionally been a promising ecosystem for young architects. Straight out of university, inexperienced and with not much to show for on their agendas, ‘newby’ professionals look for work wherever they can, and renovations of the homes
The European Commission and the Fundació van der Rohe have revealed the names of the finalists in the competition for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, five in the principal Architecture section an
Marcel Breuer’s first binuclear house, Geller I in Lawrence, New York has been demolished in the dead of night. Geller I is largely considered the project that propelled Breuer to private practice in New York and prompted the Museum of Modern Art to
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