Like a greenhouse, the new volume of wood and glass lets natural light in. Because of shadows cast by the building itself and by neighboring ones, insolation is never excessive. The facade of the extension is detached from the vertical line of the pr
After decades of degradation, the Arenales neighborhood of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is undergoing a spurt of progressive transformation driven by the purchase of homes. One is House M, which builds upon a corner construction presenting in an advanc
With a built area of 260 square meters, the project involved reconstructing a house in the Japanese city of Muko, in Kyoto Prefecture. The area was previously dotted with farmhouses, each one composed of a main house and a group of other residential
The Tree House is situated in the communal garden of two small cottages, curving around a central sumac tree. Its ramped interior connects the old buildings with the new ones, reorienting the house around the garden to create a fully accessible famil
Through a simple gesture, this barn is converted into a livable space: an incision empties out a section of the volume to generate a new access and improve lighting. On one side of the cut, glass; on the other, a mirror that creates an optical effect
The commission consisted in transforming a traditional Catalan country house in the Empordà region. The ensemble was made up of a main building to which, over the years, auxiliary constructions had been added, creating a fragmented and dark interior
This building is located by the main vehicle access of the Quinta de Recreio estate, and replaces an auxiliary building that collapsed and was irrecoverable. Due to current regulations, the new construction recovers the footprint, the volume, and the
Two aspects unrelated to the project, prior to it, deeply marked the character of the house. So much so that the project, in a way, is understood as a complement that is added. On one hand, the privileged location on a promontory with views of the Ca
The changing landscape of the Ebro Delta is shaped by the rice production cycles, from being a plain of land to a mirror of water during the flooding season of the fields, to then transform into an intense green prairie with the growth of rice plants
El encargo consistió en una intervención sobre una situación urbana poco habitual: una vivienda pareada en el interior de una manzana del Ensanche de Barcelona. Como punto de partida, se buscó enfatizar las peculiaridades del volumen, caracterizado p
Originally, this building – currently under construction – contained the winery and residence of the workers and household staff of Quinta de Recreio. The existing volume contained different divided segments connected by several stairs. Despite the c
Due to peculiar urban circumstances, this dwelling does not have a facade as it is confined within the block, bordering on other buildings along its entire perimeter, with the exception of the reduced entrance courtyard. There are no possible views t
Following her desire to live in a garden, the client found what she was looking for in the center of the Spanish capital, and set out to build her first home there. The garden was hidden to the street behind an apartment block, and had a small volume
The client – Nacho, a good friend of the architects – wanted to transform his photography studio, which had a backyard, into a home. It was a simple commission which had to address the essential needs of a dwelling: a place for sleeping, a place for
The void between two houses on one same block of the urban core is filled by a roof that connects a succession of domestic spaces – some protected overhead, others exposed to the open air. The dynamics of the thresholds under the roof create a dialo
With Itziar Lafuente and Adrián Talens at the helm, LLOC arquitectes were commissioned to build 48 subsidized housing units and an underground parking garage in the Magaluf area of the municipality of Calviá. Located in the southwestern coast of the
The winner of a Europa Nostra Award in 2022, PAX Patios de la Axerquía is a program initiated in 2018 by a group of people belonging to the fields of architecture and anthropology, created with the mission of incentivizing urban refurbishments throug
At the foot of the Collserola mountain range, in the Barcelona municipality of Sant Just Desvern, this social housing development presents continuous terraces on all its facades, which widen at the corners to form spaces in direct contact with the li
MO.CA is a prototype for a self-sufficient mobile dwelling, built using zero-kilometer laminated wood and digital construction techniques. It was developed in the Advanced Ecological Building & Biocities (MAEBB) masters program offered on the Valldau
The Vigo practice of Jordi Castro and María G. Ferro was commissioned for this dwelling with views over the estuary of Pontevedra, in the Galician municipality of Bueu. The site was chosen by the client, who wanted a place in which to retire, a house
Immersed in a humid tropical climate, with strong monsoon rains, this house in the city of Kadirur, in India’s State of Kerala, combines indoor and outdoor spaces, interweaving them with courtyards, landscape pockets, and biophilic features that conn
A couple bought an old building that stood on a small plot of land in Berlin’s Heiligensee neighborhood, close to the lake of the same name. Combining artificial stone and concrete colored with anthracite pigments, the cubic volume that resulted from
The Japanese firm Hiroyuki Ito Architects was commissioned to build this apartment building in the Tokyo ward ot Bunkyo. The zone of its location has undergone significant change in recent years, with hotels replaced by residential complexes. The pro
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
If there is no doubt that ‘size matters’, and that scale is one of the main factors in architecture, it is also true that the propositional interest of a building is independent from its size. To support this argument, the sixteen houses selected her
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
Kronos Homes, a residential property developer under Kronos Investment Group, pursues high-quality design projects in the Iberian Peninsula, in collaboration with architects of note. Its constructions seeks to blend into their environments by aiming
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.
The tough experience of lockdown during the pandemic has made us reflect on the design of domestic space, and particularly on its connection with the outdoors. Inserted in built-up urban spaces, located in sprawling suburban areas, or embedded in nat
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
From 6 to 8 October the Palais des Nations in Geneva was the venue of a meeting of ministers from states belonging to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). The member states agreed to endorse Regional Action Plan 2030, which seek
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