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
With a useful surface of 5,100 square meters, this project is located in Siemensäcker, an 8-hectare new residential neighborhood in the north part of Viena. Selma am Park offers 65 apartments in three blocks varying in dimensions. The design uses the
The Madrid firm Arenas Basabe Palacios, in association with the engineers of Buschina & Partner, was commissioned to build 11 blocks for a total of 82 apartments in Wildgarten, a new neighborhood in Vienna’s Meidling district. The succession of build
In Rudrapur, a village in the Dinajpur District of northern Bangladesh, stands this mud and bamboo construction that houses a therapy center for people with disabilities and a workshop for Dipdii Textiles, a clothes-making project for local women tha
This house for three peasant families follows the pattern of traditional homestead in Bangladesh, keeping the kitchen and the sanitary units in external buildings, and leaving remaining land for gardening as a means to overcome the food crisis. Sensi
Construida con técnicas tradicionales y materiales locales como el barro y el bambú, esta escuela de formación profesional reinterpreta la arquitectura vernácula bangladesí.
Con técnicas constructivas tradicionales de la región —tierra apisonada y bambú— y la participación como mano de obra de los vecinos de la aldea se ha levantado una escuela rural.
This coming Wednesday, 9 February, Museo ICO inaugurates ‘Anna Heringer: Essential Beauty’, curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano and organized by Fundación ICO. For the first time in Spain, an exhibition focuses monographically on Anna Heringer (Rosenh
Commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the non-profit organization American Friends of Le Korsa (AFLK), the New York-based architect Toshiko Mori has raised a school for children aged 5 to 10 in the remote Senegalese town of Fass. A
Launched by the Germans Anna Heringer and Andres Lepik, the Laufen Manifesto promotes a general paradigm shift regarding the role of architecture in our society, asserting the power of design as a tool that can significantly improve the living condit
