Inspired in the desert landscape surrounding the new headquarters of the environmental and waste management company Bee’ha in Sharjah, the different elements of the program – lobby, auditorium, visitors’ center and gallery, offices and cafeteria – ar
Characterized by an organic language that unifies the project, this cultural complex harbors a contemporary art museum, a theater seating an audience of 1,800, and a multipurpose auditorium... [+]
A warping wood roof contains a sacred space devoted to Taoism in the Hsinpu mountains, 70 kilometers south of Taipei. The project is part of an initiative promoted by the company TLDC (Taiwan Land Development Corporation) to boost rural growth throug
The new headquarters of the environmental and waste management company Bee’ha in Sharjah – capital of one of the seven emirates in the UAE – is designed like an array of dunes within its desert environment, protecting an inner oasis. The design by Za
Constructed entirely with prefabricated pieces of beechtree wood, the prototype is based on a parametric design inspired in nature, which guarantees its structural efficiency by saving material through geometric refinement.
A bulbous shape wrapped in scales, this building – photographed by Duccio Malagamba – endeavors to be a commercial lure for the historic enclave of Port Arthur.
A bulbous roof with three skylights suggesting the Holy Trinity and a belfry shaped like a totem pole are the two visual markers of this church, prefabricated in a shipyard of the Baltic Sea.
En el año 1906 entró en funcionamiento el funicular Nordpark, conocido como Hungerburgbahn, que unía el centro de Innsbruck con la pequeña población de Hungerburg situada al norte, en medio de las montañas. Un año antes de cumplir su centenario se ce
El edificio nace en el paseo marítimo que bordea el nuevo distrito cultural y desde ahí crece y se ramifica en dirección al mar, incrementando su complejidad a la vez que aumenta su altura y su profundidad. Los espacios escénicos brotan en su estruct
First introduced in the 17th century through the master builders of Italy, the timbrel vault became part of the heritage of traditional construction in eastern Spain. Nevertheless, it was in the United States much later on, towards the end of the 19t
Biomimicry imitates nature to solve human problems. Before the surge of parametric design and digital fabrication, architecture sought inspiration from nature, and it did so in different ways: through the study of specific natural forms, by reproduci
La principal tesis de mi último libro, The Alphabet and the Algorithm (véase artículo en Arquitectura Viva 124) era sencilla. En el principio fue lo hecho a mano. La mayoría de los objetos artesanales, aunque se conformen siguiendo una secuencia orde
Sumándose al auditorio de Norman Foster con el que comenzó la regeneración de la zona industrial de Glasgow en torno al río Clyde, acaba de inaugurarse el Museo del Transporte diseñado por Zaha Hadid, un edificio con forma de túnel zigzagueante que c
