A snow-white prism contains a curved cavity lined in wood and bathed in brightness by a generous skylight, in an abstract echo of the lush landscapes that abound in the Nordic country...
The site is a sloping plot with a far view of a landscape that is none other than Madrid’s western mountain range. It seemed logical to build a vertical house with the more public or shared spaces on top, framing stunning views to enjoy. An eye over
As if it were the deck of a ship stranded between two beaches, a horizontal platform on a huge stone box that seems to have emerged from the bowels of the Earth offers views of the distant sea...
Sitting perpendicular to the main building of Magazzino Italian Art, which it completes and extends, the simple and sober volume of the new pavilion creates a unitary plane between both...
On a hill north of Madrid, with the sierra as backdrop in the distance, a house for Ana. Once again, we try to build the loveliest house in the world. And to capture the 360º panorama of the landscape, we propose a belvedere at the top of the house
This building, with its striking white facade looking seaward, is conceived as a continuation of the long, extensive walls of the old ‘maritime’ cemetery of Cádiz. The project works on the full volume, which mends the urban fabric within the limits m
The volume engages in dialogue with the existing buildings via the materials, and seeks contextual continuity with a sufficient formal autonomy so that it can be read as an independent piece that completes the plan for the Plaça dels Àngels...
On the banks of the East River, a branch of the Queens Public Library addresses a call for community space in an almost exclusively residential neighborhood. The building, low and compact, takes up little ground, and makes the much used riverside par
This excess of formal and volumetric resources of the houses in the area – a luxury housing estate north-west of Madrid – and the owner’s discretion propitiated the proposal of a simple geometry and a limited number of building materials. Only a draw
A home for two plus a dog. The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating a covered, semi-indoor garden. The second shell encloses a limited area i
Located in Grândola, a small municipality in the district of Setúbal, this daytime civic center for the elderly is part of the social services network of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia: a Portuguese institution founded in the 15th century, and that p
This is a project that appears on the seashore, near a preexistence of a protected smokestack from the beginning of the 20th century, that informs us of the industrial activity in that area, at that time the industrial outskirts of Málaga. Pairs of i
A rectangular prism with a hermetic appearance altered only by random perforations is home to a large art center that aspires to be the banner of a provincial city’s cultural blossoming. With its interior streets and open courtyards, the building is
In a rural environment, two hours from Stockholm, the residence sits on a hill and becomes a focal point in the landscape, like a beacon. The strict geometry of the house permits organizing the program in large spaces, separating public and private a
North of the town of Zapallar, on the central coastline of Chile, these ‘horizon houses’ sit on a site where the Pacific Ocean – contradicting its name – lashes relentlessly against the rocky cliffs. The steep terrain, rising 25 meters above sea leve
With its massive walls of unfaced reinforced concrete and its subtly composed windows, the building rises on an exact 25x25-meter footprint in order to leave the preexisting trees as they are.
The house is a simple prismatic volume with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Ex
Located outside the walls of Santa Pau, a village and municipality in the Catalonian province of Girona, in eastern Spain, the Retina House is a family refuge that offers magnificent views, as its very optical name suggests. A place for the enjoyment
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.
On a plot without salient features, the project took as starting point the restrictions marked by the geotechnical study, which showed that the first meters underground had a low resistance capacity. To avoid a deep foundation, not recommendable for
Not so many jobs begin like this one, with an owners’ list of wishes and hopes for their new home. A list much closer to the principles and values architects usually work with, often secretly, than the ordinary expectations of those couples facing th
La casa que Mauricio Pezo y Sofía von Ellrichshausen han construido a las afueras de Concepción, en Chile, fue el encargo de una pareja de artistas (él trabaja sobre papel y ediciones digitales; ella, con cerámica esmaltada) que habían vivido juntos
«En Japón hay una caja, en la caja hay una casa, en la casa hay un rincón...». Como el ‘Nocturno’ del poeta Rafael Alberti podría explicarse el proyecto de Sou Fujimoto en la ciudad de Oita, en la isla de Kyushu, al sur del país. El arquitecto japoné
On a first approach, Nîmes Carré (1984-1993) is a slender reinterpretation of the classical temple in front of it: a glass box with a steel portico. But the modern translation of the Roman monument is subtly shifted to enter into a dialogue with the
The 1970 competition for Bankunión’s Madrid headquarters constituted a turning point in the process of dematerializing architecture that Sota had initiated with the series of tax offices... [+]
