Clément Blanchet Architecture   France   Located at the intersection of Rue de Lubeck and Rue de Boissière in Paris, this project creates a new campus for the French branch of the Instituto Maragoni. For this purpose, the firm Clément Blanchet undertook the renovation of a historic 19th-cen

Zarcola Architetti   Italy   Rustic but refined like the pastoral characters of the eclogues, a small dwelling nestled into a village in the Lessini Mountains emerges from what was an old barn, between the stone walls of which a structure of fine wooden laths, set three centimet

Mónica Alberola   Spain   In 2019, a proposal drawn up by Mónica Alberola in collaboration with María Casariego, Enrique de Teresa, and Guiomar Martín won the competition to expand and renovate pavilions 7 and 8 of the School of Health in Madrid, within the Chamartín campus o

Aramé Studio   Spain   The partitions of an apartment traversed by a narrow corridor were eliminated to reveal the concrete structure in all its glory and harness it as a new organizing element. The bedrooms and the bathrooms are grouped in a compact band to ensure a fluid

MACH   Spain   Prioritizing the entrance of daylight into a narrow but very deep apartment, a central core of services and storage makes it possible to place all the main rooms flush with the facade. The wall that separated the living room from the kitchen was remo

NULA.STUDIO   Spain   In order to make the most of the generous overhead space, what was previously an under-the-roof office has been rearranged as a series of virtually assembled functional volumes. In resonance with the beamed structure, a core of timber fixed to the lo

Casa Antillón   Spain   An unused attic has been transformed into a small studio where a chimney organizes the spaces, with just a curved wall to separate the private from the more public areas. The partition leaves the only two daylight-receiving points on one side, and th

h3o architects   Spain   The renovation of an old barn puts in partitions of angular lines that result in a changing visual impression, an effect reinforced by a palette of finishes rendered in electric color tones. A family legend, according to which lightning slipped throu

Pedro Pitarch   Spain   (Text description provided by Pedro Pitarch architectures & urbanisms) Shine on you Crazy DiamondLA MAISON-EN-VALISE / HOME IN A SUITCASE / HOGAR EN UNA MALETA An Architectural Device for the Critique of Everyday Life NOTE: This article is written to

architecten jan de vylder inge vinck   Belgium   A house that was built in the interwar period now opens out to the garden at one of its corners by means of new glass facades protected by the emphatic eave of the new roof. The traditional partitions have been blurred through alteration of the loadb

architecten de vylder vinck taillieu   Belgium   An old inn has been transformed into a private home by making the most of the meager resources at hand, thus preserving its original character without requiring much maintenance. Inserted into the original brick enclosure is a well insulated space wh

Jan De Vylder   Belgium   The renovation of a house for an artist has incorporated a sliding roof that can make the backyard an additional room between the main construction and the atelier located behind. Vertical circulation is through a metal staircase that pierces through

Anna & Eugeni Bach   Spain   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

6a architects   United Kingdom   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

architecten de vylder vinck taillieu   Belgium   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

Arquitectura-G   France   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

Arquitectura-G   Spain   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

Arquitectura-G   Spain   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

Arquitectura-G   Spain   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

Solar   Spain   Flaunting its name, the Madrid Moderno development was in 1906 dubbed in the newspaper ABC as “the most European of Madrid neighborhoods”: an ensemble of garden-city schemes of which barely twelve small houses remain, survivors of real-estate pressur

TEST Guillermo Santomà   Spain   From tapestry to wall. In essence, this was the Copernican turn Semper took with his principle of cladding, whereby structure gave up its protagonism in architecture in favor of Bekleidung: though humans learned to use durable materials, he held that

barea pizarro   Spain   Split programA young couple has pooled two separate professions in a single street-level establishment in Madrid’s Chamberí neighborhood, revamping the space to make it both a hair salon and a tattoo studio. Eager to avoid the usual associations with

Solar   Spain   Performing Pavilion is a revision of the home-workshop, proposing it as a new paradigm for the link between the work of art, the place where it is created, and contemporary lifestyles. Resulting from the enlargement of an existing unit, this space wh

For Mireia Luzárraga and Alejandro Muiño, founders of the Barcelona studio TAKK and professors at Columbia University, the future harbors many uncertainties, which they have decided to face from an optimistic and propositive perspective. Faced with m

With the intention of portraying an entire generation, Los años nuevos tells the story of a couple over the course of ten New Year’s Eves, and in it are reflected many of the concerns that assault people in their thirties: employment insecurity, work

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

Miguel Fernández-Galiano   In schools of architecture, students are not taught how to execute renovations. This kind of work, disdained for years in schools and by the great representatives of contemporary architecture who teach there, has become the bread and butter of a prof