The company Hiansa’s composite panels for facade enclosures are made of two sheets of steel and a soul of PUR or PIR that ensures thermal insulation, and can be installed either vertically or horizontally.
Known for participating in building projects like Allianz Riviera or San Mamés Stadium, IASO designs, manufactures, and installs tautened structures, ETFE facades and roofs, and textile facades.
A pitched timber roof lies on a play of volumes that rest strategically on the sloping terrain. The apparent abstraction that organizes the floor plan maintains a visual connection between the space indoors and the idyllic environment. The living are
In recent years, technological innovation has changed the relationship between living and working substantially: people work where they live and live where they work. This shift from a clear separation of living and working spaces to the most diverse
The existing school complex was constructed by Hans von Meyenburg from 1954 to 1956. It is dispersed across the site in a loosely staggered parallel configuration. The project strategy is based on an analysis of the existing buildings, which are unde
This home is located in Amagansett, an early English and Dutch settlement in Long Island. The site served as communal grazing pasture for the early settlers, who divided the land into parcels where farmers rotated their livestock from one parcel to t
Thought up as a system rather than as a building, the timber ‘villa’ is protected by an energy production roof fit out with solar paneles that autonomously generate a comfortable microclimate for visitors and staff of the new research center...
Located within the complex of the Colegio Bienaventurada Virgen María de las Irlandesas – designed in 1964 by the Sevillian brothers Fernando and Joaquín Barquín y Barón –, the project foresaw the construction of a kindergarten, as well as solving
The Mallorca firm isla architects (Marta Colón de Carvajal & Juan Palencia de Sarriá) won the bid to build the Basel Pavilion in the inaugural edition of Architekturwoche Basel, held from 9 to 15 May. It is located in the old Dreispitz industrial are
Located amid gently rolling hills in western Germany, this is a small museum for exhibiting the work of sculptor Wolfgang Kubach and his wife Anna Maria Kubach-Wilmsen, world-famous for their stone sculptures. A gabled-roof barn, built in the 18th ce
The site is located in a historical park established in a deep green valley in Osakaʼs Minamikawachi district, well known in Japan as an area containing a cluster of kofun (mounded tombs). The stone arrangements of more than a hundred tombs remain in
At the center of the observance of the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei social housing complex in Augsburg rises this pavilion built with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a work of MVRDV. It harbors the exhibition ‘Fuggerei of the Future,’ which propos
Critical of intensive practices, a family long engaged in raising livestock makes organic cheese in an environment that improves the quality of life of the animals and blends into the landscape. Deviating from the picture of an opaque industrial
The house sits in a clear stretch between trees. It is built over posts that separate it almost a meter from the ground, allowing the flow of streams that run towards a lagoon in front of the main facade. Its triangular geometry, in this wilderness,
The site is located in a residential area in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region, which has the most rainy days of any region in Japan. The project follows the traditional local architecture, aiming to create a house where people ca
The jumping horses trained in an equestrian center located at the foot of the Andes Mountains are housed in a shed under a pitched roof ripped at the top to bring in natural light...
Located in Ordos, an area of extraordinary beauty in Inner Mongolia, the commission brought on the challenge of building a house that, on one hand would embrace the scenic landscape while facing the extreme climate of the place. The natural features
A series of mobile wings makes the huge host pavilion look like a bird in flight, a reference to the important role played by falconry in uniting the various tribes that formed the country.
The pavilion’s premises flank a large void that serves to give continuity to the public circulation route, conceived as a meeting place under the protection of an ethereal roof structure.
This project is part of an initiative to build new public recreational facilities in the city of Barrancabermeja, focussing specifically on those residential areas most affected by social conflict, safety issues, and lack of public services. The main
The project is located in altos de Cazucá, a neighborhood in the municipality of Soacha, a peripheral conurbation of the city of Bogotá. Socioeconomically it is a highly depressed area, lacking public infrastructure of any nature. It is notorious for
The project proposes a conservative refurbishment, reducing structural interventions as much as possible. The main actions are: enlarging the museum’s elevator shaft, placing a retractable roof in the courtyard, and inserting an elevator in the cast
In 798, an entire cultural district located on land which was formerly occupied by Soviet factories, a new art museum completes the program offered by a series of existing sheds. The building’s structure presents brickwork that respects the industria
Inspired in the worlds of nature and of music, the Japanese studio won in 2014 the competition to build the House of Hungarian Music, to be built in Budapest’s largest park. An undulated disc, pierced by random openings, is elevated on slender suppor
All the spaces sit under a large sloped roof, almost a circle, that is supported by a grid of beams. The house is built into the slope for protection, with light flowing around and underneath. Space shifts horizontally and vertically through three l
On the initiative of the local government, several constructions complete a forest reserve for the Kuy, an ethnic group that has lived with and tended to elephants for centuries.
The experience gained in the Sackler Galleries and the Reichstag enabled Foster to help museums with the predicament of growth within historical buildings. Indeed, the redevelopment of London’s British Museum (won in a competition in 1994) and the ex
In 1992, Foster and Partners won the competition to build a new airport for Hong Kong. To be placed, like Osaka’s Kansai (whose competition Foster lost to Piano in 1988) on an artificial island, the huge building was to be the largest construction pr
Winners of competitions in 1989, 1990 and 1991, Cranfield, Cambridge and Camus are three educational buildings that share expressive roofs, climate-conscious detailing and a convivial understanding of learning. Gravid with light references and wise i
