The Mumbai-based firm founded in 1992 by Sanjay and Nina Puri has built this spiral-shaped community center, crowned with a green roof, that gives views of the surrounding desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Located in Moolwas, it was designed t
Within the GYAAN Center, designed by the New York architect Diana Kellogg, stands this school built with local sandstone that welcomes more than 400 girls from families living below the poverty line, in a region where female literacy barely reaches 3
The material palette of the Can Ribas factory is combined with the usual greenhouse type in the historic center of Palma to create a building of continuous galleries that uses the orientation of its facades as temperature control mechanisms. The peri
The built area of the house takes up the full length of the plot. Scattering the program across the site permits creating outdoor interstitial gaps that are controlled by the built space, turning the exterior and the interior into one same element. L
With its marés stone walls and vaults the dwelling reinterprets the traditional distribution of the courtyard-house, now decomposed into units that are shifted from the center to the perimeter to play with the geometry of the floor plan and cross ven
The project proves the feasibility of using compression structures in housing projects to activate thermal inertia as much as possible and ensure passive cooling in summer, with a heavy enclosure with low carbon footprint…
The chapel, built in concrete and lined with local limestone, is a slender volume of clear lines tucked into the sloping terrain of the hill. The worship space is accessed from the side through a terraced courtyard facing the views.
Formed in 1956 in Patiala, a city in the Indian state of Punjab, Thapar University commissioned the Dublin practice of Valerie Mulvin and Niall McCullough to unify its disparate campus by devising a masterplan and raising a series of buildings for ho
Intended as home for a recently acquired collection of 7,000 original pieces from the Bauhaus, this new museum completes the campus of the Chinese Academy of Art.
The mission building reinterprets certain typological and geometrical constants of traditional Hindu temples, such as symmetry, patterns and pitched roofs.
Located in Montuïri (Mallorca) by TEd’A arquitectes (Jaume Mayol and Irene Pérez), this house takes up all of a square lot, rising from the very edge of the street in order to free up space inside for an inner garden and give it as much sunshine as p
The Archbishop Alfonso de Fonseca ordered the construction in 1525 of a hall of residence to accommodate the noble Irishmen that went to Salamanca to study. The building, at scarcely four hundred meters from the main square, was extended in 1558 with
Some stories are hard to be continued, and that of the Dresden synagogue is one of them. Built in 1840 by Gottfried Semper for the 5.000 members that the community once reached, it was reduced to ashes on the Night of Broken Glass and has remained th
