Porcelanosa Grupo   Altissima Stone, a firm specializing in natural stone and belonging to Porcelanosa Group, presents its new ‘Endless’ catalogue, of slabs of natural stone extracted from quarries in different parts of the world, available in a wide range of

Cosentino   The firm Cosentino has launched the Taj Mahal series, a Brazilian quartzite surface showing brownish veins on a soft, ivory-toned backdrop, and protected against stain through the innovative Sensa treatment.

Sukunfuku Studio   Spain   A work of the Asturian firm sukunfuku Studio – Miguel Huelga and Iria de la Peña – this museum stands on the slope of Mount Castillo, surrounded by the winding road that leads to the caves it harbors. Inserted into a complex topography, the C-shaped

Diana Kellogg Architects   India   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

Grafton Architects   Ireland   From its original location, the University of Limerick has expanded over the years and is now situated on both sides of the River Shannon, the longest and largest in Ireland. The University’s expansion provided the location for the new Medical School

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The site for the new house for the President of the Limerick University in the west of Ireland was chosen to be on lands across the river Shannon. Using traditional techniques, the house sits alone in the landscape establishing a relationship with th

Grafton Architects   Ireland   Capital City. Symbolically the most important urban space in Dublin, it was widened in the 18th century and rebuilt after the destruction caused in the uprising of 1916 and the Civil War of 1922. O’Connell Street as a whole has existed in a constant

Grafton Architects   Ireland   The Commissioners of Public Works developed this new building to house the Department of Finance. It is the first new Government Department Building completed in Dublin since 1939. The project incorporated a link into the adjacent Government Building

Boltshauser Architekten   Switzerland   The 20-meter-high building is subdivided into horizontal layers that respond to the stacked spatial program. Functionally, the building is structured in three main areas: the stacked ice rinks, the high diving and competition pools, and the leisure a

Erre Q Erre   Mexico   Part of the second section of the Chapultepec Forest in Mexico City, this environmental-culture center presents a pavilion surrounded by gardens that reference the diverse ecosystems and natural landscapes of the Cuenca del Valle de México: temperate

COBE Architects   Denmark   The geometry of the museum is inspired by traditional Danish fortresses. This silhouette generated by the roof – which rests on stone walls of dimensions similar to those of the old wall – merges the new building into the rolling landscape...

OHLAB   Spain   This 3,300-square-meter residential development contains fifteen units. The project started with an analysis of the modifications carried out over time in two buildings located in the heart of the old town of Palma de Mallorca, and registered in the

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The plot that the City Council had reserved for its new hall was that of the former barracks of Alfonso XII, raised – in part at least – on the grounds of the old convent of the Carmelites. It would have been hard to find a more appropriate site in L

HW Studio   Mexico   In the heart of the rural Mexico that Juan Rulfo immortalized with his pen and his camera, a house-cum-office appears as an intersection of axes asserting its presence in a landscape dominated by flatness, but at the same time respects it by drawing

P + S Estudio de Arquitectura   Spain   As part of the first TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, this temporary pavilion made of sackcloth rises inside a scaffolding on the Plaza del Humilladero in Granada. P+S estudio de arquitectura (Francisco Javier Parada and Laura R. Salvador) built an

Lina Ghotmeh   Italy   Echoing the ruins of Beirut invaded by nature, the tower symbolizes the resilient and optimistic emergence of life with large openings that reveal lush gardens, bringing nature into the heart of the dwellings and into the city...

Lina Ghotmeh   France   The design of the winery emerges as an expression of an attachment to the dark Anjou stone of the site’s ground; to the fragility of the Bel Argus butterfly, a species native to the area; and to the immersive emotional experience of visiting the site

Twobo arquitectura   Spain   To address the specific commission of building a single-family house on a plot with a nine-meter drop, the design includes a platform at an intermediate level, making it possible for residents to enjoy views of the sea from a place that heretofore la

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   The dwelling occupies the full area of the plot. The house – set in the longest direction of the plot – and the courtyard are complementary. This organization of the space frees up a courtyard-path between the new building and the neighboring wall. E

UAD   China   Located in remote Nanshangang, which belongs to Sangzhou Town, this building contains a tourist center and spaces for showcasing local history and culture. Amid terraced fields and rolling mountains, the stone-clad volume blends into the environment

Tuñón y Albornoz Arquitectos   Spain   A refined cottage for excursionists helps itself to the local building tradition of solid stonework walls and tiled roofs to blend into a beautiful natural spot in the province of Soria. Clad in panels of black bakelite, a space unfolding around a fi

TEd’A arquitectes   Spain   “Majorca is paradise, if you can stand it!” This warning pronounced by Gertrude Stein, directed at Robert Graves when he told her about his plans of leaving cold England, echoes in a house that harnesses traditional wisdom to create an agreeable redo

Christ & Gantenbein   Switzerland   The proposal replaces the concrete bridge from 1949 with a new stone bridge with five openings. The new design is more than a transport infrastructure: it connects the urban tissue and forms a public space at the entrance to the old town...

Cabrera Arqs   Mexico   Meant to be a place for reflection, silence, and prayer, and for a community whose members practice different religions, this underground chapel disappears in the landscape of San Antonio Baspul, a locality within the municipality of Chicxulub Pueblo

Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio   Italy   The practice of the Sicilian architect Giuseppe Gurrieri has restored two rural constructions immersed in the Itria Valley, in Italy’s Puglia region, to turn them into part of a house. These historical structures with dry-stone walls have cone-shaped

A sensitive interpretation of the genius loci: this is how one could describe the social housing developent that the studio Oliver, Reina, Martín, Moyà & Garcías has executed in Son Gotleu, one of the poorest, most vulnnerable among the neighborhoods

Stone is associated with the origins of architecture. As the world’s dolmens and pyramids show, it enabled the earliest human civilizations to make true their desire to endure, and so from the very beginning stone was thought of in relation to buildi

Ramón Araujo   The use of stone as a building material is being reconsidered completely. Many are the buildings that resort to it, for purposes other than cladding. Moreover, ongoing studies point to a future where stone plays a larger role. The Modern Movement pra

David Sanz   Construction with stone, thanks to its thermal properties and its being easy to reuse, is a solid alternative for building architecture of a sustainable nature, as long as it is used close to where it is extracted.

Barry Bergdoll   Like the dramatic landscapes of the Canary Islands, Fernando Menis’s buildings – many a long time in gestation from commission to final completion – seem to have been conceived in an eruption of creative energy and then honed over time by forces that

Pepa Cassinello   What’s worth more, a kilogram of stone or a kilogram of gold? With this question Adolf Loos began his famous text about building materials. The answer is simple. If the kilo of stone belongs to the Pantheon in Rome, Michelangelo’s Pietà, the Venus de

In the 13th edition of the International Award Architecture in Stone granted by Marmomacc (Veronafiere), the five following works have merited prizes: Druk White Lotus School by Arup Associates in Ladakh (India); the Stone House by Carl Fredrik Svens

Designed by the Boston studio Machado & Silvetti, the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life is a complex in the New York University campus, harboring its numerous religious associations. Not being linked to a specific creed, the symbolic

La ampliación de una vieja y pesada estructura muraria con un porche nuevo y ligero emplazado donde una vez hubo un cobertizo para el ganado, ha sido la clave del proyecto de rehabilitación de una masía situada en la localidad gerundense de Santa Pau

Situado en el surafricano Parque Nacional de Mapungubwe, el Centro de Interpretación proyectado por el arquitecto de Johanesburgo Peter Rich está inspirado en la arquitectura vernácula, en el paisaje y en la riqueza arqueológica del lugar. El edifici

Más de veinte clases de ladrillos y tejas recuperados de demoliciones cercanas conforman los muros del Museo de la Historia en la ciudad china de Ningbo, situada al sur del país. Se trata de un modo tradicional de construcción que los arquitectos Wan

Antón García-Abril   Una vieja adivinanza dice: ¿qué pesa más, un kilo de plomo o un kilo de paja? Un listillo afirmaría que por supuesto pesan igual, mientras que un físico demostraría que un kilo de plomo pesa más en una báscula, debido al empuje contrario a la graveda

Vincenzo Pavan   Over the last twenty years we have become accustomed to radical changes in architecture that have forged the way to new interpretations of materials, often attributing them with a determinant role in the achievement of a design. This has resulted in

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Stone and modernity have gone through a rough marriage. In 1956, Alejandro de la Sota won the competition for the Civil Government Building of Tarragona, a city whose urban code, perhaps in tune to its Roman remains, required a stone finish on facade

Francesco Venezia   Quisiera que considerásemos la piedra como un material que, al igual que otros, logra la belleza en el desarrollo de su actividad constructiva, entre el concepto y las reglas del arte. Pensar en piedra. Formular un pensamiento con la claridad y la pr

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Stone represents construction at the limit: at the limit of time, because its tenacious inertia speaks at once of its remote origin and its desire to last, inasmuch as its firm resistance is a symbol of timeless solidity; at the limit of technique, b

Ignacio Paricio   Jaume Avellaneda    Los aplacados de piedra en fachada sufrieron hace tres décadas una radical transformación. En nuestro país se dieron dos condiciones que incidieron sobre los revestimientos pétreos tradicionales e impulsaron esa revolución. Por una parte, el agotamie

Luis Fernández-Galiano   El nuevo Berlín será de piedra. Devastada durante la II Guerra Mundial y dividida por la guerra fría hasta la caída del muro en noviembre de 1989, la ciudad del Spree —recuperada la capitalidad alemana— repara su dañado tejido urbano con 250 grandes

Rafael Moneo   Dobles y encontrados sentimientos, los que provienen de la necesidad de mantener una imborrable memoria y del deseo de alcanzar un balsámico olvido, parecen darse cita en la convocatoria para el Concurso cuando en ella se nos describe cuál ha de ser

Benjamín Ibarra   México  2014  
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