The firm JSa – Aisha Ballesteros, Benedikt Fahlbusch, Javier Sánchez – has turned a deteriorated forest into an urban park that features an ecotechnologies center for Xalapa-Enríquez, the capital of the Mexican state of Veracruz. Under the auspices o
Next to the Terra Cotta Studio in Dien Phong, another work of the Vietnamese firm Tropical Space, this workshop uses its folds to embrace a preexisting kiln for ceramic bricks. Two walls rising 5.4 meters divide the main parts of the new construction
On the northwestern edge of the Belfield campus of the University College Dublin, the Urban Institute joins an original collection of mainly 19th century Masonic School buildings – now called Richview – which are loosely organized around a lime tree
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.
The Mumbai firm of the architect Samira Rathod designed this terracotta school building surrounded by tobacco fields in Bhadran, a village in the state of Gujarat, in far western India. It is characterized by asymmetrical arches for which children’s
The customer wanted to use local materials to make the construction cheaper. The terracotta block was thus chosen as the compositive element, combined using different patterns on the facade and in other voids arranged around the inner courtyard... [+
Located in the Dong Da district of the Vietnamese capital, the fourstory prismatic building harbors complementary programs: on the one hand, a showroom for the lighting products of an electronics company; on the other hand, a gallery and a work space
Se conoce como la Venecia del Norte por sus canales, y también ha compartido con la ciudad italiana su aversión por la arquitectura moderna. Designada patrimonio de la humanidad en 2000, Brujas fue elegida dos años después Capital Europea de la Cultu
Less than a hundred meters from the park of La Villette, the Compagnie des Entrepôts et Magasins Généraux of Paris owns a terrain of 5 hectares known as the Espace Pont de Flandre which houses a whole series of industrial constructions raised during
Located some 200 kilometers away from London, the town of Walsall seems dominated by the typical red brick architecture of the leather manufacturing industry that once made this part of England famous. In the featureless context of its pedestrian zon
Depending on how one looks at it, the suggestion that this African house by the Finnish partners Heikkinen and Komonen could have been built with any other palette of materials – corrugated metal and glass, for instance, like Glen Murcutt’s projects
