Although senates are, in general, bodies made up of elected citizens, they have not managed to shake off a certain elitist whiff. At least by etymology, the senex (the elders of the tribe) and the patricians, peers, and heroes congregate in them. Sen
Upon its completion in 1992, Rijnstraat 8 represented both an innovative office typology – its atriums served as conservatories – and a leading example of sustainability. Over time, the building no longer offered the flexibility required of a contemp
The urban condition of the plot – in a square next to the Town Hall that is part of a void in the center of the city –, a brick church of the 17th century, and the tall trees that grow in the square are elements that determine the general outline of
In a residential environment of macroblocks, these 37 pieces create a small multicolor neighborhood within a larger one, on grounds that had once served as an airfield. The project, designed as a pedestrian island, materializes a place with a domesti
Convertidas en auténticos desfiladeros que desgarran el tejido de la ciudad, las modernas autopistas urbanas han llevado al límite el llamado ‘efecto barrera’, cuya característica principal es la incomunicación entre áreas topológicamente muy próxima
The commission for this curious complex of two houses and two shops was an offshoot of the housing development called 'De Punkt en De Komma’ which Álvaro Siza had built in The Hague between 1983 and 1988. In this earlier project, the Portuguese archi
