Transforming the urban landscape of the city of Zhongshan, China, the showroom known as Hovering Kan-Too – built for the residential real estate developer Vanke – is a translucent white volume crowned with orange aluminum crests. The shapes and color
With its facade showing Islamic patterns and a form that makes one think of a garment commonly worn by young Qataris, the new sport arena oozes with vernacular culture. The rhombic pieces of fiberglass that form the facade and roof create translucent
Located at the heart of a new real-estate development on Greenwich Peninsula, London’s Design District features 16 buildings. Each is assigned to a different architecture practice, and the invited teams drew up their respective projects knowing nothi
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
In the pharaonic city that is going up to decongest chaotic Cairo, different performance spaces are arranged around a public square with the intention of creating a new cultural hub. Wrapped in a skin of translucent onyx, the Grand Theater building i
Measuring 30 meters high and 30 in diameter, the temple forms a flower of nine petals made up of cast glass pieces on the outside and translucent marble on the inside; the pieces are framed with aluminum and installed with a crane on a steel superstr
Designed to house a flagship store on PC Hooftstraat – Amsterdam’s luxury brand street, which used to be mainly residential –, this building replaces two traditional houses, transforming their volume to increase the interior space and adapt it to ret
The prototype is made of polyethylene terephthalate layers measuring 0.35 mm thick, pre-cut and stitched off-site and set up on-site by just two people. This translucid installation features a central void to accommodate pop-up exhibitions... [+]
The project brings together two seemingly incompatible spatial conditions: an insular, formal-ly specific sports infrastructure and a permeable, open public space. A translucid and flexible membrane covers this double-use space. Aside from sports ven
The new headquarters of the Brazilian advertising company Loducca go up near the São Paulo Gardens. Located on an avenue of intense traffic, the building stands out with a complex enclosure that acts as an element of protection from the strong acoust
A roof leak and the vibrarion of the structure were the starting point of complete project to refurbish and extend a single-family house located in a residential area of the Mexican capital. The intervention proposed the definition of a new access to
Born in Figueras in 1968, Enric Ruiz Geli graduated at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, also the city where he established his studio, Cloud 9. Ruiz Geli is currently involved in the construction of Villa Nurbs, a single-family house located
With 35 kilometers of canals Empuriabrava is the largest residential marina in Europe. Born around 25 years ago, the area was especially attractive because it was possible to dock the boat in front of the house and park the car on the opposite facade
In the eighties, the new city of Donau intended not only to incorporate the terrains opposite the Danube to Vienna’s development, but also to provide the historic center with an avant-garde and modem counterpoint. Though the urban layout designed to
Within a dense urban context composed mainly of housing blocks of four heights and sloped roofs, a new building and renovated shed transform the image of the place in order to house nine apartments. The old building is aligned with the street whereas
The housing complex Achslengut II is located in the Swiss city of St. Gallen, between Lake Constance and the Alps. When Baumschlager Eberle Architekten obtained this commission in 1998, the principal parameters of the project had already been establi
On the outskirts of Tokyo, where the hustle of city life gives way to an orderly landscape of rice fields and greenhouses, a family has made true a dream unattainable for many compatriots: to enjoy a house of more than one hundred square meters. Per
An almost 4000 square meter plot, inscribed within the grid of vegetable gardens encircling Casillas, was chosen to raise a school-workshop devoted to the construction of ephemeral installations and carriages for festivities. The building’s industria
Ehrenfeld offers, amidst workshops and industrial warehouses, the easy-going and carefree environment that creators and freelance professionals look for in order to live and work under one same roof. In this Cologne neighborhood, the New Loft buildin
The most successful features of this precise prism result from the ability of the project to adapt to a standard model and tight budget. Hence, one single band of locker and rest rooms is added to the rectangular sports court, and converted in the ba
San sebastián has always been dominated by the extraordinary features of its geography, but in many ways owes its current physiognomy to the coast wall that led to the construction of the Zurriola quarter in 1919. An exceptional spot in this new are
The new convention center of Valencia is situated at the northeast entrance to the city, close to the kilometer 2 point of the Ademuz road (the C-234), and will be the catalyzing hub of the zone’s urban development. The perimeter of the parcel is aff
The new municipal center of Latina was conceived to provide the district with the administrative and cultural services it needed, and to reaffirm the role of public architecture by defining a disperse and fragmented urban fabric that has been growing
After Willis Faber and the Sainsbury Centre, Foster’s acclaim brought a stream of public and private commissions, most of which failed to materialise. The often trivial graphic expression of these missed chances show the difficulty to evaluate the un
Rafael Moneo has finished the auditorium and convention center of San Sebastián, formed by two leaning glass cubes on the edge of the ocean.
Art museums fuse with the world of fashion, creating an amalgam that is irreverent or frivolous to some, but enigmatic and seductive to many more.
