In the context of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, focused on Africa, the triangular pavilion of dark wood designed by David Adjaye takes its place just outside the Arsenale. Kwaeε means forest in Twi, a dialect of the Akan language spoken by m
This three-story apartment building shares grounds with an existing villa, designed by Rittmeyer and Furrer in the early 20th century. The general scheme of the proposal compresses the entire mass of the new construction into the south corner of the
This project brings together the offices of AP-HP (Assitance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris), previously split in two locations in the French capital. On the grounds of Saint-Antoine Hospital, which can be considered a city within a city and counts 3,400
A work of OMA Octavio Mestre Arquitectos —Octavio Mestre and Albert Lluch—, the building for the collectible toys company Magic Box has a total area approaching 3,800 square meters. The triangular plan comes from the shape of the corner lot, which in
In dialogue with the grand courthouse building next to it, the new seat of the law bar association completes the judicial complex that has activated the peripheral Batignolles district. A metro station under the site made it necessary to dispense wit
The triangular volume where multiple programs converged is replaced here with a Vierendeel beam-box, which allows opening up the main court – separated from the secondary one by a three-meter rigid box – to the urban space as a multipurpose indoor ha
The nhow RAI Hotel rises in the rapidly developing Zuidas business district, in the south of Amsterdam. The 91-meter building contains a mixed program with workspaces as well as entertainment. The main part is the hotel, which occupies nineteen of th
Assembled with larch wood pieces, Tsumiki Pavilion – designed for World Flora Exposition 2018 – is set out as a prototype of democratic architecture, where anyone can participate in the building process.
A little over thirty kilometers from the city of Hanoi, on a sloping lakeside terrain within Hoa Lac technological campus, and just a few meters from the engineering center, Viettel has completed a business center for the company’s leaders. The proje
Renzo Piano has completed his third construction for Columbia University's new Manhattanville Campus in Harlem, which with three other academic buildings is part of the first phase of the masterplan that the Italian architect drew up in collaboration
The demolition of the facilities of the Renault plant in Boulogne Billancourt – a commune in the western suburbs of Paris – freed up space for this project for 79 apartments distributed in the two wings that form the building and gave rise to an unin
The house was for a young couple without children, with some conventional programmatic needs (a garage, three bedrooms, a study, etc.). The triangular plot of some 400 m² was part of a subsidized land promotion. In the process, the client’s requireme
This public facility houses an adult education center, a language standardization consortium, and a hotel on a triangular plot in the Les Corts district. Two of the three sides of the site are defined by the heritage-listed frontage of the former Pla
Levantada tras un terremoto, la iglesia está construida con 86 tubos de cartón envainados en vigas de madera y 8 contenedores de transporte colocados en la base a modo de estribos.
Located in Guadalajara (Mexico), the tower is part of an entire new urban development of the city, surrounded by buildings of similar height. To distinguish itself from them, it adopts a very expressive, almost sculptural slanted form. This form, how
The Olympia Theater is a vertex on Lavapiés square. Leaning on party walls, the concrete volumes into which it is fragmented adapt to the site’s triangular geometry and retract from the square, enlarging it. The glazed facades are transparent towards
Situated on the outskirts of Paris, at the Porte de Versailles and beside the Parc des Expositions, Triangle will be a visual reference on a metropolitan scale. Its singular shape – an irregular pyramid with a trapezoid base – contrasts with the uniq
El ‘último’ edificio de Novartis antes de pasar a Francia presenta un nítido volumen de planta triangular que alberga laboratorios de investigación biomédica.
It has never been easy to apply triangular geometry to architecture. In the Middle Ages it coexisted with other more rational shapes, like the orthogon and the hexagon, and with arrangements based on the ideal conjunction of the triangle, the square
Wilhelm Holzbauer. Reconstrucción de nueva planta de la manzana triangular n." 88 del S.O. 36, 1985. Situada entre Mariannenstrase y Reichenbergerstrasse, con un edificio de viviendas en esquina, en torno a un gran patio de manzana...
