In an old industrial shed between two rear courtyards, a house is organized around a band that contains utilitarian spaces while separating the private from the more public areas. Attached to the wall of white concrete blocks are different functions
Located in A natural landscape, with the Pacific Ocean to the south and the mountains to the north, this residence-studio was designed for a Mexican artist who divides his time between New York and his home country. The first project decision was to
The temple of Water, the main one of Ninnaji Shingon, the oldest branch of tantric Buddhism in Japan, rests on a hill with views over Osaka Bay. The project proposes a sensory experience, a shift from the ordinary world to the sacred space. The appro
island of Hokkaido, in northern Japan. On a plain surrounded by mountain ranges and a dense forest of beech trees and shrubs, the building comprises two superposed cubes, a rectangular artificial lake, and a long L-shaped wall enclosing the complex.
The site is located in a quiet residential district in Setagaya ward. It is a three-household residence for the client couple and their respective parents. While ensuring privacy and independence for each family, the housing plan allows the three hou
A series of programmatic and functional walls go up on an orthogonal and flexible grid that manages to resolve, in a unitary and simultaneous way, the spaces, structure, installations, enclosure and integration into its surrondings. The program – mar
The house is located in the southern border of Monterrey (Mexico), close to Chipinque ecological park, an urban landscape dominated by the Sierra Madre mountain range. The house’s design addresses the features of a plot marked by the presence of four
Building a house for a poet. That was the starting point of the project, located on a plot of some 440 square meters in a residential development in the southwest of Zaragoza. The house follows a clear and simple scheme, occupying three rectangular f
Located on a plain to the east of Munich, the new funerary complex was to house a morgue and a new cemetery for the different faiths that coexist nowadays in the German society. With neither a consolidated city in the area (in a future the area will
While in Europe the architects face the problem of the conservation of heritage, in the new American cities the challenge is to create monuments and singular buildings ex novo to accentuate their urban image. In Windsor, Florida – a city designed in
The cementery of Fürstenwald by no means intends to become a monument in memory of the dead, it simply wishes to be a place where human beings end their life cycle and return to nature, and where those related to the deceased may learn to come to ter
The church of Atlántida displays a special and rare character for the moment in which it was built: like the projects of the heroic Modern Move - ment, it is a project born from need. It is also the answer of an engineer experienced in the construc -
The snow capped and perfectly conic top of Mount Fuji – so many times represented in paintings, calendars and tourist brochures – identifies the veneration of the Japanese towards nature, a complicated relationship within the dense chaos to which lar
The construction of a house begins with the selection of the site, and Rose and Warren Tyler decided that the best place was many kilometers to the south of Columbus (Ohio), where they had lived until then. The couple – great art enthusiasts who had
In spite of carrying a considerable number of flights – a result of its strategic position in the heart of Europe –, the Zürich-Kloten airport does not have a building plan able to face a series of functions in continuous growth and change. The heter
A thousand meters above sea level, in a mountain area famous for its ski resort, a former mansion plastered in yellow was scheduled to be demolished. Rudolf Olgiati, a local architect who had been gathering together objects of the area’s traditional
The creation of holy spaces forms part of the infrastructure planned from the very start for Switzerland's road network. Along the highway that crosses Europe from Hamburg to Rome, where it passes the canton of Uri, a plot of land situated between th
To make room for the Guggenheim Museum and Euskalduna Palace, the entire zone of obsolete industry called Abandoibarra was cleared. With the removal of old surface tracks in the area, a new railway scheme had to be drawn up for the city of Bilbao. Am
To concentrate the heretofore dispersed out-city bus service of Córdoba, a parcel near the railway station of the ensanche was selected. A stone wall delimits the square-shaped premise and segregates it from the adjacent streets. The different pieces
A corridor of offices runs round the triangular border of the site to create a travertine-paved garden with orange trees. This Project is the result of a competition that was held as part of the BIT (Balearic Information and Techn
Situated in a residential neighborhood of private properties, where bylaws determine that buildings are detached, these two houses form a project with a tension between differences and similarities. Built for two brothers, each dwelling responds to a
The emotion involved in building one’s own house often results in a made-to-order sort of project wherein every object and function is assigned a specific place. But a building designed in this manner in the long run proves too rigid to accommodate v
Despite the relative geographic isolation of his professional activity, circumscribed within the area surrounding Vigo s estuary, Bar Boo ’s work left a clear mark on the next generation of Galician architects. Fascinated by regulatory schemes and th
