Studio Junction designed an infill housing as an alternative urban typology. By converting a contractor warehouse in a mixed-use industrial neighborhood, the ambition was to create a modern, affordable home and studio for a family of four. The design of the house is generated by an emphasis on the views and activities of the interior […]
Claesson Kovisto Rune created a new interior for Stockholm’s Royal Opera House without interfering with the ornately decorated 1895 interior, protected as cultural heritage. The strongest architectural component is a series of free-standing, giant, angled mirrors, defining the space and separating the passageway from seated guests. The gold-tinted mirrors are laminated with a film that […]
To provide the privacy that the client demanded, FORM / Kouichi Kimura Architects decided to enclose the lot with the trench extended beyond the building and provide an interior courtyard as the center. The enclosed space clips images from the surrounding landscapes, creating a comfortable outdoor living room that in not exposed to the outside […]
Nacho Marti designed the stand for CESDA (Center for Advanced Studies in Aviation) at the Estudia Fair in Barcelona. A kind and seductive space is generated for the teenagers that want to become pilots, transmitting the glamour of the pilots world, like the credits of “Catch me if you can” movie. Originally Posted On […]
multiplicity transformed this amazing church into a house respecting the interior and landscape sanctity of space. So that nothing is lost by the process of conversion, the embodied energy and memory of the existing building is used to invigorate the new use. The elements inserted aim to amplify the beautiful light and space of the […]
Bak Gordon Arquitectos designed the house in a silent way using soft colors that talk about privacy and tranquility. The house, a white volume filling the void left between two houses, is located in a rural vernacular village near the west coast in Portugal. One facade facing the access and another facing the fields. In […]
Cadence designed a residence in Bangalore, India, which features cast-concrete external walls decorated with perforations. Taking the classic diagram of the traditional courtyard house, they moved the court to the corner to create new spatial and formal effects. Incorporating the “outside” inside, the living room and the bedrooms feel much bigger and have a sectional […]
Alvaro Siza projected the Sports Center Llobregat using a group of large interlocking volumes of white concrete in the Barcelona suburb of Cornella, Spain. Each one of this concrete boxes express the primary programmes within: a rectangular box is used for the 2.500 seat sport hall, an oval drum for the swimming pool and a […]
Soon in Tokyo, a new communication agency located in Barcelona, commissioned lagranja to design a versatile space where offices can live together with a musical and gastronomic ambient. The project retains the disposition of the exterior volumes and the facade of the existing industrial warehouse, but completely reformulating the articulation of the space. The search […]
SOM designed the financial office combining a technologically work environment with the finishes of an upscale hotel, tying the design together with a large-scale work of contemporary art. The New York City headquarters of GSC Group is a warm environment that immerses workers in light and views of nature, using a sophisticated glass wall illuminated […]
