Dutch Embassy Berlin, OMA for Netherlands

Dutch Embassy Berlin building design by OMA

The Netherlands, having sold their former embassy site after the War, was free to choose anew and preferred Roland Ufer in Mitte, the oldest Berlin settlement, next to the (new) government district of their main trade partner.

Bruno Taut House: Poland Building Contest

Bruno Taut architect

He was also the one who had at courage, at Weissenhof, in Stuttgart, to build a house that refused to be white, as opposed to most of the other architects, including Le Corbusier, who was otherwise quite colorful in his paintings, but not really in his architecture.

Sandro Botticelli House: Competition Poland

Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter

We think of the Renaissance as that time when man finally broke away from the “man-dwarfing” (as we are told) of the Middle Ages, born anew on the foundations of a newly regained confidence, based mainly on reason (or so).

Montclair Condominium Building, Miami homes

Montclair Condominium Building, Miami

Montclair Miami exists at the intersection of civic, commercial, and residential activity: it emerged from a process of contextual sampling confined within the restrictions of an exaggerated historic preservation agenda and municipal zoning constraints.

Miami Beach Condo: ilonabay Condominium

Miami Beach Condo: ilonabay Condominium Florida

Ilonabay Condominium Miami. Participating as an amplifier and filter of its life-urban context, the building simultaneously expresses multiple personalities through dynamic manipulations of scale, and massing

cube Miami – Florida Condominium Building

Rising 22 stories over the design district in Miami, Florida – Cube promotes its occupants to design their own domain with the possibility of connecting multiple cube modules vertically, horizontally, and diagonally.

City Road Tower, London EC1 Building

City Road Tower in London

The scheme will be unveiled at a public exhibition, opening this week on the site at 151 City Road, which is part of the public consultation exercise, intended to provide an opportunity for local residents and office workers to view the proposals

Susenbergstrasse apartments, Switzerland Building

The articulation of the building mass into three volumes takes place within the context of the small-scale, “fine-grained” housing structure in the neighbourhood near and far. In contrast to the solitary houses and villas on the Zurichberg, the building volumes react to each other by means of their proportions and with respect to their openings.

Redbrook Hayes School, Rugeley Staffordshire

Redbrook Hayes School, Rugeley Staffordshire

Redbrook Hayes Primary School in Rugeley, Staffs, is a carefully considered response to the government’s Exemplar Schools Project. Designed by Walters and Cohen, an architectural practice with an outstanding record in delivering well-designed schools across the UK

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt Exhibition

Frankfurt Schirn, UNStudio Exhibition, Architecture, Project, Photo, Hesse Design Show, Image Frankfurt Schirn Exhibition : Architecture Summer of Love Show, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, German state of Hesse, Germany 2007 Schirn Kunsthalle Exhibition Exhibition Design Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Date: 2005 image from architects Client: Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany Program: Exhibition design for ‘Exhibition Summer … Read more

Vicar Theatre, Almeria Building, Vitoria, Spain

Vicar Theatre, Almeria Building

Vicar Theatre, España, contemporary Vitoria building, ,Almeria, Spain – design by Carbajal+Solinas Verd Arquitectos – TECU Architecture Prize 2007: 1st Prize B for tyhis new Almeria building.