Tile of Spain Awards 2016
The fifteenth edition of the Tile of Spain Awards is now open for entries, welcoming project submissions from international architects, interior designers and architecture students.
Sardinera House Alicante, Jávea
Design: Ramon Esteve, architects. Located in a setting of great beauty and valuable landscape, in front of the Mediterranean Sea, between El Portixol and Cala Blanca, the Sardinera House lays on the top of a hillside, lined by a headland entering the sea on a bay of turquoise waters.
Opposite House in Toronto Scarborough Bluffs
Design: Atelier rzlbd, Architects. The clients, a professional couple who both work from home and enjoy an active home entertainment lifestyle, were looking for a modern dwelling that would offer everything they might need and more, including enough space to transition into.
Light Well House Taichung City: Taiwan Residence
Design: Hsiang Yu Chen & Tai Jung Yang, architects. Penetrability is the main concept. For sunlight, air, and people go through all the space smoothly. The trail use glass to link the aisle, and for the sunlight shines down to every corner.
New Law Courts of Caen Building
Design: Baumschlager Eberle
The original design from the office of Christian Hauvette& associés was revised by Baumschlager Eberle Architectes together with the Atelier Pierre Champenois a former partner of Christian Hauvette.
Matosinhos House Greater Porto
Design: Nu.Ma Architects. The lot, where the house is inserted, have a non-regular shape, longitudinal and perpendicular to the street Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Matosinhos. In a consolidated urban area, the surrounding buildings, are, in most of the cases, buildings with a ground floor and attic.
Pathfoot Building at University of Stirling: RMJM
An outstanding example of post-war Modernist Scottish architecture, of international significance. This is a 20th Century tertiary education building in a parkland landscape setting. The highly flexible plan form that influenced Norman Foster’s Willis Faber Dumas Building In Ipswich.
Rundetårn København, Round Tower Copenhagen
Rundetårn København, Købmagergade, just north off The Strøget, built in the middle of the 17th Century, designed by Jørgen Scheffel, Hans van Steenwinkel the younger and I & J Exner, architects
Nashare Hotel in Fujian
Design: C+ Architects / Naza design studio
The Nashare Hotel is built in a tranquil space consisting of acacias, pines and natural stones far away from the city. It’s an ideal hidden world for relaxation.
House In The Field, Montenegro
Design: Arhimetrija, architects. This is a space for family of four, to relax and enjoy nature. The owners live in the city and like to run from the noise into the peace of their field with mandarin trees. The orchard, where the house is located,is owned by the family for several generations and has always been a meeting place.
Campus in Kecskemet, Hungary Building
Design: Lima Design, Architects. The shape of the buildings is in a modern organic form, located within an existing park with 50 year-old trees. A special blind system connects into the intelligent electrical system.
Shipping Container Bridge Tel Aviv, Israel
Design: Yoav Messer Architects. 160m-long bridge made from recycled shipping containers for a park under construction in Tel Aviv. Its modular units can be adapted to include additional features.
Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Brazil: Niemeyer
Teatro Popular de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro building, Brazil – by Oscar Niemeyer, famous Brazilian architect – Popular Theatre in Niteroi, Modern architecture
Jasper Place Branch Library Edmonton building
The new Jasper Place Branch Library design reflects the Edmonton Public Library’s aspirations to create an open and memorable presence in the community.