When the great Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) received the prestigious commission to build a new museum of American art in New York in 1963, it was the beginning of one of the defining decades of the century.
An innovative school designed to ease water shortages in a semi-arid region of East Africa is to open later this month. The WATERBANK™ School, conceived and designed by US based non-profit PITCHAfrica, demonstrates the dramatic potential of rainwater harvesting in semi-arid regions and aims to put an end to Water Wars.
The residential project is located on a closed community on the north of Buenos Aires, on a lot with north orientation and surrounded by a lake on two if its side, giving us amazing views.
In this residential project, the impact of the sun path was carefully studied, especially to place the swimming pool. One more time, water takes a big role in the creation of this house.
Located on an irregular lot, the house sits at the back of the lot and is parallel to one of the streets to open the best orientation and capture the best views. The idea of this journey was to discover the entrance as we follow the exterior stone wall.
Benetton Nursery in Treviso. We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The classrooms are arranged in the surrounding squares.
The Arctic Flowers Series and the Formicis Series are two halves of a research project conducted at the University at Buffalo that investigate how new types of hand-built architectures can emerge in societies that are as digitally savvy as they are tied to industrial manufacturing and their ancient traditions of hand-craft
The project is part of JDT Islam campus, the very first Muslim orphanage in India situated in a quaint village in north Kerala, India. Formed in early 50s, the orphanage carried its legacy of philanthropic goodwill to orphans from around the country over the years.
Tunnels are “wounds” inflicted on geology to facilitate human movements. Their history is ancient, glorious and gory, but today techniques have been refined to the point of making the excavation similar to endoscopic surgery.
ADAM Architecture is one of the first practices to win planning permission, after appeal, under the new National Planning Policy Framework, paragraph 55 – the replacement to the Planning Policy Statement 7 (PPS7) which allows the building of new country houses that are of ‘exceptional quality or innovative design’.
In 1967, a small hotel, Hotel Castell dels Hams, was established on the island of Majorca amid the Mediterranean vegetation.
The great natural entrance to the Caves of Hams in Mallorca houses a lush botanic garden. >Bar in the Caves of Porto Cristo, Mallorca, Spain, design by A2arquitectos.
An old, nondescript building that went unnoticed in the visually contaminated Vasconcelos Avenue in San Pedro Garza Garcia is home to the corporate headquarters of a company fuel additives.
Over 100 artworks by renowned artists, architects and designers were auctioned at Somerset House on the 14th November 2012, raising over £80,000 for Article 25, the UK’s leading construction charity that designs and delivers projects to provide better shelter where there is disaster, poverty or need.