Dune House / JVA
Architects: Jarmund / Vigsnæs AS Arkitekter MNAL / Einar Jarmund, Håkon Vigsnæs, Alessandra Kosberg, Anders Granli
Location: Thorpeness, Suffolk, England
Client: Living Architecture
Collaborating Architect: Mole Architects Ltd.
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 250 sqm
Photographs: Nils Petter Dale
Roncero House / ALT arquitectura
Architects: ALT arquitectura / Ángel Luis Tendero, Bernardo Cummins
Location: Madrid, Spain
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Silvio Posada
The Mashrabiya House / Senan Abdelqader
Architects: Senan Abdelqader
Location: Jerusalem, Palestine
Project Area: 1700 sqm
Photographs: Amit Giron
Cobogó House / Marcio Kogan
Architects: Studio mk27 / Marcio Kogan
Location: São Paulo, Brasil
Co-Author: Carolina Castroviejo
Interior Design Co-Authors: Diana Radomysler, Carolina Castroviejo
Collaborator: Eduardo Chalabi
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1000 sqm
Photographs: Nelson Kon
Park Hill / Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
Architects: Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
Location: Sheffield, England
Landscape Architects: Grant Associates
Main Contractor: Urban Splash Build Ltd (North)
Structural Engineer: Stockley
Services Engineer: Ashmount Consulting Engineers Limited
Project Area: 130,000 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Daniel Hopkinson, Keith Collie and Peter Bennett
Riverside House / Keiji Ashizawa Design
Architects: Keiji Ashizawa Design / Keiji Ashizawa, Lie Honjo, Silvia TasaniÅ
Location: Chiba, Japan
Structural Engineer: ÅFASA Akira Suzuki
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Daici Ano
Belvedere Residence / Anastasia Arquitetos
Architects: Anastasia Arquitetos
Location: Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 370 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Anastasia Arquitetos
AD Classics: Balfron Tower / Erno Goldfinger
The Balfron Tower by architect Erno Goldfinger is an iconic Brutalist residential high rise located in London’s eastside Poplar borough. Designed in 1963 for the London County Council and completed in 1967 by the Greater London Council, this social housing estate broke the traditions of typical residential architecture. Conceived as a solution to sprawling suburbia, Goldfinger embraced verticality as the cure. More details after the break.
Palmaret-Alboraya Train Station / Rstudio
Architects: Rstudio
Location: Valencia, Spain
Project Year: 2010
Engineering Management: Seg_Ineco
Landscape Architecture: Alfonso Peris
Photographs: David Frutos
AD Classics: Bac de Roda Bridge / Santiago Calatrava
The Bac de Roda Bridge by Santiago Calatrava marks his first foray into bridge design. Part of a larger development plan in preparation for the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the bridge functions as both a symbolic and physical connection to two previously disjointed districts; Sant Marti and Sant Andreu. More information after the break.
Vila Castela Residence / Anastasia Arquitetos
Architects: Anastasia Arquitetos
Location: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Project Year: 2009
Construction: Campo Empreendimentos
Structural Design: Lucas Saraiva
Project Area: 650 sqm
Photographs: Jomar Bragança
Diamond Arena / Atelier 11
Architects: Atelier 11
Location: Beijing, China
Design Director: Xu Lei
Design Team: Ding Liqun, Gao Qinglei, Liu Heng, An Peng
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 51,199 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Atelier 11
AD Classics: Torre Blancas / Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
The Torre Blancas is an architectural icon of the Spanish Organicism movement. Designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and completed in 1969, this exposed concrete tower rises 71 meters above the Madrid skyline. It also stands as one the most complicated and innovative reinforced concrete structures of the era, absent of the typical rectilinear qualities associated with cast-in-place concrete. More details after the break.
AD Classics: Puerta de Europa / Philip Johnson & John Burgee
The twin office towers known as Puerta de Europa I and II located in Madrid, Spain defy the typical conventions of skyscraper construction. Designed by American architects Philip Johnson & John Burgee and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO), these structural expressionistic towers straddle one of Madrid’s most important boulevards – the Paseo de la Castellana. More details after the break.
Flashback: Tolo House / Alvaro Leite Siza
Architects: Alvaro Leite Siza
Client: Luís Marinho Leite Barbosa da Silva
Location: Lugar das Carvalhinhas – Alvite, freguesia de Cerva, Ribeira da Pena District
Site Area: 1000 sqm
Constructed Area: 180 sqm
Contractor: Óscar Gouveia
Landscape: Alvaro Leite Siza Vieira
Materials: Concrete
Services: GOP
Project Start: 2000
Project Complete: 2005
Photographers: FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra
New Film Theatre of Catalonia / Mateo Arquitectura
Architects: Mateo Arquitetura / Josep Lluís Mateo
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Client: ICIC (Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals)
Structural Engineering: BOMA, Agustí Obiol
Installations Engineering: Grupo JG
Project Area: 7,515 sqm
Photographs: Adrià Goula
Garden and Sea / Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier
Location: Japan
Client: Private
Project year: 2008
Constructed area: 237 sqm
Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,)
Rishikesh House / Rajiv Saini
Architects: Mr. Rajiv Saini
Location: Rishikesh, India
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 640 sqm
Photographs: Sebastian Zachariah
Hemeroscopium House / Ensamble Studio
Architects: Ensamble Studio
Location: Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain
Principal in Charge: Antón García- Abril
Collaborators: Elena Pérez, Débora Mesa, Jorge Consuegra, Marina Otero, Ricardo Sanz
Technical Architect: Javier Cuesta
Promotor: Hemeroscopium
Contractor: Materia Inorgánica
Project year: 2005-2008
Constructed Area: 400 sqm
Photographs: Ensamble Studio
Summer House / LASC Studio
Architects: LASC Studio
Location: Österlen, Sweden
Project Year: 2009
Project Area: 105 sqm
Photographs: Stamers Kontor
