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Asympta / Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Li Le is known as one of the people who lived and buried their dead along the Anapo River. Pantalica - a complex of over 4000 thumbs carved in the rocks a millennium BC - doesn't tell us much about the way the living found shelter. Since very few traces of commoners' architecture have been found, we can only imagine that the valley's inhabitants used light construction techniques and local organic materials to build their homes.

Round About Baths / Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Cars dancing endlessly round and around, drawing inaccessible circular spaces punctuating our cities, looking for meaning. What about roundabout what?

Dark Skies Sound Installation / Leopold Banchini Architects + Giona Bierens de Haan Architectures

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 26 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Dark Skies is a sound experience designed by Leopold Banchini and Giona Bierens de Haan in collaboration with DJ and producer DVS1. It is not an architectural pavilion but rather a large-scale sound system defining a precise space for bodies meeting in sound.

Dar El Farina / Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Two vital infrastructures cross this desertic plot in the plain of Haouz. The first one, a mesref, is a small water channel filled a few times per year for agricultural purposes thanks to a complex network of canals flowing from the high Atlas. The second, a khetara, is an underground draining gallery built by the Almoravid one thousand years ago to bring water to Marrakesh from distant groundwater.

Goodbye Horses Pub / Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Relations between Mingei, Japanese Folk Art movements, and English Arts and Crafts have been discussed extensively. Although William Morris's influence on Yanagi's theory is obvious in its criticism of wage labor relations and for-profit mass production, the Japanese movement insisted on distancing itself from western influences to promoted a unique local identity. Modernist critics argued that Mingei was a sort of reversed orientalism with a romanticized take on traditional means of production. But it is also clear that Japanese Folk Art had, in return, a tremendous influence on modernist designers such as Charlotte Perriand.

Villa M / Leopold Banchini Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Ferdinand Hodler painted mountains reflected in Swiss lakes, again and again. He was obsessed with this double-inverted landscape, constantly evolving with the changing sky and the movement created by the wind blowing on the water's surface. In 1867, aged 14, he painted his first lakes and sold them to passing tourists. In 1918, fifty years later, he died in Geneva, leaving behind a few unfinished sketches of Mont-Blanc reflected in Lake Geneva, as seen from his apartment balcony.

Film Noir Studio / Leopold Banchini Architects + Giona Bierens de Haan Architectures

Paula Pintos — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 02:00:00 +0000

“What is this? The stuff that dreams are made of.” Sam Spade’s (Bogart) cult lines conclude the equally quintessential Maltese Falcon. Often considered to be the archetype of the film noir genre. John Huston’s movie is a trendsetter of the cinematic genre that emerged in the 1940s. Here, mysteries, schemes, and shadowy narratives are set in a moody urban decor at night. In a gritty world of shadows, the protagonists evolve with darkness wrapped all around them and the moon as a spotlight.

Al Naseej Textile Factory / Leopold Banchini Architects

Paula Pintos — Mon, 15 May 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Shaded by a light Arish structure, Bahraini weavers use to dig a hole in the ground to fit their legs. By this simple action, the ground was transformed into an endless table to tense the wires needed for their delicate work. Arish is a traditional building technique using the dry leaves of the date palms and weaving them into strong surface. As such, both the textile and the architecture protecting the artisans were weaved onsite.

Atelier Hawkesbury / Leopold Banchini Architects

Paula Pintos — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 15:00:00 +0000

In the early 1990s, Richard Leplastrier settled on the shore of Lovett Bay, the mouth of the Hawkesbury River. Describing the wonderful project, he wrote: “The house continues a history of simple living on the site, which I suspect has continued for thousands of years (...) Our family of five lives comfortably in this one room. The small room we inhabit, in turn, inhabits a greater room whose walls are cliffs and floors the tidal level of the bay that rises and falls nearly two meters every six hours.”

Marramarra Shack / Leopold Banchini Architects

Clara Ott — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

In 1788 Captain Cook and his fleet entered the delta of the Hawkesbury and the sheltered bay of Sydney. At the entrance of the Dyirabun (Hawkesbury) River, he was first welcomed by the Darug People who had been living on these banks since the beginning of times. Not long after, the British colonized the Australian territory, building a network of roads and electrical lines across the vast country. The electrical posts were made of some of the finest local hardwoods. Later on, these posts were slowly replaced by steel posts.

Moon Ra Pavilion / Leopold Banchini Architects

Paula Pintos — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Moon Ra is a vernacular structure built to dance around the fire. The large circular roof embraces the festival-goers and offers a temporary shelter for unexpected and wild behavior. Around the fire pit, the absence of a dance floor leaves the bare feet of the dancers in direct contact with the ground.

Casa do Monte / Leopold Banchini Architects + BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Andreas Luco — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Established in 1147 by Augustinians and rebuilt after the earthquake of 1755, the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte dominates the city of Lisbon. The popular neighbourhood built around the historical hermitage holds on to the steep hillside. Accessible via narrow stairs only, many houses have been abandoned over the years.

Casa CCFF / Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 23:00:00 +0000

CasaCCFF is a domestic factory floating above an untouched garden. Mimicking the surrounding industrial shed roofs, the large open volume is filled with sunlight. The views of the exterior are carefully framed to create a brightly lit intimacy in this highly urban environment.

7000 Oaks Park at CEVA Station / Leopold Banchini Architects + BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Paula Pintos — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

Joseph Beuys’ 7000 oaks for the 1982 Documenta in Kassel constituted a turn in the art world. By a quite simple conceptual gesture, the artist managed to use the power of art discourse and action to activate an environmental concern that has grown ever since. This happened in the1980s, the same decade which saw a very substantial acceleration of violence towards all living beings on earth. Ever since, we have been trying to develop our consciousness to counter this movement, with relatively poor success.

House for Architectural Heritage / Noura Al Sayeh + Leopold Banchini Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:00:00 +0000

The house for Architectural Heritage houses the archival collection of sketches and drawings by the architect John Yarwood, as well as serving as an exhibition space for architecture exhibition. The project is conceived as a beam structure that frames the existing adjacent walls of the two neighbouring buildings, serving as a showcase for the architectural heritage of the city, the old as well as the new.

Dodged House / Leopold Banchini Architects + BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide)

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 02:00:00 +0000

The crisis that hit Portugal ten years ago has produced an incredible density of abandoned spaces. The two main cities, Porto and Lisbon, offered a landscape of ruins and closed buildings that charmed an international community looking for a southern romanticism. Since then the two cities have acted and reacted to renew their historical centers and a good quantity of these abandoned houses have been renovated with a general undeniable quality, probably due to the sensitive and cultivated approach of Portuguese architects in general.