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Overnight Shelter Lotte-Branz-Strasse / Hild und K

Hadir Al Koshta — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Since 2013, the City of Munich has been operating a nationally unique overnight shelter for homeless men, women, and children, initially housed temporarily in a building of the former Bayern Barracks. With the completion of a new facility in Schwabing-Freimann offering 730 places, both the standards and range of services have been significantly enhanced. Those seeking shelter are no longer accommodated in rooms with eight to twelve people but rather in rooms with four beds. What's more, the facility's purpose has evolved from merely providing overnight accommodation to offering comprehensive support, including dedicated spaces for counseling, medical treatment, and a daytime gathering area.

Private Clinic in Anif / Steiner Architecture

Pilar Caballero — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Besides the task of designing a clinic, finding an idiom that was fitting to this town on the outskirts of Salzburg was the primary challenge here. The result is still a little raffish. With its valley roofs, the building fulfills its responsibility to the neighborhood, with which it just about shares a vocabulary. It still feels warehouseish, slightly vapid from certain angles. Undemonstrative here and there. One of the facades looks like a toy face with a winking eye. On the opposite side, the staircase suggests teeth.

House Schmitten / Steiner Architecture

Paula Pintos — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Barn red? Burnt umber? Redwood? Indian red? Smoked salmon? Windsor tan? Chestnut? Marron? It’s technically RAL 3016, and when applied on wooden boards it turns this family chalet in Zell am See into a kinky incarnation of Alpine timber cladding, a cheeky expression of folk.

Garage / Buero Wagner

Paula Pintos — Wed, 10 May 2023 10:00:00 +0000

The conversion of a garage into office space was completed in 2023 and is located in Breitbrunn am Ammersee. During the Corona pandemic, the focus of work shifted to residential developments through home offices. This will also become an integral part of a new work environment in a post-pandemic era.

Wooden House by the Lake / Appels Architekten

Paula Pintos — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 03:00:00 +0000

This family home expresses its inner life, its context of seasons, light, and surroundings in a simple architectural figure. Conceptionally, it distinguishes between private rooms and a generous open space for daily family life. All private rooms are artistically composed of a sculpture of wooden cubes in between which the open space can unfold horizontally and vertically, bringing in light deep into the house - even in winter - as well as drawing views into the garden, the treetops, and across the lake from any vantage point.

House on Lake Zell / Steiner Architecture

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 20:00:00 +0000

Pick up the cadaver of the word c-o-m-p-l-e-x and drive it to the Austrian Alps. Tucked away on Lake Zell is a house to which that royal among the has-beens of buzzwords, depleted of meaning from years of overuse, might genuinely apply. The project’s starting point was formal and postmodern: Louis Kahn’s Trenton Bath House (NJ, 1955). Thus the house’s pyramid hip roof sits on a square base. Thus the distribution of the ground floor. Thus the courtyard takes its cue from the opening in Kahn’s roof.

House with bay windows / Buero Wagner + Studio Kreft + E.Hoffmann + Element A

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Completed in 2021, this residential building is located in a mixed-use area of Obersendling, a neighborhood in the south part of Munich. The heterogeneous area is characterized by large-scale multi-story commercial buildings as well as residential developments and row houses. It is bordered by a railway line to the west and Sendlinger Park to the east.

Office with Silver Curtain / Buero Wagner

Valeria Silva — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:00:00 +0000

The two-story office extension is located in the backyard of a turn-of-the-century building near the Isar River in the Au district of Munich. The continuing demand for new space in Munich is increasing the pressure on existing buildings in particular. The potential for densification, by means of roof extensions and stories, is either already almost exhausted or limited by the authorities. In the search for further densification, the basement floors are increasingly coming into focus. In London, this trend has been evident for decades.

House Schwab / Architekturbüro Huber

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The narrow, very long, hillside property with old trees is located in a north-south orientation between two listed villas from the early 20th century.

He, She & It / Davidson Rafailidis

Paula Pintos — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000

He, She & It is a collection of three distinct buildings for three different spatial needs, collaged into a single structure. The 1500 sq ft building houses workspaces for a painter, a ceramist/silversmith, and a greenhouse. Each space offers an atmosphere which differs radically from the others. The distinct atmospheres of the spaces reflect not only their respective uses but also, the predilections of the clients.

What Building Materials Can Be Harmful to Our Health?

Eduardo Souza — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 04:00:00 +0000

In each of our nostrils, two types of nerves play an essential role in our health. The olfactory and trigeminal nerves capture odors and send information to the brain, more specifically to the olfactory bulb, for interpretation. In turn, this communicates with the cortex, responsible for the conscious perception of odors, but also with the limbic system, which controls mood and unconscious emotions. This is the body's defense against bad smells or irritating or strong odors, creating aversion to those that could harm us in some way.

Best Architectural Projects of 2021

Clara Ott — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:30:00 +0000

More than 5000 new projects published throughout 2021 make ArchDaily the largest online architecture library in the world. ArchDaily Curatorial Team researches, contacts offices, prepares, and delivers the built projects in the world on a daily basis, with the objective of providing inspiration, knowledge, and tools to our users who take part in the creation of better built environments.

Together Apart Cat Café / Davidson Rafailidis

Paula Pintos — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Built in approximately 1900 with a 1940s extension, the historic structure has operated as a grocery store, strip club, attorney’s office, and hair salon, among other businesses, in its past.

Big Space, Little Space / Davidson Rafailidis

Andreas Luco — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Davidson Rafailidis has turned a general contractor’s former office space into a small apartment dwelling, in interior adaptive re-use that treats space as constantly evolving and ever-changing. Over time, most spaces stray from their original programs and develop lives of their own.

Monumental Southwest: Modern Designs Rethinking the Vernacular

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 07:30:00 +0000

The Southwest United States is known for civic and monumental designs. These projects establish iconic, contemporary expressions that move beyond vernacular traditions. Located on sites throughout Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, they are designed with modern aesthetics and new ideas. Novel spatial experiences and formal approaches are being explored by both local and international architects. Standing in contrast to the intimate, discreet spaces found within southwest residential architecture, these buildings are prominent landmarks and nodes within their respective cities.

Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House / MOS Architects

Igor Fracalossi — Sun, 23 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000

The Museum of Outdoor Arts Element House is a structural insulated panel (SIPS) modular building designed to operate independently of public utilities by integrating passive systems and on-site energy-generation. The house functions as a guest house and visitor center for Star Axis, a nearby land art project by the artist Charles Ross in New Mexico.

Church of St. Georg in Hebertshausen / Heim Kuntscher Architekten und Stadtplaner

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0000

The concept for the redesign of the "Georgskirche Hebertshausen" area consists of a multitude of building blocks that are integrally intertwined and form a complex network of topographical, architectural and content-related layers of meaning.

Gasthof Auwirt Lodge / Steiner Architecture

Valeria Silva — Thu, 14 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The Auwirt has been at the centre of the town of Aurach since 1835, located directly on Pass-Thurn-Straße on the Jochberger Ache river.