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Bogotá Architecture Guide: 30 Places to Discover in Colombia's Capital City

Fabian Dejtiar — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:00:00 +0000

Bogotá is a metropolis that celebrates the convergence of different architectures, reflecting a significant part of Colombia's diverse culture and geography. Limited by the Eastern Hills, it is not only one of the highest capitals in the world, reaching almost 2,600 meters above sea level, but its history dates back to its foundation as the center of the New Kingdom of Granada in the year 1538.

IDEA B+LAB Laboratory Building / Obraestudio + Quicazán Taller

Valeria Silva — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The commission of a business laboratories building within a university campus immersed in extensive green areas, it is thought of a modular structure construction solution, easy to assemble. The geometry of the project is the result of different purposes. On the ground floor, the volumes are atomized to create open interior spaces, multi directional connectivity of the building with the immediate and future surroundings, as well as greater flow of air and light through the building. The interior spaces and their projection towards the exterior respond to strategic solar orientation and visual privacy control.

Macarena 626 Office Building / taller de arquitectura de bogotá

Andreas Luco — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Macarena 626 is located among buildings of significant architectonic value in a privileged area of the city. The building was conceived through the understanding of the morphology and materials of its surroundings. The instinctive circular first sketch of the project, was then modified along the design process, to become a polygonal floor plan, made up of four main planes.

Eureka Center in Anglo Colombiano School / taller de arquitectura de bogotá

Clara Ott — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:00:00 +0000

The design of the Eureka Centre Building for the Anglo Colombian School performs as a common ground where research, experimentation, the search for ideas and learning processes, among others, come together in a cyclical system of learning; hence, the concentric construction that surrounds them.

Antioquia's Educational Parks: 13 Examples of Learning-Centered Infrastructure in Colombia

Santiago Baraya — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Educational architecture is crucial for creating spaces that, not only nurture and mold the minds of the future generations, but also provide spaces for the wider public to come and share knowledge and ideas.

Amangiri House / Juan Pablo Ortiz Arquitectos

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 02:00:00 +0000

A dash of air, heated by the sun and embraced by walls. There is a substantial sense of immobility in how the conformation of the house celebrates the characteristics of the place. The house is located at 3000 meters above sea level, on the eastern slope of the Subachoque hills. Its location has privileged and distant views over the valley and a close relationship with the mountain and its magnificent Andean forest. In this scenery, the house is arranged in such a way that its architecture intensifies the relations of its spaces with the mountain and the valley.

15 Colombian Projects Pushing the Brick Envelope

Nicolás Valencia — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 05:00:00 +0000

The greats of twentieth-century Colombian architecture were regarded for their genuine interest in brick. To this day, many of Colombia's iconic neighborhoods are filled with brick buildings.

Arts Center / taller de arquitectura de bogotá

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:00:00 +0000

The building has an interesting dual relationship, the first floor is used for music and dance, while the second floor accommodates plastic arts. The two levels (and therefore the programmatic areas) are linked by a generous open-air (covered) grand staircase-hall-gallery which articulates and simultaneously acts as a meeting, performance and exhibition space.

San José Preschool / taller de arquitectura de bogotá

Rayen Sagredo — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:00:00 +0000

The project was formulated as a series of isolated volumes, a village of knowledge that takes the organic character of the natural context of the place and the “small scale” of its users, (children between the ages of 4 to 6).

Rochester School / Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 16 May 2017 13:00:00 +0000

With approximately 16000m² of buildings and 21000m² of exteriors and landscape design, the Rochester School’s Master Plan aimed for a strategy which reflected its own concept of academic community. Thus, as a premise, the HUBS (grouping system) appeared, looking for an educational model that integrate teachers and students disregarding grades and therefore fading out the traditional hierarchy of school formation.

Ciudadela 29 de Julio Park / El Equipo Mazzanti + AEV Arquitectos

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Ciudadela 29 de Julio Park is part of a 9 centralities network within the Rehabilitation and Public Space Plan of Rio Manzanares waterfront in Santa Marta, Colombia. It looks forward to the hydrologic system of the city as well of its visualization and accessibility. Santa Marta has grown forming a lot of neighborhoods, most of them defined by invisible limits which has transcended in the belonging sense from the inhabitants. The project has been planned as a series of leisure and recreational spaces were the existence of physical and social limits are cloudy and the space can turn visible, clear and behaves as a central axis of the city, working as a sequence of central places for the community activities and meeting.

EAN University / Daniel Bonilla + Marcela Albornoz

Valentina Villa — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:00:00 +0000

EAN University, Classroom building is the result of a competition by invitation, where we propose to set up a university campus where the buildings are as important as the common open spaces. A place where students can meet, study or rest; a second home for education and fun.

8 International & 178 American Architects Named to AIA College of Fellows

Patrick Lynch — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 16:15:00 +0000

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has named 178 AIA members to be elevated to its prestigious College of Fellows, an honor awarded to members who have made “a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession.”

Nursing Faculty of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia / Leonardo Álvarez Yepes

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:00:00 +0000

History

MR House / H+H Arquitectos

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:00:00 +0000

Located in an exclusive neighborhood in the north of Bogota, this house was designed to have in a minimalist style incorporating responsible constructive solutions in order to preserve the environment. The exposed concrete and rusty steel are highlights in the project giving expressiveness both to the exterior and to the interior of the house.

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana School of Art / La Rotta Arquitectos

Florencia Mena — Sun, 28 Aug 2016 13:00:00 +0000

Art, the new face of academia to the city.

Marinilla Educational Park / El Equipo de Mazzanti

Florencia Mena — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0000

As well as the general form the materiality of the Marinilla Educational Park is perhaps what at first sight stands out the most because of the aluminum mesh that covers up all the building. The facades and the inferior and superior planes are solved with prefabricated panels of expanded mesh that are attached to the main structure of the building, making the assembly process quite simple.

用棱形建筑围成的哥伦比亚小学 / Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:00:00 +0000

该项目是一个综合的，宽阔的，自治的Anglo 哥伦比亚小学校。是一个纯粹功能的教育建筑，建筑体是由一些相同的体块(教室就是一个基本模块)叠加起来的，这样减少了整体尺寸的大小，并能设计出广泛而多样性的空间，建筑在体块和空隙之间交替变换，也为附近的景观创造出一些特别的价值。