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Brunswick House / Placement

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:00:00 +0000

The client had lived in the existing home for almost a decade and was settled on the general ‘feel’ of the house, as well as the size of the existing garden, which meant minimising how much the extension ate into the backyard. Having lived in the house through his mid-20s to mid-30s, it had slowly become more of an adult home over the years. What our client valued about the home was that it felt homely and was not pretentious – it maintained a sense of warmth, which was something he wanted to preserve in the extension.

Moonshine Retrofit House / Invisible Studio

Andreas Luco — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Moonshine is a house built in 1786 near Bath, UK, that was originally a schoolhouse for a large country house nearby, and extended originally in 2002 by Invisible Studio as one of the practice’s first buildings. Practice principal Piers Taylor has lived in the house with his family since 2002, and in the intervening period built various other projects including the practice’s studio in the 100 acre woodland that surrounds the house and which Taylor manages alongside practice.

Bahia Rodin Museum / Brasil Arquitetura

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:00:00 +0000

Creating the first affiliate out of France of the Rodin Museum in Salvador, state of Bahia, required meeting a number of prerequisites. The first was to find a site with cultural relevance to the city and that met all the technical requirements to house about seventy original plaster pieces, part of the collection of the Museum in Paris.

AD Classics: Austrian Cultural Forum / Raimund Abraham

David Langdon — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published on May 25, 2015. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Before the impossibly “super-thin” tower became ubiquitous on the Midtown Manhattan skyline, Raimund Abraham’s Austrian Cultural Forum challenged the limits of what could be built on the slenderest of urban lots. Working with a footprint no bigger than a townhouse (indeed, one occupied the site before the present tower), Abraham erected a daring twenty-four story high-rise only twenty-five feet across. Instantly recognizable by its profile, a symmetrical, blade-like curtain wall cascading violently toward the sidewalk, ACFNY was heralded by Kenneth Frampton as “the most significant modern piece of architecture to be realized in Manhattan since the Seagram Building and the Guggenheim Museum of 1959.” [1]

AD Classics: Bergisel Ski Jump / Zaha Hadid Architects

Luke Fiederer — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 22:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published on May 9, 2016. To read the stories behind other celebrated architecture projects, visit our AD Classics section.

Situated on the peak of Bergisel Mountain above the picturesque alpine city of Innsbruck, Austria, the Bergisel Ski Jump represents the contemporary incarnation of a historic landmark. Designed by Zaha Hadid between 1999 and 2002, the Ski Jump is a study in formal expression: its sweeping lines and minimalist aesthetic create a sense of graceful, high-speed motion, reflecting the dynamic sensation of a ski jump in a monumental structure that stands above the historic center of Innsbruck and the mountain slopes around.

AD Classics: Yokohama International Passenger Terminal / Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

David Langdon — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

This article was originally published on ArchDaily in 2014.

Supermarket Metamorphism / archinauten

Rayen Sagredo — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 22:00:00 +0000

A dull, concrete box is transformed into an attractive, modern supermarket. a change of ownership of the local supermarket in the street johann-wilhelm-klein-straße in linz provided an opportunity to redesign the building. The appearance of the market was not only renovated, but also clearly revitalized and harmonized with the corporate design of SPAR, the new owner. we chose the translucent casing as a simple, economical and, not least of all, “honest” way of imbuing the given cement box with a certain charm and expressiveness. The facade, composed of building-high profile glass elements, stands on a robust teel console – which also serves as impact protection – on the three visible sides of the building. the original structure remains vaguely visible behind this.

Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering / Grafton Architects

Rayen Sagredo — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:00:00 +0000

This is the second extension we have completed to this Department, the first being in 1996, which addresses the campus and is attached to the existing Parsons building which houses the Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering.

Headquarter System Industrie Electronic / Marte.Marte Architects

Antonia Cayupe — Fri, 26 May 2017 01:00:00 +0000

One of the key factors of sie’s success is a flat hierarchy. This is particularly true of the relationship between development [management] and production. The design of the project responds to the unbiased position aspired to by the individual divisions of the company with a neutral, vertical stratification.

House in Aldeia da Serra / MMBB Arquitetos + SPBR Arquitetos

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 11:00:00 +0000

The site’s topography has a 20% slope, which means exactly 8 m difference between lowest and highest points. A 16 m square-shaped house was spotted in a single store above the inclined topography. In such a way that it results in two equal additional useful spaces: under and over it, like a yard in the shadow and another one in the sun, places to stay outdoor either in a rainy or a sunny day. Due to the slope, from any of the three levels we can always reach the ground at the same level, even on the roof we can cross a bridge and find the ground level again.

Rokkatei Makomanai Hall / Furuichi and Associates

Cristobal Rojas — Sun, 29 May 2016 20:00:00 +0000

This architecture possesses two functions: a confectionary shop and a concert hall. Both exterior and interior can change their atmosphere according to the two different functions as well as acoustics. In other words, this architecture has a “double face”. Also the client wanted use wood for the interior design to enhance the image of the shop, since Hokkaido is a leading forestry area.

Centro Cultural Caixa Forum Barcelona / Arata Isozaki

Cristian Aguilar — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 05:00:00 +0000

As part of the restoration of the old Fábrica Casaramona, as Centro Cultural de “La Fundació La Caixa”, a project, which consists of the design of a courtyard with access to the main entrance, has been realized. It is situated in the basement level and is of a public character.

ING House / MVSA Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The ING Group’s head office stands on a long, narrow site beside the southern section of Amsterdam’s A10 ring road. Bounded on one side by the South Axis business district and on the other by the green zone around the Nieuwe Meer (New Lake), the building maintains a low profile on the side facing the greenery, with a cantilevered section occupied by the auditorium, and rises up on the city side.

Carton LeVert / MacGabhann Architects

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This project consists of a timber box and concrete block, and is concerned with the idea of using conventional material while building on a scenic site in a rural setting. The clients who were living in Dublin decided to invest in building a house in Donegal. At the time they were not sure if they were going to move permanently to the county, or use the house as holiday accommodation. The brideg asked for a design which was flexible enough to accommodate; (a) a house with 2/3 bedrooms, or (b) two holiday apartments contained under the one roof, or (c) a house with attached studio.

Ponte de Lima Municipal Market / Guedes Cruz Arquitectos

Cristian Aguilar — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

When Ponte de Lima Municipal Market was built in 1927 it was the cause of public discussions concerning the pros and cons of its location, although no negative remarks seem to have been made about its elegant design. 70 years later we can still see its somewhat domineering relationship, from the height of its granite base, with the city centre and the avenue of plane trees.

Swimming Pool Prototype in La Coruña / Francisco Mangado

Karen Valenzuela — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:00:00 +0000

To provide the small rural sites of the area with sport facilities, the authorities called an architectural competition for a prototype that could be reproduced on minimal budgets in different municipalities.

Youth Centre in Montefrio / Ramón Fernández-Alonso

Cristian Aguilar — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Desert Plaza In Barakaldo / NO.MAD

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Something is born, something dies... but people remember a primitive place, evening fires, steel in the air, sleepers and rails, black coal and dark water everything flows, and the memory of that strange amalgam struggles to survive in the recollection of the landscape and men build once more, mad architects, homeless nomads, exciting places for the sedentary written on the ground distributing the discovered material uniformly across the new plaza recognising the reality of conditions that may affect their transformation and letting the definitive redistribution emerge on its own as the fruition of the process in a place wherein resides the memory of the steel alquemists, the boatbuilders, the land tillers, with all the components of that crucible amalgamated for the public steel and stone, wood and rich soil, all dead long ago, now revive, mixed together in small transitable spaces apt for discovery of frolic, intimate or collective in which one can just look or listen, or perhaps try to speak once more with an alternative topography a geography for pocketing the surrounding landscape and a flat estuary that vibrates with the mountains it envies.