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This small house which is organised in three different floors, makes an effort to combine the open familiar rooms with a good natural lighting in a small plot. The result, a beautiful japanese house really good integrate in the surroundings.,…
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House in Tamatsu. Image © Yohei Sasakura
It makes very easy to find the hometown of the author that we present, Lizzie Mary Cullen. This is just one of her many series of drawings entitled "London Psycho-geographies," which led her to exhibit internationally on the spot, in London, New…
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Tower Bridge, London. Illustration © Lizzie Mary Cullen
Today we have learnt the names of the awarded proposals of the International Gastronomic Center (IGC), the student contest developed by Arquideas with the objective of designing a gastronomic building in Brussels. The winners have managed to solve…
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Primer premio. IGC1068, Viktor Nilsson y Pierre Maccario. Imagen © cortesía de Arquideas
Once again we are talking about this project, AWP and HHF have given us more schemes and diagrams on the proposals, you can see all if you go to the exhibition of "In 2020, a new vision of public spaces" on La Défense, opened on 24 June and you can…
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Masterplan en el distrito financiero de La Défense, París. Cortesía de AWP-HHF
In an essay to Places Journal, adapted from his book "Corrections and Collections", Joe Day says: "After two centuries of incremental growth, the number of correctional facilities and museums in the United States tripled, from roughly 600 prisons…
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This is Gehry Partners entry, last summer, about the National Art Museum of China in Beijing ( architectural competition). , full_html
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Related Companies commissions Zaha Hadid Architects to design an 11-storey apartment block beside New York's popular High Line park at 520 West 28th Street. Related Companies is the most prominent privately-owned real estate firm in the United…
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Rendering - courtesy of Related Companies and Zaha Hadid Architects. (PRNewsFoto/Related Companies)
The plaza at the Seagram Building in New York, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958, was a litmus test of what an open space in the city could be. Raised three steps above the sidewalk along Park Avenue, the plaza is an oasis…
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Seagram Plaza. CCA Exhibition
"Adrift" is a love letter to the fog of the San Francisco Bay Area. I chased it for over two years to capture the magical interaction between the soft mist, the ridges of the California coast and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. This is where “Adrift…
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North Tower on fire.  Niebla de la mañana cubriendo el Puente Golden Gate, San Francisco, California. Por Simon Christen
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of ... wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes,…
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