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Herzog & de Meuron associated with Favre & Guth, have won the competition for the design of the new headquarters of Lombard Odier, in the municipality of Bellevue, north of Geneva, in Switzerland. The building will host one of the largest…
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Headquarters of Lombard Odier: lots of nature around the banking center by Herzog & de Meuron
The exploration process that leads to the design of innovative products often wends its way down unexplored paths on the boundary between the Possible and the Impossible. , full_html
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Chiara Luzzana. Image courtesy of Alessi
The architect Sou Fujimoto and Belgian studio AWAA teamed up to design this mixed-use tower complex on the outskirts of Brussels, which will comprise a scooped roof and facade covered in tree-lined balconies. , full_html
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Sou Fujimoto and AWAA win Brussels housing contest
Manifesta 12 will co-inhabit Palermo as a laboratory to investigate the challenges of our time and look for traces of possible futures. , full_html
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Veduta di Palermo, Francesco Lojacono, 1875. Palermo Atlas. Image Courtesy of OMA
Argentinian architect Luciano Kruk has built a concrete residence on the near to Buenos Aires, of area 142 square metres (1,528 square feet). Outside the volumen has a concrete canopy and a small pool along its front., full_html
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Mach House by Luciano Kruk. Photograph © Daniela Mac Adden
The winners were just announced in the latest edition of Europan 14 and again a great result of the Spanish participants, with 34 teams awarded in different locations throughout Europe. 19 Prizes in Spain, 15 Prizes in other participating countries…
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Winners of Europan 14. "Productive Cities"
The house is located in a pine forest in Rocafort, Valencia. The work of Ramón Esteve's studio in this project contrasts the verticality of the pines that form the forest with the horizontality of the planes that makes the house and mimics with the…
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Casa en la Pinada por Ramón Esteve. El jardín del Mediterráneo. Fotografía © Mariela Apollonio
The architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas analyzes the existing connectivity between different parts of the globethanks to the new technologies. He highlights that in some cases this connectivity, despite our current high ability to communicate, has…
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Countryside: Future of the World, a collaboration between the Guggenheim and AMO / Rem Koolhaas, examines radical changes transforming the nonurban landscape and culminates in an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, opening fall 2019. Photograph © Pieternel van Velden (Koppert Cress, The Netherlands 2011)
The firm Atelier Général has created a black residence in the countryside in Quebec, with a main living room supported by slender columns to form a car port underneath. , full_html
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A collective housing building for a plot with a narrow front on a busy street in the city of Santiago. The project proposes longitudinal apartments with a central courtyard that generates an internal coexistence. , full_html
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La Juliana Building by Ipiña + Nieto Architects. Photograph © Pablo Casals Aguirre