FREE City is an urban prototype for building new cities in emerging economies of the XXI century designed by FREE (Mexico). The prototype utilizes the benefits of radial scheme ,and the design recalls other historical prototypes as the Garden…
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Render. FREE City by Fernando Romero
As we all know the Venice Biennale ends next weekend, to mark its closure, the stewards and participants of the Spanish Pavilion SPAINLAB, closing with event entitled "Innovation in Architecture" which will feature Martha Thorne as moderator. ,…
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Desenfreno collective presents a project in the FIB Art 2012. I remember that I discovered FIB because one of its directors, José Luis Paulete, showed us a few years ago his first works of sculpture. The project has continued to grow and the quality…
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Valla Faro (Fence Lighthouse) by Colectivo Desenfreno. Photography courtesy of authors
It just gave out awards this year ASCER Ceramics, where two schools stand to the top positions in architecture and interior design. The Hotel School in Matadero, in Medina Sidonia, first prize in the category of Architecture, the School of Education…
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Premios Cerámica ASCER 2012
In the centre of a town near Barcelona and in a location initially occupied by orchards, two sisters with their respective families have built two semidetached house. We present today the project, conducted by Jordi Oriol Calbetó and vain. ,…
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Kent Larson presents "Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city" a video that shows us how we have occupied the territory and the need now arises to develop new housing areas or considering the little space disposal. This has led to the…
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"Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city" by Kent Larson
Already known results Schelling Architecture Prizes 2012. On 14th November 2012, there were no losers. With the new selection procedure that the Schelling Architecture Foundation had used for the first time in its 20 year history, the questions…
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Poster. Schelling Architecture Prize 2012
Today we present the last project of Carlos Arroyo, the Academie MWD. The building mediates between three contradictory situations (monumentality, nature and suburban domesticity) through delicate strategies that play with our perceptions: a façade…
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One of the hardest hit areas, by Sandy, New York, has a good news these days with the opening of its new museum. The project for the new Parrish Art Museum, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, on the island of Long Island New York,…
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Overview. Parrish Art Museum by Herzog & de Meuron. Photography © Matthu Placek
In 1967, a small hotel, Hotel Castell dels Hams, was established on the island of Majorca amid the Mediterranean vegetation. Over time, and through subtle improvements and extensions, it has become one of the most distinctive hotels on the eastern…
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