Established 120 years ago, Paris Tech Higher School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry has been awarded in several occasions with the Nobel Prize. Now it undergoes its restructuring and extension which seeks to update its premises, currently out of…
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All Milan is turned upside down these days. The Milanese are torn between the typical comments, Italian style, ranging from "this is a disaster", or about their always reviled political class and "the impact their actions will have on the Expo" to "…
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Nueva Sede de la Fundación Prada, Milán. Fotografía © José Juan BarbaNew Prada Foundation complex, Milan. Photograph © José Juan Barba
This old barn is placed in the region of Uckermark, Germany. After being sold it was divided into two independent houses and now one of them has been transformed into a summer house. , full_html
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View of the great hall. Transformation of a barn into a summer house by Thomas Kröger. Photography © Thomas Heimann
This project by Cumulus Studio has transformed, after more than twenty years unused, two art-déco buildings constructed in the 1940s into a wilderness retreat inside the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. , full_html
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The studio Enguita & Lasso de la Vega presents the project of a compositor’s music studio. The project is the extension of a house, which consists in a succession of volumes related in a “climber boxes” way. , full_html
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Exterior view. Music studio for a composer by Enguita & Lasso de la Vega, Madrid, Spain. Photography © Germán Saiz
To obtain that a bland and without character courtyard, located in a small village in Valladolid, achieve real architectural value, never is easy. It is not what happened with this project realized by Óscar Ares Álvarez´s study, which we leave you…
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Corner detail. Courtyard in Santibañez by Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez. Photograph © Jesús J. Ruiz Alonso
The project is a renovation of Washington D.C.'s central library, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, a national landmark in USA, that has been neglected for far too long.

With hopes to transform the space into "a center for…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library Renovation.  Image © Mecanoo, Martinez + Johnson Architecture
To rehabilitate a former store, darkly, without windows or openings, it is never an easy work, even less, if the aim is to obtain an opened and luminous space, with indoor greenery wich receives at the same time offices and a cafe. In this context…
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Imagen del espacio de cafetería. Blue Bottle Coffee Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Roastery & Cafe por Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects. Fotografía © Takumi Ota
Four years after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan, in 2011, we take a look at new building completed under the Home-for-All program started by architect Toyo Ito in response to the disaster. , full_html
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Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA: Home-for-All in Tsukihama, Miyatojima. Image courtesy of Home-for-All
Page\Park Architects have been announced as winner of a competition to restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art (GSA). , full_html
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Glasgow School of Art, before the fire. Image © Alan McAteer. Image cortesy via GSA