Quinta Gaby / Taller Tlaiye
Quinta Gaby (QG) is a single-family residence built using rammed earth, a thousand-year old technique which consists of building solid walls by tamping layers of damp earth inside a wooden formwork.
Month: August 2018
Stijn Poelstra photographs Mondrian-esque elements of the Rietveld Schröder House
Photographer Stijn Poelstra has captured the abstract proportions and primary colours of a Gerrit Rietveld-designed Schröder House in Utrecht. Deemed a UNESCO World Heritage site, the house in the Netherlands was designed by the Dutch furniture designer and architect in 1924. Poelstra’s photo series has been released by the Centraal Museum to publicise a new
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Renzo Piano Donates New Genoa Bridge Designs following Disaster
Renzo Piano has offered to donate the design of a bridge to replace the one which tragically collapsed in Genoa on 14th August. Piano, who was born in Genoa, said he has been deeply affected by the tragedy which claimed the lives of 43 people.
Medical Technology Career Building PUCV University / Juan Pavez Aguilar y José Requesens Aldea.
A four floor building made by three rectangular units of 9 m x 25 m, which have the technical program of the career and they are connected by a transverse hall made of crystal with a balcony design in the circulations and the common area of the building over Curcuma’s Building of PUCV; also allowing a greater incorporation of natural light to the spaces for increasing the habitability comfort and energy saving. These three units are supported on a plinth floor that makes a big interior roofed yard for the students and at the same time, on the upper floor they offer terraces
framed by the three units.
Renzo Piano volunteers to design “beautiful” new bridge for Genoa
Italian architect Renzo Piano has offered to design a structure to replace the collapsed Ponte Morandi bridge in his hometown of Genoa. Piano told the Observer magazine it was too early to talk about the particulars of the new design, but that the new bridge must stand as a both a memorial and an embodiment of a
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thier + curran architects’ retirement dwelling in ontario is clad in black corrugated metal
rather than one large structure, the house comprises a series of contemporary ‘sheds’ set within the wooded landscape.
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Napoli Afragola Station / Zaha Hadid Architects
The new rail station at Napoli Afragola is designed as one of southern Italy’s key interchange stations serving four high speed inter-city lines, three inter-regional lines and a local commuter line.
Forest House / Besonias Almeida Arquitectos
The Place
Costa Esmeralda is a private enterprise on the dunes of the Buenos Aires coast, located 390 km from Buenos Aires. It is a recent urbanization with a young afforestation of acacia trees and maritime pines and some sectors of consolidated forest. The site, with an extensive forty-five-meter front, belongs to the latter sector, so that the house had to incorporate this privileged landscape, while at the same time protecting its privacy towards the street. It was also necessary to consider that the dune it is part of has a slope of almost two meters overlooking the front and that, although its surroundings have a dense grove of trees, the land is only partially
covered with species.
architect chu văn đông builds a second ‘forest house’ in northern vietnam
the project’s second installment sees a home built with a focus on sustaining the surrounding vegetation.
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architect chu văn đông builds a second ‘forest house’ in northern vietnam
the project’s second installment sees a home built with a focus on sustaining the surrounding vegetation.
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