Month: August 2020

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House in Clavadel / Krähenbühl Architekten Studio

August 29, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The building is an important witness to the history of development within the landscape of Davos, especially for Clavadel. When the Walsers came to the valley at the time, they founded the first settlement and thus brought their way of building with them, the solid-timber log house. Much later, the Davos landscape, with its guesthouses, spa businesses, and, lastly, sanatoriums, took a further step in its development as a settlement, upon which the present-day city of Davos is founded.

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Studio PKA turns heritage building in Mumbai into own architects’ studio

August 29, 2020 India Block 0

Architecture firm Studio PKA has transformed part of a disused 100-year-old building in Mumbai into its own contemporary office space. Called The Loft, the adaptive reuse project focused on the fourth floor of a Victorian-era warehouse in the city’s South Bombay, an art district nicknamed SoBo. The architecture studio gently “peeled away” decades worth of

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Eeetwell Restaurant / WeWantMore

August 29, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

Eeetwell serves healthy, locally sourced food with a large portion of awareness on the side. With one-euro-burgers and fully stacked supermarkets, it’s easy to forget where your food comes from. Let alone the impact it has. Eeetwell is set on changing that.

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Nine examples of spherical architecture from around the globe

August 29, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Foster + Partners’ new Apple Store in Singapore is the latest example of the trend for spherical buildings. Here are nine recent globe-shaped examples. Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan, by OMA A spherical structure described as “a suspended planet docking with the cube” that contains an auditorium is the most prominent feature of the Taipei Performing

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Brazilian Interiors: 19 Architecture Projects Featuring Exposed Bricks

August 29, 2020 Julia Daudén 0

Keeping the materials in their natural and raw form in the projects seems to be more and more popular in contemporary architecture. The modern style legacy of keeping the construction elements visible not only establishes a frank relationship between the user and the built environment but also allows for a more diverse material palette and can be a very important tool when designing interiors. Brick is perhaps the most popular material in this context. Nowadays, people use the term exposed brick “finishing”, which gives the concept of exposed materials a whole new meaning, namely ornamental, sometimes even replicated as wallpaper or merely decorative tiles.

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Footbridge of the High Speed Train Station Saint Laud / Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes

August 29, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

Angers is the capital of the departments of Maine-et-Loire, in the west of France. The city of 153,000 inhabitants is located about 100 km north-east of Nantes and 300 km from Paris. Angers Saint-Laud railway station is a major transport hub in the city centre. A TGV train to Paris stops there 13 times a day, traveling the distance in 1.45 hours. There are about 40 trains a day to Nantes. The station is located rue Auguste Gautier to the north of the railway line, rue Fulton passes to the south of it. In the area of the station, the bundles of rails are about 70 metres wide and cut a deep corridor running towards the city. The old reinforced concrete pedestrian bridge, which crossed directly over the tracks, was badly damaged.