“Living Around a Court” is the recently project by Spanish architect Julio Barreno in Ubrique, Cadiz, Spain. Designed with the goal of keeping the traditional typology of  Ubrique city, it was restored from a traditional patio house, and fully utilized the advantage of internal court where to maximize the penetration of natural daylighting into the [...]

A young architecture office AR Arquitetos recently has completed the Cube House in São Paulo Brazil. The house is a small cube of 6X6X6m in a very tiny urban plot. It was designed with a goal of maximizing the area, physically and visually both the internal and external spaces were merged, allowing maximum use of [...]

Milan-based architectural studio Piuarch has designed the New D&G Headquarters located in Milan, Italy. The facades of the building housing the showrooms are entirely glazed and feature a series of vertical, closely spaced louvers of opal glass. This membrane, made of glass, acts as a filter, softly diffusing the daylight through the building and serving at [...]

Spanish architect Jordi Badia, founder of BAAS architects has designed the Can Framis Museum located in the 22@ District, Barcelona. The project consists in restoring the two current factory buildings which are connected by a new linear block. A new courtyard therefore is formed to define an entry plaza to the project. With “Can Framis” we [...]

American architect Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has designed the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center located in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. The center was organized as an U-shape to form a central courtyard, the roof tilts upward and away from the courtyard, its jagged edges celebrating the peaks of the Teton Range beyond. + Project description [...]

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the Jesolo Magica shopping mall and office complex located in town of Jesolo, Italy. The project was divided into two zones that situated half way between Jesolo town center and waterfront. + Project description This year, ZAHA HADID is the leading guest architect for “Barbara Cappochin” International Biennial of Architecture with a [...]

Brininstool + Lynch has designed the Claremont House located in Chicago, Illinois. Due to its long lot site, the house was designed with the full width of window walls at both front and back sides of the house to maximize the penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces, and also to create a [...]

Gentofte Hospital Extension in Gentofte has been inaugurated in 22nd October 2009, it was a winning competition project designed by C. F. Møller Architects to extend the hospital by inserting a new, modern core in the original eight-shaped complex. By placing the new buildings as the logistical heart in the middle of the figure-eight layout, Gentofte [...]

Los Angeles-based Predock Frane architects has designed the Twin Houses located in the Palisades, a hilly region between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains. The project consists of two twin houses sited adjacent to each other on a steep slope above a seasonal watershed. In this project we were interested in exploring the intersection [...]

Palazzo Grossi,  is the recent completed project by Italian architectural firm HOF for the new head office for the Municipality of Perugia in a former school building. + Project description courtesy of  HOF Design The project of the conversion of a former school building in the historical city centre of Perugia into the new head office of [...]

Argentina-based Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos has designed the Mine Hotel Boutique located in Argentina. + Project description courtesy of Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos The job assignment for this Boutique Hotel started off from the search of the location where the architecture and decoration project would be settled. The building is located on a quite unusual site in [...]

Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleó have completed a social housing project – Celosia Residence in Madrid, Spain. The large housing block is divided into 30 small staggered blocks of apartments to create the wide openings for communal patios throughout the building. + Project description courtesy of MVRDV MVRDV with Blanca Lleó [...]

Spanish architect  Alberto Campo Baeza has designed the Andalucia’s Museum of Memory located in Granada. A very good attempt of creating the interesting spatial experience through an elliptic central court which is designed to connect 3 levels spaces via the featured circular ramp. The new building, silent in its forms, is resounding in its elements to [...]

Distrito C, Telefónica’s Headquarters is a largest European corporate project designed by Spanish practice Rafael de La-Hoz Architects. Distrito C also represents the first private open European space. The campus is open 24 hours a day, all year long, for anyone to visit… Conceptually, an environmental canopy or roof is laid out between these cubes, to [...]