As a result of a series of contests promoted by the Town hall of Huelva for the arrangement of a series of free spaces of the City. Appears this project which poses to value the archeological patrimony of the city, ordering a space which will enhance the image from the new highway access and at [...]
IFAC (International Festival of Art & Construction) is organizing the festival of art and construction “IFAC 2012″ for next summer. + About IFAC It is an initiative of the nonprofit association “self-sufficent movement” which seeks to promote the philosophy of self-sufficiency in society, invest aggressive consumer trends, encourage and disseminate self-sufficient practices, investigate and explore [...]
Masquespacio has completed the Lexington Avenue Agency interior project. + Design statement by Masquespacio When our client contacted us he explained us he wanted to create a new model agency with the name Lexington Avenue Agency in our city, Valencia, with an urban but sofisticated image. Esto combinado con mobiliario blanco de oficina y un [...]
spaceworkers® designed the 08EMP stadium in Mouriz, Paredes. Countering a trend of the current stadium, enclosing its green area inside, was what motivated us in finding this solution. The idea of “giving back” an acre of green space to the town was the main motto for this project. A solid block, which levitates into the [...]
It is a very honest and plain building, a wysiwyg building. Due to the small size of the building, it provides an image of unity and compactness of the material. David Oliva + Elisenda Planas El Bruc Residential, is located just outside the old town centre of El Bruc. It is a new public building [...]
Frank Plant is a Barcelona based American sculptor. He studied sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After finishing his B.A. in fine arts in 1993 he moved to Amsterdam and during this period he began to develop his drawings in steel. These are simple and direct studies of the forms and [...]
Spanish architectural firm YLAB arquitectos has completed the Loft in Poble Nou, Barcelona. The project consists of the interior renovation of a 100m2 apartment with a big terrace in an old building in the heart of a traditional neighbourhood of Barcelona. The house has a very deep and narrow floor plan and only two facades [...]
In December 2010, a French Architecture and Landscape office Oglo‘s La Muñeca project were selected by the Municipality of Allariz, Spain, to be built for the 2011 Allariz Garden Festival with the theme ” Fashion in the garden”, regarding the industrial textile past of this old village of Galicia. The garden just opened to public [...]
AQSO arquitectos office has recently completed the Zurbarán Clinic. This clinic is located in the mezzanine of a residential building near the Castellana Avenue, in the heart of Madrid. The space is indirectly illuminated through several generous patios and the homogeneous zenith light is intensified by the white atmosphere of the health center. The arrangement [...]
The programme of requirements includes a terminal building, a control tower, and two spaces for storages. Given their size, none of these elements were obvious candidates to represent a new airport. The strategy pursued therefore seeked to link the three programmes by means of a common visual element that avoids the impression that a strange [...]
Last week, Lamp Lighting Awards 2011 for ARCHITECTURAL EXTERIOR LIGHTING has been awarded to Gran Casino Costa Brava. (Please click here to the award page) the use of light as a projective tool, another element of architecture both in its natural and artificial angle that is effectively integrated in the structure itself and generates threedimensionality [...]
Spanish architect Jesús Torres García recently has completed the Lorca’s Square located in Salobreña, Spain. + Architect’s statement by Jesús Torres García Spanish “LOW-TECH”*1 It was the first week of April in 2009, the journal EL PAÍS had a strange headline: “The capitalism has become a corpse”, it was Santiago Niño Becerra, IQS’s Professor, in [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
