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bernardo bader

Reichshof Stadium . Lustenau

bernardo bader architekten . Walter Angonese . Sigurd Flora . photos: © Adolf Bereuter

A new stadium for Lustenau. Located in the Rhine Valley on the Austrian/Swiss border directly by the river Rhine – made of wood where feasible – while the south stands are to be retained and integrated. These were the requirements and the contextual conditions for a new stadium. These conditions were also the starting point for the concept and the methods chosen to execute the project. To design a new soccer stadium accommodating ca. 7000 spectators that also creates a strong visual pull requires more than meeting the above conditions. Continue reading bernardo bader

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Álvaro Gor

Bobadilla house . Granada

Álvaro Gor Gómez . photos: © Juanan Barros

A dwelling on the threshold between Granada and its fertile plain
Bobadilla House is conceived as a territorial project that transcends the domestic scale to become an architectural reflection on landscape, history, and contemporary ways of life.

Located on the fuzzy edge where the city progressively dissolves into agricultural territory, the house assumes a strategic and symbolic position. This place of transition—neither fully urban nor strictly rural—condenses many of the tensions that have defined the recent evolution of Granada and its plain: urban expansion, the fragmentation of productive land, and the loss of landscape continuity. In response, Bobadilla House proposes an architecture that does not impose itself, but rather dialogues, interprets, and integrates. Continue reading Álvaro Gor

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Rolf Mühlethaler

Schwandihof | Conversion of a listed ensemble . Stettlen

Rolf Mühlethaler Architects . Photos: © Seraina Wirz

Three almost 200-year-old buildings make up the group of farms on Schwandiweg in Worblental. Their gables each face south-west. Gardens and open spaces stretch out between them. All of the buildings are constructed from sandstone on the ground floor and timber-framed construction on the upper floors. Nine flats, a day-care centre and numerous intermediate and outdoor spaces have been carefully renovated and made habitable and tangible. Continue reading Rolf Mühlethaler