The environs of Andeer are beautiful: mountains, rivers, meadows, and forests. So is the well-preserved village. As if time had stood still. Quiet and peaceful, if it weren’t for the A13, the motorway that connects the village with Chur to the north and, via the San Bernardino, to the canton of Ticino and Italy to the south. Continue reading Herzog & de Meuron
Sergison Bates architects . photos: © David Grandorge . + baunetz
This project is a composition of two complimentary apartment buildings that share a material language of brick and precast concrete. Their respective forms create a variety of apartment sizes, arrangements of rooms and orientations of openings. Continue reading Sergison Bates
Izaskun Chinchilla Architects . photos: © David Frutos
Before our intervention, the place provided service as a tourist information center and the redesign project has made this use compatible with the introduction of a store of products typical from Madrid and manufactured in Madrid!. The new elements introduced in the space are related to the iconography and culture of Madrid, preventing the place from having an abstract appearance that could be associated with any chic design store of any other European city. For this reason, we have taken inspiration from elements in icons that are part or have been part of the city of Madrid and that have had an important influence, more or less known, in the construction of the identity of the city and , in particular, in the construction of the culture of encounter, social interaction, creativity and design as aspects that seek to be celebrated in this shop. These include the corralas, the barquillero stalls, the violet candies, the Glass dome of the Palace Hotel or the manton de Manila. Continue reading Izaskun Chinchilla
Tato Architects . photos: © Shinkenchiku Sha . + dezeen
House in Osaka by Tato Architects with 16 different floor levels. Continue reading Tato Architects
atelier tom vanhee . photos: © Tim Van de Velde
A former textile factory is transformed into tiny house. we keep the traces of the several renovations in the past and we ad a new layer to the building. The characteristic existing concrete floor with visible steel structure is renovated and is the finishing floor of the living space. We kept the existing wooden roof structure with steel purlins visible. They are supporting a new industrial sarking roof. We isolated also all the walls and floors. The existing windowopenings get new windows. A big window on the head of the building opens the living space with a nice view on the street. It brings a relation to the street without compromising the privacy. Continue reading Tom Vanhee
