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Emilio Tuñón Arquitectos. photos: Luis Asín © Emilio Tuñón Arquitectos
Located in Cáceres, the house is a simple prismatic volumen with a square floor plan of 16-meter sides, and each of the four facades is perforated by three Windows. The stretches of wall have been constructed with local quartzite stone, and the windows are framed with Extremadura granite of warm tones. Continue reading 11 Tuñón Arquitectos
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Aires Mateus . photos: © João Guimarães
The house is located on a ridge above the Lisbon estuary. It faces the Estrela Basilica on one side, and the river on the other. The house, with an extensive brief, requires the use of two circuits: one interior and the other exterior, alternating in order to facilitate the independence of the parents’ and their children’s lives. The house revives the form of a traditional streetfront house, in this case entirely in face concrete, both inside and outside. Thus, it opens up via the relationship between its constituent spaces. Continue reading 12 Aires Mateus
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The Norra Tornen project started with two inherited building envelopes, the remains of a cancelled project initiated by the former city architect Aleksander Wolodarski. Each a kind of ‘crescendo’ composition of different heights – neither slab nor tower – prohibit the unfolding of an uncompromised typology. Conversely, the opted program, apartments with an emphasis on large outdoor spaces, prevented too literal a translation of the envelopes into architectural form. Continue reading 13 OMA
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Eduardo Souto De Moura . photos: © Luís Ferreira Alves . + BUILDING VIEWS
BUILDING VIEWS releases some images of Senhora da Luz. Continue reading 14 Souto De Moura
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LAN architecture . + archdaily
LAN, in association with CVA and the landscape architect Topotek, has just completed plot B, a highlight of the Grand Paris project, for a total of 900 residences, serving 1,082 students. Spanning two Urban Development Zones, the École Polytechnique district and the Moulon district, this large-scale campus represents the pinnacle of national higher education and research, and is one of the greatest student residences ever created in France. Continue reading 15 LAN
