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Casa do Pego / Pedro Ferreira Pinto
Architects: Pedro Ferreira Pinto Location: 7580-643 Comporta, Portugal Contractor: Tetrapod Area: 310.0 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: André Antunes From the architect. Casa do Pego is a stunning single...
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How Car-Dependent Towns are Adapting Compact Living Strategies
The challenge of converting a sea of parking lots, that so often riddles auto-dependent suburbs, is in densification. Architects are introducing compact urban living models to small towns all across...
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Tiny Houses: Downsizing The American Dream
Click here to view the embedded video. In the wake of the housing crisis and Recession, the “American Dream” of a super-sized home in the suburbs has lost its appeal; today, it’s the “tiny house” that...
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El Fabuloso / MEMA arquitectos
Architects: MEMA arquitectos Location: Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia Collaboration: Colette Studio Area: 420.0 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Mauricio Mendoza From the architect. El Fabuloso is one of the...
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“A House for Pink Floyd” Compeititon Entry / Arqbauraum
Pink Floyd, “considered to be one of the icons of revolutionary, progressive music,” was adept at using “sonic experiments and philosophical lyrics to cross social boundaries and redefine values.” The...
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BIM: Collaboration Via the Cloud
This article on Line/Shape/Space by Jeff Yoders discusses how BIM can be used to good effect by bringing different professionals together early on in a design project. By utilizing the shared BIM...
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GMT Mysłowice Win Competition to Design Poland’s Stadion Ruch Chorzów
The design for a new stadium for Ruch Chorzów, one of Poland‘s largest football clubs, has been unveiled. The winning proposal, designed by GMT Mysłowice, will have a capacity for 12,000 seats and,...
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The House of the Early Childhood / TOPOS ARCHITECTURE
Architects: TOPOS ARCHITECTURE Location: Mayenne, France Architect In Charge: Topos Architecture Area: 1300.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Jérôme BLIN Project Owner: Ville de Mayenne (City of Mayenne)...
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Gusswerk Extension / LP Architektur
Architects: LP Architektur Location: Salzburg, Austria Collaborators: Hobby a., CS-architektur, Strobl Architekten Area: 13,168 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: wortmeyer photography From the architect. In...
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Tobaco Hotel / EC-5
Architects: EC-5 Location: Lodz, Poland Architecture Project Team: Luiza Jodłowska, Martyna Nowak, Hanna Pietras, Piotr Płóciennik, Dorota Szafrańska Year: 2013 Photographs: Michał Mazurowicz From the...
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‘t Zand / OOK Architects
Architects: OOK Architects Location: Amersfoort, The Netherlands Architect In Charge: OOK Architects Design Team: Robin van Rossum, Martin Timmerman, Harro Rijneke Year: 2011 Photographs: Harro...
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Why Garden Cities Should Stay in the 20th Century
After the Wolfson Economics Prize announced a challenge to deliver new garden cities in the UK for the 21st Century, Feargus O’Sullivan of Atlantic Cities responds, calling the attempt to bring back...
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Mirador de los Dominicos House / Carreño Sartori Arquitectos
Architects: Carreño Sartori Arquitectos Location: Las Condes, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile Collaborators: Claudia Wagner Builder: Hector Fuentes. Constructora Los Benedictinos limitada....
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Qom Central Building of Construction Engineering Organization / Partar...
The design for the Qom Central Building of Construction Engineering Organization by Partar Architecture Studio began with “a key question that discussed the feasibility and impossibility of imagining...
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Fill out the Women In Architecture Survey
The Women in Architecture Survey, which is sponsored by UK magazine Architect’s Journal, is open to both men and women and aims to track the perceptions of gender equality in the workplace. It’s...
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TED Talk: Architecture at Home in its Community / Xavier Vilalta
Click here to view the embedded video. In this TED Talk, Xavier Vilalta of Xavier Vilalta Arquitectura walks through the design of two projects: a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,...
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House in Oiso / Atelier HAKO Architects
Architects: Atelier HAKO Architects Location: Oiso, Naka District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Architect In Charge: Yukinobu Nanashima, Tomomi Sano Structural Engineer: Shin’itsu Hiraoka, Hiraoka...
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South Durras House / Fearns Studio
Architects: Fearns Studio Location: South Durras, Australia Project Team: Matt Fearns Builder: RJ & JA Mates, Builders Structural Engineer: Andrew Derbidge – Partridge Partners Area: 219.8 sqm...
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Rok Oman, Principal of OFIS Architects, to Give “Architour” Lecture in Shanghai
As part of the CA Group’s lecture series, “Architour,” principal of OFIS architects, Rok Oman, will lecture on December 7th at the Tongji Architectural Design Co. in Shanghai. For 2013 through 2015,...
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Arena Pernambuco / Fernandes Arquitetos Associados
Architects: Fernandes Arquitetos Associados Location: Itaipava Arena Pernambuco – BR 408, São Lourenço da Mata – Pernambuco, Brasil Architect In Charge: Daniel Hopf Fernandes Year: 2013 Photographs:...
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