Architects: Peter Zumthor, with Marc Loeliger, Thomas Durisch and Rainer Weitschies Location: Graubunden Canton, Switzerland Project completed: 1996 THE THERME VALS BUILDING Built over the only thermal springs in the Graubunden Canton in Switzerland, The Therme Vals is a hotel and spa in one which combines a complete sensory experience designed by Peter Zumthor. ONE OF THE INDOOR POOLS Peter Zum..
Lightwall Cirie, Turin, Italy ecoLogicStudio The concept of lightwall reinterpret the traditional massive Italian wall as a thick solid sponge, whose ability to absorb and filter heat, light and view can be changed and adapted to contextual requirements. In a large villa conversion project sun, light and privacy conditions where mapped on the site and a wall solution of pre-cast concrete insulat..
Architect: Camilo Restrepo Arquitectos Location: Madellin, Colombia Collaborators: Juliana Montoya, Lucio Luque, Diana Rodriguez, Jorge Buitrago Constructed Area: 700 sqm Contractor: Juan Carlos Tabares, German Zapata, Juan Gonzalo Sanin Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2008 Photographs: Camilo Restrepo 7 considerations for a house on the andes tropic 1. on the placement The house swims thr..
Architects: Dellekamp arquitectos / Derek Dellekamp Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leader: Ignacio Mendez Project team: Jachen Schleich, Pedro Sanchez, Paulina Goycolea Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox Concept * A container that holds every..
Architecture photographer Iwan Baan just shared with us a photo set of the latest Herzog & de Meuron building in Spain, the Espacio de las Artes at Santa Cruz, Tenerife. Another H&dM building for Spain, after the Caixa Forum (Madrid) and the Forum building (Barcelona). With over 20,622 sqm, the building includes a public library, a contemporary art museum, the Photography Centre of the Tenerife ..
Architects: Rintala Eggertsson Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,170 sqm SITUATION The landscape of the Ordos plateau in Inner Mongolia is wide and open, characterized by dunes of sand and low vegetation. The climate is stable and d..
Architects: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza Location: Oaxtepec, Mexico Design team: Carlos Rubio Martinez Project Year: 2007 Furniture: Gandiablasco By Designet Art: Victor Reyes Sculptures: Alfonso Magana Photographs: Paul Czitrom This house is located in a residential area of Oaxtepec, a place of exceptional natural beauty. It is contiguous to the north with the hill of Tepozteco and to the south ..
Arons & Gelauff Architects - Dormitory, Enschede (Copyright Jeroen Musch) Arons & Gelauff Architects send me photographs of their recently finished dormitory building in Enschede, a city in the east of the Netherlands. One of the sides of the nine story building features a climbing wall. According to the architect it is the second highest one in the Netherlands. The addition of the climbing wall..
Architects: Buscando la Aurora - Carlos Coronel + Héctor de la Peña Location: Malinalco, Mexico Project Year: 2007-2008 Site Area: 1,000 sqm Constructed Area: 400 sqm Photographs: Buscando la Aurora In the middle of a gorgeous GolfClub in Malinalco-Mexico, it is possible to discover a quiet composition of geometric “objects” with white estuco an mexican-teja roof cover. Those geometric “objects”..
on display at the michael hoppen gallery, london is 'house' by rachel whiteread, documented by john davies. rachel whiteread is known for creating sculptures taking the form of casts. in 1993 whiteread created the 'house' series by spraying liquid concrete into the building’s empty shell before its walls were removed. the work became a temporary monument to lost communities and a focus for publi..
