Modernity of Via Novissima, Paolo Portoghesi
Via Novissima: Josef Paul Kleihues, Hans Hollein, Massimo Scolari
Preparatory to the research conducted by the magazine on the subject of the urban building (architectures inserted in the masonry curtain of the consolidated city) we have...
Franco Albini and the reconstruction of the city of Parma: method and the rule
Parma July 12 2013
My initiation to architecture as a student took place by the fence around the INA Building site in Via Cavour in my home town. Watching from the outside, I followed Franco...
Chungha Building
Just before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, and Gangnam became world famous as the nouveau riche hangout of the South-Korean capital Seoul, MVRDV was...
MAR – Art Museum of Rio
Our challenge was to unite three existing buildings with different architectural characteristics to house the Museu de Arte do Rio, the school “A Escola do Olhar” as well as cultural and leisure spaces.
The existing...
Dwelling in Via Maestri Campionesi
Archea took over the task of planning the construction of a residential building in via Maestri Campionesi in central Milan in 2009.
The project centres on the external facades, the public areas of the building...
Day-Nursery and apartment
photo by ECDM architectes
The project takes place into a heterogeneous district made of buildings of any sizes, of any styles, any periods. It’s an environment slightly old-fashioned, hybrid and disintegrated, typical of the heterogeneous...
San Vicente Ferrer
photo by Matías Pérez Illeras
In a context of consolidated historical neighborhood of Madrid, the architects faced strict dimensions and facade regulations. The idea was to make the most out of a very limited area...
Hotel Palacio Astoreca
Hotel Astoreca has been the subject of a competition, with the purpose of renovating an old building in a part of the harbour of Valparaiso that has been declared Unesco World Heritage.
In our project...
Market Hall
Following two demolition campaigns for a world exhibition in 1913 and an administrative centre never built in the 60s, Ghent’s historic heart degenerated for decades into a desolate parking lot in between a suite...
Novancia Business School
This project is the expression of several conceptual ideas that guided our team work from competition stage to building completion.
The school existed since 1908 and was looking for a new identity. It is located...