Uitzicht Crematorium
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
T.S.Elliot
It is a matter of searching for calm and make...
Compost Heap Plant
Simple Truth.
In the last few decades we have, in contemporary architectural design, been witnessing a brilliant and ongoing hybridizing of the traditional bond between the built form and its interior, which has come to...
Biodiversity Centre
The building is located on the outskirts of Loja town in marked agricultural character. This project relates to a beautiful plot of cultivated land served by an irrigation ditch and a leafy mass. This...
Pachacamac Hill House
A retirement home for a couple of philosophers.
In the old days in Peru the selection of the site for a specific Inca building (use) was the most important action to be taken, only when...
Villa Vals
Shouldn’t it be possible to conceal a house in an Alpine slope while still exploiting the wonderful views and allowing light to enter the building?
Surprised that it was permissible to construct a pair of...
Aloni House
The design of the house is a dual response to the particular topography of the site and to the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped the raw ‘Cycladic island’ landscape.
In the past,...
Voronoi’s Corrals
Voronoi’s Corrals is a project located in an isolated natural setting with an area of 60,000 sqm. The overall design strategy was to segregate the rural areas of the landscape from the wild ones...
Fattoria Celle: a dialogue with Giuliano Gori
Fattoria di Celle, one of the most interesting centres of contemporary environmental art in the world, opened to the public for the first time on 12 June 1982. The park and the buildings house...
Hamburg, reflections of water and architecture
In Hamburg a red – brick red – thread connects the spectacular and famous Elbphilarmonie building designed by Herzog & de Meuron, still in construction, with the expressive contours of Fritz Höger’s Chilehaus. But...
From Hammaburg to HafenCity
Hamburg is said to have more bridges than Amsterdam and Venice combined; there seems to be 2123 of them. Perhaps water is no longer as omnipresent today in Hamburg as it is in Amsterdam...
More city in the city
Caroline Fuchs: Let us try to retrace the process your municipal administration has gone through in order to arrive at the present situation, and in particular the involvement of many architects of international renown in...
Building the City Anew
The year of presentation of the IBA, the Internationale Bauaustellung or International Building Exhibition of Hamburg, begins on 23 March 2013. The themes of interest and the more than 60 projects of the IBA Hamburg...