Paulo Mendes da Rocha – Brazilian Museum of Sculpture – St. Paul

In MUBE (Museu Brasileiro by Escultura), Mendes da Rocha, suspending a large beam, a rectangular section of 12m x 2m in height, of a void with a free span of 60 meters. The museum becomes sunken plaza below, carved in the ground. The image is rigorous, essential, pure, geometric. It is a simple linear, strict, archetypal,... 

Toyo Ito – Serpentine Gallery Pavilion – London

Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery is responsible for commissioning the project each year of a temporary pavilion in Kensington Gardens park famous architects of international reputation. The projects have been implemented since 2000 by Zaha Hadid, following in 2001 by Daniel Libeskind, 2002 Toyo Ito, 2003 Oscar Niemeyer,... 

Luxury Villa, rustic and modern

Designed by an Austrian architectural firm Propeller Z, this country house is contemporary and is very interesting because they are together the elements of tradition and innovation. Designed with a modest budget of just 70.000 Euro, an old farmhouse has been renovated and converted. The modern element is the lifting of... 

The apartment in Singapore that reflects the lifestyle of the owners themselves

The space provided by this great project, announces a strong and wonderful energy. And apartment that can communicate particular joy to anyone who is a guest and enter this beautiful home. Initially, the living space is original, was an oblong room, with an awkward angle and especially near the front door. It did not take... 

NY-BILLBOARD: A New Way of Designing Architecture

Clearly inspired by the works and futuristic ideas of Archigram, the architect Chris Precht plans for the city of Manhattan, a new type of skyscraper outside of each scheme, paving the way (perhaps) for a new type of architecture. The NY-Billboard in addition to being a revolutionary and futuristic design, is above all... 

The house Vacchini Coast – Livio Vacchini – Ticino

The house is a box placed perpendicular to the slope of the hill. The ratio of length – width is 1:2 and the perimeter has a maximum size of 8 to 17 yards. Oriented to the south, the building is configured with two very similar, directed, and communicating by a structure defined absolute, monumental, but primary. The... 

Paulo Mendes da Rocha – Gallery Leme in São Paulo

The building, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha which art gallery, is entirely made ​​of concrete facing bricks, with 420mq of available space, which incorporates a skylight, placed at a height of 9m from the reference point. The Gallery is a space that does engage in both Brazilian and international artists, with... 

King Roselli Architects – Expansion of the Pontifical Lateran University Library – Rome

The intervention, for the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, responds to the program desired by Monsignor Fisichella, the client: a solid square by insisting on the ground and that, at the top, seems to come off in suspended floors, such as floating and raising of “recordings” of light oblique. The configuration... 

Steven Holl Architects – HEART Museum of Contemporary Art – Herning

The new museum of contemporary art (HEART) in the town of Herning, Denmark, is situated on a hill between an industrial area next-to-high mileage of roads in a former clothing factory. The building in white exposed concrete relates to the context on the thread of the history of the textile industry and works of art from... 

Studio Ricatti – Diesel Headquarters – Vicenza

The Headquarters is located in an area previously occupied by a plant engineering industry. The geometry and extent of the area, the constraints of urban-building and the program dictated by the client, have addressed the general design of the architectural complex, whose arrangement with respect to the lot, is determined...