The temples conceived as spaces for rigorous observation of the liturgy have given way to places where collective faith and individual introspection live side by side.
Levantada tras un terremoto, la iglesia está construida con 86 tubos de cartón envainados en vigas de madera y 8 contenedores de transporte colocados en la base a modo de estribos.
Natural ventilation and indirect light characterize the interior of this mosque designed with local materials and located in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Dhaka.
Drawing inspiration from the idea of a grove of trees, the paivlion is built with slender wooden footings holding up an inclined roof, which creates a microclimate of shade.
An anti-earhquake structure of crisscrossing larchwood beams form an origami-like space that opens on to a forest through a series of large glazed openings.
The building’s steeples and its facets of prepatinated pinewood together evoke the forms and the materials of the traditional Lutheran churches of Scandinavian countries.
The mission building reinterprets certain typological and geometrical constants of traditional Hindu temples, such as symmetry, patterns and pitched roofs.
With its alterpieces all lit and the way it opens itself to the city, the church reinterprets the features of the traditional prototype of the Christian temple, adapting the buildig to the cultural context.
Inspired in the form and construction of traditional coal ovens, the chapel takes the shape of an irregular prism inside of which a simple brick vault has been sculpted.
An exhibition at the ZKM Karlsruhe takes stock, through 200 original building models, of the work methods of the Pritzker Prize laureate Frei Otto.
The exhibition at the Architekturmuseum in Munich on the work of Francis Kéré, ‘Radically Simple’ serves to remember his long relationship with Spain.
The facade free of structural constraints postulated by Le Corbusier in his five points towards a new architecture was the logical consequence of the open plan. The liberation of the two families of planes – perpendicular or parallel to the ground –
Located in the Dong Da district of the Vietnamese capital, the fourstory prismatic building harbors complementary programs: on the one hand, a showroom for the lighting products of an electronics company; on the other hand, a gallery and a work space
The project adds a new multipurpose space to Escola Gavina, in the Valencian municipality of Picanya. The main building of this learning institution was designed in 1980 by the architect Manuel Portaceli – author also of the extension undertaken som
Located in a residential neighborhood of Lisbon, the Restelo House covers its rear facade, which opens up to a private courtyard, with a lattice that filters sunlight, gives the interior spaces privacy, and also functions as a lightweight protective
The Museum’s new building – the outcome of an international competition – is on grand Constitution Avenue, a main axis of the United States capital, close to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and Culture and the Washington Monument.
After ten years of construction work and not a few controversies, Herzog & de Meuron’s Elbphilharmonie finally held its opening night, on 11 January, with a concert by the symphonic orchestra of the NDR, the Hamburg-based public radio and television
The board of the Venice Biennale, chaired by Paola Baratta, has announced that Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects) will be curating the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, set to be held from 26 May to 25 November 2018. A
The death in March 2016 of Zaha Hadid, of a heart attack at the age of at 65, was unexpected sad news. Since then there has been constant speculation about the future of her practice – which her business partner Patrik Schumacher has taken over the r
2016 has been an annus mirabilis for Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. The completion, in succession, of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Tate Modern extension in London, and phase one of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan has been followed by
Selected out of 101 entries submitted from a total of 17 countries, the design of the team composed of the young Barcelona practices MX_SI and Mestres Wåge recently won the competition to transform an old grain silo – one of the first ever to be buil
Buildings can become missiles. An example is St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, which Luther turned into a symbol of the degradation of the Catholic Church. So is the new seat of the European Council in Brussels. David Cameron came to express “imme
The Chinese boom has made many an architectural dream come true: what in Europe was improbable and in the United States impossible is, in China, simply feasible. This situation has been skillfully capitalized on by the large architectural firms, from
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