Structures of landscape
Located at the edge of Yellowstone Park in Montana, Tippet Rise Art Center – with an extension over eleven thousand acres of wilderness – is born as a new destination for the arts, in which music performances and large – scale outdoor sculptures play a …
Vitra Schaudepot
On 3 June 2016, a new building has opened on the Vitra Campus: the Vitra Schaudepot, designed by the Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron. The Schaudepot provides the Vitra Design Museum with a venue for presenting key objects from its extensi …
Church of sky
‘Church of Sky’, was built in the vicinity of four art museums named Water, Wind, Stone and Land. The building is located west of the museums site, and was designed for a new town project, named ‘Biotopia.’ There are low hills around and tress that all …
Reflections on the art of the incomplete
The architect that adds to an existing building accepts her or his role in a continuum of work where the present project is neither the beginning nor the end of the story. To quote Vincent Scully: “Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generati …
Restoration of the Setenil de Las Bodegas Homage‘s Tower
After the recapture of the town in 1482 the keep is very run down and practically abandoned cause the loss of space and ceiling of the top floor. The return of the top volume was made with mud concrete juxtaposed with historical techniques of integrati …
Kamppi Chapel
The Kamppi Chapel is located on the south side of the busy Narinkka square in central Helsinki. It offers a place to quiet down and compose oneself in one of Finland’s most lively urban spaces. With its curved wood facade, the small sacral building flo …
Soul lands
Pilgrims take part in the function of the Night of Power (Laylat al- Qadr), the 27th day of the Ramadan. The celebration commemorates the revelation of the Koran to the Prophet. Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1995 Kazuyoshi Nomachi is among the great masters o …
Puma Energy El Salvador Headquarters
Located opposite commercial constructions with hardly any public visibility, the new Puma Energy HQ by Ruiz Pardo-Nebreda acts as a renewing element in the urban landscape. As a recognition of its successful combination of clear and honest construction …
Inside Outside House
Outside is a purpose designed, highly sustainable site specific home for two artists, constructed as a replacement dwelling in a remote location within the Forest of Dean. The site lies in a sensitive rural location and comprises 4 acres on a south fac …
Play landscape be-MINE
The team of Carve and Omgeving (design) and Krinkels (contractor) won the international competition to design an adventurous play-scape and landmark on a ‘terril’ in Beringen, Belgium, in January 2015. The adventure mountain is part of the touristic, r …