Software and biotechnology plants
The Technology Park is a center of high technology industries turning 25 years in 2010. For the last phase of its industrial growth, it has been decided to build two new buildings for research and production of, respectively, computing and biotechnolog …
Waste treatment facility
The Waste Treatment Facility is located on a hillside overlooking the Coll Cardús massif in the municipality of Vacarisses, in the district of the Vallès Occidental. This site is currently taken up by a controlled waste landfill site nearing its capaci …
Cuswc – central urban solid waste collection
The urban refuse plant is a clean building, capable of coexisting with the rest of the city; it is not a structure that has to be hidden at all costs, even if most such plants look like factories, and are of an industrial, “blind” type that is to some …
Aonni mineral water plant
The Chilean Patagonia, both continental an insular, realizes the same peculiarity, distinctive and of the place: the detachment. There is disunity, separation of what had been united; the elements live in constant change. The detachments generated crac …
Hodgdon Powder Company
Hogdgon Powder is a gunpowder manufacturing plant located in the Flint Hills of Central Kansas, a region containing the last remaining indigenous tall grass prairies in the Midwest. The plant is located adjacent to a rural airport that was originally b …
Argos
In July of 2006, this project was announced as the winner of an architectural contest looking for a design proposal of the “skin” for a technical building containing a self generation electrical plant for a cement factory. With the resultant design, th …
Power and heat supply plant
At the intersection of highways and canals – at the edge of the old town – in the center of the destroyed city, a new hearts starts beating. Power and heat – elixir of life – arises from the bottom of the port. A sensitive building at the water – its a …
The interior, the exterior, the vague
When the social scientist begins to explore the contemporary discourse by focusing on the field of architecture, he is immediately intrigued by its general structure. Architecture is almost always conceived, represented and criticized as an object that …
Industrial still and motion blur
Albano Guatti was born in Udine, Italy, in 1950. He graduated at the University of Florence where he studied Aesthetic with Ermanno Migliorini and thought as an assistent. He is a freelance photographer and since 1978 he lives between New York, where h …
