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22-10-2014

Alvisi Kirimoto’s Bulgari winery in San Casciano dei Bagni (Siena)

Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners designed Podernuovo Bulgari winery in San Casciano dei Bagni, near Siena. The building combines an attentive reading of the local landscape and the signs left on it by traditional crops with environmental sustainability. Alvisi Kirimoto’s Podernuovo Bulgari winery is all about respect and enhancement of the land.

01-10-2014

House for trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City

The innovative young studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a House for trees on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Particularly aware of the importance of building sustainable constructions, Vo Trong Nghia attempts to enrich an area where intense urbanisation has left no room for greenery with his House for Trees.

26-09-2014

Paratelier residential building - Zé Home in Palmela

Architects Leonardo Paiella and Monica Ravazzolo of Paratelier designed the Zé Home in Palmela, Portugal in an area with a prominent historic and natural identity.

24-09-2014

Zaha Hadid’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy in Beirut

Zaha Hadid’s most recent project, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy, is part of the programme of the American Institute of Beirut. Zaha Hadid has constructed a cement building which stands taller than the pavilions on the campus, looming over its surroundings with a bold identity of its own.

10-09-2014

Mazzanti’s new Pies Descalzos School in Cartagena

El Equipo de Mazzanti, the studio run by Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti, designed the new Pies Descalzos School in Cartagena, Colombia: a building for the promotion of social integration in the difficult urban context of Lomas del Peyé. Mazzanti’s Pies Descalzos School in Cartagena is one of the finalists in Floornature’s international Next Landmark 2014 contest.

27-08-2014

Souto de Moura designs the Ponte de Lima 3 house in Portugal

Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize, is one of Portugal’s most prominent architects. His recent plan for house in Ponte de Lima 3, an house in northern Portugal, ideally represents his poetics of form while at the same time expressing a sense of sustainability based on knowledge of and respect for the history of the place.

05-08-2014

Bernard Tschumi Architects ANIMA Cultural Centre

ANIMA, a cultural centre in Grottammare (Ascoli Piceno), Bernard Tschumi Architects’ first project in Italy, is due to be completed by 2017.

04-08-2014

Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners Podernuovo Winery

Architectural studio Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners designed Giovanni and Paolo Bulgari’s Podernuovo a Palazzone winery in the countryside outside Siena, not far from the medieval hamlet of San Casciano dei Bagni.