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10-03-2011

Tourism routes in Norway: Trollstigen

RRA’s recently completed plans for a lookout over the fjords of Trollstigen is a work in which both materials and composition are inspired entirely by landscape. Cor-ten steel changes colour with the action of time, camouflaging the construction and demonstrating that being sustainable does not just mean consuming less energy: it means reducing visual impact on the environment.

10-03-2011

Holiday home in Sajima

In Yasutaka, a tourist resort not far from Tokyo, a home on the waterfront stands out for its windows, each different in shape, as in an infants’ shape sorter. Designed as a home for brief holidays, the building features a dance of floor and wall covering materials on the inside.

23-02-2011

Kazunori Fujimoto’s Japanese architecture

The residence designed by Japanese architect Kazunori Fujimoto draws life from its relationship with the surrounding landscape and with the panorama of the Seto Inland Sea.

10-02-2011

A new public school in Cartagena

Local building materials and techniques, integration of inside and outside and social value are the key themes of the school building designed by Mazzanti and Mesa for Cartagena in Colombia. Flor del Campo is an example of the contribution architecture can make to rehabilitating the area in which it is situated.

10-02-2011

A museum of Buddhist temples in Thailand

A museum of Buddhist temples in Thailand’s Chonburi province reinterprets traditional architecture in terms of geometric forms, in a contemporary homage to superior spirituality and the art of meditation. The young Buddhist architect who designed it specialises in building places of worship.

10-02-2011

Saragoza Library and Coexistence Centre

In Saragoza a library and a seniors’ centre are housed in a single contemporary building. The building’s flexible geometry contributes rigour to the façade and order to the layout, symbolising the union between the history the books tell of and the history kept in the seniors' memories.

05-02-2011

A house awaiting death

A project which is the story and analysis of a life, a refuge of the spirit in which to enjoy the view, the dawning light and the ocean waves, designed by EASTERN design office in response to their client’s request.

11-01-2011

Barn conversion project in Switzerland

Clavienrossier’s plan to renovate an old home in the Swiss Alps reveals how much this building had been denied an identity of its own: its structure of local stone was concealed under several layers of plaster.