Tag Fernando Guerra

18-05-2020

Housing created by Summary, when prefabrication goes creative

With his installation “infrastructure-structure-architecture” Samuel Gonçalves from the Portuguese architecture studio, Summary took prefabricated elements of a real, existing project to the Arsenale of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale: Gomos System. This year, he went a step further and completed the first apartment block that combines the advantages of prefabrication with eye-catching aesthetics.

15-05-2020

Christophe Rousselle Architecte Courbes residential buildings in Colombes, France

Courbes is a residential project by Christophe Rousselle’s studio in Colombes, in France’s Hauts-de-Seine department, named after the sinuous curves of the overhangs that characterise and diversify the levels of the two buildings. The residential project is part of the plan for urban renewal of the ZAC Charles de Gaulle district.

05-03-2020

San Sa Village by IlLab Architects, a tribute to the senses and to regional culture

San Sa Village is a hotel complex north of Beijing, not far from the Great Wall of China. The project by llLab Architects - on a site that used to be occupied by a petrol station - was conceived as a kind of village-style group of buildings made from local slate and brick.

10-02-2020

Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados Jaragua Residence Alphaville

The Jaragua Residence in Alphaville, a residential district on the outskirts of San Paolo, Brazil, a recent project by Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados, is ideally represented in the photographs of Fernando Guerra. The Brazilian studio was recently awarded two of Latin America’s most prestigious interior design prizes.

21-09-2018

KAAN Architecten ISMO Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, Paris

A project at the service of science, recently created by Kaan Architecten in Paris. The Dutch studio has designed the new building of the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d’Orsay, which will be part of the future campus of the Université Paris-Saclay.

09-07-2018

Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, a house in the pine forest

Spanish firm Fran Silvestre Arquitectos has given a house in the middle of a pine forest near Valencia a brand new identity.

25-04-2018

Interview with Portuguese architect Mario Martins

Stimulating emotions with architecture is the key to the work of Mario Martins, the Portuguese architect from Lagos, who has published his latest book “Houses - an architectural journey”.

06-04-2018

MAD Ma Yansong Huangshan Mountain Village

Drawing their inspiration from the rock formations of the nearby Huanghsan mountains and the Chinese landscape painting tradition, the architects of MAD designed a housing development on the banks of Taiping Lake in a UNESCO World Heritage site which is an important Chinese tourist attraction.

22-01-2018

Pink House, a conversion by Mezzo Atelier

On the small Azorean island of São Miguel in Portugal, the architecture firm, Mezzo Atelier converted an old, early-20th-century barn into holiday accommodation, where the past and the present all come together in harmony.