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25-11-2015

Mateo Arquitectura renovates Barcelona’s Ninot market

Ninot market in Barcelona’s Eixample district has reopened. Built in 1933, the facility was renovated by Mateo Arquitectura of Spain. Mateo Arquitectura’s project has given Ninot market a new relationship with the city.

17-11-2015

Studio Nextoffice designs Amir Villa in Karaj, Iran

Amir Villa, in Karaj, near Teheran, is a recent project by Iranian architectural practice Nextoffice. Surrounded by the greenery of Mohammad Shahr Gardens, Nextoffice’s Amir Villa is a clay and straw structure that pays homage to tradition, contrasting with a white and glass volume that winks at modernity.

10-11-2015

BIG Kistefos Museum Norway

BIG architectural practice has published the first images of its plans for the new Kistefos Museum, to be built in Kistefos Sculpture Park, home to works by such famous contemporary artists as Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Fernando Bottero and Elmgreen & Dragset.

09-11-2015

Evolution Design’s Cocoon: offices, spirals and architecture

An office building in Zurich inspired by the pure shape of a spiral, surrounded by trees and with a breath-taking view: Evolution Design describes Cocoon as a "communication landscape".

06-11-2015

Snøhetta SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The expansion of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Snøhetta is being completed and is due to open to the public on May 14, 2016.

27-10-2015

Westway Architects residential building in Milan

The Westway Architects studio, founded by architects Luca Aureggi and Maurizio Condoluci, have designed a new residential and commercial complex in Milan in the area that was home to a building from 1882, a project that seems the ideal link between past and present.

07-10-2015

Kouhsar Villa by Nextoffice: redevelopment of a house in Kordan, Iran

The new Kouhsar Villa by Nextoffice in Kordan, near the Alborz mountain range, is architecture on the border between geometry and organicism. The hermetic exterior opens into a dialogue with the landscape thanks to the new floor-to-ceiling facade in concrete and glass. The central void designed by Nextoffice, creates a dialogue between the two floors.

30-09-2015

The Bridge of Sighs in Holland by Mei Architects and Planners

Mei Architects And Planners have linked two historic buildings with a white, perforated bridge of variable height. They have called it "the Bridge of Sighs". It is clearly inspired by Venetian architecture and this can be seen even in Schiedam, Holland, 1300 km away.