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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

Tourism routes in Norway: Aurland

Having won a national competition for the promotion of tourism in Norway, Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen designed a construction representing a surprisingly successful equilibrium between a lookout for viewing the landscape and a work of architecture which is itself a sight worth seeing.

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

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.

10-02-2011

New offices for a new district in Rome

By breaking down volumes and setting them side by side, then choosing materials such as glass for the light and ceramic for the ventilated façades to improve external strength and insulation, proArch bcd designs the first of the new office buildings in Rome’s new Mezzocammino district.

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.

03-02-2011

The bridge of peace - Michele De Lucchi

A bridge is a structure that joins two points, allowing people to get over an obstacle, and it is also a highly symbolic form of architecture in that it can be an emblem of dialogue between two opposite and divided positions.

28-01-2011

Boris Podrecca in Padua

Boris Podrecca’s urban plan for Padua includes a glass tower more than a hundred metres high that will be lit up with light in changing colours at night.