Tag Housing

17-07-2015

Architects, Architectures and Projects from Japan the best of the week

The Archi Depot Tokyo exhibition at Triennale di Milano and the pavilion and national day of Japan at Expo Milano 2015 offer an excellent starting point for looking at architecture in Japan presented recently in Floornature.

24-06-2015

Tetsuo Kondo Architects’ House in Chayagasaka, Japan

Tetsuo Kondo Architects, a young Tokyo architectural studio, designed the House in Chayagasaka, Aichi (Japan). Tetsuo Kondo’s House in Chayagasaka expresses a new concept of dwelling in which spaces not only have no clear boundaries but intersect, forming a single space for all shared activities.

17-06-2015

CCA exhibition The SAAL Process Housing in Portugal 1974–76

The CCA (Centre Canadien d’Architecture) presents an exhibition about SAAL (Serviço Ambulatório de Apoio Local), a service offered by the Portuguese government in the 70s. An important experience for the role of the architect in society, in which names such as Gonçalo Byrne, Artur Rosa, Álvaro Siza, Fernando Távora and Manuel Vicente played a key role.

12-06-2015

Qatar projects and Expo Milano 2015 pavilion best of the week

On June 18 SpazioFMGperl'Architettura presents a talk entitled “Looking Up. Highrise and Tradition in Qatar with South West Architecture”, and to mark the occasion this week's best of the week feature focuses on projects built in Qatar and presented in Floornature.

15-05-2015

Housing developments - best of the week

From Expo Village, the residential complex designed by MCA Mario Cucinella Architects, Teknoarch, B22 and Pura for Expo 2015, to MVRDV’s Markthal, a new kind of development combining residential units with commercial buildings, this week’s edition of “best of the week” focuses on recent housing developments presented in Floornature.

29-04-2015

Ze Home, Paratelier’s new house in Palmela (Portugal)

Ze Home in Palmela (Portugal) is the latest new building by Paratelier, a young Italian studio which has moved to Lisbon. Ze Home stands out in the landscape of Palmela with its ochre bare concrete structure, for which Paratelier drew inspiration from the keep of Palmela castle.

10-04-2015

The best of the week: Family homes

Here are some of the residential buildings presented recently in Floornature, designs as a search for contemporary living and as a dialogue with natural settings, underlining or blending into their surroundings.

30-03-2015

Expo Village designed by MCA Mario Cucinella Architects, Teknoarch, B22 and Pura completed

Expo Village has been completed. It will house 1334 delegates from all over the world in lodgings and common areas designed by MCA Mario Cucinella Architects, Teknoarch, B22 and Pura.