Tag Landscape

01-04-2015

MX_SI and the expansion of the Gosta Serlachius Museum in Finland

The three young architects of Spanish studio MX_SI have won the competition for expansion of Gosta Serlachius Museum in Finland. With the Gosta Serlachius Museum project, MX_SI focuses on and guides the context of the landscape, offering a central position to the old Joennimei Manor House where the museum was originally housed.

17-03-2015

Renato Arrigo: a Villa on the Strait of Messina

Messina, Sicily. Sometimes architecture is a matter of being in the right place at the right time. A variant made while construction was underway has created a contemporary villa that stands out from its surroundings and meets the client’s needs.

17-03-2015

Land 25: A Tribute to Italian Landscape exhibition in Venice

This is the second leg on the tour for Land: in the wake of the exhibition’s success at SpazioFMG, “Land 25: A Tribute to Italian Landscape” moves on to Venice.

13-03-2015

Contaminar Arquitectos Texugueira House residential project

Contaminar Arquitectos design a home that dialogues with its natural rural surroundings in Texugueira, Portugal.

11-03-2015

Great Land Studio Corte wins Maxxi YAP Rome

The Great Land project by Roman architectural practice Studio Corte has won the Yap Maxxi 2015 competition and will be built in the square outside Maxxi. The initiative is implemented in partnership with MoMA/MoMA PS1 in New York, the Constructo Association in Santiago, Chile, the Istanbul Modern and MMCA in Seoul.

20-02-2015

UNStudio’s The W.I.N.D. House in the Netherlands

Architect Ben van Berkel of UNStudio presents his idea of the smart home: The W.I.N.D. House, recently completed in the Netherlands.

10-02-2015

Camilo Rebelo & Susana Martins Ktima House - Greece

A home in Antiparos, Greece, designed by architects Camilo Rebelo & Susana Martins, is among the 420 architectural projects nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, the European Union’s prize for contemporary architecture.

06-02-2015

The Best of the Week: The image

A common thread in many of the news articles published this week in Floornature is “the image” of buildings and landscapes, represented by photographs, as well as image in a figurative sense, in the way communications and information convey the image of a project.