Revista

31.03.2008

Building of the Week

The two projects presented here are part of Iniciativa Elemental, a Doing Tank associated with the Compañía de Petróleos de Chile (COPEC) and the Universidad Católica. We focus on designing and implementing lowcost urban public housing projects. As...


26.03.2008

Building of the Week

Together with Wolfram Mehlem and Jesper Bork Wolfgang Tschapeller has built an exceptional house in St Andrä/Wördern, close to the Danube The sharp-edged spatial tube made of fair-faced concrete hovers lightly on an elevated foundation above the expanse of the plain. Freely shaped...


14.03.2008

Building of the Week

Things are there and one doesn't notice them until one day one's gaze slips and one sees, explores, and is dazzled. That's how it was for me with La Oca, which wasn't La Oca but actually the Aeronautical Museum (formerly Palacio de las Artes), which I hadn't noticed, even...


26.02.2008

Building of the Week

The point of departure for the workshop was that buildings can no longer be conceived as complexes of functional packages. The self-sufficiency of the design needs a formal generation process, separate from the classic concept of architectural space. And although the analogy seems simple, the...


19.02.2008

Building of the Week


19.02.2008

Building of the Week


16.02.2008

Building of the Week


15.01.2008

Building of the Week


07.01.2008

Building of the Week

In Hadersdorf, am äußersten westlichen Rand Wiens, wurde kürzlich nach mehrjährigen Verzögerungen die Mustersiedlung „9=12“ eröffnet. Architekt Adolf Krischanitz...


31.12.2007

Building of the Week


27.12.2007

Building of the Week


17.12.2007

Building of the Week


10.12.2007

Building of the Week


04.12.2007

Building of the Week


28.11.2007

Building of the Week

Entertainment durchdringt alle Lebensbereiche. Was früher auf den Kulturbereich beschränkt war, ist heute auch in der Industrie zum unverzichtbaren Instrument geworden. Produkte werden emotionalisiert und inszeniert – längst nicht mehr bloß, um sie zu verkaufen, sondern...


03.11.2007

Building of the Week


25.10.2007

Building of the Week

Mit langem  Atem und viel Innovationssinn bauten die Architekten Franz Sam und Irene Ott-Reinisch den komplexen Schulbestand in Waidhofen an der Ybbs zum multifunktionalen Schulzentrum aus und um. Der Altbau wurde unterfangen, im felsigen Grund daneben fand der große, neue Turnsaal...


25.10.2007

Building of the Week


14.10.2007

Building of the Week


30.09.2007

Building of the Week


22.09.2007

Building of the Week


10.09.2007

Building of the Week


04.09.2007

Building of the Week

Gentrification can occasionally foster good design rather than vulgar excess. As the humble cottages on narrow lots in Venice rise past the $1 million mark, the challenge for architects is to satisfy the expectations of new buyers without destroying the character of the community. Inevitably,...


30.08.2007

Building of the Week


27.08.2007

Building of the Week


29.07.2007

Building of the Week


09.07.2007

Building of the Week


26.06.2007

Building of the Week

9th International Arquine Competition


26.06.2007

Building of the Week


23.04.2007

Building of the Week

Österreichische Bahnhofsgegenden haben sich in den letzten Jahren von Schmuddelwinkeln zu urbanen Hoffnungsgebieten gemausert. In ihrer Entstehungszeit noch an der Peripherie gelegen, stellen sie, vom Wachstum der Siedlungen längst ins Zentrum geholt, wertvolle Baulandreserven dar, die...


22.03.2007

Building of the Week

Am nördlichen Stadtrand Salzburgs planten sps-architekten eine mehrgeschoßige Passivhauswohnanlage in Holzbauweise, für die sie 2006 den 1. Rosenheimer Holzbaupreis erhielten. Simon Speigner und sein Team lösten das Spannungsfeld Städtebau, Passivhaus-Standard und...


13.02.2007

Building of the Week