Barcelona architects Xavier Vilalta Studio d’Arquitectura have completed a nursery in the village of Els Alamús near Lleida, Spain.The the Arreletes Day Care Centre is inspired by the architects’ childhood memories of “countless fruit trees, shade filtered spaces and trees perfectly organized with a calculated geometry.”
The nursery is located on the borderline between the town [...]

The husband and wife partnership of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete, being dubbed as the parents of ‘blob architecture’, has for 20 years been considered revolutionary in the context of their firm, Future Systems. But now, following the couple’s separation after 15 year of marriage, the pair have extended this divide into business pointing to [...]

The Neue National Gallery in Berlin (1968), will be leading the work of German architect, Mies van der Rohe. A building in which patents are clearly legible and the tenets and how to work the architect, and where the concept of “less is more” becomes absolute sense.This building was a new way of thinking and [...]

As the plot does not allow for traditional front or back gardens, the design incorporates open air spaces within the build structure. The open floor plan with its voids generates exciting views inside the volume and enhances the relation between inside and outside spaces. As the wooden facade is vertically extended, the roof provides a hidden garden with a maximum of privacy.

This house replaces a derelict 1940’s lone storey cottage (with associated outhouses) which hovers above the landscape below. These areas are contained within a propped cantilevered section, which previously existed on foot at first stagger direct via a long stepped processional road to focus the applicant to the point of statement while also weighting the [...]