Villa Lola: a sustainable house in the wild nature of Iceland

The young architecture office from Reykjavík ARKÍS architects were given the challenging opportunity of designing a very particular house in the north of Iceland called Villa Lóla.  (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Móstoles, Spain: The new Centre for Social Services

The project of the new Social Services Center in Móstoles, by architects dosmasuno arquitectos, had two strong conditioning factors: first of all, the fact of having to host several areas identical to one another (a large number of unipersonal offices) and to build a large aseptic building whose features do not interfere with the road design and the plot orientation. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Vicino la Cappella: architecture, landscape and art near the chapel in Vipiteno, Italy 

Bergmeisterwolf Architekten has recently completed its work called “Vicino la Cappella” or near the chapel. The project concerned renovating a dilapidated farmhouse at 1400 m above sea level near Vipiteno, in an area with four houses and a chapel. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Petting farm in den Uylpark, Almere, 2005 by 70F architecture http://bit.ly/KC9YiA

Villa Frenay: the use of glass to obtain light, air and space 

70F architecture have designed villa Frenay in Lelystad, a new city in the Netherlands founded at the end of the 1960’s. The family who commissioned it requested light, air and space. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

An old 1950’s laboratory in Stuttgart becomes a luxury residence 

The Quant 1 project concerns a new luxury residential complex in a converted 1950’s laboratory.  (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Apple Campus 2: Steve Jobs’ most ambitious project 

The Apple Campus 2 project, designed by Sir Norman Fosterand presented less than a year ago by Steve Jobs in person to the city council of Cupertino (Here is the video), represents an exception in the history of Apple. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Lucie Aubrac: a public school with a strong identity 

The new School Center Lucie Aubrac in Nanterre in the outskirts of Paris, France, designed by Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes, is located near La Défense, in an area with a high concentration social housing.  (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Studio Franz: the idea of a ‘school for all’ 15 km from Vienna 

Franz Architekten’s project for the Borg & NMS school in Deutsch-Wagram, 15 km from Vienna, comes from dual need to build a senior secondary school with a focus on scientific subjects (the Realgymnasium) and at the same time to extend the existing junior secondary school (“Hauptschule”). (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

La Peña house: an ‘item of origami’ designed by R Zero Studio 

La Peña House, designed by Mexican architects R Zero Studio, is located in Mexico in Valle de Bravo, integrating in it and framed by large openings and views over the lake. The house develops over three levels and adapts to the shape of the land with a project which responds to the needs of versatility and functionality requested by the client. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Concrete and glass geometries for the school extension 

Austrian architect Daniel Fügenschuh has extended this secondary school (Hauptschule Rattenberg), which was too small to be able to satisfy the needs of the city of Rattenberg. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com

Xieira House II: an exercise of style fixed in the past of Leiria 

XIEIRA HOUSE II, designed by Portuguese architects A2 + Arquitectos, is located in a long narrow plot. It was born out of a desire to create a house which developed on a single level and is located  in the municipality of Caranguejeira, in the vicinity of the city of Leiria. (…) Continue on Archilovers.com