The large hall for water sports is located across from the Stade de France. It is the most prominent newly created...
Resembling a sculpture, the 41 m tall timber structure towers above the treetops of the Hardwald forest.
The housing complex in Paris, designed by Mobile Architectural Office, harmoniously fits into the heterogeneous...
The rectangular volume of the startup centre measures 30.5 m on its sides and is nearly 19 m tall.
Researchers at the University of Kassel are developing new building technologies with waste wood particles based on...
With a sweeping, folded roof, Studio Gang connects the existing cubic volumes of the art museum in Little Rock while...
Dirk Hebel, Professor of Sustainable Building and Dean of Architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),...
The days of going higher and faster in the elevator industry are over. Today, it is intelligent, energy-efficient and...
The combined daycare centre Kreuzfeld, about twenty kilometres south of Bregenz, serves as the new urban attractor of...
The commercial and office building in Kristiansand on the southern tip of Norway displays a striking character, most of...
The sculpturally designed timber facades with their Swedish red clay paint finish afford the Hirtenweg housing estate...
The large hall for water sports is located across from the Stade de France. It is the most prominent newly created...
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This purist cube sits unobtrusively in the semi-arid Alentejo region of southern Portugal. The first in a group of...
The residential district on Anglesea Road in southwest Dublin is characterized by traditional terraced housing in...
The village of Morcote is situated on the banks of Lake Lugano in Switzerland. This new house is located a short walk...
In Weimar a new urban district is being built next to the site for which the Bauhaus produced a residential development...
Houses in Val Poschaivo, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, have traditionally been built close together to give...
This hall of residence in Sarphatistraat is part of a line of buildings that corrects a recent intervention,...
Built for the architect’s father, this house stands at the foot of the Quingling Mountains in Lantian some 1,500...
Clad almost seamlessly with perforated stainless-steel panels, this house in Vorarlberg, Austria, has a largely closed...
These two new four-storey halls of residence contain 32 single flats, 8 two-person and
This block of dwellings, which stands like a monolith at the top of a hill, is an exotic development in the context of...
Some may describe this building as clad in a suit of chain mail; others may see it attired in a silver robe. At all...
Located in Silvertown in East London, the project demonstrates that low-budget housing can be both attractive and...
For the architect, the main challenge of this development lay in realizing an open, flowing concept of internal space,...
This tiny (just 33 m2) plot offered a chance for a young couple to build a house in expensive downtown Kobe. But it...
High above the upper Rhine valley, on the slopes of Hochwang mountain, is this three-storey detached house. Situated...
The park surrounding Villa Schwarz is an important recreation space for people living on the outskirts of Basel. On...
House in Azeitão
Following a fire, two families who share a summer home on an island in a north German lake had to replace part of their...
In the small-scale village structure of Aitrach in South Germany, the present house stands out as something...
The brief for this project required the architects to create as much space as possible in the simplest form of...
Set on a site that extends between two roads are two new buildings – a lower, single-family house and a two-storey...
In a lot of countries, a gap of only 30 cm between structures would be inconceivable, even if one them were a solid,...
Forming part of a new urban neighbourhood in Munich, the scheme comprises two five-storey blocks with a U-shaped...
Situated 550 km south of Santiago in Chile, this concrete cube with rough-boarded surfaces was built as a weekend...
With its conventional roof form and the use of materials commonly found in local developments, the structure is...
This unusual house with a U-shaped layout and a clear facade articulation has been carefully integrated into an...
Situated in peaceful Burgenland in eastern Austria, this “house with an elephant’s skin” might, at first sight,...
Built to a tight budget, this simple, but well-conceived house in Switzerland accommodates a family of four. In view of...
In a densely developed district of Hamburg, a two-storey building dating from the 1950s has been raised in height by a...
While selecting the ideal living-room or bedroom furniture set, it is now also possible to order the matching house...
Japan has a long and flourishing tradition of modular construction forms. The rush-covered tatami mats serve to this...
This house – a prototype which was displayed at an exhibition at the Parc de la Vilette in Paris – followed a...
The architect names this house on a minuscule leftover site Lucky Drop in reference to a Japanese proverb for “best...
The construction phase for the “art for art house” in Haringsee lasted only two months. The prototype of a...
The “m-house” combines the advantages of a mobile, temporary dwelling with the living standard of a loft. The two...
The house is situated in west Japan, in a region that experiences marked climatic contrasts between seasons. In summer,...
Situated on a steeply sloping site in Vorarlberg, Austria, this single-family house, with its monolithic volume and...
This all-timber house in post-and-rail construction accommodates two dwelling units. The southern part contains the...
Erected on the foundations of the previous building, the present development was required to have a dual function. It...
The attic of a nineteenth-century apartment building protected under historic-preservation ordinances was remodelled...
At the edge of a small nature reserve on a gently sloping, southerly site lies a domicile with a panoramic view of the...
The Isokon Flats, completed in 1934 by Wells Coates, were conceived as a social and architectural experiment, aiming to...
The renovation of a group of apartment buildings consisting of a tower and two low-rise structures, all dating to 1970,...
Perforated metal panels, transparent railings, extensively glazed facades – not features associated with prefabricated...
This terraced structure, built in 1976, had become uneconomical due to sub-standard building physics and energy...
Designed for a family of four, this house in Notting Hill – enclosed on three sides by the street block – has an area...
The roof of an existing house was removed, and a further storey with a terrace was added on top. The new timber-frame...
This 125-metre-long development, with a six-
Glass was the solution for this extension in an area where planning regulations precluded a more solid structure. The...
This new six-storey building for a Swiss media group stands in a prominent location on the street between the railway...
Agreeably contrasted with its surroundings through the choice of materials and its simple detailing, the house occupies...
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The brief required a low-cost conventional housing type with a standard width of 6 m and a clear separation of the...
Situated on the coast of Slovenia, these two blocks were realized as part of a state low-cost housing programme to...
Urban planning policy in Munich today foresees an increase in the density of building development in the city centre....
Stuttgart’s historic centre is situated in a valley, bound on three sides by luxuriant hills, a circumstance which may...
These four dwellings are located on an 1800 m2 site adjacent to a lake and park; with their clear typology, the two...
On a prominent corner lot in Rathmines – a long-established residential district near Dublin which boasts a number of...
This tri-partite stone house in an awe-inspiring mountain setting has stood the test of time since 1814. Its limestone...
Situated at a height of 2,154 m, this new Alpine shelter has been built to passive-energy standards. At such a high...
This nursing home and centre for senior citizens is situated on the western edge of Steinfeld, a small community in...
The 20 two-room dwellings with an area of 57 m2 each are laid out on four floors and are designed to meet the needs of...
The brief for the competition – organized by
This elevated weekend retreat offers superb views over the ocean and a chance to reconnect with nature, beyond the...
"Set in a woodland area an hour’s drive from Tokyo, the house commands a panoramic view on all sides. The mini-tower...
For the cubic extension to this semi-detached house, with its red-brick street facade and white bay window, the...
This tower-like building on Karl Marx Allee known as “Haus des Kindes” (Children’s House) is a number of stories taller...
The house was to be open to the natural surroundings, while at the same time guaranteeing privacy. Glazed on three...
Building restrictions limited the space upon which to build this new house (replacing an older one). The architects...
On approaching this house in a remote valley in northeastern Catalonia, all that you see is a part of the roof rising...
Sharp edges, angles and incisions define the outward form of this concrete and glass building overlooking a busy...
New, low-cost internal finishings have transformed this small flat into a flexible and well-functioning dwelling. At...
Erected on a factory building dating from the 1950s, the new two-storey volume contains nine maisonette-type dwellings....
This abstract house contrasts starkly with the rural setting. The site, located near Mount Fuji, provides the clients...
Although the site lies on the edge of Santiago de Chile, the unpaved paths and high hedges which surround nearly every...
Designed for a writer, this pavilion-like house is set in lush vegetation on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The...
Set in a palm plantation on the west coast of India only a stone’s throw from the Arabian Sea, this beach house...
Under normal circumstances, the gross floor area of this house in Chile, with three full storeys, would exceed local...
With its bright orange coloration, round perspex roof-light domes and flamboyant, organic layout, this family house...
This residence is nestled close to the earth in Tennengau, a landscape south of Salzburg characterized by a smattering...
This purist cube sits unobtrusively in the semi-arid Alentejo region of southern Portugal. The first in a group of...
In the middle of a playground in the south of Melbourne, an activity centre has been cre-
In a housing area consisting largely of high-rise blocks, the existing school complex forms a central development. It...
The crèche closes a gap in the urban fabric near the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The adjacent Théâtre de la...
This new playhouse is set within a social-housing estate consisting of high-rise structures in a suburb southeast of...
With a change of sponsorship, this two-storey nursery school dating from 1990 was given a new name, “Traumbaum” or Tree...
Situated on an industrial works site roughly 5 km from the centre of Verona, this day nursery has the difficult task of...
Hitherto, both the kindergarten and the local brass band in Egg, Austria, occupied provisional quarters. For that...
The clear white cubic forms of this day-care centre stand in an open landscape between the mountains of Sintra and the...
The starting point and source of inspiration for the design of this nursery school with crèche can be found in the...
The kindergarten is constructed in a prefabricated wood-panel system with a facade consisting of grey fibre-cement...
The striking design for this kindergarten, which is set in a quiet housing area in Eppan, was the winning entry in a...
This new nursery school In Alsace was built within listed historical walls that once enclosed the gardens of a...
The Fuji Kindergarten in Tachikawa, a suburb of Tokyo, consists in large part of its roof. Seen from above, it...
This new building, which complements an existing school, is organized in a linear form, with south-facing classrooms...
Children with learning or speech problems can receive more intensive care in special schools than in normal classroom...
One of the striking features of this kindergarten is the spatial integration of an old footpath into the building. This...
In the course of extending the university, additional care facilities for young children became necessary. The...
This kindergarten south of Vienna stands in a wood of stately chestnut trees. The various sections of the complex,...
Situated close to Helsinki, Espoo has a population of 255,500 and is a typical Finnish town, with multistorey housing...
Two broad projections on the south face mark the main entrance to the two-storey, pavilion-like kindergarten Les...
This new municipal structure provides facilities for 133 children. Built to passive-energy standards in a prefabricated...
Accommodating 430 children, this education centre incorporates crèche, kindergarten,
Surrounded by office buildings and housing developments, this “hybrid” structure unites dwellings with a primary...
Situated on a former factory site in the north of Paris, the new Casarès-Doisneau educational complex comprises a...
Since the opening of the Crèche de l’Europe in Sierre, the town centre has acquired fresh attraction as a place for...
In its cubic form and use of materials, this kindergarten fits in well with the character of the picturesque village of...
As part of a reorganisation of Hausvogteiplatz in the inner-city Mitte district of Berlin, a building housing two...
Dating from 1970, the centre consists of a block of flats, a club for senior citizens, a kindergarten, youth rooms and...
For many parents in Germany, finding care for their child in a kindergarten is a matter of luck, since about 220,000...
Erected in a new urban centre in the district of Affoltern, Zurich, this development incorporates dwellings for the...
Bordering the natural park “Puez-Geisler” in South Tyrol with its striking, jagged mountain ridges, the little hamlet...
The first German child-care centre with a DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council) Gold certificate is located close...
An extension was required to a school complex dating from the 1970s to accommodate day-care facilities. Since the...
This new cultural centre offers various play facilities and programmes for young people. Located on a street corner,...
This residential nursery school extension provides space for an additional group of children in an independent...
The triangular plan form of the building was the result of tight site conditions and the wish to open up the...
With its colourful design, the kindergarten forms a striking contrast to the greyness of the surrounding developments....
The kindergarten comprises an ensemble of four independent structures grouped about a courtyard, which, on sunny days,...
Set on a sloping site with a large stock of trees, the building is divided into two parts. The simple structure to the...
Temporary accommodation was required during the period of demolition and new construction of a children's day centre. A...
The building is screened off with solid walls on three sides and opens to the south with a fully glazed façade that...
A crèche, a kindergarten and rooms for road workers were accommodated on top of each other in a single, multi-storey...
The limited site area allowed little scope for an extensive spatial programme. The school buildings were set on the...
Erected as an ecological pilot project in the midst of a residential area, the kindergarten accommodates three groups....
The proximity of the building to the important historic monument Nymphenburg Palace meant that no alterations could be...
A simple hut among the trees in a classical school courtyard meets an urgent local need for a kindergarten. Resting on...
»De Evenaar« is located in a densely built-up residential area. Like a stone sculpture and detached on all sides, the...
The shape of the long drawn-out complex of the kindergarden ensued from the urban situation, and necessitated closing...
When the parish day nursery had to be extended to admit the increasing numbers of children, the design of the new...
To come across facilities which are distinctly devised to fit in with the world of children is as rare in Switzerland...
In this park-like terrain, the kindergarden, a wood skeleton pavilion with hexagonal ground plan was built in close...
A very simple detail in this kindergarden is ample proof of Edward Cullinan and his team's imaginativeness: During the...
In order to comply with a politically determined increase in the number of places in day nurseries, the city of...
Sure Start was inaugurated in 1999 as a centralized government programme focusing on providing services to parents and...
The education of young children in France is subject to a much greater degree of institutionalization than in other...
Since the poor performance of German educational institutions became known through OECD studies, discussions have taken...
When, in early 2010, the Parish of St. Josef in the Bavarian town of Altötting commissioned us to design a crèche, we...
At the intersection of the historic centre, the new central business district and small-scale residential...
Next to the tracks of Paris North station, this former peripheral block development is slowly acquiring a suburban...
Kalkbreite Housing and Commercial Development in Zurich
»An overly colourful and playful architecture with triangular windows and pointed towers is not what children need....
The grounds of the Vitos health centre in Marburg, near Frankfurt, are dotted with mature trees and historic buildings...
The small nursery school on Hamburg’s northeast side occupies an unusually large site. The children who attend the...
Cassarate is a neighbourhood in Lugano characterised by heterogeneous, multi-storey apartment houses. The pre-school,...
The new German School in Madrid was conceived as a cluster of buildings largely pentagonal on plan and with a honeycomb...
This atmosphere of this pre-school in western Austria is marked by rough-sawn fir and crisp exposed concrete surfaces....
“Hakasui” – white water – is the name of a daycare centre located on a sloped site in Sakura in the east of Tokyo. This...
In the small community of Vétroz, set in the Swiss Alps, the shimmering gold facades of this new childcare centre...
The St Vincent Caritas home in Ingolstadt was built for nearly 40 disabled children and young people. It is based on a...
Galicians say that Corunna lies at the end of the world, an allusion to the time when the earth was thought to be flat....
Like so many communities around Munich, the town of Erding is rapidly expanding. In anticipation of this growth, a new...
The Olympic Village in Innsbruck is a large, two-part development dating from the 1960s. An important element of the...
Sure Start was inaugurated in 1999 as a centralized government programme focusing on providing services to parents and...
Day care centres and schools are places of encounter and learning in which children spend a large part of their day....
The essential design criteria for the expansion of this local primary school in Absam were: seeing the world from the...
Since 2003 architecture practice Die Baupiloten (A) have been collecting experiences in the field of participatory...
Three oval office buildings and a circular children's day care centre. This, essentially, describes the design with...
Situated 140 km north-east of Cape Town stands the kindergarten “Hamlet Crèche”, the third project to be realized as...
Coloured horizontal bands lend the new kindergarten tract of the French school a refreshing note and help integrate the...
The world's largest passive house district has been under construction in Heidelberg for ten years. After its...
In the middle of a playground in the south of Melbourne, an activity centre has been cre-
This purist cube sits unobtrusively in the semi-arid Alentejo region of southern Portugal. The first in a group of...
The residential district on Anglesea Road in southwest Dublin is characterized by traditional terraced housing in...
With the addition of a new annexe, this former dairy in Flanders is now used as a retreat for talented musicians...
The village of Morcote is situated on the banks of Lake Lugano in Switzerland. This new house is located a short walk...
In Weimar a new urban district is being built next to the site for which the Bauhaus produced a residential development...
Houses in Val Poschaivo, in the Swiss canton of Grisons, have traditionally been built close together to give...
This hall of residence in Sarphatistraat is part of a line of buildings that corrects a recent intervention,...
The search for a suitable building to house the new headquarters (the Human Rights Action Centre) of Amnesty...
In both scale and material the Karl Rahner Building adds a new dimension to its neighbourhood, a heterogeneous mix of...
Munich’s new urban district of Messestadt Riem, built on the site of the old airport, has at its heart a striking...
This purist cube sits unobtrusively in the semi-arid Alentejo region of southern Portugal. The first in a group of...
The residential district on Anglesea Road in southwest Dublin is characterized by traditional terraced housing in...
The reuse of existing buildings is a central aim of sustainable construction, since it is the most effective way of conserving resources.
Moving the industry out of the city and introducing housing and commercial functions – this scenario is also taking place in the Lysbüchel area in northwestern Basel.
In order for the turnaround in the construction industry to succeed, material resources must be fully reused and recycled.
Since its founding 20 years ago, NoAarchitecten have become specialists in building within existing structures. In this interview, An Fonteyne discusses the journey to this expertise.
The use of natural raw materials is today more significant in architecture than ever before.
The reuse of existing buildings is a central aim of sustainable construction, since it is the most effective way of conserving resources.
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