Architectural Photos
School canteen, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
Small canteen, with its pavilion character, built to the curent building of primary school in town Póvoa de Varzim, in Portugal, by the proposal of architect José Cadilhe of Cadilhe & Fontoura. The structure is unique by its funcionalistic representation, supported by lifted first and only one floor above the level of ground. Unfortunately demonstration […]
Train stations by Zaha Hadid
Icon of architecture Zaha Hadid shouldnt be ashamed in Austria too. Before an opening of new winter season 2007, she opeened 4 small train stations, that serve to skiers, above the city of Insbruck. This project shows another sucessful plastic play with mass by architect Hadid.
Virtual exhibition - ME100
You can find an exhibition on the website www.me100.cz. It is work of czech atelier DRNH. Antonin Novak and Petr Valenta are inviting us on exhibition about town, which is inspirated by books of czech writers Pavel Hnilicka and Vaclav Cilek. Architects are trying to warn us about situation in postcommunistic states, where the landscape […]
The endearment from Sao Paolo
French-Brazilian architecture company Triptyque designed building for Loducca, a São Paulo advertising agency. It´s quite simple 3 floors office and is situated in suburb area. The most interesting think on whole project is front facade. It´s made from horizontal wood plank, which flows around the building. This organic mass is broken only in one spot. […]
TOP 100 most viewed projects
Top 100 most viewed projects you can find in worldarchitecturenews.com
Phenomenon Mercedes Benz - pictures
Link for a lots of photos of Museum Mercedes Benz in Stuttgart, Germany. Except whole building you can also see a few photos from building process of this amaizing project. There are some models and presentations by UN studio as well.
Destruction of classic building by Toyo Ito
Winning project of Japanese architect Toyo Ito quashes classic conception of floor inside the building. Construction is in organic form flowing through the building. Thats fractionate inside space into a new dimension. Architect said:“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to reflect it, a simple square or cube can’t contain that diversity.”
Sound in colourfull box - Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum, Neutelings and Riedijk
The new built Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, designed by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk, wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, it is their most gorgeous work to date. The building is conceived as a perfect cube, half of it buried underground. […]
The tower that change a skyline in London
Rafaels Vinoly proposal for a new tower in a centre of London, UK, divided the architectural community into two highly charged camps. The tower will change a siluet of the town so considerably, that some architects have a thoughts that project may have crossed an invisible line of ‘acceptability’. The majority […]
The 6th International Photo Competition
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The 6th International Photo Competition on “Earthen architectures: landscapes of architectures” is an initiative of the Municipality of Casalincontrada, in the Italian province of Chieti and the Documentation Centre on Earth Architectures, Terrae onlus Association.
The “rediscovery” of the knowledge linked to earthen architecture recomposed in images, like tiles of a mosaic made of people, things, […]
