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Gerichtshof // Atelier Abraha Achermann

Architects: Atelier Abraha Achermann. Location: Münchwilen, Switzerland. Year: 2014. Photographs: Rasmus Norlander. The 1906 courthouse was renovated and expanded by architect Albert Brenner, a Gustav Gull student. The newly developed duality of object and ensemble reconfigures the environment and establishes a direct conversation between the old and the new structures. The extension’s house-shaped bulk makes constant geometric, spatial, and […]

Tom Ford Ranch // Tadao Ando

Architect: Tadao Ando. Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Year: 2012. Photographs: Guido Mocafico. With more than 20,000 acres (8,094-hectare) Cerro Pelon Ranch property is located in northern New Mexico and has a meandering river, cottonwood trees, and grazing meadows. Owned by fashion designer and film director Tom Ford, the property was recently put on the market, with a […]

Fried // AMUNT

Architects: AMUNT. Location: Düren, Germany. Year: 2010. Photographs: Brigida Gonzalez.

Trail House // Anne Holtrop

Architects: Anne Holtrop. Location: Almere, Netherlands. Year: 2009. Photographs: Bas Princen. The Trail House by Anne Holtrop follows a network of ground pathways that were carved out by daily foot traffic. The interior is transformed into a “walking home” as the house takes on the role of a walkway. The house widens and then narrows as it follows the […]

Federal Criminal Court // Durisch + Nolli Architetti + Bearth & Deplazes

Architects: Durisch + Nolli Architetti, Bearth & Deplazes Architekten. Location: Bellinzona, Switzerland. Year: 2013. Photography: Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, Kuster Frey. The 2013 Federal Criminal Court building is located on Via Stefano Franscini, at the place of the former School of Business. The neoclassical oeuvre has been conceived as the entrance building, and it is now the new home for the Federal Criminal […]

CDLE // R-ZERO

Architects: R-ZERO. Location:  Mexico City, Mexico. Year: 2015. Photographs: Moritz Bernoully + Jaime Navarro.

Mittelpunktbibliothek // Bruno Fioretti Marquez

Architects: Bruno Fioretti Marquez. Location: Berlin, Germany. Year: 2008. Photographs: via BFM , Christoph Rokitta, ORCH Chemollo. Köpenik, where this library is situated, is located at the confluence of the Spree river with the Dahme tributary and is characterized by an exceptional landscape context and a well-preserved historic centre. The objectives of the project are to redefine the road layout, the precise articulation […]

34 Studio House // Sergison Bates

Architects: Sergison Bates. Location:  London, GB. Year: 2004. Photographs: Ioana Marinescu. The site is situated on a plot of vacant land on a street lined with light industrial structures and substantial pre-war dwelling blocks in an area of East London that was once semi-industrial but is now crowded and fragmented in nature. The project suggests a shape that is […]

Amangiri Resort // Rick Joy + Wendell Burnette Architects

Architects: Rick Joy +  Wendell Burnette Architects. Location:  Utah, United States. Year: 2009. Photographs: Joe Flechter, Aman Resorts. The three architects were inspired to work together on an inspiring sight for hotelier Adrian Zecha. They created a bold yet responsive settlement that both honours and celebrates southern Utah’s cliffs and rock formations. The 34-room resort is situated against a low sandstone […]

Galerie Neu // Kuehn Malvezzi

Architects: Kuehn Malvezzi. Location:  Berlin, Germany. Year: 2014. Photographs: Schwarz Architekturfotografie.

South London Gallery // 6a architects

Architects: 6a architects. Location: London, GB.  Year: 2012. Photographs: David Grandorge + 6a architects. The South London Gallery was enlarged in 2010 by 6a Architects, who turned it from a single gallery interior into an expanded sequence of interior and external rooms housing a variety of simultaneous uses. An artist-in-residence apartment has been added to the second […]

Swiss Church London // Christ & Gantenbein

Architects: Christ & Gantenbein. Location: London, UK. Year: 2010. Photographs: Hélène Binet. The Victorian architect George John Vulliamy built the original Swiss Chapel for the expatriate Swiss community in London in 1855. An intervention aimed at doubling this Grade II-listed building’s functional surface required dismantling the existing organ gallery and finding a form that fulfilled the functional requirements. Three […]

Classics: Bagsværd Church // Jørn Utzon

Architect: Jørn Utzon. Location: Copenhagen, Denmark. Year: 1976. Photographs:  seier + seier. Bagsvaerd Church is a Lutheran church in Bagsvaerd on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, designed by Jørn Utzon in 1968 and completed in 1976. It is considered a masterpiece of contemporary church architecture due to its bright, naturally illuminated interior and its ceiling straddled with softly […]