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St Moritz Church // John Pawson Architects

Architects: John Pawson Architects. Location: Augsburg, Germany. Year: 2013. Photographs: Gilbert McCarragher. Since its founding almost a thousand years ago, the church of St. Moritz has undergone several changes, including disastrous fires, modifications to the liturgy, changes in aesthetic taste, and bombing during WWII. The goal of this most recent intervention was to improve the existing architecture from an […]

Cementerio Municipal Fisterra // César Portela

Architects: César Portela. Location:  Fisterra, Spain. Year: 2000. Photographs: via César Portela. At Finisterre, topography and toponymy combine to identify a location destined to be a site of grief. The new civic cemetery for the town of Fisterra was built on a place exposed to storms in an effort to make death more accessible to people. The cemetery is a network […]

Structure and Gardens // BAUKUNST

Architects: BAUKUNST. Location: Brussels, Belgium. Year: 2014. Photographs: Maxime Delvaux. Molenbeek-Saint-Jean has distinguished itself in the urban landscape of Brussels by being exceptionally dense, plagued by social conflict, and, more recently, stigmatised by terrorist incidents in Paris and Brussels. While it lacked places that may have given the region some personality, it is full of interstitial areas between its […]

Las Cruces // ELEMENTAL

Architects: ELEMENTAL. Location:  Las Cruces, Mexico. Year: 2010. Photographs: Iwan Baan.

Leça Swimming Pools // Alvaro Siza

With its completion in 1966, the Leça Swimming Pool complex by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza has gained recognition on a global scale. It is situated nearly entirely out of sight, sandwiched between the Atlantic Ocean and the access road that follows the shoreline. The pools reach out into the ocean and seamlessly integrate with the […]