Building on the Arctic Circle

Idea for the hotel and golf course in Gimsøy. 70º N Arkitektur

See the Northern Lights and golfing in the remote Lofoten islands may be an exotic appeal that induces the generation of a flow of visitors in this area near the Arctic Circle. This was due to consider someone who has plans to build a small resort for practicing this sport in northern Norway from a team idea 70 º N Arkitektur.

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The Plague. Mounting of the exhibition


From June until the end of next month September 2013 remains open at the Museum of Nature and Man of exposure Tenerife, The Plague. The Fourth Horseman. This is a show that tries to explain the collective impact and influence that epidemic diseases can have on a small geographical environment as an island.

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A museum of Sverre Fehn

The game of the crystals superimposed on the original factory in Hedmark Museum. Photo: Peter Guthrie

Hammar Hedmark Museum is an exceptional work of Pritzker Prize Norwegian Sverre Fehn is done out of respect to that found. The project involves the recovery of the ruins of an old fortress built by a local bishop in the twelfth century. The new museum addition is inserted into that shell barely touching legacy remains as an outsider who comes to disturb the sleep of an abandoned space for centuries.

It is the architect who explains the deeper reasons for this museum piece. To present their work in 1982 wrote the following in the magazine Byggekunst:

 A museum is the dance of the "dead things" in which the artifact and its relation to human movement is what is important-as opposed to the architecture in which the human being plays the main role is secondary artifact.

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Crystal Art

Docket. Tracey Emin, 2013

Peggy Guggenheim was, one of the great collectors of twentieth century art in Venice established, who said that the glass material is too important to leave in the hands of craftsmen. Following that advice some workshops on the island of Murano have transformed their business to produce unique glass sculptures by contemporary artists recognized as Jaume Plensa, Tracey Amin and Joseph Kosuth.

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Hacia la ciudad agraria

By Federico Garcia Beard

Hacia 2050, la población del planeta tierra habrá crecido en 3000 millones de personas más. Muchísimas bocas más que buscaran alimento y la producción de vegetales y carne se hará más escasa. Algunos equipos internacionales de arquitectura, como Agence Babylone and Van Bergen Kolpa Architecten, están imaginando ya lo que se podría hacer para atender este problema cercano. Su objetivo es reconfigurar las ciudades que habitamos para que podamos disponer de productos de alimentación en las proximidades.

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Una casa entre palmeras


This is a double holiday home that is posed with a simplicity of construction and formal resources very pronounced. Palmyra House, Designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain, is presented as a constructed response to extremely hot and sunny climate of the coast of India, in Nandgaon near Mumbai, Maharastra State.

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Laboratories of Columbia University

Facade of Sciences Columbia University Avenue to Broadway. Photo: Michael Moran

In the middle of the last decade, Spanish architect Rafael Moneo receive an order to build a new building that would broaden the flagship facility of Columbia University in New York City. A professional challenge in dialogue with the Manhattan skyline from which to build a unique architectural work along Broadway Avenue.

Diagonals, Tate Gallery. Frank Stella, 1967

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The Belgian sawmill Madrid

Inside the Medialab Prado. Renovated building of Belgian Sawmills. Langarita and Navarro Architects, 2012. Photos: Miguel de Guzmán 

Recently, have presented selected works, finalists and winners of the Twelfth Edition of the Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism promotes the Department of Architecture in collaboration with the Council of Colleges of Architects of Spain and Caja de Arquitectos. Among the fifteen prize winners we pick the new headquarters of Medialab Prado, a reform that has taken place in the old building of the Belgian Sawmill and whose leaders have been Langarita Madrid architects and Navarro.

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Rehabilitation of buildings


In Spain, the construction sector is going through a crucial time for the future. After more than five years of destruction of traditional economic model based on the promotion of new residential building, seems that institutions are betting heavily on a new path that will focus on the rehabilitation of existing housing stock.

It will be a process of radical change for the different players in the sector. One strategy that the central government supports up forcefully through the Ministry of Public Works and National Housing Plan 2013-2016. Since in 2008, compulsorily implanted Técnicade Building Inspection under certain conditions and, especially along 2013, the purpose of government is to mobilize the population to undertake the maintenance, rehabilitation and renovation of older homes. And thereby, promote the renovation of the damaged areas of cities. So, this year, have appeared successive laws that encourage the reorientation of architecture and construction activity towards improving the existing building.

This is what has happened with the Royal Decrees 233/2013 by regulating the State Housing Plan (LPEV) and 235/2013 on the energy certification of buildings (LCEE). And more recently, with the Law 8/2013 Rehabilitation, regeneration and urban renewal (LRRRU) to which to dedicate this reflection and briefly presented here.

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The mountain of apartments

The Mountain Dwellings. Ingels BJarke Groep 2009. Photo: Ulrik Jantzen

A the end of the last decade that asombró fulgurante surgía this work to the international community of architects by the originality of their approaches. A radical idea of ​​residential building whose composition is based on the maximum use of existing low luz del sol del norte as a country Dinamarca.

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