subtilitas:

Linazasoro & Sanchez - Cultural Centre of the Piarists, Madrid 2004. This phenomenal renovation sits within the preserved ruins of the Piarist School of San Fernando, a historic complex damaged in the civil war and later in a large fire. The renovation adds an academic library, new classrooms, and event spaces, as well as a rehabilitation to the adjoining public square. Photos © Miguel de Guzmán, click for many more. 

Linazasaro & Sanchez, Madrid.

tuomaskivinen:

Aalto House & Studio

Alvar Aalto 1936

Helsinki | Finland

By the time Aalto and his wife Aino built their house and studio on the then outskirts of Helsinki, they had already gained international fame from the design of Paimio Sanatorium in South-Western Finland. Whereas Paimio was a stark, fully formed example of Functionalism, the house was Aalto’s first work that featured his original, slightly romanticised version of the new architectural movement.

Aalto House is characterised by human scale, beautiful use of natural light, quirky details and plain but warm finishings. The furnishings consist mainly of prototypes and early production series of furniture designed by Aalto. At the time, the interior design was radical and new, but now the house seems like a “Series 0″ of Finnish residential architecture: Aaltos’ designs and style have been accepted and assimilated into the mainstream Finnish lifestyles. 

The studio wing could fit only a few persons and sometimes draughting tables were set up in the living room. Despite a lack of space, the office was located here until 1955, when Aalto built a separate studio building close to the house.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Linnebo House by Schjelderup Trondahl Architects

plusarchitekt:

FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, New York - Louis Kahn via Iwan Baan

“I had this thought that a memorial should be a room and a garden. That’s all I had. Why did I want a room and a garden? I just chose it to be the point of departure. The garden is somehow a personal nature, a personal kind of control of nature. And the room was the beginning of architecture. I had this sense, you see, and the room wasn’t just architecture, but was an extension of self.”

FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, New York - Louis Kahn via Iwan Baan



iratiroteta:

Clear Lake House - MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects

Clear Lake House - MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects

mehtapty:

The Building is the City: Le Corbusier’s Unbuilt Hospital in Venice

“The “New Venice hospital” is an unbuilt yet renowned project by Le Corbusier. The first phase of the design took place between 1964 and 1965, the year of the architect’s death, in the site of a former slaughterhouse in San Giobbe neighborhood in Cannaregio. This preliminary design was approved by Venice municipality. After Le Corbusier’s death,Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, leader of the project’s preliminary research and design team, was appointed to lead the team through the completion of the building. Anyway, a shift in the city government occurred and the hospital ended never seing the light.”

Le Corb’s ‘unbuilt hospital’ in Venice; 1964-65

dose-of-design:

Form Augment by Jasmine Holm and Marcus Hollands