House in a church – Ruud Visser Architects

Filed Under: Public Building

On the river in Rotterdam, is a wooden church in 1930. The building has not worked as a church from the ’60s and has been used as storage space and garage. The church was completely covered with aluminum foil and turned into a storage company. Until a family with two children bought the church to live in it. Instead of simply transforming the church into a house with 12 rooms, we have a house...

House in a church - Ruud Visser Architects

Mansueto Library – Murphy Jahn

Filed Under: Home Design

The site of the Campus of the University of Chicago is surrounded by a variety of features and buildings of different eras. The mixture of styles was not providing a clear line to follow and easy to relate to this environment was elusive. The commissioning of the new library services Joe and Rika Mansueto, was to create a space to store 3.5 million books, the effort was then put to obstruct as little...

Solberg Tower Rest Area – Saunders Architecture

Filed Under: Public Building

Sarpsborg is a green, flat and calm in southern Norway, and a traditional stop for travelers en route to and from Sweden. In 2004, the Norwegian Highway Department along with the Regional Government Saunders approached to apply for a new project in the area, without having the predetermined needs of the commission. Focusing on the field and seeking to identify their challenges and benefits stop to...

Solberg Tower Rest Area - Saunders Architecture

Temporary Pavilion for the ‘Bethlehem’ Municipal De Madrid – Gassz Architects

Filed Under: Public Building

The assignment involves the creation of a temporary pavilion covered for the installation of a “Bethlehem” traditional, popular scenery depicting the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. This has been commissioned by municipal by sculptor Jose Luis Mayo. The pavilion stands free, and indicating the property, the sidewalk outside the new Town Hall of Madrid, showing facade to the Plaza de...

Temporary Pavilion for the 'Bethlehem' Municipal De Madrid - Gassz Architects

Containers of Hope – Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture

Filed Under: Home Design

The owners, Marco Peralta y Gabriela Calvo, dreamed of living on his property 20 minutes from the city of San José, where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape. They made the decision explore the possibility of creating a low cost house, made of discarded containersAllowing them to be free and live your life you always dreamed of. It was therefore important to provide them...