New metropolitan architecture
The Micro compact home
M-ch is a small compact home, conceived as a temporary living space, for a number of one or two people. The project was initiated by Prof. Richard Horden with his team of students and assistants (in 2001) and was a result of the colaboration with the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It was developed as a […]
Rucksack house
The Rucksack house started as an art object, created by the sculptor Stefan Eberstadt, but investors saw the commercial opportunity of the 9 sq m box and transformed it into a house extension, as a cheaper and faster alternative to usual extensions. The author says it all began with the need of escaping the walls, […]
Kajplats, Malmo – Swedish living concepts
When Malmo became only a bridge and a tunnel away from Copenhagen, it started to develop rapidly. Investors saw the opportunity of financing large scale housing projects (for the inhabitants of Copenhagen interested of escaping the big city), the Calatrava’s Turning Torso being the most daring of all. But it wasn’t the only one. The […]
The Agbar Tower
The Agbar Tower in Barcelone was built over a period of 5 years (1999-2004). His construction marks an other phase in the development of the Diagonal Boulevard, which is the main axis linking the city center to the sea. The 142m skyscraper was […]
London architecture
The building from Covent Garden, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, is one of the new buildings that integrate perfectly in the old front. With an H shaped limestone outline that ends at the same height as the neighbored houses the building leaves its last storey to pop up above the old buildings, without that being […]
The Square Head (La Tête Carrée)
Inaugurated on the 29th of July 2002, in Nice, France, The Square Head is the first inhabited sculpture in the world. As part of the Louis Nucera Library, it gathers the administrative offices, being 28 m height and 14 wide. The designer Sacha Sosno, is a sculptor who had long […]
