Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have transformed the historic Beaux-Arts Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Designed to help anchor the neighborhood’s resurgence, the project team worked to preserve, restore, and adapt the former hospital building as the first phase of a proposed $1 billion redevelopment plan. The proposal aims to revitalizes the surrounding Illinois Medical District and provide new amenities to the area.
Architects are known for returning from travel with more photos of buildings than people and for having an esoteric vocabulary of their own. Of course, these are clichés that are not always true. But something that unites most designers is the tendency to pay attention to each detail that makes up a project, be it the material that covers the facade, the junction between different floors, how the doors open, the type of window frame, how the forms were put together for concreting, and more. But a detail that often goes unnoticed – and that makes a huge difference in interior design – is baseboards.
Written by Romullo Baratto. Situated in a suburban property in Gallarate, in the Italian region of Lombardy, stand the two blocks of travertine marble, Álvaro Siza‘s newest project: a housing condominium with 20 apartments developed in partnership with the Portuguese office COR Arquitectos. Facing the busy Via Roma and the peaceful Via Postporta, the complex recreates two local typologies – the Italian courtyard and the secluded villa – in a set of volumes that hints at the shapes of another one of Siza’s masterpieces, the Porto School of Architecture.
The project “Espai Mietis” on behalf of Mietis and created by Maria Fontanellas was born in the Poblenou district of Barcelona. It is a neighborhood of multiple dialogues involving different architectural languages, uses and typologies. It brings together the new technology industries in the 22@ area, as well as design schools, universities, new commercial and service spaces embodying contemporary character.
Vietnamese studio Sanuki Daisuke Architects has designed a townhouse for a family in Ho Chi Minh City around three cavernous rooms open to the elements. The white Vom House occupies a small site hemmed in by other residences in the Vietnamese city’s high-density, residential area called Binh Thanh District. As there was not enough space
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The Courtyard House sits on an eastern slope of the Lower Rhine Valley. Designed for a couple who desired to live on a single level all living spaces are arranged around a courtyard including a swimming pool. The courtyard is enclosed by the building itself on three sides while the slope and vegetation provide the fourth wall. This main floor rests in part on columns and in part on a socle which comprises two additional floors including a self-contained apartment.
The site for this project is a rare well – reserved land in the middle of Taipei city. Filled with large old trees. A welcome reception center is planned to be sited on the site.
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