Project description of Aduana de Taylor Museum by B4FS: Architects:
This work outlines the transformations experienced by one of the most important sites of Buenos Aires -capital city of Argentina- throughout an entire cycle, from the 16th century to the present.
Project description of BC House by GLR arquitectos – Gilberto L. Rodríguez:
Our project is in a privileged topographic situation, due to its visual condition of greater height in relation to the surrounding neighbors. This allows the house to enjoy excellent vistas towards the National Park of Chipinque in the south, as well as towards all of the east, which is dominated in the horizon by the “Cerro de la Silla”, an emblematic hill in the boundaries of the city of Monterrey.
Press Release (July 16, 2010):
Decatur Georgia’s “RainShine” House Continues to Garner Recognition and Awards
The aptly-named RainShine House, one of the healthiest single-family houses in the United States, which achieved the highest level of “green architecture” possible through the United States Green Building Council’s LEED® [Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design] for Homes Pilot Program, continues to be recognized for its beauty and sustainable features.
Project description of PAYSAGES EN EXIL by Nicolas Dorval-Bory & Raphaël Bétillon:
PAYSAGES EN EXIL seeks to create, along the hospital of La Grave in Toulouse, an experimental journey in which the visitor is invited to explore an unlikely landscape, a condensation of climates, a mix of Natures from all over the world. The project finds its genesis in the description of “wandering plants phenomenon” made by Gilles Clément :
Nueva Costa del Plata Project (6 Strategic Topics) by OFICINA URBANA S.A.:
1 History & Nature
The project aims to reestablish the physical, social, cultural and productive link between the City and the River, by reinterpreting the urban processes that led to the peripheral conditions of the space as it is today, by applying strategies that unite both those values related to the history of the place and those determined by the natural wealth provided by the Rio de la Plata and the woods that line its shore.
Project description of Sotelia by Enota:
Wellness Hotel Sotelia fills the gap between two existing hotels, both of them not hiding their different architectural origins. New hotel is not trying to summarize samples from nearby structures but rather clearly distances itself from the built environment and connects, instead, with its natural surroundings.
Projcet description of Meadowview by Platform 5 Architects:
Meadowview is situated on the edge of a rural village in Bedfordshire and was designed as a family home for a retired couple. The plot, enclosed by hedgerows and mature trees, borders onto an expanse of arable fields. The site has been divided into different areas by the house and hard landscaping, setting up an interplay between the building, gardens and distant landscape.
Project description of m-house by Masaki Mori:
It is a house for the married couple who will retire soon and for their family. The couple hope to be able to feel the nature through the garden work and the kitchen garden in their life afterwards. It seems as the theory to build the mountain villa with a span roof and natural material on the site like the villa area surrounding by green. If it is a country house, such a pastoral image might be sometimes necessary. However, I don’t think that it is always necessary for their life in the future. I dared to choose the ordinary material which is treated easily seen well in the residential quarter, such as alminium sash with the louver door of ready-made goods for a flat roof and the siding board. It is because of expecting a generic space that excludes the originality of employed material and the uniqueness of the design, and to make a consciousness not only to internally, but also to externally.
