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| Source: José Oller archdaily.com |
Mary Immaculate Parish Hall, Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Spain designed by Equipo Olivares Arquitecto
The very nature of a building intended for worship, raised the need to get spaces for contemplation and meditation. For this, the Parish Hall turns to the interior gardens, isolated from the outside by cyclopean concrete walls and reinforced concrete. The closings are understood as light screens. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Ernesta Caviola archdaily.com |
Villa Sottanis Library and Gamesroom, Via Annuti, 36, 16030 Casarza Ligure Genoa, Italy, 2008 designed by 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo
A number of verses written by Gianni Rodari, who was and still is the greatest fairy tale writer of the 20th century, have been chosen to represent the new centre. The cultural and playful nature of the project can be interpreted through his works that the building explicitly pays tribute to. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Pietro Savorelli archdaily.com |
Curno Public Library and Auditorium, Via IV Novembre, 24128 Bergamo BG, Italy, 2009 designed by Archea Associati
Through various laboratory tests and various samples, they opted for a colored concrete with a “mix-design” integrated with natural iron oxide pigments and with the addition of lubricants to make the concrete workable according to particular conformations of the molds.
The realization of the letters on the surface of the walls was made possible by the positioning of plastic matrices onto those surfaces. -- ArchDaily
Fougères Biblioteque, Fougères, France, 2009 designed by Tétrarc Architects
The Fougères Biblioteque follows the contemporary approach to libraries as meeting spaces, rather than just book storage. Due to the public function of the building,it expresses itself to the city trough the facade details -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Element Arkitekter AS archdaily.com |
The Teachers House, Osterhaus gate 4, Oslo, Norway designed by Element Arkitekter AS
Two layers of glass and the screen print (silketrykk in Norwegian) on the outside of the inner glass. In the competition we put art on the façade in order to symbolize the important role of Union of Education Norway concerning teaching and education. The art also functions as sunscreen. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: FG+SG archdaily.com |
Corten Apartments, Venice, Italy, 2012 designed by 3ndy Studio
The facade designed by 3ndy Studio reproduce the dimension of the destroy one, but however suggests the spot of time on the plaster. In order to complete the facade and make it an exclusive one. 3ndy Studio under suggestion of Philippe Daverio, asked Giorgio Milani, a sculptor from Piacenza, to take part in this big artistic operation. Milani wrote on this page, enriching by using fullness and emptiness due to the words of the alphabet carved from the panels of corten steel. From here has been born “ Footfalls echo in the memory”, a work of lettering, which means composing letters and symbols carefully chosen by the artist, Giorgio Milani, according to their nineteenth-century origin (the age in which this building as been built) and their aesthetics dress, balancing 22 different alphabets, upper-case and lower-case letters, of different fonts in order to have an aesthetic and cultural harmony. -- ArchDaily
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| Source: Studio Erick Saillet archdaily.com |
La Passerelle, La Saône, France, 2013 designed by Pierre Vurpas et Associés Architectes
A stone pebble cut like a diamond, a mineral forecourt that reaches out to draw in passers-by, a glass facade like an ever-changing skyscape, gilded like copper, words from the old French dictionary engraved into the glass panels, illuminated by curtains of woven metal: La Passerelle, a new cultural space for Trévoux, slots into the gap next to the hospital like a missing piece of the puzzle creating a perfect blend of history and contemporary architecture. -- ArchDaily
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