A personal review of design creations
Tammisto Electricity Substation
Kivinen Rusanen Architects modernised a key power grid hub with a new building featuring four masonry patterns.
#BrickWeek 2 - University Of Aarhus
Here is the story of a legendary iconic yellow brick but its wizard was not from Oz but Denmark.
Season 2, Episode 5: the University of Aarhus by C. F. Møller Architects.
#BrickWeek 2 - Roly-Poly Cotto By StudioVASE
Seoul can wrongly be categorised as another heartless metropole. It has a discreet charm with plenty of little gems for the visitor (or resident) that knows and takes time to explore. Here is a new one for your list.
Season Two, Episode Four: Roly-Poly Cotto
#BrickWeek 2 - The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School
‘The one who teaches is the giver of eyes’ says an Indian proverb. In a desert region of Rajastan, 400 girls can now go to school until class 10 and soon be able to also enjoy a performance and art centre and cooperative for local artisans.
Season Two, Episode Three: The Rajkumari Ratnavati Girl’s School
#BrickWeek 2 - Bricks Berlin Schöneberg
In Germany, building with bricks is nothing new. But in Berlin Schöneberg, there are two new buildings that bring a flavour of Brick Expressionism back in town.
Season 2, Episode Two: Bricks Berlin Schöneberg
#BrickWeek 2 - Sforza House
Just a year ago, I launched the first edition of the #Brickweek, celebrating this building material so often disregarded but which is nevertheless the basis of all sedentary civilisations.
Here is a new series of five articles proving, if it was still necessary, the versatility of brick for projects of luxury hotels up to a bush school.
Season Two, Episode One - Sforza House in Mexico
#Brickweek 1 - Augmented Bricklaying
To close this series for now, here is a project demonstrating that bricks are not a material from the past with an ancient technique. AI and humans skills are combined here…
Season One, Episode Five: Greece (with a Swiss touch!)
#BrickWeek 1 - Entre Pinos
After Asia, we are off to the Americas, where bricks are also used very often. Here is a project rewarded in 2018 by AZ Awards in the category Best in Architecture—Residential Single Family Residential Interiors.
Season One, Episode Four: Mexico.
#BrickWeek 1 - Krushi Bhawan
For indoor or outdoor, for humble shelters or sophisticated homes, bricks are providing solutions for every architectural need. Today’s project involves bricks of course but much more by supporting local craftsmanship too.
Season One, Episode Three: India.
#BrickWeek 1 – Sleepless Residence
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begin” said once Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This is for sure the speciality of WARchitect for this Sleepless Residence.
Season One, Episode Two: Thailand