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News • News • 10 Feb 2022
Gesep House by Jaime Prous Architects mixes the cutting-edge with traditional farmhouse principles
The Gesep House by Jaime Prous Architects consists of five tangent volumes of different heights and dimensions that respond to the terrain and interior program of the house. The overall solidity contrasts with a light pergola that connects the volumes and provides a sheltered exterior space that is protected from the Spanish sun.
Alejo Bagué
The interior spatiality is enhanced through a sensitive approach to light. Private and intimate spaces, such as the bathrooms, utilize overhead lighting, while rooms for daily use employ natural lighting through gaps oriented towards different landscape views. The most public spaces, including the dining room, living room, kitchen, and hall, feature sliding glass walls that provide fo... More
Project • By MIEL Arquitectos • Private Houses
CASA ES CARNATGE
Casa es Carnatge is a single house located in front of the abandoned stone quarries of Son Mosson at the Palma Bay, from which draws its materiality and formal logic. Through a doble stoneskin facade we abstract inhabiting of the noise pollution from the neighboring airport and search into the Marés a way of being. The constructive approach of Casa es Carnatge looks for the essential, reducing the number of materials participating at the equation and searching the top expressive state of each one, in such a way the matter austerity results in formal wealth. The Marés is the principal actor of this house: sand brown forming an outside eroded and hightly expresive together with the rusted steel windowsills; Pure white in the inside providing... More
Project • By E. Pihl & Son • Theaters
The Royal Danish Playhouse
"The Royal Danish Theatre, Denmark's national theatre, has acquired a unique house with three stages; viz. the Royal Theatre Playhouse. The architecture and the materials chosen for this building, incl. the copper-covered stage tower rising above the entire complex at a height of 35 m, attempt resembling the surrounding town houses and the old towers of the city. The house has partly been constructed on piles in the harbour, and the lobby of the theatre sort of opens up towards three storeys with direct access to the pier at ground level. The building has been prepared for future increases of the water level. The building has been given a diploma by Foreningen til Hovedstadens Forskønnelse (the Association for the Embellishment of Copenhage... More