Romanesque architecture

The unchallenged grandeur of a city that still draws breath, confined to a space that emulates Roman architecture, Bardos La Citta , a fine dining venue is weaved into the urban fabric of the city - Delhi, India. The design identity being inconsequential to its surroundings, creates an ecosystem within, to disconnect its users from the outside world. Studio Suryan||Dang With rudimentary elements encompassing the site, the artistic language of this spatial magnificence mimics the inward-looking Domus to avert the user's eye from the crummy view. The nonchalant viewer experiences serenity through this unconventional milieu offering exquisite food, refreshing greenery, a grand waterfall, and natural sunlight, all while being indoors.... More

Located in the district of Porto, in the Village of Lousada, the Interpretation Centre of Romanesque is located in an area that is an expansion of this village marked by a strong relationship with an urban square called Praça das Pocinhas and with the Senhor dos Aflitos Church - a strong reference in the town center. The building seeks to create a relation with the site by its implantation on the village square limit establishing an urban continuity between its volumetries and the surroudings and making it a new element of reference for this village center.   Based on the generator concepts of Romanesque architecture in Portugal, the building aims to be a transitional element between the present and the distant Romanesque past... More

The new Temple of Cremation in Parma is located north of the Valera Cemetery, between this one and the newly built ring road, approximately one kilometer west of the city.On one side the city and the ring road, on the other one the countryside and the town of Valera, mark the references to a landscape characterized by the centuriale history of colonization and the basic Roman altomedievale roads: a civilization still readable in the Roman Domus, in the layout of roads and farms, in the Romanesque architecture.The relationship between the two fences, old and designed and that between them, the countryside and the town of Valera is the main issue addressed by the project.The fence, a fence made of architectural space that designed as a portic... More

The old chapel of the Virgin of Meritxell, patron saint of the Principality of Andorra, was gutted by fire during celebrations in 1972. The Taller de Arquitectura was commissioned to rebuild the sanctuary, but steered away from the kind of archaeological approach that would have been limited to replacing the fallen stones in their original positions. A new sanctuary was constructed on the basis of a reinterpretation of the theoretical principles of Romanesque architecture within a modern design, acknowledging the architectural heritage of the Pyrinees and seeking to counter the process of progressive degradation which the Principality a has suffered as a consequence of the total lack of planning control and building regulations. All the ele... More