The brief for this guesthouse project consisted of the renovation of an old building in the central square of Valendas and the construction of a new annex over the ruins of an adjacent stable, now derelict and unusable. The project basically includes a community functions room, a gourmet restaurant and eight guest rooms. The new wing not only…
DetailsThe free-standing house is the focus of growing criticism in the context of a planet threatened by climate change and other ecological imbalances. The problem is that free-standing homes consume too many resources, and Valendas, a small village on the right bank of the Rhine Gorge, thinks that is no longer acceptable. The village wanted an alternative form…
DetailsSuq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain | Anne Holtrop, architect | © Jesús Granada, photographer Suq al-Qaysariya in Muharraq, Bahrain | Anne Holtrop, architect | © Jesús Granada, photographer
DetailsArchaeologies of Green, the national pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain, at the Expo Milano 2015 is a poetic interpretation of the cultural agrarian heritage of the country, which stems from the ancient civilization of Dilmun. With ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that will be fruit–bearing at different moments throughout the six-month duration of…
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