Casa das Histórias Paula Rego by Eduardo Souto de Moura. Architectural photographer Francisco Nogueira has sent us his photographs of Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais, Portugal, the latest building to be completed by 2011 Pritzker Prize Laureate Eduardo Souto de Moura. Designed to exhibit paintings, drawings and etchings by artist Paula Rego, the red concrete museum has four wings and two pyramid-like chimneys.
The interior is painted white with flooring made from local marble. Besides the galleries the building houses a shop, cafe and 200-seat auditorium. More about the Pritzker Prize » More photography stories » The information below is from the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego: The Casa das Histórias Paula Rego was designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. The land and trees which previously existed at the site are incorporated as fundamental elements, while four wings, of varying heights and sizes, make up the building. See also: Outside In by Takeshi Hosaka. Glass screens fold across the front of this house in Yamanashi, Japan, to transform a covered garden into an indoor dining room.
Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka’s concept for Outside In was to bring the garden inside, the opposite of previous house Inside Out, which turns indoor rooms into outdoor spaces by letting the rain in. White-painted concrete walls down the sides of the single-storey house have a zigzagging profile that creates four connected gables. These gables define the linear arrangement of rooms inside, which include the garden dining room, a kitchen and living room, a row of bedrooms and a row of bathrooms. The concrete walls are exposed inside the house and contrast with built-in timber furniture that fills every room. Although the building has no other windows, natural light enters through skylights atop each of the gables.
Photography is by Koji Fujii / Nacasa & Partners. Here's some more text from Takeshi Hosaka: Gradation of scenery, from outdoor area to inside area. MYZ (NEST) by no.555 | WHAT WE DO IS SECRET. Via Takuya Tsuchida / no.555 via Takuya Tsuchida / no.555 Who: Takuya Tsuchida / no.555What: Single family residenceWhere: Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, JapanWhen: October 2011How: One-story reinforced concrete constructionSite Area: 3,616 square feet (335.96m²)Total Floor Area: 1,048 square feet (97.39m²) More images » About Tets M A janitor at A Lab on Fire. Leimondo Nursery School by Archivision Hirotani Studio. Pyramidal chimneys perforated by square windows draw light into the playrooms of a Japanese nursery by Archivision Hirotani Studio. Top: photograph by Archivision Hirotani Studio The pointed skylights provide the single-storey Leimondo Nursery School with high ceilings in each of the seven playrooms, as well as in the children's bathroom.
Openings of assorted shapes create windows and doors through the internal walls of the nursery. A chair has been mounted on the ceiling of one playroom, whilst five differently coloured clocks line the wall of another. Located in the city of Nagahama, the nursery provides daycare for children up to the age of five. Other preschools featured on Dezeen in recent months include a Japanese school filled with overlapping arches and an Italian kindergarten split into house-shaped blocks - see all our stories about nurseries and kindergartens here. See also: a shimmering copper-clad beauty parlour also designed by Archivision Hirotani Studio. Mirror House by MLRP. Funhouse mirrors are mounted on the gabled ends of this playground pavilion in Copenhagen, as well as behind the doors.
Completed by Danish architects MLRP, the Mirror House is a flexible space and restroom used by kindergarten classes. The pavilion is clad in charred timber but its polished steel ends reflect the surrounding playground and trees. Both convex and concave mirrors are mounted onto the backs of doors, which swing open when the building is in use to create an outdoor hall of mirrors. We've published quite a few interesting projects with mirrors - see them all here, including an office with a slide. Photography is by Laura Stamer. The following text is from MLRP: Mirror House at the Common MLRP has transformed an existing graffiti-plagued playground structure to an inviting and reflective building as part of the new Interactive Playground Project in Copenhagen.
It is a play with perspective, reflection and tranformation. Elsbethen Site by Trint + Kreuder d.n.a. A veil of metal lace screened by thin concrete piers clads an extension to a baroque theatre and an adjacent commercial block in Germany. German architects Trint + Kreuder d.n.a designed the extension to Landestheater Schwaben, the commercial building and a medical centre on the Elsbethen Site in the Bavarian town of Memmingen. A mixture of both steep and shallow gables frame the roofs of each of the three buildings. The theatre extension provides circulation, workshops, rehearsal areas and administrative facilities for the historic theatre, as well as a restaurant which spills out onto a secluded square.
The commercial block contains offices, cafes and shops. Beside the health centre, diagonal metal beams cover the glass face of a gable that shelters the entrance to an underground car park. We also recently featured a town hall in a medieval German village - click here to here all our stories about projects in Germany. Photography is by Christian Richters, apart from where otherwise stated. Llsa. House S by Christ Christ. German architects Christ Christ have added box-like rooms and an outdoor cinema to the roof of a house in Wiesbaden. Named House S, the former bungalow now has three storeys, with a cantilevered roof separating the first floor from the new upper level. Existing partitions are removed from the first floor to accommodate a large open-plan living room and kitchen, while the master bedroom is relocated to the new second floor.
A glass corridor connects this bedroom to the other two boxes, which contain an extra living room and a home office. The cinema terrace is located on one of three separate roof gardens and overlooks a private courtyard on the storey below. A separate apartment is located on the ground floor. Other popular German residences we've featured include a woodland retreat with a chunky timber shell and a house covered in rubber - see more projects from Germany here. Photography is by Thomas Herrmann.
Here's some more text from Christ Christ: House S – extension and conversion. Le 49 by APOLLO Architects & Associates. Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates Photography: Masao Nishikawa Location: Kanagawa, Japan Le 49 is located on Mount Kamakura, this site boasts a stunning view overlooking Sagami Bay. The clients, a husband-and-wife couple who had been living in a high-rise condominium in downtown Tokyo, fell in love with the location at first sight, taking an instant liking to the view and the lush green surroundings, and decided to move here.
The husband is a keen architecture buff who went on architectural tours throughout Europe to see buildings while he was working in the UK, and decided to commission a new residence with an attached workshop for his wife. Accordingly, we decided to create a modern piece of architecture whose every detail would convey a uniquely Japanese aesthetic to the international guests who would visit. Le 49 consists of rectangular volumes with concrete bases to which a white photocatalytic pigment has been applied.
Nursery in Sarreguemines by Michel Grasso and Paul Le Quernec. Visitors enter this nursery in northeast France through a curving concrete orifice. Architects Michel Grasso and Paul Le Quernec designed the nursery, which is located beside a noisy road in the town of Sarreguemines. The undulating entrance walls lead into a round reception room at the centre of the building. The rest of the nursery is arranged like a human body cell, with classrooms and playrooms encircling this central nucleus. Ceiling heights in these surrounding rooms slope down to just over two metres-high to create a comfortable environment for young children.
Rooms around the building’s perimeter open onto sheltered terraces and a surrounding garden. Other nurseries and kindergartens on Dezeen include one with pyramidal chimneys and another with brightly coloured rotating shutters - see more stories about kindergartens here. Photography is by the architects, unless otherwise stated. Here's a short description of the project from Michel Grasso: Nursery in Sarreguemines (France) Nottingham Contemporary by Caruso St John Architects. London practice Caruso St John Architects have completed an art centre in Nottingham, UK. Called Nottingham Contemporary, the project is inspired by artists' spaces in down-town New York during the 1960s. Located in the Lace Market area of the city, the design aimed to recreate the feeling of found spaces in a new building. The facade is clad in lace-patterned, pre-cast concrete, inspired by the regular and repeated surfaces of the surrounding warehouses.
Two blocks on the roof are covered in fluted gold anodised aluminium. The centre opened to the public on Saturday. Photographs are by Hélène Binet. Here's some more information from the architects: Nottingham Contemporary Nottingham has a history as a place for contemporary art, for performance and time based practice as well as for object based work. The route culminates in a second public yard at the southern end of the building, a space where the café can spill outdoors and which provides a second entrance to the building from the south.
Fuji Kindergarten | Tezuka Architects. Gavroche centre for children by SOA Architectes. Workshops clad in timber batons sit atop this children’s centre outside Paris by French architects SOA. Surrounded by houses and offices, the two-storey Gavroche centre for children provides an education centre at the heart of a local community. Playrooms occupy the building’s white-rendered ground floor, including a games library, a water games room and a multipurpose hall that opens out to an enclosed playground. Upstairs, the box-like timber volumes contain cooking and reading studios, as well as a staff room and another water games rooms. Glass doors lead out from here onto three separate roof decks, which face west towards a neighbouring park. We published another interesting community centre in France this year - see our earlier story about a spiralling centre in Lille. Photography is by Clément Guillaume. Here's some more text from SOA: Gavroche centre for children Multi care centre for children and games library The children’s centre stands out as a public facility.
Brick House (London) « Caruso St John Architects. 2001–2005Location: London, GBClient: Private ClientProject Status: Built This family house stands amongst dense residential streets in a busy part of West London. The constricted plot is shaped like a horse’s head, surrounded and overlooked by three taller buildings, and can only be reached by a carriage way through the facade of an adjacent Victorian terrace. The paradox of making a new building on a site of almost insuperable difficulty can only be explained by the will of the clients, and their determination to make a new home in this particular part of the city where conventional sites were used up many years ago. In this design, the accidental but wildly spatial shape of the site has been used to form the living spaces. The interior plan is completely separate from the typologies of the London town-house or the inner city loft, while still retaining a strong sense of dwelling at the heart of the city.