SHARP CENTRE FOR DESIGN. Courageous, bold and a little insane

Will Alsop | Toronto, Canada [2004] If there is a building that surprised me during my visit to Toronto, it was the Sharp Centre for Design. Even though it has nothing in common with the neigh...

LA MASSA THEATER. A little treasure by Rafael Guastavino

Rafael Guastavino | Vilassar de Dalt, Spain [1881] Whilst it is true that Barcelona has wonderful theaters, we need to take a short drive to visit one of the most thrilling ones that I have eve...

Binoculars Building, by the provocative Frank Gehry

This time let’s do a very quick visit, a building that I found by chance. I am referring to the Binoculars Building, by the famous architect Frank Gehry....

Hunters Point Community Library Steven Holl

Steven Holl sculpts his new library in New York

In my last post we saw a house conceived as a piece of art -the Rietveld House-, but the building I bring today does not lag behind. I am talking about the Hunters Point Library by the well-known arch...

Rietveld Schröder House and De Stijl movement

Is it a sculpture to live or a house designed as a piece of art? Gerrit Rietveld did an experimental project in 1924, which ended being much more than just a dwelling. This is the Rietveld Schröder H...

The Maison Blanche, the first house by Le Corbusier

[One Week One Pic-k] Le Corbusier designed his first house as an independent architect being only 25 years old, The Maison Blanche. Also known as villa Jeanneret-Perret, it is located in La Chaux-de-F...