Articles by Valeria Silva
Gonçalo Cristovão’s Apartment / Merooficina
Gonçalo Cristovão’s apartment is located on the 15o floor of a 1960’s housing building, in Porto downtown. An unusual and privileged localization that provides a panoramic view of the city. Traveling through each room is possible to see Ribeira area and spot Foz.
Villa Tennisvägen / Johan Sundberg arkitektur
With Villa Tennisvägen, Johan Sundberg Arkitektur has designed a highly refined milieu where intimacy and togetherness play a central role. Specially designed solutions and unique details make for a home that is anything but ordinary.
Shelter Brewery / Paul Burnham Architect
Shelter Brewery is located in Busselton, Western Australia, and is sited at the foot of the famous mile-long jetty originally dating from 1865. The place is a self-contained commercial brewery with all storage, milling, brewing, and canning facilities contained within the site. The aesthetics of the buildings purposefully reflect the functionality of the fabrication and the celebration of beer.
TARAS Skatepark / Marcin Kwietowicz + Michal Sikorski
Since the collapse of communism thirty years ago, Warsaw’s hyper-centre has become a testing ground for all sorts of rapidly expanding corporate architectures. At the same time, public space seems to have been frozen and barely evolved in its monumental scale and socialist form. It is only recently that a series of new public investments intends to bring new programs to the city centre, igniting the potential to activate and inhabit it.
Mia Dorcol Apartments / Zabriskie Studio
The primary feature of the building lies in the contemporary interpretation of the architectural language of industrial heritage from its immediate surroundings. The building balances between the appearance of the business and the residential building. Such an interpretation purposefully affirms the pluralism of modern life, business space = living space. The intent was to improve the quality of time users spend in the facility, both through the indoor and outdoor atmosphere it builds.
Health Center at Gibraleón / Javier Terrados Estudio de Arquitectura
A special opportunity was given to us with the commission for the new Health Centre at Gibraleón. The plot was somehow unique, with an edge of the city at its back, a small museum at one side, and an open-air arena at its front. The most probable approaching itinerary from downtown would first face the back facade of the building (hermetic on purpose) and would continue leaving the museum at one side and following an ample porch that leads the visitor to the entrance of the building.
Adaptation of Hall 3 of the Central Park to Cultural Facilities / Contell-Martínez Arquitectos
The Project aims to transform an old railway warehouse into a cultural facility within the new Valencia’s Central Park which nowadays covers the old railway tracks of the main city station. The shed was built in 1917 by Demetrio Ribes and it is a valuable example within the railway architecture of Valencia.
Today is Long Cafe / Absence from Island
The clients were a group of individuals who have studied and worked separately in Australia and have subsequently moved back to their hometown Hong Kong where they eventually met due to a shared passion for coffee. One of them has become a well-accomplished barista and another has become a successful public-relation manager. The cafe is a place to house their fond memories of Australia and the good coffee that makes their life, which they would very much like to share with local residents and to make the cafe into a social hub.
Carles Taché Art Gallery / Jorge Vidal
A clear construction. The traditional construction of buildings such as this one has disappeared, or at least, buildings with this unity and spatial clarity are not built anymore. Nowadays, contemporary art is not hanged, it is installed. The success of spaces with permanent art installations such as the Dia Bacon foundation or the Chinati foundation, discover the precise and attached relation between art and space. Perhaps this is an antagonism to the constructive excess of the last century where museums of thousands of square meters have been built without a second thought.