Ruins are as depressing as they are beautiful. Building abandonment is never a happy occurrence, but when it precedes building inhabitation, it’s … More
Tag: seashore
Architecture Without ‘Parti’: Erwin Broner’s House and Studio in Ibiza
One of the first lessons every student learns in architecture school is that an architectural design must always be based on a … More
Contemporary Ruins II
Further to my last post, here is another Spanish contemporary ruin by a Pritzker laureate: Toyo Ito’s spa near Torrevieja. … More
Still Nurbing Along
Enric Ruiz Geli’s Villa Nurbs is still incomplete after 13 years. The good news is, however, that it does not appear to … More
La Grande Motte Revisited
I first saw La Grande Motte in the summer of 1978, more than a decade before I would graduate from … More
Strange Bedfellows
Left: Construction of Instant City, Ibiza, in 1971 (photo domusweb.it) Right: Hotel Algarrobico, Carboneras, Almería, 2010. The image at left … More
Villa Nurbs: a Sad Spectacle
It is June 2012, and after a decade of construction Villa Nurbs is still incomplete. In fact, construction has now seemingly come … More
W: what is it good for?
A building has been going up–or did it come from outer space?–on Barcelona’s Sant Sebastià Beach that is popularly refered … More
Rocket Architecture
[Originally published in Canadian Architect, February 2001] Clockwise from top left: Nike, Aerobee, and Universal launchers The ensemble of structures illustrated … More
