AGi architects participated at Open House Madrid for the second consecutive year. This is a Festival focused on Architecture and City which enables citizens to visit buildings and unique venues for free for one weekend a year. More than 100 buildings were part of the first edition in 2015, which attracted more than 25,000 visitors who passed through the headquarters of … [Read more...]
Wall House & Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Center, winners of International Property Awards
The single-family home Wall House and Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Center have been acknowledged by the International Property Awards. Both projects by AGi architects have competed in the 2016-2017 Africa & Arabia edition of these awards. AGi architects is a recipients of a Highly Commended award for Architecture Single Residence category for Kuwait with Wall House project, … [Read more...]
Our collective housing buildings, case studies of sustainable urban planning and design
AGi architects participated at Big 5 Kuwait, the largest international construction exhibition in the country. Lulu Alawadhi, Senior Architect at AGi architects delivered a lecture on sustainable urban planning and design. Lulu explained both the features and shortcomings of the current urban model and the analysis tools and how to tap into the local context for better … [Read more...]
Third Prize at ideas competition for the refurbishment and museum project of “El Capricho” Palace in Madrid
AGi architects’ proposal submitted to the ideas competition aimed at the realization of a refurbishment and museum project in "El Capricho" Palace, in Madrid city, won the third prize, according to the official announcement made public on July 28 at the headquarters of the Madrid College of Architects (COAM). A total of 52 works were submitted to this announcement. The … [Read more...]
Taking a look to our new pieces of furniture
We have always had a vocation for design, and on this occasion we have developed furniture pieces inspired by nature. Throughout history there have been many professionals (Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer or Jean Prouvé) that have been thrown to experiment in this field, some of them with great success, have influenced our style life and architecture of … [Read more...]
Proud of the results in the competition for the National Museum of Romanian History (MNIR)
AGi architects’ proposal submitted to the competition for the “New spatial design concept of the National Museum of Romanian History in Bucharest", was placed sixth after jury’s decision. The National Museum of Romanian History (MNIR) in Bucharest has set out to reassert itself as a contemporary museum of history, by revaluing its building and its relations with the urban … [Read more...]
Cardiac Center shortlisted for WAF Awards 2016
Hisham A. Alsager Cardiac Center by AGi architects, the international design firm led by architects Joaquin Perez-Goicoechea and Nasser Abulhasan, have been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival to compete for a WAF award 2016 in the Completed Buildings Health category. The project, built in Kuwait, will face other seven finalists located in Malaysia, Australia, … [Read more...]
The chair as an anticipatory architectural element (II): a condensed image of Modernity
Written by Pablo Lopez, Senior Architect at AGi architects, Polytechnic University of Madrid PhD, Architecture. Previous post: "The chair as an anticipatoy architectural element (I): useful object vs. semantic object" In 1928 the art critic Rosalind Krauss said in her essay Sculptures in the Expanded Field, "The transgressions and loans from a mean [scales] to another are a … [Read more...]
The chair as anticipatory architecture element (I): useful object vs semantic object
Written by Pablo Lopez, Senior Architect at AGi architects, Polytechnic University of Madrid PhD, Architecture. The chair has emerged in the twentieth century as the architecture's preferred design object: almost all of the worthy of mention architects of modernity have designed one or several chairs and have poured upon their designs its distinctive mark or the spirit of an … [Read more...]
Wall House, GCC Residential Project of the Year at MEED Quality Awards
Our single-family residential project in Kuwait, Wall House, won the GCC Residential Project of the Year at MEED Quality Awards. The project already was the National Winner in Kuwait and now has been prevailed over their rivals in the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman achieving the regional prize. The announcement was recently made in Dubai, where the awards ceremony took … [Read more...]