ArchDaily's 2012 Best Building Winners - part I

Last Friday 15th were announced the winners of the 2012 edition of ArchDaily's Best Building Awards. The awards, promoted by one of the most important Architecture websites, recognized the value of fourteen projects distributed by the same number of categories. The nominations and votes were entirely made by the website users worldwide. We share now the first seven awarded projects.




HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
Eco-Resort Pedras Salgadas, by Luís Rebelo de Andrade & Diogo Aguiar (Portugal)

Check out the whole profile here on our blog.
Photo: João Morgado

SPORTS ARCHITECTURE
London 2012 Velodrome, by Hopkins Architects (UK) 
Photos: Anthony Palmer, Anthony Charlton and David Poultney

HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE 
Municipal Healthcare Centres San Blas + Usera + Villaverde, by Estudio Entresitio (Spain)
Photos: Roland Halbe

INTERIORS
New offices of the Botín Foundation, MVN Arquitectos (Spain)
Photos: Alfonso Quiroga

HOUSES
Stacking Green, Vo Trong Nghia + Daisuke Sanuki + Shunri Nishizawa (Vietnam)
Photos: Hiroyuki Oki

MUSEUMS & LIBRARIES 
CINiBA, HS99 (Poland)
Photos: Jakub Certowicz and Tomasz Zakrzewski

OFFICE BUILDINGS
D38 Office, Arata Isosaki (Japan)
Photos: Filippo Poli

ARCHITECTURE REFERENCES - Pedras Salgadas Eco-Resort, Luís Rebelo de Andrade & Diogo Aguiar

Pedras Salgadas Eco-Resort
Pedras Salgadas, Portugal
Luis Rebelo de Andrade & Diogo Aguiar, Portugal

Project Area: 687 sq m
Year: 2012
Photos: FG + SG

"The new eco-resort of Parque de Pedras Salgadas, Portugal, consists of a set of seven small houses in perfect harmony with the surrounding outstanding nature.

Designed in a modular prefabrication system but flexible to adapt to the specific places within the park, these houses result in several different combinations of the same three modules (entrance/bathing – living – sleeping) creating different morphologies and different dialogues with the surrounding nature, wisely occupying the empty spaces between the trunksof large trees and, at the same time, allowing each home to be unique, special and worth visiting.The pitched roofs that caracterize the intervention redefine the contours of the park boundary and result, within the housesin comfortable but dynamic spaces. The vain corner contradicts the structural logic of the house but creates the ilusion that the park is inside the house framing living nature pictures. The outer coating in slate tile reffers to the local contruction traditions and the slatted wood used when there is a balcony creates the perfect resting spaces."

- text from ArchDaily.com