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Alberto Campo Baeza creates Rotonda House on a hill north of Madrid

Award winning Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza designed Rotonda House at the summit of a hill, north of Madrid. The building captures a 360° panoramic landscape from the belvedere situated above a two storey podium made of local limestone. The building is based on a 12m by 12m grid divided into nine 4m x 4m squares, giving it a Palladian flavour. Photo Javier Callejas . Alberto Campo Baeza

Jasper Morrison’s recyclable EVO-C chair for Vitra

Design| Furniture

The EVO-C chair by Jasper Morrison is made of 100% recyclable polypropylene and the use of a single material gives the chair a sculptural quality. Gas injection moulding technology allows the cantilevered chair to achieve the strength and rigidity of tubular metal chairs. Vitra, Jasper Morrison

Ateliers O-S Architectes restructure an obsolete school building in a suburb of Paris

Architecture| Environment

Paris based Ateliers O-S Architectes have restructured an inefficient asbestos-ridden catering building, which is part of the Frédéric Joliot-Curie high school in the town of Dammarie-les-Lys. The updated 1960s building opens up a view of the forest from a 1,200 capacity dining room, and a large ‘roof’ volume brings in light through lateral windows while forming a generous canopy under which pupils can gather. Photo Cyrille Weiner. Ateliers O-S Architectes

Ortner & Ortner Baukunst create office campus for W&W comprising seven courtyard buildings

Architecture| Interiors

Architects O&O Baukunst have created a 160,000 square meter campus housing 4,200 employees for financial group Wüstenrot & Wüttembergische AG in Kornwestheim, Germany. The compact campus consists of seven courtyard buildings surrounded by mixed meadow orchards and a boulevard lined with cafes, restaurants, conference and leisure facilities. Photo Stefan Mueller. O&O Baukunst