p+A news

Barcelona’s Drassanes Metro Station refurbishment, designed by ON-A Arquitectura – Eduardo Gutierrez + Jordi Fernandez [The Cool Hunter].

Brazil > House 53 in São Paulo, designed by Marcio Kogan [CONTEMPORIST].

Video interview with Takaharu Tezuka released by > 0300TV

Ireland > House in Grangegorman, designed by Odos Architects [Wallpaper*].

Plans for MahaNakhon Tower in Bangkok (Thailand), designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with Ole Scheeren, has been unveiled. The skyscraper will feature 200 apartments and a 150-room hotel. Construction is scheduled to start at the end of 2009, while the inauguration is foreseen in 2012… [Architectural Record]

Japan > The “Fuji Kindergarten” in Tachikawa, Tokyo, designed by Takaharu + Yui Tezuka… video > 0300TV

LEVEL GREEN: permanent exhibition designed by J. Mayer H. & Art+Com for the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany… [autostadt.de]

Studio Banana TV has been chosen to make an audiovisual report on the 10th Spanish Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. Here you find thirty interviews with some of the participant firms… > Studio Banana TV

House in Bangalore, designed by India-based firm Cadence [dezeen].

London: more images of 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by SANAA, this time from > Flickr

Spain > More info about ‘Torre Espiral‘ (under construction) in Barcelona, designed by Zaha Hadid [Plataforma Arquitectura].

Zaha Hadid Architects created an auditorium made of fabric, a chamber music hall conceived to listen to Johann Sebastian Bach at Manchester Art Gallery, during the International Festival that goes on until July 18 [ELPAIS.com].Images > dezeen / Video > guardian.co.uk