Museum is identic to the classic building that sometimes it is not interesting anymore. However, we can get the unique museum with the interesting designs, which is the Hirshhorn Museum. It is the museum of art that takes place in Washington DC. We could not imagine that it will be the classic and old buildings because it will be totally wrong. This art museum is really modern. The architect, Gordon Bunshaft, choose the modern style for this art museum. With the great design and construction of this museum, it becomes the interesting modern museum.

There are only few art museums that use the modern style for the building. The architect uses the concrete as the system of the construction for this art museum. This building consists of three stories that are quite great with the unique design of the building. With the curve design of the whole building make this art museum becomes really unique and modern.

It becomes more unique yet beautiful by the existence of the courtyard that is round with the sculpture that is around the building. It looks so unique outside and it does not look like an art museum. However, the modern design makes it to be interesting.

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In this reform and expansion of a house by the studio A-cero, led by J. Torres, R. Llamazares, is intended to respond to customer needs in terms of rooms and areas with special care in relation to the existing environment, materialized this care in the special care that provides the house with the existing vegetation, a cork of high ecological value .

The house was in a state of disrepair and neglect so that the studio has decided to give it a second chance to recover and all its light Mediterranean.

Housing is arranged on two floors high and low, spreading the floor in three pieces: guests, children and service, united by a common area consisting of lounge, dining room and connected to the upper floor where the bedroom main bathroom and dressing.

An interesting set of porches and terraces embrace the courtyard. Reduced in the intervention corridors, organizing the continuous stay in space, which is of particular attention by introducing warm lighting and cold sources and giving prominence to the indirect light that gives harmonious and serene environment.

Have been respected original facade elements such as balconies, replacing the traditional iron railing for a glass, continuing the pattern of the stairs and wrapping the house in this popular Andalusian architectural design sense, patios and corners, restful and chat.

It uses the figure of the tree to create holes in the porch. The mud floor of the courtyard and the perimeter around the house has been replaced by pine beams cuperizado acting as a link between the wood inside and outside.

Light and shade, coolness and heat result in a functional architecture of pure lines topped by a careful choice of materials, colors and textures.

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The Municipal Funeral Leon was completed in 2001 and was designed by Josep Jordi Badia and Val (BAAS architects). Right in front of a large green area, too close to a residential neighborhood, the building is buried under a water tank integrated into the natural environment and facilitate their relationship with the neighboring houses.

The waiting room opens to a large slope of ivy and birch and is characterized by its polished wood, large rugs and indirect lighting to enhance their looks comfortable.

The rooms are lit vigil naturally through courtyard with water that suggest intimacy and privacy.

The only building’s facade, the roof, reflects the magnificent sky of Leon as an allegory of death.

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Pierre Puget sculptor, illustrator, painter and architect of French seventeenth century, was born in Marseilles in 1620 and died there in 1694. At fourteen, he learned his trade from the wood sculptor Jean Roman. It creates in the workshop many decorative pieces for ships. Later he worked with Pietro da Cortona to Florence (1638-1643), with Bernini in Rome (1661-1662) and then in Genoa until 1668.

He returned to Marseilles in 1643 and received several commissions, including the cathedral of Marseilles. After his stay Genoese, he became director of construction of the arsenal of Toulon.

In the seventeenth century on land belonging to him near the cathedral of la Major, north side of the Butte des Moulins, Marseille decided to build the Old Charity to accommodate the beggars.

The project stalled and it was only in 1670 that the Provencal Pierre Puget, the French Michelangelo, architect of King and neighborhood child, begins one of his greatest achievements. Building pink and white stone in the career of the Crown (small town north of Marseilles), all of the Old Charity.

It assembles four wings of the building closed to the outside and opens on a rectangular courtyard with galleries on three levels, elegantly punctuate life. At the center of his composition, he draws an oval domed chapel of baroque style. The vanguard of the time. Today it radiates sunlight.

For a century, the charity receives the beggars of the city. Then, after the revolution and until the end of the nineteenth century, the Charity is a hospice dedicated to children and elderly. In 1905, the building is occupied by the army that his Senegalese infantry barracks. Later there legalizes squateurs people in social, in unhealthy cells.

In the early ’40s, Le Corbusier building remark and denounced his state of abandonment. In 1961 the City of Marseille decided to restore this jewel of the Architectural Heritage. The work will be completed in 1986.

Today, the Centre de la Vieille Charite houses a cultural center that hosts exciting exhibitions.

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