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Faaborg Museum

Following a first detailed study of  Carl Petersen’s exhibition spaces, the studio then began an intensive design phase, starting with [Read more…]

Aarhus Boathouse

  The assignment focused on thinking through making, exploring construction at 1:1 scale, with the intention of acquiring fundamental notions [Read more…]

We are happy to announce that on the 1st of October we moved to a new studio in the former [Read more…]

Estar, in collaboration with ATELIERTRACES, has been shortlisted to transform the XIX century building of the Arsenal into the new [Read more…]

The Geneva Municipal Council has approved unanimously the credit for the realisation of our project for the Ancien Manège. For [Read more…]

  We will give a lecture about our recent work as part of the ‘Form-Givers’ Lecture Series at the Cass.

ESTAR has been invited by the sia section in Fribourg to give a small talk about our project for SAINT-ANTOINE [Read more…]

It is always a pleasure to start a new project, but we feel particularly privileged to be able to work [Read more…]

Super excited as this week we start working on our new project in Geneva and we will visit for the [Read more…]

We have been working on a historic superposition plan in order to show the relationship between the new volumes of [Read more…]

We are very happy to announce that ESTAR, in collaboration with ATELIERTRACES and KÄLIN & ASSOCIÉS, has won 1st prize [Read more…]

Over the last three weeks of May we have been building a boathouse with the students of the Aarhus School [Read more…]

  We are very pleased to be featured in the release No 5 of Planphase: Debüt It will be released [Read more…]

ESTAR, in collaboration with ATELIERTRACES, was awarded 5th prize in the competition for the transformation of the swiss toy museum [Read more…]

After a small pause for validation, we have started to work again on our project for the Ancien Manège in [Read more…]

We are pleased to announce that ESTAR has won second prize in the FDS Award with our V SAWHORSE. This [Read more…]

A few days ago we took our V Sawhorse for a stroll in the woods for a photographic session with Andrés [Read more…]

We are currently working on a small publication of the work produced by the students of the Aarhus Architecture School [Read more…]

We are very happy to announce that Stefano Ciurlo has been appointed Associate Professor with a special focus on architecture [Read more…]

Soon we will start fabrication of ROTUNDA TABLE, a new prototype piece for our studio.

  As part of our ongoing investigation of wild plants of Galicia, some autochthonous others naturalized, we are currently observing [Read more…]

  You can watch here our latest talk “CONSTRUIR EN UN LUGAR” part of ARQUITECTURA Y TERRITORIO RURAL 2015 in Callobre, [Read more…]

We are very happy to announce that Friday 31st of July E S T A R will give a talk [Read more…]

VACANCIES Project Architect E S T A R is looking to appoint a Project Architect, preferably french speaking with experience [Read more…]

On Friday 19th of June arrived the building pathologies mappings of the façades of the Ancien Manège in Geneva. Also [Read more…]

On Monday 15th of June we received the 1:100 scale drawings result of the detailed building survey of the Ancien [Read more…]

Monday 7th of May E S T A R will give a lecture part of MONTAGSREIHE, a new lecture series at [Read more…]

This week we started the detailed building survey of the Ancient Manège in Geneva, which allowed us to visit for the [Read more…]

E S T A R invited to give a lecture on our recent work as part of FETSAC, a festival [Read more…]

ESTAR has won first prize in the international competition for the transformation of a 19th century horse riding hall into [Read more…]

ESTAR commissioned CASAS DO REGO, transformation of a large 18th century industrial complex in the outskirts of the historic city [Read more…]

E S T A R completed furniture for LATITUDE Contemporary Fashion Makers offices and showroom in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Our project ROTUNDA is now complete and open to the public as part of the International Garden Festival of Grand-Mètis.

Our GARDENCOLLECTIVE is now open to the public after the inauguration of Lausanne Jardins_Landing 2014

After completion of fibreglass casting we start site clearing and ground preparation for the location of ROTUNDA in the forest [Read more…]

After completion of the plywood structure, the mould for ROTUNDA is receiving final fairing before fibreglass casting

Such a pleasure to work in Switzerland, almost finished one day ahead of schedule, just the last few touches and [Read more…]

Work continues on site in Lausanne, also with the pupils from the Ecole de San Valentin that really enjoyed building [Read more…]

First images of the plywood mould being built in Quebec, Canada for ROTUNDA, looking forward to casting the fibreglass in the [Read more…]

We have started placing the 1500 containers to build our project for Lausanne Jardins 2014 GARDEN COLLECTIVE in collaboration with SPADOM [Read more…]

Stefano invited as guest lecturer from February to May in the Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark

Our project ROTUNDA winner of an international competition to build a garden in Grand-Métis, Quebec, Canada

XARDIN DAS PIAS to be retained permanently in Allariz with the intention of becoming an educational space for the realisation [Read more…]

Series of practical workshops about analogue and photographic techniques of survey and representation, Santiago de Compostela, July 2013.

Our garden XARDIN DAS PIAS completed and now open to the public as part of the Festival Internacional de Xardíns [Read more…]

Our winning  proposal GARDENCOLLECTIVE for LANDING: Lausanne Jardins 2014 is currently on show as part of the exhibition “Résultat du concours [Read more…]

Our project XARDIN DAS PIAS in Allariz currently on site and stone work is almost complete.

E S T A R won first prize in the competition to build a garden in Lausanne, as part of [Read more…]

E S T A R´s shortlisted project EARTH TOWER for NIKOLA’S BELVEDERE will be presented at the XVII International Exhibition [Read more…]

E S T A R shortlisted for the final phase of the two stage competition for NIKOLA’S BELVEDERE in Kaluga, [Read more…]

E S T A R to give a lecture on our project CAMINHO DA CIDADE in the Aula de Rehabilitación y Renovación Urbana, [Read more…]

E S T A R selected for the second phase of the two stage competition for LANDING: Lausanne Jardins 2014

E S T A R won first prize in the competition to build a garden in Allariz, Spain as part [Read more…]

CAMINHO DA CIDADE EXHIBITION & BOOK LAUNCH 27 November-31 December 2012 MAPa2012 Casa da Rua Nova Rua Egas Moniz 115 [Read more…]

Aurora & Stefano have edited, curated and designed the CITYLABORATORY publication CAMINHO DA CIDADE

Aurora & Stefano invited to present the paper ”The walking Studio” at the conference STUDIO CULTURE, London Metropolitan University, UK

Aurora & Stefano are coordinating the CITYLABORATORY summer workshop: CAMINHO DA CIDADE, Studies in the Historic City of Guimarães This [Read more…]

Aurora & Stefano have edited, curated and designed the CITYLABORATORY publication EXPLORING INTERIORS The intention of this book is to [Read more…]

Aurora & Stefano are coordinating the CITYLABORATORY summer workshop EXPLORING INTERIORS, Studies in the Historic City of Santiago de Compostela [Read more…]

V Sawhorse

    The design of the sawhorse is the result of a study of traditional and vernacular furniture making and [Read more…]

E S T A R selected to exhibit two pieces in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London.

Costoia, Ames, Spain

  Credits: Location: Costoia, Ames, Spain Client: private client Project: 2015-2017 Architect: Estar, Aurora Armental Ruiz & Stefano Ciurlo Walker Collaborators: Thomas [Read more…]