The following images and text are courtesy FS + SG | Fotografia de Arquitectura for Paulo David's Centro das Artes | Casa das Mudas on Portugal's Madeira island. The text below is excerpted from photographer Fernando Guerra's essay, "A Short Stay" in Centro das Artes | Casa das Mudas. Click on images at left for larger color views. To have the opportunity to photograph one of the most recognized..
More fresh portuguese architecture, thanks to photographer Joao Morgado for sharing this with us! Aires Mateus is an office that has been working on minaml projects, blending the new with the old in a subtle way. More pictures after the jump.
CitizenM is a hotel made of prefabricated room modules at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, designed by Dutch architectural firm Concrete. Each of the 230 rooms was built ad furnished in a factory and then stacked like shipping containers to form the hotel. The following is from CitizenM: – Project: CitizenM Hotel Client: CitizenM GENERAL INFORMATION: citizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens th..
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Project Year: 2006-2008 Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Anna Breda, Luis Ferreira, Ana Kosi, Katja Aljaz Client: Mercator d.d. Interior Design: Mercator Optima Structural Engineering: Projecta d.o.o. Contractor: Gradis Skupina G d.d. Constructed Area: 2,000 ..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Opole, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny Collaborators: Marlena Wolnik, Łukasz Pra?uch Design Year: 2002-2003 Construction Year: 2003-2006 Site Area: 10,057 sqm Constructed Area: 660 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES Location The house is situated in Poland, close to Opole. Majority of low density settlement in the surroundings is formed of “cube - houses”, bu..
Architect: Saunders Architecture Location: Bergen, Norway Principal Architect: Todd Saunders Project Team: Geneviéve Charbonneau & Joakim Skajaa Client: Eli Bakke Sem Olsen & Jan Sem Olsen Project year: 2008 Photographs: Saunders Architecture This family dwelling is located on one of Bergen’s most attractive sites, overlooking the southern fjords and the West coast archipelago. The site comprise..
David Chipperfield Architects have completed the Liangzhu Culture Museum at Hangzhou, China. The museum, which will house a collection of archaeological findings from the Liangzhu period, is part of a new garden town called Liangzhu Cultural Village. The museum is composed of four parallel bar-shaped volumes, clad in Iranian travertine. The following is from David Chipperfield Architects: – Lian..
Photographer Joao Morgado shared with us this industrial building by portuguese architects Menos é Mais (Less is More). It´s nice to see this type of buildings, as most of the times industrial projects don´t offer much in terms of fresh architecture. More pictures after the break.
Well, here we have another skyscrapper in Dubai, this time in the shape of a giant wind turbine. When I saw this, i thought it had this turbine to generate eolic energy, but actually it’s a structure that holds a panoramic restaurant in the glass capsule at the top of the building, as you can see on the further images. The 2,15 feet (655m) tall tower includes a mixed use developement with ret..
Las obras mínimas suelen condensar lo mejor de un arquitecto. Suelen también acabar entre las obras preferidas y mejor recordadas por sus autores. Ocurre esto, muchas veces, a pesar de ser tales obras las menos rentables, las que más trabajo han costado, las menos divulgadas. XXS disfrutará, sin duda, del lado bueno de ese destino. Located in Krakovo, the very centre of Ljubljana, a historical v..