Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has designed two villas for private island Dellis Cay in the Caribbean. Called Maison H (top image) and Maison S (above), each has a pavilion over the water called Maison O (below). Architects David Chipperfield, Carl Ettensperger, Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, Piero Lissoni, and Chad Oppenheim have also dsigned villas for the island. See all the villa designs on the Del..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny Structural Engineer: Marian Goczoł Design Year: 2001 Construction Year: 2002-2004 Site Area: 972 sqm Constructed Area: 102 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES The building is situated in an industrial area of Poland. It’s been designed for an indigent family, which appreciates its functionality, as well as low maintenance and co..
More from DCPP Arquitectos: the Mexican architects have recently completed a private residence in Mexico City. The 360 square metre house consists of two concrete volumes. Timber used for pouring the concrete was reused for interior elements. See our earlier story about DCPP’s warehouse and offices for textile company Bayon Artell. Here’s some more information from the architects: – CASA PARACAI..
Architects: aum Location: Lyon, France Principals: Edouard Minassian, Yves Duvernois, Pierre Minassian, Gilles Peillon, Jean-Claude Rerolle Constructed Area: 260 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: aum The house is located in a small village in the area of Lyon on a very steep slope and facing an open landscape. It is situated on the fringe of a natural reservation where no house can be built. T..
Tabanlioglu Arhitects Dogan Medya Center Ankara, Turkey The Dogan Medya Center on Ankara-Eskisehir road, planned as a distinctive media figure, houses TV channels and the newspapers Hurriyet and Milliyet. Respecting the square site the architects decided on the cube as the main form. Building from the surface up the straight cube deformed and restructured with the addition and subtraction of cub..
Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Kvaterloft Copenhagen, Loa Fund Collaborator: JDS ARCHITECTS, BIRCH & KROGBOE Constructed Area: 2,000 sqm Project year: 2004 Budget: US $1,950,000 Photographs: Julien de Smedt, Mads Hilmer, Esben Bruun, Paolo Rosselli How do you turn the problem of a polluted site into an architectural potential? A third of our budget was allocat..
A photography studio-residence currently being designed by davidclovers is the subject of a collaborative research between davidclovers and artist C.E.B. Reas. 07 MASSES explores the specific impact of luminosity and texture on mass and massiveness through a series of scaled prototypes. from reas
Architects: Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA Location: Colony, Switzerland Collaborator: Anjéla Aubert, architecte DPLG Engineering: ESM, Jérôme Ponti, Genève Project Year: 2003-2005 Photographs: Francesca Giovanelli Standing on a steeply inclined plot of land, this house articulates its layout of over 800 sqm in two volumes. The two-level residential area in light-colored masonry is set on a d..
Architects: Francisco Portugal e Gomes Location: Santiago/Penafiel, Portugal Collaborators: Fernando Gabriel, architect / João Alexandre Abreu, practice architect Structure and Foundations: Fernando Gonçalves, engineer Water Supply and Water Installations: Fernando Gonçalves Electric Installations and Communications: MEGAVAR - Engenharia, Lda Project leader: Sónia Almeida, engineer Constructed A..
Architects: Enrique Browne y Asociados Arquitectos Location: Concepción, Chile Associated Architect: Patricio Browne Collaborators: Enrique C. Browne, Sebastián Morandé, Davor Pavlovic Project year: 2003-2004 Site Area: 1,096 sqm Constructed Area: 3,789 sqm Structural Consultants: Ruiz y Saavedra Ingenieros Contractor: Ignacio Hurtado y Cia. Technical Inspection: Juan Eduardo Mujica Photographs:..