Alessandro Liberati‘s Efficient Living Machine project transforms a building into an infrastructure able to improve and expand the lifestyle of the metropolis. Liberati proposes that the skyscraper become a system of overlapping grids upon the existing environment as a way to read the city differently. These grids contain different layers of programmed activities, ranging from recreational areas..
Architect: al bordE / Pascual Gangotena Location: Machachi, Ecuador Client: Iñigo Salvador Technical Advisor: Bolívar Romero, Rammed Earth Specialist Builder: al bordE, Pascual Gangotena & Miguel Ramos Infographics: al bordE, David Barragán & Esteban Benavides Constructed Area: 61.95 sqm Design Year: 2006 Building Year: 2007 Photographs: Pascual Gangotena & Iñigo Salvador He requires a shelter t..
The Los Angeles-based studio of Ball-Nogues have recently completed their installation "Cradle" in Santa Monica, California. We asked partner Benjamin Ball a few questions about the piece. Bustler: Was this project a commissioned win? Benjamin Ball: We received a request for qualifications from the Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division about doing a two dimensional public art work. The work was..
Location: Urbanización Roncesvalles. C/ Roncesvalles, 33 Galapagar, Madrid Architects: SUBARQUITECTURA ( Andrés Silanes + Fernando Valderrama + Carlos Bañón) Design years: 2007 Construction: 2008 – 2010 Structural design: Subarquitectura Building services: Daniel Rodriguez Client: Arco Design and Projects Surface area: 385 m2 Photographs: David Frutos Ruiz This house by Spanish architects Subarq..
Swedish architects Visiondivision have created this undulating concrete habitat for crayfish in a stream in Sweden. Cancer City was commissioned by a crayfish enthusiast who wanted to prevent crayfish emigrating to a neighbouring lake from his stream, where there was a lack of rocks, nooks and crannies. The honeycomb surface is punctured in places to allow the fish to seek refuge underneath. The..
Portuguese photographer Fernando Guerra has sent us his photographs of this museum for modern art in South Korea by architects Álvaro Siza, Carlos Castanheira and Jun Sung Kim. Mimesis Museum has a flowing concrete form that wraps around a central courtyard, and was inspired by a sketch of a cat that Siza drew upon arriving at the site. The three-storey building has services in the basement, gal..
Danish designer Hanne Kortegaard has sent us the Mussel Chair that she created as her graduation project from the Danish Design School in Copenhagen. The Mussel is intended for young people but also children and adults. I have tried to visualize the symbiosis that can occur between child and adult in a cozy environment. Transferring the concept and form of the mussel, into a form where I have le..
The jury for the Museum of the Second World War Competition in Poland have recently announced the winner. Studio Architektoniczne Kwadrat received 1st Prize and will design the new museum in Gdańsk, the city where the war broke out. 2nd Prize was awarded to Polish architects Piotr Płaskowicki & partnerzy Architekci and 3rd Prize to Greece-based BETAPLAN S.A. The Jury is of the opinion that the d..
Belzberg Architects have recently completed the Kona Residence in Hawaii. Nestled between cooled lava flows, the Kona residence situates its axis not with the linearity of the property but rather with the axiality of predominant views available to the site. Within the dichotomy of natural elements and geometric hardscape the residence attempts to integrate both the surrounding views of volcanic ..
project title: 20th street offices status: completed 2009 project type: commercial building type: new size: 5,000 sf location: santa monica, ca from belzbergarchitects
