A few years ago, Jean Nouvel unveiled his plans for two towers for Sydney City, and now, the project has just received approval. Located on the site of a former brewery, the towers – one 16 stories and the other 33 – are part of the 250,000 sqm development plan managed by Frasers Property. The towers will house 563 luxury apartments above a six level retail and recreation podium. The eastern tow..
Polish studio moomoo architects have introduced mirrored columns, slanted walls and a clothes shop to the interior of this hair salon in Warsaw, Poland. The reflective columns serve as mirrors for stylists and shoppers, and open up to provide extra storage. The slanted walls have sections removed to create workspaces with integrated sinks and shelves to display hair products. The salon has rails..
Architectural Team: Fletcher Crane Architects / Toby Fletcher, Ian Crane and Sam Stevens Structural Engineer: Elliott Wood/Gary Elliott, George Georgiou Building Environment and Services Engineer: Skelly and Couch/Mark Skelly, Matthew Chantzidakis Quantity Surveyor: Quantem Consulting/Dan Watson Landscape Architects: Whitelaw Turkington/Ian Turkington ‘The Loom’ is the apparatus for weaving stra..
Slade Architecture designed the Pup Tent as a contribution to the annual auction for New York’s Design Trust for Public Space, a not-for-profit organization committed to improving New York City’s parks, plazas, streets, and public buildings. This piece was an exploration in materials and fabrication. An invitation from the Design Trust for Public Space to contribute a piece for their Annual Auct..
This wavy wall forms the east facade of an information centre designed by BCHO Architects at a Korean concrete factory. Called Hanil Visitors Center and Guest House, the information centre aims to educate visitors about recycling concrete and demonstrates different options through its own construction. Four openings in the eastern wall allow glimpses of how the concrete is produced in the factor..
The Glasshouse is an arts, conference and entertainment centre in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, that has been designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects. The Glasshouse: Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre comprises a 600-seat performing arts theatre, a 600m2 Regional Art Gallery, a studio theatre, conference facilities and a community workshop located in the centre of Port ..
The burger of San Vicente del Raspeig and enjoy the new garden vertical heights of six to be installed in the new children's library in the municipality, project architect Jose Maria Chofre. El jardín de seis pisos se sitúa en la medianera de un edificio de viviendas existente, la solución constructiva está formada por una estructura metálica cimentada sobre el depósito de hormigón utilizado par..
Architects: A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects Location: Pozuelo de Alorcón, Spain Partner in Charge: Rafael Llamazares Contractor: Helio Construcciones Interiors: A-cero Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Luis H. Segovia The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its last works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5,000 m2 plot. It is a single sto..
Our friends at Abitare published several works by Italian firm Buratti + Battiston, an architect and engineer, respectively. With a strong grasp of aesthetics as their foundation for creating spaces, their Vetreria Airoldi Office + Showroom works with the characteristics of colored glass to form a contemporary working space. The office + showroom is an entire experimentation of glass. On the ext..
Photographer Edmund Sumner has shared with us his photos of this house by Matharoo Associates in Ahmadabad, India, featuring shutters weighted with concrete balls. Called The House with Balls, the building was designed for the owner of an aquarium shop and houses four huge tanks for breeding fish. It also doubles as a weekend retreat. The long narrow main room is lined on both sides by shutters,..
