RAU and Powerhouse Company developed H2Otel, a luxurious and completely sustainable hotel for Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The project, a prototype for luxury hotel typologies, is shown at the National Design Triennial ‘Why Design Now?’ at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Introduction How to make a hotel tower more sustainable? As a typology, the modern hotel is at odds with ..
The Verdant Ave project reflects RMA’s unfaltering commitment to marrying purity of form with function, and the belief that a precise balance of architecture, interior design and landscape will always create a truly great home. A crisp cubic structure allows the property’s 80 year old pin oak to be celebrated as the focal point for the main living, dining and bedroom areas. A crisp palette of wh..
Ozel Office, a practice based in both LA, California and Istanbul, Turkey, has designed a competition proposal for an Opera House for Izmir, a port town off the Aegean Coast. The competition challenged participants to see architecture as a “catalyst” that could potentially help the city re-center itself as a hub of economic activity and source of cultural significance. The collaborative effort w..
A sofa consisting of 3 modular units; corner, lounger and ottoman. The units create a range of seating configurations. A simple wooden frame is covered by three layers of foam with various densities, with a hard foam base and final layer of foam chunks in a bean bag like format underneath the leather upholstery. The concept was to create a sofa with ‘bean bag’ qualities of comfort and casualness..
Anne Kyyrö Quinn is a London-based designer and producer of three-dimensional wall coverings made from felt. The studio works with architects and interior designers to create custom pieces for a variety of interior settings. The panels are designed, cut, sewn and finished by hand at their London based studio. from contemporist
C.F. Møller Architects just won a shared first prize in the competition for the new Opera and Culture Center in Norway, entitled Kulturkvartalet. This new Opera Center will house the country’s oldest opera in Kristiansund, the capital of the region of Nordmøre. The site proposes an interesting challenge as the new design must integrate two existing buildings with the proposed new urban center, a..
Architects: Kevin deFreitas Architects Location: 2 Mazzetti Lane, Valley Center, California, USA Project Team: Kevin deFreitas & Manish Desai Structural Engineer: Envision Engineering Landscape Architect: LandLAB Inc. Mechanical Engineer: Stueven Engineering Plumbing & Electrical Engineer: BTA Engineers Contractor: Lusardi Construction Company Building Area: 6,112 sf + courtyard Construction Cos..
London studio Orproject installed an undulating tree-like structure in the doorway of the Italian Cutural Institute in Belgrave Square for last month’s London Festival of Architecture. Called OR², the structure is a shading device and comprises a series of polygonal segments with integrated photovoltaic cells that are connected by bolts to form a single surface structure. The photosenstive segme..
This modern tropical bungalow encapsulates the essence of living in the hot and humid climate of Singapore by creating open spaces which encourage natural ventilation and offer residents views to the ocean. The main design concept is to create a house which has close relationship with nature and this is achieved by having a swimming-pool linking the house with the landscape and ultimately visual..
Live from Milan: architects and designers Christoph Klemmt, Ran Ankori, Maya Carni, Francesco Brenta, Laura Micalizzi and Elisa Oddone have created Project Or, a vortex-shaped installation in a courtyard in Milan that reacts to sunlight. The installation is made up of photo-reactive segments that are translucent when in the shade but coloured when exposed to sunlight. Here’s some more info from ..
