Architects: GH+A / Guillermo Hevia Location: Graneros, Chile Collaborators: Tomás Villalón, Francisco Carrión, Guillermo Hevia García, Marcela Suazo Client: Nestlé Chile S.A. Contractor: Precon S.A. Bioclimatic Consultant: Biotech Lighting: Opendark Project Area: 2,800 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Cristián Barahona, Guillermo Hevia H. & Guillermo Hevia García The new building, part of Nes..
Gulp is three thousand translucent drinking straws interwoven to form a dense, spherical lampshade. Made from one continuous length of interconnected straws, you could – if you possessed Dyson-like suction – put one end in a drink and gulp it down through the other. Each piece takes seven days to make and is made to order. from contemporist
Architects: Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch Location: Rehovot, Israel Project year: 2007-2008 The hair strand project started its way by considering the idea of what a hair strand is and what kind of insights it can provide for designing the interior space of the barber shop. Hair has a particular geometry and dynamics derived from natural law. The strand geometry is curved, in accordance with natural ..
Architect: Daniel Libeskind Location: Dublin Docklands, Ireland Principal in Charge: Stefan Blach Project Leader: Gerhard Brun Project Team: Feargal Doyle, Patrick Cox, Andreas Baumgärtner, Matthias Rühl, Toralf Sümmchen, Anna Poullou, Guillaume Chapallaz, Nathaniel Lloyd, Jens Jessen, Jens Hoffman, Kaori Hirasawa, Luca Mangione, Anja Bungies and Christian Müller Client: Ramford Limited, Charter..
Architects: Jaime Rendon Arquitectos Location: Medellin, Colombia Project Team: Jaime Rendon, Felipe Campuzano, Fernando Zapata Structure Engineer: Luis Bernardo Gonzalez Contractor: Luz Estella Orrego Soil Study: SOLINGRAL LTDA Electrical Design: INGELECTRICA LTDA Construction year: 2006-2007 Photographs: Sergio Gomez, Felipe Campuzano This house is located at the suburbs of Medellin (Colombia..
Architects: KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten Location: Nanjing, China Developer: Jiangsu Province, represented by the Jiangsu Olympic Center, China Partner Company: Nanjing Kingdom Architecture Design Co. Ltd., China Structural Engineering: Breuninger Tragwerksplanung, Dr. Ulrich Breuninger Site Area: 10,605 sqm Project Area: 27,449 sqm Project Year: 2006-2010 Photographs: Courtesy of KSP Jürgen Eng..
Project name: Zamet Centre Program: Public, cultural, business, sport Location: B. Vidas Street, Zamet, Rijeka, Croatia Architect: 3LHD - Sasa Begovic, Tatjana Grozdanic Begovic, Marko Dabrovic, Silvije Novak, Paula Kukuljica, Zvonimir Marcic, Leon Lazaneo, Eugen Popovic, Nives Krsnik Rister, Andrea Vukojic Collaborators: Mateo Bilus, Building Physics / Details; Berislav Medic, UPI-2M, Structura..
Architects: ARX PORTUGAL - José Mateus y Nuno Mateus Location: Martinhal, Portugal Project year: 2002-2003 Construction year: 2005-2007 Constructed area: 320 sqm Structure: SAFRE, Estudos e Projectos de Engenharia Lda. Photographs: FG + SG - Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra This house is located in Sagres (Algarve), the furthest southwest location in Portugal. This town hosted the Navigation Schoo..
‘Orb House’ adopts a minimalist aesthetic as a counterpoint to the heavy handed, utilitarian architectural fabric that makes up it’s streetscape tapestry. Located on a unique site descending rapidly towards the Yarra River and Yarra Bend Golf Course, it is less a protest statement than an exploration of contrasts through purity of form – a simple transparent circle in a congested patchwork quilt..
Architects: Suppose design office Location: Hiro, Kure city, Hiroshima, Japan Site Area: 78.34 sqm Building Area: 37.39 sqm Total Floor Area: 66.46 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano The site is located in a shopping district alongside the main highway, a harsh place to satisfy the demands of a client desiring a home with bright gardens. There are no outdoor gardens here, so we d..