Architects: MAD Office Location: Beijing, China Construction year: 2006 Constructed Area: 487.2 sqm Interior Area: 189.7 sqm Project Directors: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano Project Architect: Florian Pucher Design team: Shen Jun, Christian Taubert, Marco Zuttioni, Yu Kui Associate Architects & Engineers: IDEA Design Studio Photographs: Shu He The expansion of Beijing city has intensively accelerate..
Architectural design: ALA Architects ltd, Helsinki Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Janne Teräsvirta, Samuli Woolston In collaboration with SMS architects ltd, Kristiansand Erik Sandsmark Client: TKS IKS, a municipal company in Kristiansand Here’s a second new project by ALA Architects: construction is underway on Kilden performing arts centre in Kristiansand, Norway. The £117 million project will..
Architect: TWS & Partners Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Principal in charge: Tonny W Suriadjaja Project team: Arianto, Budi Setiawan, Grace Dian Client: Setia Berhad Interior design: Grace Dian – TWS & Partners Constructed area: 400 sqm Design year: 2006 Construction year: 2007 Photographs: Owner’s & TWS & partners’ property THE LOCATION & CLIENT’S BRIEF This project is located at the palm co..
Finnish designer Timo Hoisko has created the Farmline chair out of a single metal tube and locally-produced hemp fiber. I believe in sustainable development, and in the design our products we should promote nature-conserving renewable materials. I wanted to design an ecological chair using locally-produced hemp fiber, a rare material in the furniture industry that I believe would create new oppo..
Architect: STUDIO GANG ARCHITECTS Architect of Record: Loewenberg & Associates Owner: Magellan Development Program: Hotel and Residential High-rise with retail and commercial spaces Size: 1.9 m SF including parking, 823 feet high Completion: Summer 2009, currently under construction In an increasingly dense city like Chicago, views from a new tower must be negotiated between existing buildings. ..
Description: Our project is in a privileged topographic situation, due to its visual condition of greater height in relation to the surrounding neighbors. This allows the house to enjoy excellent vistas towards the National Park of Chipinque in the south, as well as towards all of the east, which is dominated in the horizon by the “Cerro de la Silla”, an emblematic hill in the boundaries of the ..
This vortex-shaped, temporary outdoor installation at Materials & Applications in Los Angeles warped the flow of space with a featherweight rendition of a celestial black hole. Hovering over M&A's courtyard, Maximilian's Schell was a spectacle the size of an apartment building constructed in tinted Mylar resembling stained glass. The piece functioned as a shade structure, swirling overhead for t..
“Vertical Confluence”, a skyscraper in Paris designed by Jiang Yuan and Xu Yang from Y-studio received a special mention in the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition. A skyscraper at Paris: At a local scale, it is a fundamental element of a radically rethought urban space. It is imbued with a desire to reform. At the scale of the city, it assumes a role in punctuating the city. The site The tour is ..
In the open international competition for the planning and design ofa museum complex for the National Museum of Art, Architecture andDesign at Vestbane in Oslo, Norway the jury has selected three winners: 1st prize: #164 Forum Artis: Kleihues and Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH (Naples, Berlin) 2nd prize: #147 Urban Transition: JAJA Architects ApS (Copenhagen) + Jakob Rolver 3rd prize:..
