Garduño Architects transformed an underground plaza for a parking lot, underneath a 40-storey building in Mexico City, into the O2 Restaurant. O2 is the conversion underground plaza for a parking lot into a garden restaurant with a new approach and ingenious sustainable ideas. When we were confronted with the challenge of designing a restaurant in an overcrowded and concrete-saturated area, we s..
Architects: Formwerkz Architects Location: Singapore, Singapore Design Team: Seetoh Kum Loon, Alan Tay, JY Pang, Koh XuanYi, EkaChai Site Area: 1,190 sqm Gross Floor Area: 1,000 sqm Photography: Courtesy of Formwerkz Architects Brief The scale and programme of the house suggests more of a communal dwelling for a multi-tier family. The family called for a design that can accommodate a long wish l..
German designer Elisa Strozyk has created the Miss Maple pendant lamp. The pendant lamp “Miss Maple” is showing the use of a familiar material in an unconventional way. We usually experience wood as a plain surface, but here it is broken down into a grid of triangles. This makes a flexible lampshade which can be transformed manually in three-dimensional ways. While the lamp generates warm light ..
We’ve got a thing for criss-crossing bridges at the moment so here’s another one, this time designed by NEXT Architects and Rietveld Landscape for Amsterdam. Called Melkwegbridge, the design separates pedestrian traffic from cyclists and wheelchair users. Pedestrians cross over an arc to afford views from the summit, while the path for those on wheels zig-zags agross the water in order to achiev..
Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservation of rare books, manuscripts, and documents. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and is located in New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to the completion of this project, Yale University placed its rare books on special shelving in Dw..
This office building in the Belgian hills by architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle has a brick facade broken by huge windows overlooking the surrounding farmland. The offices, waiting room and kitchen open out to the views on two sides, turning away from the adjacent street and restaurant. The building is cantilevered at the back to accommodate staff parking beneath. Here are some more details from t..
Stan Allen Architect have shared with us their entry for the New Maribor Art Gallery in Slovenia (you can see the winners on our previous feature). The program mandates a clear institutional identity: A singular architectural complex, a progressive curatorial agenda, and a new place of public assembly in the city. At the same time, the site demands a sensitivity to the robust historical fabric o..
This project is almost a statement of how to accomplish architecture in Latin-america. The process was so unsteady, that all possible architectural design resources available where exercised to cope with the challenge of this house in the Chilean Central Valley. Everything was in constant change: the program, the surface, building permits, the contractors, even the view! The modus operandi is ra..
Architects: Elton+Leniz Arquitectos Asociados Location: Concepción, Chile Collaborator Architect : Germán Rodríguez Olivos Construction: Tirapeguy Ramos Site Area: 1200 m2 Constructed Area: 540 m2 Year (proyect): 2006-2007 Year of Construction: 2008-2009 Photos: Natalia Vial Casa Concepción is located in a community over a hill with a spectacular view towards the Bio-Bio river. The general layou..
London designer Ross Lovegrove has launched this LED pendant lamp for Japanese lighting brand Yamagiwa. Called Andromeda , the lamp has clusters of LEDs embedded at the cross-points of the hard polyurethane foam form. Mirrors can be repositioned within the structure to reflect the light in different directions. Here’s some more information from Yamagiwa: ANDROMEDA ANDROMEDA is an artificial stru..
