Architects: Moomoo - Jakub Majewski, Lukasz Pastuszka Location: Wilga, Poland Collaborator: Tomasz Bierzanowski Project year: 2008 Constructed Area: 130 sqm This house features a dynamic skin, a curtain that covers the long side of the elevation. The intermediate space changes during the day due to the winds of the area. House for a photographer, Szymon Szczesniak. A textile elevation of the hou..
Architects: km Architektur Location: Walensee, Switzerland Project Year: 2007 Site Area: 690 sqm Constructed Area: 140 sqm
In 2009, the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) announced a competition for its new headquarters to be built in a city near Naju, South Korea. The new KEPCO headquarters, which would include nearly 120,000 square meters of office space and public exhibition program, will constitute a major anchor point of this emerging city. KEPCO has mandated an ambitious program of objectives for the fac..
‘The Alphabet’ is the name of the first joint project between ewo, the manufacturer of superior-quality lighting systems, and the inter-disciplinary team at JDS ARCHITECTS. The project in the ewoLAB series will be revealed to the public for the first time at Frankfurt’s Light+Building from 11.04.2010 to 16.04.2010. The idea here was to develop a lighting system, which in terms of both form and t..
Client Private Investor Architect: Future Systems Services Engineers: Arup Structural Engineers:Arup Quantity Surveyors: Savant Cladding Consultant: Billings Design Associates Completion: 2008 Architects Future Systems have completed the facade of a building on Oxford Street in London. The project involved adding an extra floor to the existing building and two new facades. The faceted glass surf..
Architects: Gianni Botsford Location: Cahuita, Costa Rica Client: Confidential Budget: UK ￡55,000 (US $108,971) Contractor: Lechenne Construction Structural Engineers: Tall Engineers Photographs: Christian Richters A few months ago i spotted this house with an amazing private library in Domus magazine, on an issue dedicated to contemporary libraries. It has a very detalied wood work. I love the ..
A few months ago we featured an amazing skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron, that will have a great impact in the skyline of New York. I’m very intrigued by the final result of this project, as it develops a pixelated unit composition that many have propossed, but no one has built. Now, a friend sent me this amazing video to market the building, done by Tronic Studios. The video reveals some portio..
Work has started on the construction of 56 Leonard Street, a 56-storey residential tower in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The tower, the architects’ first, will be built on the corner of Leonard Street and Church Street in Tribeca. A specially commissioned sculpture by Anish Kapoor will sit at the corner of the building at street level. All images are Copyright Herzog & de ..
Europan 8. Concurso. Mencion / Runner-up. Desarrollo Suburbano Mixto en Valladolid. ¿Como enfrentarnos al crecimiento de las ciudades europeas de tipo medio en su contexto cuasi-metropolitano a lo largo de las redes de infraestructuras? las orgullosas capitales regionales comienzan a mirar hacia y alrededor suyo, se traspasan los limites municipales y se jerarquizan areas urbanas hasta hace poco..
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Bled, Slovenia DesignYear: 2001 Construction years: 2001-2005 Strcutural Engineer: Elea IC d. o. Mechanical Engineer: Celarc d. o. o. Electrical Engineer: IPE d. o. o. Constructed Area: 1,200 sqm (residential area); 150 sqm (garages); 20,000 sqm (site area) Budget: 2.5 M EURO (US $3.85 M) Photographs: Tomaz Gregoric The project involves an extension of a 19th-..
