About a month ago the Rolex Learning Center designed by SANAA opened its doors and we feature it with a great video and some images they shared with us. Now, Iwan Baan sent us this great photoset he made for March’s issue of Domus magazine, where we can see much more of the sloped interiors and some amazing images of the perforated curved concrete+glass volume that gives form to the building. fr..
California-based Forward Design Office shared with us their design for a Monterey Residence in California. More images and architect’s description after the break. The Monterey Residence reinterprets traditional hacienda architecture to create a contemporary design focused around an inner courtyard. The client’s concern for privacy, desire for an ocean view and performance requirements drive the..
Architects: BURO II & Design Institute of China CITIC Location: Guangzhou, China Structural Design : Laurent Ney & Partners (Belgium) Landscape Design: Stefaan Thiers en Denis Dujardin (Belgium) Facade Engineering: Van Santen & Ass. (France) Interior Design: Lens°Ass (Belgium) Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Philippe van Gelooven This project recently won the civic category at the World Architec..
Steven Holl Architects have won a competition to masterplan the Futian business district in Shenzhen, China. Steven Holl Architects’ design for the competition included four towers connected by a horizontal linking structure. The firm was awarded the design of the overall master plan, while the tower designs (not pictured here) were won by Morphosis, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Atelier FCJZ, Hans Hollein..
Architects: ACXT Location: Boroa, Amorebieta-Etxano, Biscay, Spain Project Architects: Javier Pérez Uribarri, Xabier Aparicio Ortega Client: AIC Fundation Project Team: Jose Cavallero, Nuno Lobo, Roberto Fdez De Gamboa, Roberto Aparicio, Cristina Lamikiz, Oscar Costa, Marc Rips, Jose Cavallero, Nuno Lobo, Fernado Ortega, Marina Duran, Oscar Malo, Arrate Achalandobaso, Ziortza Bardeci, Francisco ..
Architects: Dellekamp arquitectos Location: Desierto de los Leones, Mexico DF, Mexico Project Leader: Derek Dellekamp Project Team: Honore Carmona, Fernando Valencia, Horacio Merediz, Omar Chavez Godoy Program: Single Family House Constructed Area: 130 sqm Project Year: 2002-2003 Photographs: Dellekamp arquitectos This 130m2 house is located on a rural area adjacent to Mexico City. Built with a ..
The main carcass and legs of the sideboard are crafted using American black walnut whilst the doors are formed using a mixture of walnut, oak, ash, poplar and sapele solid wood lamination’s. In today’s throwaway society it has never been more important to reuse and recycle materials. My “Neapolitan” range of furniture does exactly this. By utilising what most furniture manufacturers would consid..
Architects Standardarchitecture-Zhaoyang Studio have completed a visitors centre next to a river in Tibet. The building was constructed using local vernacular techniques and brightly coloured pigments from local minerals have been painted directly onto the stone walls of the interior. Called Niyang River Visitor Center, the building contains a ticket office, changing room and bathroom. Photograp..
Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. Called Embedded Project, the structure was built in October 2008 in collaboration with artist Xu wenkai. It housed an installation that projected imaginary buildings and images from mapping programme Google Earth in response to..
Location Ponta Delgada, Açores Client Administração dos Portos das Ilhas de São Miguel e Santa Maria S.A. Date 2002 – 2008 Architecture and Urban Design Manuel Salgado, Marino Fei, Tomás Salgado and Pedro Pinto Interior light design Piero Castiglione Sculpture / Instalation Filipe Franco Site Area 50.153 m2 Build Area 18.000 m2 Cost 50.000.000 € The intervention has encompassed the city's long, ..
