Architects: Plan B - Felipe Mesa, Alejandro Bernal + JPRCR - Camilo Restrepo, J. Paul Restrepo Collaborators: Viviana Peña, Catalina Patiño, Carolina Gutiérrez, Lina Gil, Jorge Buitrago Location: Botanical Garden, Medellín, Colombia Client: Medellin Botanical Garden Builder: Ménsula S.A. Project start: 2005 Completion: 2006 Budget: 523 US$ / m2 Constructed Area: 4.200 sqm Materials: Wood, Steel ..
Wall house innovates on house design, through a sustainable soft skin. This house was awarded the 2007 AR Emerging Awards and selected as one of the 2008 Record Houses by Architectural Record. Name: Wall House Location: Lampa, Santiago, Chile Completion: 2007 Project Team: FAR frohn&rojas - Marc Frohn, Mario Rojas Toledo, Amy Thoner, Pablo Guzman, Isabel Zapata Structural Planning Wood: Ingewag ..
Architects: XTEN Architecture Location: Hollywood Hills, California, USA Principals: Monika Haefelfinger & Austin Kelly, AIA Client: Randolph Duke Contractor: Peddicord Construction Interior Area: 418 sqm Total Area: 697 sqm Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Art Gray Photography The Openhouse is embedded into a narrow and sharply sloping property in the Hollywood Hills, a challenging site that led..
Architect: Jager Janssen architecten BNA Design team: Alex Jager, Rogier Janssen, Sanne Braakenburg Location: Blauwestad, Netherlands Client: Michel Dijk & Karin Berrelkamp Gross area: 318 sqm (incl. souterrain) Completion: July 2007 Consultants: Solke Abbring (installations) Contractor: Marcel van der Sluis Photography: Rob de Jong/SAPh, Michiel en karin Dijk House Dijk - Make Room! The facades..
Architects: MAD Location: Beijing, China Director in Charge: Ma Yansong, Dang Qun Design Team: Dai Pu, Yu Kui, Stefanie Helga Paul, He Wei, Shen Jianghai Type: Courtyard Renovation Construction Engineers: Beijing Nade Environmental Art Design Co., Ltd. Construction Cost: 400,000RMB Project Year: 2009 Photographs: ShuHe, Fang Zhenning & Daniele Dainelli MAD’s proposal for the future Beijing 2050 ..
The city that never sleeps is notorious for its energy, diversity and relentless nature of thriving culture and innovation. A hot spot for pushing retail and hospitality experiences, the city perpetually finds ways to surprise you and inspire you. As a frequent New York City visitor, I often try to explore new urban veins in order to maintain New York as the "never-ending story." Although every ..
“Designing is my natural state. I am normal”. That’s how Martin Huberman defines his work for Normal™ studio, a design and architecture office based in Argentina that is involved in numerous design projects that have caught our attention. Huberman and his collaborators are trying to explore what is considered as normal, principally through the kind of things that surround us and are perceived as..
Melbourne, Australia based Yellow Diva, have designed the M Series of seating. A sumptous seating collection comprising MC1 armchair, MO1 ottoman, MCL chaise longue and MS1 sofa. Taking inspiration from Eastern and Western traditions the M Series harks back to the understated elegance of the early nineteenth century, marrying rhythmic buttoning and tactile piping with decidedly contemporary join..
The new King Abdullah II House of Culture & Art in Jordan designed by Zaha Hadid Architects has been announced this week. The project comes after a competition awarded in June 2008, which included Snøhetta (Norway), Atelier Christian de Portzamparc (France), Delugan Meissl (Austria), Henning Larsens Tegnestue (Denmark) and Kerry Hill Architects (Singapore). The project consists in a performing a..
It was during the two World Wars when women limited by fabric rationing restrictions and yet not wanting to abandon their appearance came up with a solution of painting their legs with make up or asking a friend to draw a straight line down the bag of their legs so as to show that they were wearing stockings ? or even mostly in Middle Eastern countries women were and still decorate their legs or..
