Architects: 70ºN Arkitektur Project Team: Magdalena Haggarde, Joar Lillerust, Gisle Løkken, Kjeld Nash, Anniken Romuld, Petra Schnutenhaus Location: Tromsø, Norway Contractor: Bjørn Bygg AS Site Area: 622 sqm Outdoor Area: 1,825 sqm + 1,712 sqm Construction year: 2006 Photographs: Ivan Brodey The kindergarten is organized in a number of longitudinal zones from the exterior playground, the roofed..
2006 - 2007 Utrechter Str. 25-27, 13347 Berlin Bauherr Stattbau GmbH Projektleitung Susanne Hofmann Baupiloten Maximilian Assfalg, Ania Busiakiewicz, Andrea Ceaser, Fee Kyriakopoulos, Ansgar Schmitter, Irmtraut Schulze, Thilo Reich, Wojciech Wojakowski und Urzula Ramus (Gastpilotin) Unterstützer Helmuth Hanle, Rainer Schulze Projektbeteiligte Quartiersmanagement Pankstraße gefördert durch EU, BR..
2005 - 2007 Hohenzollernring 93, 13587 Berlin Bauherr ASB Kinder- und Jugendhilfe gGmbH (jetzt: Orte für Kinder GmbH) Projektleitung Susanne Hofmann Baupiloten Niklaus Haller, Ole Hallier, Daniel Hülseweg, Annika Köster, Christian Necker, Katrin Zietz, Katja Zimmerling, Ilja Gendelmann, Susan Jutrowski, Anna Meditsch, Anne Pind, Mirko Wanders Unterstützer Christos Stremmenos Jörg Zander Entwurf ..
Hong Kong studio Design Systems have completed the interior of the control room at Hong Kong international airport. Called Functional Aesthetic, the project was designed to accommodatetwo teams – one to carry out daily operations and a second to deal withemergencies. Lighting is installed on the sides of triangular blocks that formthe room’s ceiling, in order to reduce reflections on the workers..
At the time Engelbert Frauscher was ready to open his first shipyard at the old Danube in Vienna, the United States were already celebrating the heydays of boat racing. And it was during the winter of 1921-22 that the rules governing the Gold Cup Races were dramatically changed by the American Power Boat Association. The changes limited engine size, length and configuration of hulls. The wish wa..
Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice, have designed a studio for themselves that showcases their philosophy of design and provides a great space to work. The “workhouse”, an elevated steel, glass and plywood studio, “explores the notion of a mixed work / house typology.” The architects intended for the project to expresses lightness in its modular structural form, transparency, te..
Site: Vitoria, Spain Architect: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Work direction: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Collaborators: Architecture: José Mª Gastaldo, Richard Král’ovič, Eduardo Pérez de Arenaza. Structural engineering: NB 35 SL (Jesús Jiménez Cañas / Alberto López) Ingenieros. Installations engineering: Iturralde y Sagüés ingenieros / César Martín Gómez. Acoustic engineering: Higini Arau...
Tokyo Designers Week 09: Japanese designer Nosigner presented a jewellery box with square drawers at Design Tide Tokyo earlier this week. Called Squares, the front of the piece is divided into squares of different sizes. The surface is pollished using a technique traditionally used for finishing mirror stands in the Tokushima prefecture of Japan. Drawers are only released if the central one is o..
Architect: António Sérgio Koch Location: Oporto, Portugal Program: Private House Site area: 1,275 sqm Constructed area: 655 sqm Project Year: 2006-2009 Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra The building sit is a street corner, in a natural terrace by the sea and the occupation of that is based on the search for optimal morphology of the land as a form of resolution for the deploy..
Today's entry is a collection shared by photographer Peter Carr, from an event in Liverpool, England last year. Said Peter: "As part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan's Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol ..
