Project Details: Client: IT-Fornebu Eiendom Architect: a-lab Interior design: a-lab Landscape design: Asplan Viak Structural engineer: Rambøll Norge AS (competition phase: Arup) M&E services: Electro : Føyn Consult / Ventilation : Norconsult “Transformation is complete at the Fornebu site – the location of Oslo’s Airport until 1998 when it took retirement at 60. Its vacant cavernous Terminal bui..
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Mornington Peninsula, Australia Project Team: Drew Williamson, Fang Cheah Clients / Builders: Donna & Mark Constructed Area: 258 sqm Photographs: McBride Charles Ryan The Klein bottle is a descriptive model of a surface developed by topological mathematicians. Klein bottle, mobius strips, boy surfaces, unique surfaces that..
Architects: BIG + JDS = PLOT Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Collaborators: Plot, JDS, MOE & Brodsgaard Client: Hopfner A/S, Dansk Olie Kompagni A/S Contractor: Hopfner A/S Program: 230 Apartments Construction period: 2004 - 2005 Total Area: 25000 sqm Photography: BIG & JDS The VM Houses are two residential blocks formed as the letters V and M. The blocks are formed as such to allow for daylight, ..
Nya Nordiska, a leading international textile company based in Dannenberg, North Germany, whose early stages were strongly influenced by Scandinavian design, recently received a highly unusual enquiry from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. The legendary interior landscape “Fantasy Landscape“ by the designer Verner Panton was to be returned to its original condition for the museum's exhibition “Interieu..
Argentinian architects B4FS shared with us their proposal in the Punggol Waterfront International Housing Design competition in Singapore, which was shortlisted and awarded a Merit Prize (second prize ex aequo). The two-stage design competition was launched in December 2008 to generate fresh, innovative and new design ideas for high-rise public housing along the waterway. Participating firms wer..
Möhn + Bouman Architects have sent us photos of the Daycare Centre Felsoord. The building, located in Delft, The Netherlands, is a rare example of a modern design that uses thatch, a material more commonly associated with 19th century cottages. The project concerns the extension and renovation of an existing daycare centre for mentally disabled, situated in a natural wetland area near Delft, the..
Architects: Behnisch Architekten Location: Hamburg, Germany Client: HOCHTIEF Projektentwicklung Project Area: 38,000 sqm Competition year: 2006 Project year: 2007–2009 Photographs: Adam Mørk The new Unilever headquarter building for Germany, Austria and Switzerland is located right by the river Elbe in Hamburg’s HafenCity. It marks the end of the route out of the town centre to Hamburg’s new att..
Viva Store is a conversion by Bolivian architects Roca + Paz in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The rebuild, completed last year, involved wrapping a new curving “cover” around the L-shaped building. The “cover” is animated by changing light patterns at night. The following is by Roca + Paz estudio: – Viva Store by Roca + Paz estudio Santo Domingo City is the capital of Dominican Republic. It..
Architect: René van Zuuk Architekten Location: Oosterdok, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Client: Ontwikkelingsbedrijf Gemeente Amsterdam / NL Building Contractor: H.J.Jurrïens b.v., Utrecht/ NL Structural Ingeneering: Advies en Ingenieursbureau Van der Laar, Eindhoven/ NL Project Year: 2002-2003 Site Area: 300 sqm Constructed Area: 477 sqm Budget: US $2.03 M Photographs: Luuk Kramer The ARchitecture..
Rick Mather Architects of London have completed an extension to the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University in the UK. The new building comprises six stories, which hold display space, a new entrance, an education centre, conservation studios and a rooftop terrace. The project combines double- and single-height gallery spaces connected by a series of walkways and two main st..
