Polish Design Season: Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala has designed a floating island that purifies river water, powered by exercise machines. The river water is passed through four filters by kinetic pumps attached to the exercise equipment. It is then collected in four tanks before being returned to the river through a fountain in the raft’s centre. Szczęsny created the installation for architecture..
Architects: Barkow Leibinger Architects - Frank Barkow & Regine Leibinger Location: Stuttgart, Germany Design Phase Team: Jason Sandy, Johanna Doherty, Christina Eickmeier, Klaus Reintjes Construction Phase Team: Lukas Weder (Project Architect), Philipp Heidemann, Caspar Hoesch, Christina Möller, Mathias Oliva, Dagmar Pelger, Jason Sandy Project Year: 2006-2008 Constructed Area: 5,400 sqm Client..
Louisiana based Trahan Architects, a firm with expertise in institutional design and religious architecture (check the Holy Rosary Church Complex, remarkable project), recently unveiled conceptual design for the renovation and expansion of the River Center Branch Library. The project stands at the intersection between civic buildings and the city’s arts and entertainment district, overlooking a ..
Copenhagen- and Rotterdam-based architects Powerhouse Company have completed a spiral-shaped extension to a house in Burgundy, France. Called Spiral House, the extension is arranged around a central patio, where visitors enter the structure. A shallow staircase wraps around this central space, leading from a living room and library on the ground floor to two guest rooms on the first floor. Glaze..
The city council of Weilburg, Germany, a dense medieval city, organized a design competition upon the demolition of an existing parking structure. ACME’s terrace design is a contemporary spin on the Baroque terraced-landscape building typology found nearby in the Weilburg Castle Gardens. The form becomes an integrated part of the landscape, allowing the project to blend into the surrounding cont..
French designer Nicolas Vrignaud has designed the signage for a building comprising a fashion school, shopping centre, exhibition hall and restaurants on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Created for the development (called DOCKS en Seine) by architects Jakob+MacFarlane, the signs wrap around the existing concrete structure. Vrignaud designed the project in collaboration with architect Lorenzo As..
Architects: Pasel.Kuenzel Architects Location: Leiden, The Netherlands Project Area: 130 sqm building + 60 sqm garden Project year: 2005-2009 Photographer: Marcel van der Burg As the plot does not allow for traditional front or back gardens, the design incorporates open-air spaces within the build structure. The open floor plan with its voids generates exciting views inside the volume and enhanc..
Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Location: Thiais, France Engineering: BETOM - SIT Main Contractor: DUTHEIL - BETSINOR / LABASETERE Client: PARIS HABITAT Program: Administrative building Project year: 2003-2007 Site Area: 3,5 há Constructed Area: 2,450 sqm Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol - Philippe Ruault Located in the southern suburban area of Paris along wide boulevards and roadwa..
Architects Denton Corker Marshall have won a competition to design the Te Wero Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand. The twin-leaf aluminium bascule bridge will carry cyclists, pedestrians and buses between the city centre and Wynyard Quarter, a regeneration area on the waterfront. The bridge features two liftable decks - one for vehicles and the other for pedestrians and cycles - supported by a 60 m..
