The Hespeler Library addition and renovation in the Town of Hespeler, Ontario (now part of Cambridge) wraps a 1922 Carnegie Library in this historically significant textile mill town within an elegant and generous glass case. The new building envelope is contemporary in its materiality with modulated ceramic frit patterns on glass that weave around the building to create varying degrees of trans..
Architect: Verónica Arcos Clients: Rodrigo Arcos, Alejandra Schmidt Location: Santiago de Chile Structural Engenieer: José Manuel Morales Design: 2006 Construction: 2007-2008 Built surface: 220m2 Photographs: Gonzalo Puga Work in progress photographs: Verónica Arcos Chile-based architect Veronica Arcos has completed an angular house in the El Arrayán area of Santiago, Chile. Called Casadetodos, ..
Architects: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL / Einar Jarmund, Hakon Vigsnæs & Alessandra Kosberg Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway Design Period: 2001-2003 Construction period: 2003-2005 Collaborators: Anders Granli, Nevzat Vize, Sissil Morseth Gromholt, Thor Christian Pethon, Halina Noach, Harald Lode, Stian Schjelderup Client: Statsbygg / Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction a..
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..
