Various Architects is a collaborative design office based in Norway, and they shared with us a very innovative project: a Mobile Performance Venue. Designed to host the performance “ID - Identity of the soul” (touring worldwide in 2009), the client requested a unique and iconic structure. Also, this venue needs to be mobile, so volume/weight were key on this design developed as a flexible ellips..
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Architects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by Professor Frank Flury Local architect: Ecker Architekten Location: Boedigheim, Germany Client: Protestant Church of Bödigheim Project year: 2009 Photographs: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo, Brigida Gonzalez Website: Flurkapelle Buchen/Bödigheim The Field Chapel is a proj..
Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. Called Ecolodge and situated overlooking the desert, the building is constructed from locally-available materials including mud, sun-fired bricks, palm wood, reeds and stone. The walls are made of a traditional local building material called kershef that consists of mud, sand and ..
The title "Rock and Roll Fantasy" might be a little misleading for this SCI-Arc studio project lead by Ball Nogues' Benjamin Ball, Gaston Nogues and Andrew Lyon. While the program was 100% rock and roll, the practical lessons learned during this collaborative design-build experience were far from fantastical. The goal of the studio was to develop an iconic architectural installation for the popu..
Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates Location: Beverly Hills, California, USA Project year: 2007 Project Architects: Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston AIA, Katrin Terstegen Project team: Albert Chu, Robert Garlipp, Nicholas Hofstede Client: Sonia Eram (Mameg), Staff USA (Maison Martin Margiela) Contractor: Lofton Contracting, Inc. (Sherman Oaks, CA) Structural Engineer: B.W. Smith Structural Engine..
The manufacturing of curved parts is laborious. Special molds are needed to define the curvature during the forming and joining process ? a factor that is time consuming and costly, especially in individual production and small series. Zipshape is a new universal method that makes it possible to fabricate single curved panels from any plain material without molds. An element consists of two indi..
by Mark Leveno
In the ‘new European architecture’ magazine A10 I came across this marvelous project by Moxon architects. It is a design for an office building in Preston, in the North West of England. The exterior of the building is dominated by ‘an array of anodized aluminium fins suspended from tensile rods’. All fins are oriented in the same direction. The brilliance of the three-dimensional cladding is tha..
Architects: REX | OMA Location: Dallas, USA Key Personnel: Joshua Prince-Ramus (Partner-in-Charge) and Rem Koolhaas, with Erez Ella, Vincent Bandy, Vanessa Kassabian, Tim Archambault Executive Architect: Kendall/Heaton Associates Client: The AT&T Performing Arts Center Consultants: Cosentini, DHV, Donnell, Front, HKA, Magnusson Klemencic, McCarthy, McGuire, Pielow Fair, Plus Group, Quinze & Mila..
