Architects: Taller Territorial de Mexico Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox The name of the house: “TRUST HOUSE” is the origin of the project. A place where a family can feel a sense of security, a place simple eno..
Architects: J. MAYER H. Architects Location: Hamburg, Germany Architect on Site: Imhotep, Donachie und Blomeyer Sturctural Engineers: Lydia Thiesemann, CBP Building Services: Energiehaus, Sineplan Light Engineers: Andres – Lichtplanung Landscape Architects: Breimann & Bruun Project Year: 2007 Constructed Area: 5,436 sqm Photographs: fotografieSCHAULIN, Hiepler Brunier, Dirk Fellenberg & Schraubv..
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, CA, USA General Contractor: Clandmark Building Engineering Construction Inc Project/Construction Manager: Clive McCarthy Structural Engineer: GFDS Engineers Project year: 2007 Photographs: Rien van Rijthoven A robust Mission district industrial building, built in the 1930’s, has had many lives. First as a Lucky Strike war..
Barber Shop / Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch Architects: Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch Location: Rehovot, Israel Project year: 2007-2008 The hair strand project started its way by considering the idea of what a hair strand is and what kind of insights it can provide for designing the interior space of the barber shop. Hair has a particular geometry and dynamics derived from natural law. The strand geometry..
Architects: Suppose Design Office Location: Hiroshima city, Hiroshima, Japan Program: Wedding Hall Site area: 1,816.46 sqm Building area: 779 sqm Total floor area: 1,241.86 sqm Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano from Nacasa&Partners Inc. From the first time that you see the Marriage Hall, you will want no other place for your ceremony.The site is in the south of the city of Hiroshima, in the prefecture..
Architects: Fitzsimmons Architects Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA Architect in Charge: Brian Fitzsimmons AIA Collaborators: Larry Pickering, Stan Lingo P.E. Project Size: 223 sqm conditioned space, 395 sqm total floor area Budget: $290,500 Project year: 2007 Photographs: Joseph Mills Photography Downtown Oklahoma City is in the midst of a rebirth and it bears little resemblance to the ba..
Architects: Mozas Aguirre arquitectos - Javier Mozas & Eduardo Aguirre Location: Madrid, Spain Project year: 2005 Construction year: 2007 Client: Local Savings Bank: Caja Vital Kutxa Headquarters Structural Engineer: NB 35, Madrid Artists: Javier Perez: two walls and ceiling of the main hall / Miguel Gonzalez de San Román: paintings on the basement Site Area: 11,042 sqm Constructed Area: 16,578 ..
Crown Of Thorns, balloon sculpture; Los Angeles, November 2006 from jasonhackenwerth
Dutch Design Week: Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Bas van der Veer has won the prize for best project at the school’s Graduation Galleries exhibition, which opened in Eindhoven yesterday. Van der Veer presented two projects: a rainwater storage butt with an integrated watering can called A Drop of Water (top and below), and a biodegradable packaging system for plants called Bioplastic Planter..
Housing Unit . Facade Component . Cluster . Neighbourhood Last week I attended the presentations of the associative design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio synthetic vernacular. Led by Peter Trummer and assisted by our fellow dysturb evangelist Martin Sobota, the class investigated traditional chinese building typologies. The principles found in the analysis were us..
