Architects: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Location: Milan, Italy Food and restaurant consultant: Ford McDonald Consultancy Lighting consultant: Equation Lighting Design Cost consultant: Davis Langdon Mechanical engineer: BRE Enginnering s.r.l. Electrical engineer: CS Progetti Main contractor: Impresa Minotti s.r.l. Feature ceiling sub-contractor: Camagni Arredamenti s.r.l. Project Area: 1,900 sq..
Students of the Technische Universität Darmstadt in Germany have won the Solar Decathlon competition to design an energy-efficient solar-powered house. Twenty teams of students from international universities competed to design and build solar-powered houses, which were constructed and exhibited at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Teams then competed in ten contests to gain points. The winn..
Architects: stación-ARquitectura Arquitectos Location: Monterrey, México Associated Architect: Armando Cantú Project team: César Augusto Guerrero Rodríguez, Armando Cantú, Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal, Carlos Raúl Flores Leal, María Sevilla Gómez Programme: Showroom and design room for furniture Client: Ofimodul S. A. de C. V. Size of the project : 272 sqm Project year: 2008 Construction: 2008-2..
Architects: ADD+ Arquitectura - Manuel Bailo Esteve, Rosa Rull Bertran Location: Igualada, Spain Collaborators: O.Florejachs, N.Canas, D.Franz, E.Grammont, M.Hita, P.Juarez, J.Maroto, A.Romero, M.Rull, M.Cabestany, J.Vives Client: Godo Family Constructed Area: 200 sqm Budget: US $627,000 Project year: 2003 Photographs: Jose Hevia The house has been designed in a parcel with extremely high topogr..
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..
