Everybody copies from each other, Winy Maas – frontman of MVRDV – has stated at more than one occasion. What is more interesting, he adds, is how we can build on each other’s ideas: invention follows invention follows invention. A couple years ago there was a ‘hausse’ of towers that leaned into each other. At the height of the euphoria over that invention United Architects did a proposal like th..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bilbao, Spain Project Managment: Elena Varillas, Javier Duran, Ingenieros de Caminos Project Architects: Cesar Azcarate, Ana Moron, Xabier Aparicio, Carlos Guimaraes Structure: Javier Duran Electrical Engineer: Alvaro Gutierrez Lighting: Anton Aman (ALS Lighting) Photographer: Aitor Ortiz PREVIOUS SITUATION The districts of Txurdinaga and Otxarcoaga are located in Bilb..
Jonas Lindvall A&D have designed the Villa M2 in southern Sweden. From the designers: Villa M2 is situated in a village south of Malmö next to a disused lime quarry that has now become a lake. The part of the building facing the lake incorporates generous windows and minimally defined space to encourage the integration of the house’s interior with its stunning natural surroundings. The north and..
Architects: medusagroup Location: Gliwice, Poland Architects in Charge: Przemo łukasik, Lukasz zagała Associate Architects: Rafal Dziedzic, Kuba Pudo, Tomasz Majewski, Dominik Jaksik, Dawid Beil, Krzysztof Drozda, Justyna Siwińska, Agnieszka Szewera, Jakub Magoń Structural Engineer: Statyk Client: Wektor Inwestycje sp. z o.o. Project area: 5,000 sqm Design year: 2007-2008 Construction year: 2008..
Architects: Perkins Eastman Location: New York, USA Project Year: 2008 Principal material: Glass Footprint Area: 79 sqm Stairs Area: 200 sqm Photographs: Perkins Eastman The new TKTS Booth, designed by top international architecture and design firm Perkins Eastman, responds to its location a top Father Duffy Square, a slender triangular-shaped public park in Times Square. The TKTS Booth is a com..
Architects: Consortium Daoust Lestage + Williams Asselin Ackaoui + Option aménagement Location: Quebec, Canada Project Team: Réal Lestage, urban planner, principal in the project team, Renée Daoust, architect, urban planner, principal / Caroline Beaulieu, architect / Lucie Bibeau, landscape architect / Martin Adam, b. arch. / Maria Benech, b. arch. / André Nadeau, landscape architect / Simon Mag..
Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura Location: Tarragona, Spain Architects in charge: Gerard Veciana Membrado & Elisabet Faura Pavia Arteks Collaborators: Elena Berri, Laia Esteban,Gemma Roca, Carlos Cobreros, Fermin Sánchez, Alex Miralles, Ricard Blanco, Miquel Mercè, Manuel González Constructed Area: 28,000 sqm Project Year: 2008 Pergola Engineering: Amatria Engineering - J.M velasco Facilities Engi..
Barcelona architects and designers Deardesign have completed a flagship store for mother-and-son fashion designers Lurdes Bergada and Syngman Cucala in Barcelona. The store, located in the L’illa Diagonal shopping mall, is divided in two by a faceted beech tunnel stretching the length of the shop. The wall comprises 1,000 uniquely shaped wooden panels held together by 2,400 screws. The interior ..
Merete Rasmussen is a Danish artist who predominately works with one-off sculptural forms in stoneware clay. She has lived and worked in London since 2005. Merete is interested in the idea of one continuous surface, with one connected edge or line running through the whole form. Clear, clean shapes; soft smooth curves in contrast to sharp edges; concave and convex surfaces; the discovery and str..
Carving a two-mile-long canyon through the heart of Southern California might seem like apostasy in this age of low-impact land use. But the Orange County Great Park is no ordinary place. To build this winding canyon, excavating machines will move over five million cubic yards of earth to create a sluice of space up to 60 feet deep, with selective cuts framing views of the Santa Ana Mountains, a..
