Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Pamplona, Spain Project manager: Daniel Galar Irurre, architect Lighting: Anton Aman - ALS LIGHTING Builder: Ignacio Huarte - Construcciones CLEYS S.L. Client: Danieli Joyeros Project year: 2006-2007 Photographs: Jose M. Cutillas Project picks archaic magical conception of the universe that surrounds the value of jewel..
“Smell the newness, smell the wood, smell the aliveness of this place… To begin, I just want to invite you to open your imaginations today… When we built this, we were not absolutely certain how it would be used because we are a church and we don’t determine the use of our lives and the use of our materials and the use of our abilities. We leave that to God. I just heard this little one here ste..
Our friends from L.E.FT (previously featured on AD Futures) just shared with us an interesting vertical landscape project, a joint work with norwegian architects STUDIO hp AS. The project is located in Holmestrand, Norway, and consists on a public elevator that connects the old lower part of the town across and 85m high cliff to the newer part of it. The infrastructure acts as an articulator of ..
Australian architect Paul Burnham has sent us photos of a house he’s recently designed. The house is located in the beachside suburb of Cottesloe in Perth, Western Australia.
Architects: Enproyecto arquitectura Location: Calzada de Calatrava, Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Client: Goverment of Castilla-La Mancha. Culture section Main sponsor: CEMEX S.L Constructor: FERCOPE S.L. Structural engineer: Álvaro Leonardo Budget: $80,000€ Project year: 2007-2009 Photographs: Ricardo Santonja, Emilio Valverde Concept This monument is situated in the home town of Pedro..
Amidst financial buildings and high-rise apartments, Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has redefined the conventional skyscraper. His 132 story complex for the south edge of Roosevelt Island addresses the pressing need for environmental and ecological sustainability. This conceptual design focuses on creating a completely self-sustaining organism that not only utilizes solar, wind, and water e..
Architect: KOZ Architectes / Christophe Ouhayoun – Nicolas Ziesel Location: Saint-Cloud, France Project team: Ambrus Evva, François Kharatt Structural Engineers: EVP Ingénierie Contractor: Delta Fluides Acoustic Consultant: Delphi Acoustique Budget: $3.8M Euro Project Area: 1,600 sqm Project year: 2007-2009 Photographs: © Stephan Lucas Sports and Leisure Center in Saint-Cloud / KOZ Architectes f..
Anders Johnsson and Petter Thörne are a couple of young designers based in Stockholm, who are graduating from Sweden’s Konstfack University this spring. The two designers have created the Mold chairs as part of their final project for the Interior Architecture and Furniture Design program. While visiting various Swedish furniture manufacturers, they noticed the large quantities of waste material..
Touted as Singapore’s answer to W Hotels, Quincy aims to fill the niche of providing sleek, ultra modern contemporary digs for the consummate urbanite. A place discreet yet chic and luxe – 400 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets, top of the line balms and potions are de rigueur, service impeccable and intuitive. Each bathroom is designed to ensure complete rejuvenation to the tired executive wit..
In a city covered by over 4,000 square miles of asphalt and cinder block, the green roof movement may have just won a serious coup with SYNTHe, an urban rooftop garden prototype designed by SCI-arc professor and architect Alexis Rochas. Located atop the Flat, a downtown Los Angeles residential mid-rise building, SYNTHe is a fertile oasis in the sky that will ultimately grow a variety of edible p..
