This project to us is a platform to establish a critical dialogue within our built environment; to raise questions as much as it is to finding solutions. The project is a critique on our cultural attitudes and how we determine them. A critique on what we consider to be of heritage significance and how to narrate such ideas in a critical and contemporary manner. This once vacant site is nestled a..
DeStefano and Partners have created a new commercial center for Ninbgo, China. Extending the existing canal system, the Yinzhou Fantasy Island master plan fuses the current wetlands and parks with the commercial aspects of the city as a way to balance the ecological with the cultural. The plan will not only include retail areas, but also entertainment, business, leisure and cultural facilities p..
Architects: Arquitectos Anónimos® and Paulo Teodósio Location: Esposende, Portugal Client: Maria Helena Ramos Structural consultant: Ricardo Fonseca, Luís Fernandes and Luís Gonçalves Floor area: 157 sqm Site area: 8,900 sqm Built-up area: 288 sqm Start of planning: 2004 Start of construction: 2005 Completion: 2007 Photographs: Ivo Canelas An unusual and inverted process. The client convinced us..
Architects: Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément Location: Luz, Mourão, Portugal Programme: Cemetery Anthropology: Clara Saraiva Engineering: G.O.P. - Gabinete de Organização e Projectos, Lda. Lighting engeneering: Raul Serafim Landscape Architecture: Sebastião Pereira Client: E.D.I.A. - Empresa de Desenvolvimento e Infra-estruturas do Alqueva, S.A. Constructed Area: 820 sqm Budget: US $ 800,000.00 Pro..
Canadian architects Bricault Design have completed a plant-covered extension to a house in Venice, Los Angeles. Large glass doors on the ground floor pivot open onto the courtyard. Air is drawn inside and up a sculptural staircase to an opening in the roof, cooling the building. The building is clad with cedar batons and the new bedroom is covered in plants, including vegetables and indigenous s..
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Project team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse General Contractor: Brian Spiers Acoustics: Dale Pekrul Project year: 2007 Photographs: Rien van Rijthoven Conduit Restaurant emerged from the found circumstances. The ground floor commercial space in a new residential building had a low ceiling and a tangled maze of plumb..
Japanese architects Masaki Mori of Morii’s Atelier and Shin Yokoo of OUVI have completed a house in Kanagawa, Japan, for a couple who plan to retire soon. Called M-house, the residence is organised around a kitchen garden. Large windows frame views of the surrounding cedar trees. More stories about OUVI: House in Mitaka by Hidetaka Shirako and OUVI Andon by Grasses and OUVI Photographs are by Ta..
A few months ago, we featured the Washplane sink/basin from Australian manufacturer Omvivo. That post, which you can see by clicking here, was rather popular, and now Omvivo have sent us photos of a custom version of the Washplane that was installed in the Sydney Opera House. from contemporist
Dwell Development is a design/build company in Seattle, Washington that have recently completed four freestanding single family residences in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle. Designed by staff architect Julian Weber, the homes include a number of sustainable features, and as a result, the project was recently chosen by the Built Green™ residential building program as their case study for..
Internationally recognized practice RMJM Architects have recently announced their groundbreaking $1 billon mixed-use complex for the Atasehir district, the growing residential and business area of Istanbul, Turkey. RMJM’s complex will allow the new business center to flourish by serving 20,000 people and providing for a variety of their needs. The project will be revolutionary for Turkey as it w..
