The Austria Pavilion designed by Solid Architecture for the Expo Zaragoza 2008 was an extension of the popular 19th-century “cyclorama” art form. The viewer platform in the center of the panorama and the plastically designed historic panorama architecture in the foreground merge into a white landscape marked by contour lines, which will serve as the pavilion’s exhibition space. This abstracted l..
Architects: Blank Studio Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Structural Engineer: BDA Engineers Landscape Design: DBLD Electrical Engineer: Tony Woo Engineering Mechanical + Plumbing: Kunka Engineering Civil + Solis: Fugro South General Contractor: 180 Degrees Constructed Area: 209 sqm Project year: 2006 Photography: Bill Timmerman The Xeros project is sited within a late 1950’s era neighborhood where th..
Los Angeles architects DRDS have designed a sports complex for the Hyundai-Samsung Consortium in Hwaseong, Korea. The stadium has a perforated metal skin with openings of various size. Designed in collaboration with Junglim, DMP, Haendlim and A&U, the stadium is due to open in 2010. Here’s some more information from DRDS: Hwaseong sports complex DRDS in collaboration with Junglim, DMP, Haenglim ..
Architect: SPG Architects Location: Kechum, Idaho, USA Partner in Charge: Caroline N. Sidnam Project Team: Sandra Aranguren-Langston & William Petrone Contractor: Englemann Inc. Structural Engineering: Purdy & Associates Constructed Area: 558 sqm Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Tim Brown This 6,000 square foot vacation home is located in the high desert of central Idaho. A 5-Bedroom house with a..
New York and Beijing designers Elevation Workshop have completed the interior of a clothing store in Beijing, China. Called SongMax, the interior contains raised platforms arranged in an L-shape with dark grey walkways cutting between them. The designers wanted this division of space to simultaneously evoke a walk-in cupboard, catwalk and stage. Two red rails span three walls of the shop. Photog..
Architect: Spanjers Architect Location: Westkapelle, The Netherlands Client: Fletcher Hotel Group Footprint: 370 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Spanjers Architect On the beach of Westkapelle, a small coastal town in the Netherlands, recently a new beachclub called ‘Zuiderduin’ has opened its doors for the public. A building with a maximum outdoor floor surface where people can enjoy a snack..
London based Platform 5 Architects have designed a modern oriel window as part of a renovation to a run-down derelict house in the London Borough of Hackney. The modern structural glass oriel window is lined with cherry wood and projects into the garden, juxtaposing with the Victorian bay window that projects into the street. from contemporist
Seattle architect Nils Finne has shared with us his experience of getting a custom designed handcrafted rug made in a remote area of Nepal. Nils says: The rug is meant to evoke a field of grass, and we generated drawings and made sample color strike-offs here in Seattle. Then, Dorjé Contemporary, a custom rug company based in Seattle, transmitted all the information to their weavers in Nepal. Th..
The design team of L. Tuleikis, R. Antinis, K. Vaikšnoras, K. Lanauskas, and P. Vaitiekūnas shared their competition entry for the renovation of Lukishkiu Square in Vilnius, Lithuania. The competition highlighted “freedom” as the square was established for a memorial space. The team’s proposal consists of a gently carved out central Freedom Field, surrounded by sculptural compositions and an ext..
Omri Barzeev has recently finished his degree in industrial design at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Zaza chair was his final project. From Omri Barzeev: My project Zaza is a new chair that created and based on a research and integration of various substance and in search of the morphology, resulting from a combination of substances consisting of a variety of ..
