Architects: 57 STUDIO - Maurizio Angelini / Benjamín Oportot Location: Colina, Chile Collaborators: Felipe Zamora / Carla Uribe Project year: 2006-2007 Construction year: 2007-2008 Structural Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa Contractor: CYBCO Materials: Concrete / Steel / Stone Photographs: 57 STUDIO The assignment is a single unit house in a residential park in northern Santiago. The sites - about 50..
When I first got all the info to write my article on it I was soconfused! Just amazing architecture, different design ideas which areso distinctive and different from one another, yet they all tie upreally well! I felt like a kid left alone without any restrictions in FAO Schwarztoy store and candy shop simultaneously! I just didn’t know where tolook at, what to comment on, and I was definitely ..
Architects: Marek Rytych Architekt Location: Warsaw, Poland Project team: Marek Rytych, Krzysztof Kryska, Joanna Kiepas Project Area: 436 sqm Photographs: MRA Through this house you can rush by and not even notice that you have trespassed a kind of a border. There is no threshold - literally and figuratively. Paved road, on which we step towards the entrance penetrates the interiors and comes ou..
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleo have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. The large block is divided into thirty smaller, staggered blocks of apartments, creating communal patios throughout the building and allowing air and light to penetrate between the homes. In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartment..
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Nagoya, Japan, featuring a room dedicated to plants. The house, situated on a narrow plot surrounded by neighbouring houses, accommodates the client’s desire for a vibrant garden by including a landscaped “garden room” bordering the main living space. The architects aimed to treat the rooms and garden in the same way. Object..
Cloud Tower is a pavilion for open-air concerts in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria, designed by the next ENTERprise - architects. Located at Grafenegg Castle along with the copper-clad concert hall in our previous story, the auditorium occupies an existing depression in the landscape, accentuated by further excavations. Visitors enter the auditorium through a corridor cut into the s..
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects and Patrik Schumacher Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Director: Tiago Correia Project Architects: Alejandro Diaz & Aurora Santana Project team: Fabiano Continanza, Víctor Orive, Rafael González, Oihane Santiuste, Mónica Bartolomé, Raquel Gallego, Esther Rivas, Jessica Knobloch, Hooman Talebi, Maria Araya, Ebru Simsek Local Architect: Ferran Pelegrina Associats..
Architect: Studio Gang Architects Location: Chicago, IL, USA Owner: SOS Children’s Villages Completion: 2008 Photographs: Steve Hall @ Hedrich Blessing SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings. Multi-faceted public spaces in t..
Casa en la Cala Galiota, Mallorca, Spain, by Joan Riera + Francisco Barceló from dailyicon
Project data: > Client: University of Plymouth > Gross floor area: 12,600 m2 > Construction Value: 22 mill. GBP > Type of assignment: 1st prize in open international competition UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH - ARTS FACULTY The vision for the new arts building is to create a center for arts and culture that fuses both city and university campus as a core for activity and learning. A central cross point ..
