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 ..
The design concept of the Nevada Museum of Art creates an architecture of dynamic urban presence in downtown Reno, Nevada. The Museum frames a series of well-scaled and formed galleries, choreographed in a sequence of memorable visual experiences. The Museum's architecture is enhanced by its material articulation and invention of detail that forms a strong link to its geologic and cultural place..
French architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture have designed a car showroom and leisure centre for Cairo, Egypt. The structure is based on a series of connecting circles and spherical cavities. “The intersection between them creates all the circulations, atriums, and visual perspectives through the whole building,” explain the architects. Made of concrete, the building will be made up of ident..
German firm Architekten Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck have completed a copper-clad concert hall in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria. Called the Schloss Grafengg Concert Hall and located in the grounds of Grafenegg Castle, the new building has been integrated with the castle’s existing, heritage-protected, former riding-school buildings, to which it is connected by a series of glazed lobbi..
We just received this from OMA: After almost 12 years in the boards, OMA announced that the De Rotterdam complex will enter construction during December 2009, expecting completion in 2013. Tree stacked towers with a total height of 150m, will result on a gross floor area of approximately 160,000m2, making De Rotterdam the largest building in the Netherland, with a total cost of €340m. The mixed-..
