FARO architecten bv just shared with us their latest project, the winning entry for a sustainable residential tower design competition. Text from the architects and more images after the break. The city of Almere organized a design competition for urban villas and a residential tower for the Cascade park. These designs needed to fit within the ambition to develop the Cascade park as a ‘window of..
Knarvik Kinder garden by Juice Arkitektur The architectural language bases on the areas basic character. The rocky hills makes the building twist and turn around it. This is showed by the waving roof, adapting to the surroundings. The site is completely surrounded by unspoilt landscape, therefore it was important to keep the concept as close as possible to the “natural palette”. The outer skin i..
Paris-based Explorations Architecture have sent us these images of a temporary entrance-pavilion they have designed for the Chateau de Versailles in France. The 350 square metre structure provides crowd regulation, a visitors’ centre, security checks and cloakroom. Building was completed this summer; the pavilion will remain in place until 2011. Photographs by Michel Denancé. The following text ..
Architects: R&Sie(n) Location: Évolène, Switzerland Creative Team: François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro Engineer: Guscetti & Tournier, Geneva Interior Design: R&Sie(n) + Mathieu Lehanneur (furnitures) Museum design concept and apparatus: Mathieu Lehanneur Key dimensions: 1,000 sqm Client: Maison des Alpes, Public Foundation Photographs: ©François Roche/R&Sie(n) “Mais voilà qu’en traver..
Architects: wHY Architecture Location: Osaka, Japan Area: 279 sqm Project Year: 2006 Program: Private Residence Photographs: wHY Architecture Casa Wakasa, home to a young family of four is located in the suburbs of Osaka, Japan. The house attempts to be both a reflection into contemporary Japan’s family life (sense of family vs. privacy) as well as a solution to balance individual freedom and sp..
Ubicacion: Tecamachalco, Estado de Mexico Proyecto arquitectonico: rojkind arquitectos (Arq. Michel Rojkind) Colaboradores: Agustin Pereyra, Beatriz Diaz, Alvaro Sordo, Maria Carrillo, Gianpaolo Fusari Construccion: Factor Eficiencia, Arq. Fermin Espinosa, Arq. Ricardo Brito Calculo Estructural: Ing. Jorge Cadena Instalaciones: Ing. Jose Ignacio Baez, Ing. Jesus Saldana Fotografias: Javier Navar..
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has designed a shop and work space for Le Laboratoire in Paris, France. The work space, called LaboBrain, consists of a concave screen for the user to scrawl ideas on while moving around it. A football-like seat allows for rest between frenzied bouts of creative thinking, while plants under a grid in the floor refresh the air. The LaboShop sells objects conceive..
Architects Bernhardt + Partners have designed an astronomy centre in Heidelberg, Germany. Called House of Astronomy, the building will be used to give workshops and presentations about astronomy to school pupils, teachers and the public. According to the architects, the structure is based on the shape of a spiral galaxy; offices and seminar rooms wrap around a central auditorium, which seats app..
Architects Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse designed a lounge for Architonic at the IMM Cologne furnishing fair held earlier this month in Germany. The lounge was inspired by arctic slabs of ice and provided the setting for a party to celebrate architectural materials database Architonic’s fifth birthday. Wallisser is formerly a partner at Dutch architects UNStudio while Bosse designed the Aquat..
Bergen-based architect Thomas Tysseland of Juice Arkitektur has designed a nursery in Knarvik, Norway. The structure comprises a cluster of cube-like forms, where one corner of each has been raised to create an undulating roof. The building is clad in local timber. Light boxes illuminate the site at night. Construction began this month and is due for completion by July 2009. The following inform..
