Architects: Atelier Phileas (member of PLAN01) Location: Bondy, France Client: Town of Bondy - SODEDAT 93 Program: 15 classes, Youth center, Multifunction room, Library, canteen Contractor: COLAS Consultants: BETOM Ingénierie / CAP TERRE / AVEL Acoustique Constructed Area: 3,100 sqm Budget: 5.7M Euro + tax (US $7.18M + tax) Project year: 2007 Photographer: Stephan Lucas The project is developed ..
Situación: Oñati Autores: Miguel A. Alonso del Val, Rufino J. Hernández Minguillón Colaboradores: Juan Biain, Francisco Trujillo, Isabel Gordoa, Patricia Biain, Juan Oroz, Jesús Sanz Aparejadores: Michel Aldaz García-Mina, Fernando Aspiazu, María López, Saioa Iñurrategi Instalaciones: GE & asociados Promotor: Provincia Franciscana de Arantzazu, Ayuntamiento de Oñati (Plan Especial) Fecha finaliz..
Amsterdam-based architect Yushi Uehara of Zerodegree Architecture has completed two office buildings in Groningen, the Netherlands. The buildings have identical plans but one is to be used as offices and the other for scientific laboratories. Photographs by Jim Ernst. The following text is from Yushi Uehara: – Shaken Office How far have we matured our architecture? How truthfully have we made ou..
Swiss architects group8 with Guscetti & Tournier structural engineering have completed an aviary in the Bois de la Bâtie public park in Geneva, Switzerland. The aviary is situated on a separate island which limits the access of visitors, who follow a path around the aviary to view birds from all directions. The structure consists of 16 unique, tree-like, steel pillars supporting a concrete roof...
HL23_ NEIL M. DENARI ARCHITECTS NEW YORK, 2005-2009 Developed by Alf Naman and currently in construction, HL23 is a 14 floor condominium tower that responds to a unique and challenging site directly adjacent to the High Line at 23rd street in New York's West Chelsea Arts district. Partially impacted by a spur from the elevated tracks that make up the High Line superstructure, the site is 40' x 9..
Design Miami 08: here are some photos of the HSBC Private Bank lounge designed by Humberto and Fernando Campana for Design Miami earlier this month. The Brazilian designers intended the lounge to create the atmosphereof a traditional communal dwelling from the Amazonian forest. A video interview with the Campanas (winners of the Designer of the Year award at Design Miami 2008), filmed by Dezeena..
Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed Casa 205, a wooden house in Vacarisses, Spain. Surrounded by forest, the home is built on a natural rock platform and two concrete struts, and constructed from laminated wood. “This structural system implies a very important diminishment of the weight, raw material, energy and so the CO2 emissions associated with the foundations and structure of the b..
Architect: René van Zuuk Architekten Location: Almere, the Netherlands Client: René van Zuuk & Marjo Körner Program: Villa Structural Ingeneering: Van de Laar, Eindhoven / NL Project Year: 2008 Site Area: 454 sqm Constructed Area: 215 sqm Photographs: Christian Richters & René van Zuuk Behind the somewhat mysterious name ‘Project X’, hides the design of René van Zuuk and his family’s own residen..
Architects: Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor Location: Bad Gleichenberg, Austria Design Period: 2005-2007 Construction period: 2005-2008 Client: HCC/Kappa Project Architects: Olav Jensen(pl), Børre Skodvin (pl), Ane Forfang, Carl Patrik Larsson, Helge Lunder, Minna Riska, Dagfinn Sagen, Thomas Knigge, Torunn Golberg, Torstein Koch, AnneLise Bjerkan Collaborating Local Architect: Domenig Wallner, ..
London-based Theis and Khan Architects have completed the renovation of Lumen United Reformed Church in London, UK. Located on Tavistock Place in Bloomsbury, the project involved adding an entrance, offices, toilets, a cafe and courtyard garden to the 1960s church. A conical room lit from above, referred to by the architects as the ’sacred space’, divides the cafe from the main congregational ar..
