Rip Curl Canyon, Rice University Art Gallery, 2006 Rice Gallery commissioned this installation in collaboration with The Museum Fine Arts in Houston exhibition, The Modern West: American Landscape, 1890-1950. When the Gallery director mentioned a Modern West tie-in before we had settled on an approach to the project we realized that the notion of landscape and geological phenomena dovetailed wit..
Cafe Paris / G2 Arquitectos Work: Cafe Paris Location: Christopher Columbus 4659, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Authors: Matias Gomez Cousiño Structural Calculation: Matias Gomez Cousiño Construction: Alarquis EIRL Built Surface: 362m2 Year Project: 2007 Consrucción Year: 2007 Materials predominant reinforced concrete, stone slate floors fotolaminados Photographs: William G. Hevia The project was ..
Architects: Pascal Arquitectos Location: Mexico City, Mexico Contractor: Pascal Arquitectos Furniture: Pascal Arquitectos Project year: 2007-2008 Constructed Area: 885 sqm Photographs: Sofocles Hernandez & Jaime Navarro The project comes up from the intention of creating an entertainment space for adults of 30 years old and over. The place houses a lounge and a restaurant-bar area connected by a..
컬러풀한 색감 연출로 독특한 오피스 랜드스케이핑을 했어요. 능률 팍팍 오르겠어요. Studio 13 by Street & Garden Furniture Co. Design Studio S&G (Designers: David Shaw, Surya Graf, Björn Rust) “A great place to hang out” was the prerequisite for this ex-warehouse space in Brisbane, Australia. Considerations included where to place games tables, sound system, bar and balconies for Fridays afternoons and entertaining clients. It was t..
Grand Canal Square by Martha Schwartz Partners Martha Schwartz Partners completes “Ireland’s first 21st Century destination square” Renowned landscape designer Martha Schwartz, of Martha Schwartz Partners, has completed the Grand Canal Square project in Dublin. At 10,000 sq metres, it is one of the largest paved public spaces in Dublin, a city that is increasingly renowned for regenerative desig..
Masahiro Kinoshita of KINO architects and Yu Sakuma of SAK architects have designed a small house in the suburbs of Tokyo. The four-storey house is shared by the owner and a tenant, who occupies the second floor. Photographs by Hiroyuki Hira. Here’s some more information from the architects: – “Guest House Tokyo” Small piece of land / Fragment of a dream The site is in a suburb of Tokyo. This is..
Milanese architects AquiliAlberg have created a lounge at interiors exhibition Casa Decor in Turin, Italy. The installation incorporates 13 Vertigo side tables, designed by AquiliAlberg for Italian design brand Moroso and launched earlier this year. Casa Decor continues until 25 September and is part of the year-long Torino World Design Capital 2008 event taking place in Turin. The following inf..
Grimshaw architects have converted a decommissioned blast furnace into a museum of steel in Monterrey, Mexico. Called Horno 3: Museo del Acero, the project involved converting the 70-metre-high furnace structure and adding an extension to create 9,000 square metres of interior and exterior exhibition space. “Grimshaw responded appropriately with new design elements that advance the limits of ste..
LTSC Project by architects Zellnerplus is a proposed renovation of a shopping mall in downtown Los Angeles. The architects plan to remove part of the roof to create an open air mall, add four bridges between the existing shopping centre and car parks, and clad the building in semi-corrugated aluminium panels. The facade will include new balconies and windows, and will also be shaped to accommoda..
Of the things i really love about maintaining this blog is that it gathers architects from all around the world. In this case, the people from ZLG Design in Malaysa sent us their project for the BOH Visitor Center through our contact form - same as many other offices we will publish in the next days. Everyone is invited! This great building -my personal favorite in the last month- is located in ..
