Brent Vander Werf’s Compliant Shading Enclosure creates a movable mechanism within the air-gap of a glass enclosure to regulate the amount of sun, shade and shadow permitted in a space. Powered by the energy from the sun, the mechanism passively expands or closes to make the opening the correct size to meet the desired comfort level. The shading system utilizes a bi-metal element that is bonded ..
Zaha Hadid Architects have unveiled this design for a performing arts centre in The Hague, the Netherlands. The new centre would house four music and dance institutions in one building clad with horizontal louvres. The design is one of three shortlisted proposals for the site, along with Amsterdam architects RAU and Rotterdam studio Neutelings Riedijk Architecten. The winning project will be ann..
International art-based design studio Urban Art Projects (UAP) has announced their collaboration with artist Ned Kahn and the Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) to convert Brisbane’s new Domestic Terminal short-term multi-level car park in to an eight-storey kinetic public art project. Kahn, who has developed an international following for his artworks that incorporate the use of natural element..
New York architects Axis Mundi have designed a retrofit façade for an office building in Barcelona that replicates rippled water. Designed for a bottled water brand, the facade will be made of a polymer composite and suspended on a steel truss attached to the existing building. Here’s some more information from the architects: h2o Barcelona, Spain (New York, NY) 2010 – Our firm has been retained..
Architects: 3XN Location: Middelfart, Denmark Client: Trekantens Ejendomsselskab A/S Engineering: COWI Landscape Architects: Schønherr Project Area: 5,000 sqm Competition Year: 2005 Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Adam Mørk 3XNs visionary and empathetic winning proposal unites the Middelfart savings Bank’s high ambitions for their new head office. The building must ensure a perfect environment f..
Lace Apartments by Ofis Arhitekti The location of the apartment block is in the centre of Nova Gorica (population 32.000) – Nova Gorica is situated in the west of Slovenia, adjacent the Slovene – Italian border. It lies 92 meters above sea level. The town has also very specific climate conditions – it is renowned is the hottest town in Slovenia in summer and very strong winds in winter. The obje..
This is a housing project of 11 units for one person that built in Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto. This architecture is built in the alley of Nishioji-Hachijo, where the town houses of about 100 years of old slightly remain. An open space is arranged on the alley side of the site. A street garden is arranged in the center of the architecture. It connects the open space to the courtyard of the north side nei..
Client Private Investor Architect: Future Systems Services Engineers: Arup Structural Engineers:Arup Quantity Surveyors: Savant Cladding Consultant: Billings Design Associates Completion: 2008 Architects Future Systems have completed the facade of a building on Oxford Street in London. The project involved adding an extra floor to the existing building and two new facades. The faceted glass surf..
The Salon Mittermeier hair salon in Linz by Austrian architects Xarchitekten features a facade with a “three-dimensional architectural (hair) wave”. Completed last year, the store front is composed of waterjet-cut, laminated profiles arranged along the facade to create an undulating wave. Photos are by David Schreyer. Here’s some more information from Xarchitekten: – Hairstyle Interface Salon Mi..
