Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Location: Silkeborg, Denmark Ingeneering: The DAI Group Contractor: SKANSKA Danmark A/S Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006-2007 Constructed Area: 3,700 sqm Photographs: SHL The project – centred on a 19th-century paper mill - was commended for the simplicity of the design, characterised by the choice of materials as well as the successful trans..
Architects: Christian Pottgiesser - architecturespossibles (Paris) Location: Paris, France Client: private Design Team: Christian Pottgiesser (architect) , Alejandro Ratier (designer), Pascale Pottgiesser (artist) Engineer: Joël Betito Assistant: Dr. Florian Hertweck Furniture design: arch. Raphael Budin (low table + dining table) Contractors: ERCN (main construction), Carrières du Bassin Parisi..
To close our coverage of this years P.S.1 YAP competition we present you BIG’s proposal. BIG’s invitation to the P.S.1 is not only rare for not being based in NY or in the US (they are based in Denmark), as it has been the common denominator over the years, but also because they have built several small-medium-large scale projects. But personally, this was the proposal I wanted to see the most: ..
Architects: Tetsuya Nakazono / naf architect & design Location: Hiroshima, Japan Engineer: Kenji Nawa / NAWAKENJI-M Program: Single family residence Site area: 172.55 sqm Building area: 61.38 sqm Total floor area: 114.50 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Noriyuki Yano / Nacasa & Partners Design Concept The site is located in a district where many traditional sake breweries preserve good old Ja..
Auftraggeber: Offenburger Stadthallen- und Messeimmobilien GmbH Realisierungszeit: 2007-2008 Projektkosten Brutto: 26 Mio Euro, KG 200-700 Leistungsphasen: 1-8 Auszeichnung, Preise: Wettbewerb 2001, 2.Preis Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a conference centre in Offenburg, Germany, designed by Freiburg architects Hetzel & Ortholf. Called Stadthalle Offenburg..
Designer: Divercity Architects (London; Athens) Building type: Hotel Location: Kefalonia, Greece website: www.divercityarchitects.com Status: Under construction; estimated completion, 2012 For their latest hotel design in Kefalonia, Greece, Divercity Architects intended to blend this contemporary hotel with the vernacular architecture of the surroundings. Due to the site conditions, the hotel co..
PROJECT AND DIRECTION: ANDRES REMY ARQUITECTOS DESIGN TEAM: ANDRES REMY, HERNAN PARDILLOS, JULIETA RAFEL, CARLOS ARELLANO, GISELA COLOMBO. BUILDING DIRECTION: ANDRES REMY, ASOCIATED HERNAN PARDILLOS. STRUCTURAL STUDY: CLAUDIO. SURFACE: 330m YEAR: 2007 The black house was born by the request of a young couple, brought to us by another of our projects “The Waterfall House”, which gave us the chall..
Architects: Archivision Location: Tokyo, Japan Principals in Charge: Yoshihiro Hirotani & Yusaku Ishida Structural Engineers: Umezawa Structural Engineers Mechanical Engineers: Azu Planning General Contractor: Daido Housing Site Area: 67.88 sqm Constructed Area: 108.31 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Yuichi Higurashi This beauty parlor stands in the Omote-sando area of Tokyo, which repr..
The house is hided behind a harmonious sculptural set of curved walls made of stone dark granite and marble travertino that seem to emerge from a big water plate arranged in the house entry. In addition to the beauty of this structure, it offers a high grade of privacy and tact between the exterior (street) and the house. Other more, this structure goes to the back part, as a front, where is a n..
