Located directly across the street from Unthank Park in Portland Oregon, The Park Box is a two unit row house constructed on a standard 50’ x 100’ corner Portland lot. The developer and designer of the project is also the owner of the east unit. The placement on the site provides each unit with a large private deck on opposite ends of the site, one with a large yard. This arrangement provides th..
Architect: AMP Arquitectos, S.L. Location: Playa de las Americas, Adeje, Tenerife, Spain Collaborator: Andreas Weihnacht (arquitect), Esther Ceballos (arquitect), Ana Salinas (arquitect), Rafael Hernandez (master builder), Andres Pedreno (master builder) Project year: 2005 Strcutural Engineers: Victor Martinez, Juan Jose Gallardo Services Engineers: Milian Associats S.A., Audioscan Contractor: C..
Construction has begun on a combined residential project and market hall in Rotterdam, designed by Dutch architects MVRDV. Called Rotterdam Market Hall, the building will comprise 228 apartments forming a tunnel over the market hall, glazed at each end. The market hall itself will house 100 market stalls, shops and restaurants. 1,200 parking spaces and a supermarket will be located underground. ..
Location: Dallas, USA Architects: Foster + Partners Team: Norman Foster, Spencer de Grey, Stefan Behling, Michael Jones, James McGrath, Bjørn Polzin, Laszlo Pallagi, Morgan Fleming, Leonhard Weil, John Small, Ingrid Sölken, Hugh Whitehead, Francis Aish Client: AT+T Performing Arts Center Collaborating Architect: Kendall Heaton Associates Main Contractor: Linbeck Construction Acoustician: Sound S..
Italian based Stefano Boeri Architetti shared with us their latest project: The requalification and recovery of the ex Military Arsenal on the island of La Maddalena, Italy. This project includes a hotel, a congress centre, a conference building, two large exhibition and commercial spaces and a quay for 700 boats. It was conceived as the central point of the G8 summit at Maddalena, event that wa..
This could just be one of the most innovative sustainable designs you'll see all year. Here's the background: a team from Weber Thompson designed this building for the Cascadia Natural Talent Design Competition put on by the Emerging Green Builders of the USGBC. They won the Cascadia competition and moved on to compete against about 15 other regional winners from around the country. They won the..
Cocoon is located in Zurich’s Seefeld district on a beautiful hillside, which enjoys excellent lake and mountain views. The location’s distinctive flair stems from the exceptional park-like setting – a green oasis into which Cocoon snugly nestles. Flanked on three sides by mighty, age-old trees the elliptical structure reads as a freestanding sculptural volume that gracefully spirals up from the..
Architects: SUBARQUITECTURA + J.M. Torres Nadal Location: Orihuela, Alicante, Spain Client: UMH - Universidad Miguel Hernández Contractor: UTE ECISA + COMSA Site Area: 1,954 sqm Competition: 2004 Construction finished: 2008 Photographs: Juan de la Cruz Megías The building is located inside the Campus de los Desamparados in Orihuela, next to a lemon orchard. There, the conditions of light, lack o..
Dublin practice FLK Architects have completed a precast concrete residence overlooking Dublin Bay in Howth, Ireland. Called Precast House, the project comprises three separate volumes emerging from the sloping site – a house, garage and swimming pool. The three buildings are made of polished precast concrete, combined with large windows and glass balustrades to reflect the surrounding landscape...
The project “Steckelhörn 11” is located in the old centre of Hamburg, close to the prominent new “Hafen City” development. It replaces a ruinous building and fills the gap between two historic premises. The triangular-shaped lot stretches across the city block, thus allowing for a narrow façade of about 1.3 m width facing the harbor and a main elevation of about 26.4 m oriented toward Steckelhör..
