Architect: Studio Gang Architects Location: Chicago, IL, USA Owner: SOS Children’s Villages Completion: 2008 Photographs: Steve Hall @ Hedrich Blessing SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings. Multi-faceted public spaces in t..
Casa en la Cala Galiota, Mallorca, Spain, by Joan Riera + Francisco Barceló from dailyicon
Project data: > Client: University of Plymouth > Gross floor area: 12,600 m2 > Construction Value: 22 mill. GBP > Type of assignment: 1st prize in open international competition UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH - ARTS FACULTY The vision for the new arts building is to create a center for arts and culture that fuses both city and university campus as a core for activity and learning. A central cross point ..
The design concept of the Nevada Museum of Art creates an architecture of dynamic urban presence in downtown Reno, Nevada. The Museum frames a series of well-scaled and formed galleries, choreographed in a sequence of memorable visual experiences. The Museum's architecture is enhanced by its material articulation and invention of detail that forms a strong link to its geologic and cultural place..
French architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture have designed a car showroom and leisure centre for Cairo, Egypt. The structure is based on a series of connecting circles and spherical cavities. “The intersection between them creates all the circulations, atriums, and visual perspectives through the whole building,” explain the architects. Made of concrete, the building will be made up of ident..
German firm Architekten Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck have completed a copper-clad concert hall in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria. Called the Schloss Grafengg Concert Hall and located in the grounds of Grafenegg Castle, the new building has been integrated with the castle’s existing, heritage-protected, former riding-school buildings, to which it is connected by a series of glazed lobbi..
We just received this from OMA: After almost 12 years in the boards, OMA announced that the De Rotterdam complex will enter construction during December 2009, expecting completion in 2013. Tree stacked towers with a total height of 150m, will result on a gross floor area of approximately 160,000m2, making De Rotterdam the largest building in the Netherland, with a total cost of €340m. The mixed-..
The Melbourne Recital Centre, and its neighbor, the first permanent home for the Melbourne Theatre Company, have taken out four of the highest honors at this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards. Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, 37 awards and prizes were announced today at a dinner on Friday, July 10 attended by over 800 guests. The recital centre and MTC buildings by ARM and..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Venice, California, USA Constructed Area: 672 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Sander Architects The Orange Office is an architecturally distinctive landmark on Lincoln Blvd that will be immediately identifiable by its orange exterior. Orange fiber grate provides a screen over translucent acrylic to diminish heat gain. At night the building will glow th..
Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Location: Epinay, France Project Manager: Aliette Chauchat Client: Espacil Habitat Project Management Associate: Betom, BET - Michel Larsonneur Constructed Area: 9,000 sqm Project year: 2003-2008 Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol The conception of our project joins in a second reading of the landscape of the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history..
