No se trata de un barco con un exquisito y amplio interior sino de una plataforma sobre la que se erige toda una edificación. Hace un tiempo crearon el prototipo y vista la viabilidad del proyecto se dedicaron a llevarlo adelante. El resultado: una casa amplia, bonita, cerca de la ciudad y perfectamente anclada. Estas singulares soluciones son perfectas para países en los que el terreno es limit..
Ginseng Chicken Architecture, a promising new firm, has proposed a design for the National Wildflower Center in Liverpool. The science center, which provides a variety of activities such as plant production areas and facilities for seed processing, “will inspire people to visit the center to learn about the relationship between nature, mathematics and physics…it will provide an operational hub f..
A museum dedicated to Belgian artist and Tintin author Hergé, designed by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, opened earlier this month in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (via yatzer). The Musée Hergé is situated in a forest and connected to the city of Louvain-la-Neuve by a footbridge. Large, comic-strip-like bay windows allow natural light to fill the large reception area, from which the four large ex..
René van Zuuk Architekten have completed a pavilion for the pedestrianised central market square at Roosendaal in the Netherlands. The pavilion, built over the entrance to an underground car park, features a rooftop performance area. The pavilion also houses shops and offices. The pavilion and car park are elements of ongoing improvements to the square, which was pedestrianised in 2001. Over the..
This contemporary live / work home in Nikko, Tochigi by architect Japanese Katsutoshi Sasaki artfully balances life’s essentials with a modern aesthetic, all in a compact 1,752-sq.-ft. space. This small but sweet structure houses a single-family home and a hair salon, all within its two-storey frame. The home's slanted-pentagon shape is covered by an innovative roof that extends from the top alo..
* Address: Lundehaven 8-12, 2740 Skovlunde * Area: 8.180 m² * Number of flats: 67 * Client: Ballerup Kommune / Baldersbo * Client Advisor: Dansk Boligselskab * Engineer: Christensen & Hoffmeister A/S * Landscape: Henrik Jørgensen A/S * Prizes: Ballerup Municipality 2005 The project is located on an irregular site on the west side of Skovlunde Square and consists of 48 elder care single living un..
Bluepoint Sales Pavilion Area: 63 m2 Location: Phuket, Thailand Status: Built Serving as the sales pavilion for the Bluepoint Residences in Phuket, Thailand, this project provides an ideal lounge setting for potential clients to enjoy spectacular views while reviewing development plans and observing construction progress. The pavilion’s expression responds to the powerful contextual site conditi..
spanish architecture studio menis arquitectos has been awarded 1st prize for the design of the auditorium and congress center in morro jable. the center is located on a rocky hillside right above the beaches south fuerteventura. the building will be embedded into the terrain, emerging from within the rocks. the design of the whole structure has been deliberately textured, coloured and finished t..
Young Mexican architects Arquitectura en Proceso have completed the headquarters of developers Darcons in the suburbs of Delicias City in the Chihuahua state of Mexico. The building consists of three stacked, orthogonal volumes with glazed opposite sides. The western facade is shaded by opaque, concrete walls. Photographs are by Francisco Lubbert and Jorge Cajiga. Here are some further details f..
Studio Shift received an honorable mention for their design of the Taiwan Center for Disease Control. The complex, which fuses public landscape with scientific research, is poised to be one of Taiwan’s most important scientific centers. ”The complex will set a new standard in laboratory and research facilities design, paralleling the work that will inevitably take place behind its walls,” stated..
