Architects: LOHA Architects Location: West Hollywood, California, USA Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy Project Team: Kevin Southerland, Tracy Smith, Franka Diehnelt Contractor: Archetype, Inc. Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC Project year: 2006 Photographs: Lawrence Anderson As a model of courtyard housing development, Gardner 1050 utilizes a variety of design strategies to elevate it..
Architects: Yazdani Studio Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a thriving tourist destination, in anticipation, the dev..
Slovenian practice Bevk Perović Arhitekti have completed a residential project in an abandoned quarry in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Called Housing Pilon, the two buildings contain 140 apartments. Small, single-occupant homes are located on the lower floors. Above these, patio-villas are arranged around courtyards, with penthouses above those. The facade comprises storage areas alternated with yellow b..
British architect Will Alsop of Alsop Architects has completed a residential building called Chips in Manchester. The eight-storey building, for developer Urban Splash, was conceived as “three fat chips stacked on top of each other.” Each “chip” is covered in text referring to the area’s history. The building forms part of Alsop’s urban plan for the New Islington area of Manchester and contains ..
Architecture and design firm Group 41 Inc. is proud to unveil the H House, a modern architectural residence whose design is informed by the crisp language of modernism and shaped by the principals of sustainability. In a city like San Francisco where a moratorium on demolition limits most construction projects to being creative renditions of a renovation, a new, ground-up construction is a rarit..
-Mode de construction -Radier et dalle sur rez en béton -Dalle sur premier et dalle toiture en bois lamellé collé -Façades ventilées -Ossature bois et isolation -Couverture et revêtement façades en ardoises naturelles -Revêtement intérieurs -panneaux à particule en bois peints -Production de chaleur : chauffage au mazout -Distribution à basse température dans dalles actives réalisation 2003 Conc..
Zaha Hadid Architects have shared with us a new project designed for the Rooya Group in Cairo, Egypt. The Stone Towers will offer retail, office, luxury hotel and apartments. The Stone Towers by Zaha Hadid Architects for Rooya Group of Egypt is located in the Stone Park district of Cairo. Providing office and retail facilities to a rapidly expanding Cairo, the unique 525,000sqm Stone Towers deve..
Location: West Lake Hills Dates: 2002-2005 402 Redbud Trail is a speculative modern residence in the wooded hills of Austin, Texas. The project was programmed for a family of five with multiple living areas for simple living. With few gadgets, the house focuses on permanence and craftsmanship. The house is sited to capture the views from the rear of a steep site that is accessed from the bottom...
Architecture: Morphosis Architects Location: Pasadena, California, USA Project Manager: Kim Groves Job Captain: Salvador Hidalgo Project Architect: David Rindlaub Project Designers: Martin Summers, Shanna Yates Project Team: Irena Bedenikovic, Pavel Getov, Debbie Lin, Kristina Loock, David Rindlaub Project Assistants: Patrick Dunn-Baker with Adam Bressler, Laura Foxman, Brock Hinze, Amy Kwok, Hu..
For a lake residence on a diminutive lot in rural Iowa, we conceived of a house as a series of spatial frames that offer a focused and private experience on an otherwise densely populated shore. This second home sits in a resort area that appears as an oasis in the midst of the Midwestern “corn desert”. Not at all nostalgic for the cottages of years gone by, the owners nevertheless wanted a hous..
