Villanueva’s public library is the result of a national contest summoned by the Colombian Architect’s Society where the winners Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza, architects from the Javeriana University Bogota-Colombia, all below 27 years of age, won first prize in this contest, and designed 3000 square meters for reading rooms, an auditorium, a kid’s library, staff..
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan Site area: 4791.69 m2 / Foot print area: 1699.10 m2 / Total floor space: 1094.83 m2 Ceilinng heights (varies): 2.172 m / Total heights: 2.78 5m Floors: 1 LEVEL Master planning: Feb 2005-March 2006 Phase 1 construction (50%): March 2006 - Sep2006 Phase 2 construction (100%): July 2006 - Jan 2007 Owner: Montesoli School Fuji Kindergarten Creative Director: Kashiwa..
Brazilian architect Paula Sertorio has sent us these images of a conceptual, mobile gallery, designed to travel along the river Thames in London. The project was developed for a competition organised by architectural agency Arquitectum, called London 2008, by a team of Brazilian architects made up of Victor Paixao, Miguel Felipe Muralha, Paula Sertorio, Thiago Florez, Andre Mack and Bruno Castro..
Architects: debartolo architects ltd. Location: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Project team: Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, J. Eric Huffman, Aaron Taylor, Tim Smith, Kent McClure Civil + Landscape: wrg design Structural Engineer: rudow + berry Mechanical engineer: kunka engineering Electrical Engineer: associated engineering Contractor: arthur porter construction Landscape Design: michael ..
Architects: NL Architects - Pieter Bannenberg, Walter van Dijk, Kamiel Klaasse Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leader: Michael Schoner Project team: Jung-Hwa Cho, Gen Yamamoto, Florent Le Corre, Wei-Nien Chen, Amadeo Linke Structural Engineer: ABT Delft, Walter Spangenberg Climate Consultant: DGMR, Paul van Bergen Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beiji..
London architects dRMM have designed a house with mobile walls and roof that can be moved to cover and uncover parts of the dwelling. The house, in Suffolk, England, features a sliding structure that fits over the static main house, guest annexe and greenhouse. The mobile element, which is 28 metres long and weighs 50 tons, move along rails set into the ground. As it moves, the sliding element c..
Tenerife architects Menis Arquitectos have designed a music hall in Torún, Poland. Two separate music halls, of 3000 and 1000 seats respectively, can be joined together to create one space for large performances. The site is located on a plot of land between the medieval old town and a modern development. The architects used white concrete for the exterior and red brick for the interior, which t..
Architects: Vallo & Sadovsky Architects Location: Pekná Cesta, Bratislava-Rača, Slovakia Construction Year: 2006 End section house constructed area: 162 sqm Terraced house constructed area: 138 sqm Photographs: Pato Safko, Vallo Sadovsky Architects Our client’s requirement was to create a hybrid between a larger more comfortable dwelling with 4 parking places and a family house with a small gard..
Architects: Oyler Wu Collaborative Location: Los Angeles, USA Project Team: Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu, Chris Eskew, Brad Goldpaint Lighting Design: Thomas Paterson, Luxpopuli Photographs: Art Gray Photography Located approximately 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, this backyard intervention sits within a community of traditional suburban homes. Some of our initial interests grew out of looking..
A group of graduate students called Team 01Para, from the MArch Design Research Laboratory course at the Architectural Association in London have sent us these images of a conceptual design called Snap! - Bistable Structure. The team consists of Stella Nikolakaki, Sevil Yazici, Jesse Chima and Eugene Leung. According to Leung, the project proposes a workspace that can be reconfigured using “the ..
