Los Angeles-based architects Studio Shift have designed Miyi Tower as part of a new town south of Miyi County in China. According to the architects, the tower is “designed as an educational building for residents and the multitude of tourists that visit every year,” and will comprise an auditorium, exhibition spaces and restaurants. These enclosed elements will make up half of the building, alte..
Architects: JKMM Architects Location: Turku, Finland Main Designer: Asmo Jaaksi architect SAFA Design Team: Teemu Kurkela, Samuli Miettinen, Juha Mäki-Jyllilä, Mikko Rossi, Katja Savolainen architects SAFA, Päivi Meuronen interior architect SIO Landscaping: Molino Oy Structural Design: Narmaplan Oy Lighting: Eficientysul Main Contractor: NCC Rakennus Oy Constructed Area: 6,900 sqm Project Year: ..
Kalmar Museum of Modern Art in Sweden was designed by Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter. The four-storey building is clad in black wooden panels. Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter designed some of the furniture for the interior, which comprises exposed concrete, black-stained plywood doors and panels and white walls. The museum will house the Kalmar collection of mod..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Wilmington, Delaware, USA Project Year: 2002-2004 Construction Year: 2004-2006 Photographs: Sander Architects The design and building of Tree House was a labor of love. I designed this house for my sister, her first house. The death of our father allowed her the funds to build it. Tree House sits on a cul-de-sac at the end of a mature subdivision in Wilmin..
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has designed two villas for private island Dellis Cay in the Caribbean. Called Maison H (top image) and Maison S (above), each has a pavilion over the water called Maison O (below). Architects David Chipperfield, Carl Ettensperger, Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, Piero Lissoni, and Chad Oppenheim have also dsigned villas for the island. See all the villa designs on the Del..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny Structural Engineer: Marian Goczoł Design Year: 2001 Construction Year: 2002-2004 Site Area: 972 sqm Constructed Area: 102 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES The building is situated in an industrial area of Poland. It’s been designed for an indigent family, which appreciates its functionality, as well as low maintenance and co..
More from DCPP Arquitectos: the Mexican architects have recently completed a private residence in Mexico City. The 360 square metre house consists of two concrete volumes. Timber used for pouring the concrete was reused for interior elements. See our earlier story about DCPP’s warehouse and offices for textile company Bayon Artell. Here’s some more information from the architects: – CASA PARACAI..
Architects: aum Location: Lyon, France Principals: Edouard Minassian, Yves Duvernois, Pierre Minassian, Gilles Peillon, Jean-Claude Rerolle Constructed Area: 260 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: aum The house is located in a small village in the area of Lyon on a very steep slope and facing an open landscape. It is situated on the fringe of a natural reservation where no house can be built. T..
Tabanlioglu Arhitects Dogan Medya Center Ankara, Turkey The Dogan Medya Center on Ankara-Eskisehir road, planned as a distinctive media figure, houses TV channels and the newspapers Hurriyet and Milliyet. Respecting the square site the architects decided on the cube as the main form. Building from the surface up the straight cube deformed and restructured with the addition and subtraction of cub..
Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Kvaterloft Copenhagen, Loa Fund Collaborator: JDS ARCHITECTS, BIRCH & KROGBOE Constructed Area: 2,000 sqm Project year: 2004 Budget: US $1,950,000 Photographs: Julien de Smedt, Mads Hilmer, Esben Bruun, Paolo Rosselli How do you turn the problem of a polluted site into an architectural potential? A third of our budget was allocat..
