National Palace Museum Southern Branch Chiayi County, Taiwan 2010 Through natural biomes, evoking diverse pan-Asian landscapes, the Museum comes into view: a base of ancient stream-washed Taroko marble, rising low and long out of watery mists...a slow ascending gallery spiral ? an artifact of inscripted, weathered bronze embracing a mythic garden as the glass and cypress Jade Mountain dissolves ..
La Casa Ramos se emplaza en territorio austero y seco, en un terreno colonizado por el raspeig. Son dos cuerpos posados en el suelo, la casa en sí y la piscina. Los grandes tableros de resina rojo carmín sustentados por una estructura de acero cubren parte de la terraza, arquetipo del habitar frente al mediterráneo. La terraza tenía que ser el espacio más amplio de la casa, capaz de acoger hasta..
Architects: Arkhefield Location: Park Ridge State School, Queensland, Australia Project Team: Shaun Lockyer, Karen Ognibene, Jemima Rosevear Project Year: 2006 Photographer: Scott Burrows, Aperture Architectural Photography Conceptual Framework The Creative Pavilion for Park Ridge State School was developed as an “out of the box” scheme specifically to contrast against the existing standard inst..
Esker Haus (esker significa formación geológica estratificada) es una vivienda individual ubicada en la parte superior de una casa de los años 60. El anexo fue concebido como un parásito de la casa original, y parte de la estructura de ésta diferenciándose gradualmente hasta adoptar un lenguaje propio. Está formado por una serie de estructuras de madera y acero que se deforman para evocar las s..
The following images and text are courtesy FS + SG | Fotografia de Arquitectura for Paulo David's Centro das Artes | Casa das Mudas on Portugal's Madeira island. The text below is excerpted from photographer Fernando Guerra's essay, "A Short Stay" in Centro das Artes | Casa das Mudas. Click on images at left for larger color views. To have the opportunity to photograph one of the most recognized..
More fresh portuguese architecture, thanks to photographer Joao Morgado for sharing this with us! Aires Mateus is an office that has been working on minaml projects, blending the new with the old in a subtle way. More pictures after the jump.
eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2008 Winner - Elie Gamburg eVolo Architecture was created by a group of international architects in New York as a forum of discussion of new ideas. One of their strategies have been architectural competitions, held since 2005. For the last 3 years (2006-2008) the competition has been inviting architects around the world to explore the future of skyscrapers. The 2009 ..
Steven Holl Architects have won a competition to design a new harbour entrance in Copenhagen, Denmark. Holl’s winning proposal for The LM Project involves building an office tower on either side of the harbour, linked by a 65m high public walkway. The walkway consists of two bridges meeting at an angle, “joining like a handshake over the harbor”. The following is from Steven Holl Architects: – S..
CitizenM is a hotel made of prefabricated room modules at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, designed by Dutch architectural firm Concrete. Each of the 230 rooms was built ad furnished in a factory and then stacked like shipping containers to form the hotel. The following is from CitizenM: – Project: CitizenM Hotel Client: CitizenM GENERAL INFORMATION: citizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens th..
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Project Year: 2006-2008 Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Anna Breda, Luis Ferreira, Ana Kosi, Katja Aljaz Client: Mercator d.d. Interior Design: Mercator Optima Structural Engineering: Projecta d.o.o. Contractor: Gradis Skupina G d.d. Constructed Area: 2,000 ..
