Architects: MMBB Arquitetos Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Architects in charge: Fernando de Mello Franco, Marta Moreira, Milton Braga Project team: Marina Sabino, Marcia Terazaki, Marina Acayaba, Rodrigo Brancher, Thiago Rolemberg Client: Iran do Espirito Santo Project year: 2004-2005 Construction year: 2005-2006 Site Area: 500 sqm Constructued Area: 435 sqm Budget: US $425,000 Structural Engineer..
L40 by Roger Bundschuh and Cosima von Bonin Construction begins on Berlin condominium project by Roger Bundschuh and Artist Cosima von Bonin. Situated on historic Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin-Mitte, this 2500 sqm luxury condominium building takes unique advantage of its small triangular site. Breaking with the previously rigid Berlin urban planning codes, the building will present itself as a ..
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal Building type: Representation and Offices (Consulate) Project Scope: Full contract Client: Statsbygg, The Directorate of Public Constuction and Property Size: 800m2 Budget: 10 MILL. NOK Schedule: Completed June 2008 The Norwegian Embassy in Nepal by Kristin Jarmund Architects The new Norwegian Embassy is to be built onthe north end of the existing embassy site in the P..
Architects: King Roselli Architetti Client: Pontificial Lateran University Location: Rome, Italy Collaborators: Giandomenico Florio, Ulich Grosse, Christina Hoffmann, Arianna Nobile, Enrica Testi, Katia Scarioni, Toyohiko Yamaguchi Project chief: Andrea Ricci Building cost: 7m Euros Interior Cost: 1m Euros Materials: Concrete Project Start: 2004 Project Complete: 2006 Photographers: Santi Caleca..
Venice Architecture Biennale: here are some images of Symbiotic Villa, a house designed by Zaha Hadid for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan. The project has invited ten international architects and ten Taiwanese architects to design houses. More info and images in our earlier story. The project was launched in Venice last week during the architecture biennale.
Architects: Jose Maria Saez and David Barragan Client: Desiree Marin Location: La Morita, Tumbaco, Quito-Ecuador Collaborators: Alejandra Andrade Builder: Jaime Quinga Prefabricated Elements: Hector Sanchez Engineering: Cesar Izurieta Material Aspect: concrete, wood, glass Status: Complete: 2006 Photographers: Raed Gindeya, Jose Maria Saez Bearing Flowerpots A garden and a client without fear. A..
LTSC Project by architects Zellnerplus is a proposed renovation of a shopping mall in downtown Los Angeles. The architects plan to remove part of the roof to create an open air mall, add four bridges between the existing shopping centre and car parks, and clad the building in semi-corrugated aluminium panels. The facade will include new balconies and windows, and will also be shaped to accommoda..
Three students from Studio Lynn at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna have designed a conceptual boat factory for the island of Cres in Croatia. Called Factoreef, it has been designed by Julcsi Futo, Bika Rebek and Stefan Ritter, students on the course run by architect Greg Lynn. The architects describe the project as “a large scale, smoothly undulating roof held by an intricate steel trus..
Taylors Island, Maryland Named for the tall pines that characterize its site on the Chesapeake Bay, this 2,200 square-foot single family residence seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form. Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines and a lush foreground of saltmeadow cordgrass and the bay, the architecture is formed about and within the eleme..
