Architects: RUFproject Lead Architect & Designer: Sean Pearson Location: Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa Client: Nike South Africa Local Project Manager: SIP Project Managers Ltd. Project area: 54,800 sqm Photographs: Allan James, Julian Abrams Situated in the heart of Soweto, the Football Training Centre is the centre of football in South Africa, where 1200 teams and 20,000 footballers play each ..
Asymptote Architecture and Artech Architects were awarded a close second place finish for the Kaohsiung Marine Gateway project. The project proposes a 200m long structure situated between two 14 story towers located at the cities newly developed harbor edge. The proposal calls for a new urban intervention at the cities waterfront combining both cultural and commercial aspects with the port termi..
J-Tea International is an importer and seller of Taiwanese oolong teas. Designed by Atelier Waechter and located in Eugene, Oregon this adaptive re-use project gracefully transforms an existing single family house located in a commercially zoned area into a retail space for tea sales and sampling. The goal of the project was to achieve this with as few moves as possible. The transformation is co..
Architects: pvanb architecten Location: Groningen, The Netherlands Client: Lefier StadGroningen Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Courtesy of pvanb architecten The family homes and apartment blocks designed by pvanb architects display brick architecture applied with great care and craftsmanship. They form a tangible translation of the varied residential programme, and continue the brick tradition ..
Check out Reiser + Umemoto’s latest win for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center in southern Taiwan. Working with Taipei-based Fei and Cheng and Associates, New York-based Ysrael A. Seinuk, PC and Hong-Kong based Arup, the new development exploits its waterfront placement as tumbling organic wave-like volumes cascade out toward the waves. The port terminal is an experiment of “dynamic 3-..
Beijing studio Sunlay Design have designed this building to house the headquarters for a technology park in Huainan City, Anhui Province, China. The building will consist of two structures – a tower block and a two-pronged cantilevered building – which will be connected by a glazed walkway on the second floor. The building will comprise a five-storey office building, an exhibition centre, an und..
Architects: Kokaistudios Location: Beijing, China Team: Andrea Destefanis, Filippo Gabbiani, Li Wei, Fang Wei Yi, Liu Wen Wen, Yu Feng Local Architect: BIAD Structure: BIAD Mechanics & Electricity: BIAD Project Area: 10,000 sqm Photographs: Charlie Xia BALANCE ARCHITECTURE WITH LIGHTA challenging project for the most prestigious University in China in the heart of its historical campus. In 2009 ..
Architects: IKONIKO Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Structural Engineer: Lukas Quach, Axial Engineering, Van Nuys, CA Landscape Design: Laurel Stutsman General Contractor: Becker General Contractors Project area: 367 sqm Project year: 2007 – 2009 Photographs: David Lena Photography Nestled in the heart of Cheviot Hills, this house on Kilrenney Avenue sits deftly on its hillside site. IKON..
The extension of the Mother house of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heard of Jesus in Sherbrooke is 56,680 sqf and includes a 54-room health care unit with all the attached services, a kitchen to serve 200 people, a physiotherapy room, a library, maintenance workshops and an inner courtyard designed with a garden. More photographs, drawings, and sketches of this project following the break..
Designer: Arjen Reas Location: Zoermeer, The Netherlands Project area: 744 m2 Project year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Kees Hageman Construction: Adviesbureau Docter Contractor: C.L. de Boer & Zn BV Thatch: Voogt Rietdekkers This project is a private assignment for an entrepreneur from the city center, and the question was posed, how could the family find peace on the edge of that same city. The sit..
