Architects: Radionica Arhitekture Location: Zagreb, Croatia Project Team: Blanka Gutschy, Vedrana Ivanda, Kristina Jeren, Goran Rako, Nenad Ravnić, Josip Sabolić, Marusja Tus Structural Engineering: Branko Galic Project Area: 18,000 sqm Project Year: 2004-2008 Construction Year: 2009 Photographs: Boris Cvjetanovic Cascade commercial center is situated in the center of Zagreb, about 500m to the n..
Architect: Barnes Coy Architects / Robert Barnes and Chris Coy Location: St. Barthelemy, France Project Architect: Charles Sferrazza Interiors: Lynne Grossman Builder: Xavier David EURL Floor Area: Interior 3,000 sq. ft.; Terraces 3,500 sq. ft. Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Robert Moore Brown The house is sited on a high, thin peninsula, affording 270 degree views from South through West to No..
Paul McAneary Architects are delighted to announce the completion of the project Faceted House 1, an Edwardian terrace house located within a conservation area, in Hammersmith, London. The project’s brief was to remodel and extend the three bedroom two storey house that was in a decrepit state and in need of considerable refurbishment and modernisation. The client asked for a contemporary design..
New York architecture practice Axis Mundi have designed a conceptual extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, featuring a giant lattice structure. The existing museum is a 1960s concrete building by Marcel Breuer and Axis Mundi claim the extension’s exposed concrete frame would be a continuation of Breuer’s brutalist aesthetic. The extension would have an irregular floor pla..
Back in April, we published the fascinating bridge proposal by Toronto-based Ja Studio incollaboration with Tadj-Farzin Studio which earned them lots ofpositive feedback. Following up is another proposal by this team; thistime, for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center InternationalCompetition in Taiwan. The entry didn't make the competition shortlist,but we think it's definitely worth sh..
This villa by Athens firm Deca Architecture is one of a collection of 24 to be introduced to the Greek island of Antiparos by Athens developers Oliaros. Alonis is one of seven already completed as part of AntiarosDesignProperties, a development split over four sites that includes designs from Harry Gugger Studio and Atelier Bow-Wow. This villa has a roof supported on two parallel stone walls wit..
Studio101 Architects have designed a house in Point Lonsdale, Australia. This permanent beachside home, designed for a young family is located in an established, heavily treed native coastal environment. The rectilinear nature of the site and natural typography encouraged a simple yet highly efficient floor plan incorporating three pavilions linked by a continuous circulation spine. The eastern ..
Architects: Studio Kuadra Location: Fossano, CN, Italy Project Year: 2006 Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kuadra A cascade of chains on the facade, dynamic space, mobile, changing, not what you would expect from a bank, especially in a province at the foot of the Maritime Alps. The branch of this Credit Agency, winner of a closed competition, brings a breath of lightness and a levity that would ..
“Hovering” a large volume above the landscape eliminates the typical discontinuity between the front and rear garden areas and situates a built outdoor environment in the midst of a measurably larger feeling garden space. The blanketing roof is shaped to conduct softly gradient, reflected clerestory light while seemingly floating gently and protectively over the interior spaces. The second of th..
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. San Blas, Usera and Villaverde were all built on previously unused sites surrounded by social housing. Usera is clad in perforated metal panels with a gold finish. San Blas is a concrete cons..
