London Metropolitan University graduate Charlotte Wilson was awarded Best in Show at London graduate show FreeRange this year for her proposal to convert a bunker into a museum. The existing RAF Bempton bunker in Yorkshire, UK is built into a cliff-side and would be be transformed into a museum celebrating the role of women during war. The bunker would be dug out in areas to reveal its three met..
Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have designed this apartment tower with overhanging floor plates and terraces for Beirut, Lebanon. Created as part of a wider masterplan to regenerate this area of the city that includes a marina, the building will comprise five different modular floor slabs used in varying combinations to create a mixture of overhangs and terraces. The building will have ve..
Bark Architects have designed the Marcus Beach House, located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdo..
Architects: Safdie Architects Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Director: Moshe Safdie Executive Architects: Aedas, Pte, Ltd. Structural Engineering: Arup Landscape Design: Peter Walker & Partners Landscape Construction: Peridian International Inc Site Area: 154,938 sqm Project Area: 845,000 sqm Budget: US $5.7 billion Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Safdie Architects Program 1...
Mekano, a team of young Egyptian architects shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition, for which they received an honorable mention. More images and architect’s description after the break. Our main concept is to convert the building to a landmark through the participation of all the children in the city in the construction of the building where the design comprises cu..
Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled their design for an office building in Paris, where the middle section will appear broken and twisted open. Called Pushed Slab, the office building requires this window through the middle to maintain views of a historic building beyond. The twisted layers form terraces for the building’s workers on the south side. Here’s some more information from MVRDV: MVRD..
Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. Called Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada, the project comprises two residences, with one cantilevered above the other. Some of the holes in the wine racks that make up the lower level are plugged with coloured ceramic tiles. Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada (20..
Petra Architects in collaboration with Papaioannou + Associates shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition in Greece. The “tower of Piraeus”, a building left abandoned for years, dominates the port of Piraeus and remains a rather dry landmark of the cityscape so much for the citizens of the immediate area but as well for the travelers that approach one of the larger har..
The house, along the Lisdoddelaan in the Amsterdam vinex-area IJburg, is part of the Kleine Rieteiland, where private families have the opportunity to realize their dream home. In the urban plan by John Bosch, with a square type public space and surrounded by a high, enclosing walls from various houses, the front elevation is relatively closed and rather inconspicuous. This is quite a big contra..
Architects: BFLS Location: Cardiff, Wales Design Team: Jason Flanagan, Paul Bavister, Anne Heucke, Jason Sandy, Armando Elias, Kibwe Tavares Client: Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Years (Start-Finish): 2007-2011 Area: 4,400 m2 Photo Credits: Vyonyx Products in this project Facades: Western Red Cedar BFLS won an international design competition in 2007 to design a new building for the Roy..
