Toronto-based firm GH3 designed the Williams Studio on Stony Lake in Ontario, Canada. A photographer’s studio over a boathouse on Stony Lake is a re-imagination of the archetypal glass house in a landscape in the Canadian Shield. A continuation of thinking about this architectural ambition, the central concept of the house is reconceived through a contemporary lens of sustainability, program, si..
Architects: Oppenheim Architecture + Design Location: United Arab Emerits Credits: Chad Oppenheim, Kevin Heidorn, Kevin McMorris, Sebastian Velez, Carl Römer, Santhosh Shanmugam, Juan Lopez, Robert Moehring, Manuel Morales, Constanza Collarte, Jose Ortez, Fitz Murphy, Carolina Jaimes, Jessica Santaniello Barrera, Josh Sacks, and Gianpaolo Pietri Consultants: AREX Consultants Landscape Architect:..
The historic center of Ljubljana, Slovenia, has strict building regulations to preserve its medieval character. The Guardian is a proposed skyscraper of 28 floors that would surpass the tower of the medieval castle as the city’s highest structure. The most interesting aspect of this proposal is the dialogue it creates between existing and contemporary architecture. A provocative organic façade c..
Minervini Vandermark Architecture have sent us the 360 14th Street building they’ve designed in Hoboken, New Jersey. Designed and built by a young emerging architecture firm to house their expanding design studio, this 4 story mixed use building has been instrumental in the revitalization of the industrial urban neighborhood it calls home. The 50′x50′ lot sits mid-block down a cobble street in t..
Big Rock Candy Mountains photo © Nienke Klunder Nienke Klunder is a versatile young artist who offers a provocative look at modern American popular culture. Born in California and raised in the Netherlands, Klunder has successfully used her role as both European and American citizen in providing an outsider/insider stance on pop culture, giving her audience a one-of-a-kind perspective on women a..
Tools have evolved since the beginning of time. What started as a primary element to assist the human body has evolved as the human mind keeps finding ways to make them more efficient, aesthetically pleasing and generally cheaper for us to consume. With every improvement comes change but for the most part, we have seen change in tools as a gradual process due to the fact that adopting change is ..
Spanish studio Hoz Fontán Arquitectos have completed this rectangular office tower in Irun, Spain. The eight-storey tower sits atop an elliptical plinth, which in turn is built on top of an existing car park. The building has a double-glazed facade and features gardens on the upper two floors. The tower houses the headquarters for the Zaisa transportation hub and its offices are located in the h..
Project : House_TN Architect : Teruo Miyahara Builder : Three ef Co. Design : Oct. 2003 – May 2005 Construction : July 2005 – Feb. 2006 Location : Kanagawa Japan Total Floor Area : 160 sqm House TN is a residence that stands along the Tama River in western Tokyo. It was designed for two sisters and their respective families. Though the sisters may be close, they do have separate families and sep..
Created by Karl D.D. Willis, Beautiful Modeler is an iPad and Desktop openFrameworks application for gestural sculpting using iPad as a multi-touch controller. Each finger is used to control a single touch point in the model, with multiple layers working to build up 3D volume. As the controller is connected over the wireless network, it can be moved freely to change the viewing angle of the mode..
Architects: Square One Interiors Location: Vancouver, Canada Project area: 535 sqm Project year: 2010 Photographs: Ihor Pona from archdaily
