Project Title: The Black Pearl Residence Façade Design: Studio Rolf.fr i.s.m. Zecc Architecten Interior Design: Studio Rolf.fr Program: Residence and Workshop Date: 2008 – 2010 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands I think it was love at first site! That’s what I felt when we received the images from Zecc architecten. The Black Pearl, the residence of my dreams; especially for the story it carries. A..
Glen Irani Architects have designed the third in their series of Hover Houses located on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California. Situated on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California, Hover House 3 represents the third in the architects’ Hover House series. This series focuses on maximizing outdoor living on small lots by ‘hovering’ the building envelope above the grade level in order t..
Architects: Suters Architects Location: Churchill, Victoria, Australia Project Team: Joshua McAlister, Ian Prior, Graeme Christianson, Scott Francis, Rebecca Brewer Building Contractor: W. Parnall Constructions Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Emma Cross The Churchill Community Hub is a contemporary community centre that co-locates services within a larger building; it allows crossover of these s..
Essentia Designs have completed an office interior for Dentsu London. The Brief We were approached through project managers Interactive Space to work on the offices for Dentsu London, one of the most exciting creative agencies in the UK. The building is an award winning development by Amanda Levete which the Dentsu team have already christened the “spaceship” (Tokyo HQ is the mothership!). Our b..
Last year we featured the Brochstein Pavilion designed by Thomas Phifer & Partners and The Office of James Burnett. Since then, the pavilion has received a National AIA Award, a National ASLA Honor Award and the ASU Architectural Citation. Today, we’d like to share with you a video that The Office of James Burnett made about the pavilion. Enjoy! from archdaily
EGM Architects designed a new office for the Verkerk Group in Hoevelaken, The Netherlands. The new branch of Verkerk Group, an electrical installation company with 375 employees, located in the industrial area in the Eastern Hogebrink Entry into Hoevelaken. The terrain is characterized by a motley collection of rectangular buildings, interspersed here and there with a house. To stand out from th..
Concrete Architectural Associates have recently completed the interior design of the Mazzo restaurant in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mazzo, the eight member of the IQ creative family in Amsterdam, is the Italian sister of Brasserie Witteveen – both in hospitality concept and in the interior there is an obvious connection. As with Witteveen the name and location of Mazzo share a history in the ci..
While Louis Kahn was designing the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh in 1962, he was approached by an admiring Indian architect, Balkrishna Doshi, to design the 60 acre campus for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. Much like his project in Bangladesh, he was faced with a culture enamored in tradition, as well as an arid desert climate. For Kahn, the design of the inst..
Eine außergewöhnliche Holzkonstruktion charakterisiert das neue Centre Pompidou in Metz, entworfen von Shigeru Ban und Jean de Gastines. Fotos des Tragwerks und Impressionen der Ausstellungsräume sehen Sie hier. Architekten: Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, Paris und Jean de Gastines, Paris Centre Pompidou-Metz, Foto: Didier Boy de la Tour Das neue Centre Pompidou-Metz fällt schon von weitem durch..
Arhiidea Architects of Riga, Latvia shared with us their proposal for the Pireaus Tower 2010 Competition in Greece. Additional images and the architect’s conceptual description after the break. The core concept of the proposal for the reconstruction of Pyreaus Tower is the publicisation of private space, thus opening the building to the city and its inhabitants for multiple uses. The character o..
