This underground railway station with criss-crossing concrete beams is by Hungarian firm Spora Architects and currently under construction in Budapest. Fővám tér forms part of a new metro line, comprising 10 stations, that will connect south Buda with the city centre. Three levels of reinforced concrete beams rise up through a void above the platforms. At ground level a new square will be create..
Architects: Studio Daniel Libeskind Location: Denver, Colorado, USA Joint Venture Partner: Davis Partnership Contractor: M.A Mortensen Co. (Colorado) Structural Engineer: Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Connection Design: Structural Consultants, Inc. Civil Engineers: JF Sato and Associates Mechanical Air: Arup-Los Angeles Mechanical/Electrical: MKK Engineers and Arup (Los Angeles) Structural Engin..
To promote their Power Smart month of October, BC Hydro has launched an interesting public campaign for energy efficiency by converting two shipping containers into live experimental spaces in Vancouver. For fours day, actors will live in the 3×6 meter containers “to showcase how – and how not – to live and work in an energy-efficient manner.” The two containers are meant to depict the extreme o..
Architects: Studio SKLIM Location: Jalan Besar, Singapore Client: Kido Technologies Design Team: Kevin Lim Project Area: 225 sqm Photographs: Jeremy San, courtesy of Studio SKLIM While tapping on a laptop in a cafe has become the ubiquitous platform to begin “work”, the need for a permanent work environment for any office is still necessary in the long run. Perhaps what has changed since the adv..
Montréal-based Chevalier Morales Architectes shared with us their finalist proposal along with Busby Perkins + Will for the Nouveau Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Competition. See more images and architect’s description after the break. The one dimensional quality which has traditionally characterized libraries, in which they were conceived as places for storing and reading books has evo..
Architects: Populous Location: Ravenscraig, Motherwell, UK Engineering: Buro Happold (structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and public health services) FEDRA (fire) Client: North Lanarkshire Council / Sportscotland / Ravenscraig Ltd / Motherwell College Total Cost: £31.3 million Completion Date: Autumn 2010 Photographs: Andrew Lee PROJECT OBJECTIVE: The clients commissioned the design team t..
Architects: Nomena Arquitectos + Ximena Alvarez Location: Bridge to Manchay, Cieneguilla, Lima, Peru Client: De la Piedra Family Contractor: Americo Chavez Structure: Luis Yeckle Site Area: 15,000 sqm Project Area: 85 sqm Project Year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Ronald Harrison The de la Piedra Chapel is located at the margin of the Lurín river and beside the Lomas de Castilla hill, in the district ..
Nema Workshop have completed the interior design for a small cafe in New York City, where they took the concept of a library and turned it sideways. Located on Madison Avenue, the espresso bar conceptually and literally turns a normal room sideways, creating a striking identity for the emerging brand. The client approached nemaworkshop with an ambition to build a unique espresso brand and to dev..
A few months ago, we featured a conceptual house designed by group of young Greek architects, Dimos Moysiadis + Ioannis Oikonomou+ Xaris Tsitsikas. The three, plus Kostas Panopoulos and Grigoris Vegliris, have just shared their latest conceptual project, a façade renovation of an old public theater in Corfu and a new urban plan for the adjacent square. The intent was to re-establish the public t..
The Tanjong Beach Club on Sentosa Island in Singapore is a refreshing presentation of clean, modern architecture by way of the 1960’s. The simplicity and restraint in the details succeeds in a first impression that stuns; the light wooden slats all facing in one direction, the skylights that allow sunshine to soak the room, and the ocean blue cushions that line the banquets in the all-day dining..
