“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..
Showtime House 2010, The Borgias Media Room, Marc Thorpe and Hush Studios at Cassa Hotel and Residences Earlier this week the cable channel Showtime unveiled anexperimental exhibition at the TEN Arquitectos-designed Cassa Hotel andResidences in New York City. Invited designers were commissioned toinperprent the network's hit shows through the design of individualrooms. Invited designers include ..
Istanbul-based outfit Nuvist Architecture & Design have shared with us their entry to the Izmir Opera House Competition. Art has a great role in showing what happens in human beings' life. Soul, intelligence and the emotions are the reflections of the community, and Art forms the social identities of communities. It also shows us the difference between the various social identities. Global influ..
Chinese architects NHDRO have transformed this disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel, maintaining the building’s stripped concrete and brick walls while adding a new Corten steel extension on the roof. The Waterhouse hotel has nineteen rentable rooms spread over four storeys and a roof-terrace looking onto the neighbouring Huangpu River. Existing features like exposed concr..
NOVAE Architecture has been recently selected as one of the 10 Young Italian Architects under 35 at the “Architects Meet at Fuori Biennale”, for the Venice Biennale. For the event, they presented their project “Teritorial Dissonances”. More images and architect’s description after the break. The theme of the urban border (social, cultural and physical )apparent inherent identity with the attitud..
Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff Architects have designed the Casa Barone in Ingarö-Evlinge, Sweden. An existing summer house on a steep continues slope was the starting point for this project. The old house sat in the middle of the property leaving only unusable narrow and highly sloping ground around it. A main issue was therefore to regain the property and to create flat areas with good sun conditio..
Mr.Maleonn..has really touched my soul with his awesome portfolio. His work mixes graphic design and photography..with the most romantic results you have ever seen! I found an interesting interview in Kasia Kay Art Projects press area. (Maleonn for the italian PIG-magazine issue42, October 2006) *The world is a mess, and for what is possible to foresee it will be more and more... in your photos ..
Miami-based Interior designer Charles Allem, designed the interior of the Mira Hotel in Hong Kong. from contemporist
Olek “Traces”(left) photo (c) Zuza Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek Photo duo Zuza Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek bring their decadent “trash aesthetic” to Berlin as part of the Photomonth series at Polnisches Institut from September 16 to November 30, 2010. Zuzanna Krajewska and Bartek Wieczorek are a dynamic pair both within the world of professional photography and in their personal lives, which ge..
