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..
Middenin de Jordaan in Amsterdam zijn de onderste twee lagen van dit monument uit 1748 getransformeerd tot een woonhuis en is het oude gebouw voorzien van een nieuwe fundering. Alle ruimten staan in open verbinding met elkaar (alleen het toilet is een aparte, afsluitbare ruimte geworden), maar door de indeling in dit relatief diepe grachtenpand en de vele niveauverschillen heeft iedere woonfunct..
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..
The R|B House is a re-conceptualization of an end row house unit in Capitol Hill, Washington DC. The project furthers a continuing exploration in sustainable urban residential design. The existing two-story structure was originally built in 1906 and represents the archetype of single family dwelling units in the city. The house had been renovated in the early 1970’s, but the interior space remai..
Architect: Hyunjoon Yoo Architects Location: Samsung Headquarter Basement, 2 Taepyoung-ro, Joong-gu, Seoul, Korea Client: Kangbuk Samsung Hospital Collaborators: Kookbo Design Co. Ltd, Samsung Everland Co. Ltd Size: 5,697 sqm Design Year: 2009 Completion Year: 2010 Photographs: Seunghoon Yum Hospital unlike Hospital Typical hospitals are located in a huge size building and their rooms are small...
Architect: bittonidesignstudio Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Project Team: Mark Bittoni, Ross Jeffries, Salomé Reeves Structural Engineer: C.W. Howe & Associates Area: 185.8 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier Photography Los Angeles-based bittonidesignstudio has recently completed the evansHOUSE, located in the modernist landmark community of Crestwood Hills. This small moder..
Starting with a digital body scan, the dress is digitally drawn. This animation serves to compare the drawing process with the final product and the variability in reality. from vimeo
