Architects: Elton+Leniz Arquitectos Asociados Location: Concepción, Chile Collaborator Architect : Germán Rodríguez Olivos Construction: Tirapeguy Ramos Site Area: 1200 m2 Constructed Area: 540 m2 Year (proyect): 2006-2007 Year of Construction: 2008-2009 Photos: Natalia Vial Casa Concepción is located in a community over a hill with a spectacular view towards the Bio-Bio river. The general layou..
The premise of this short film is to represent the digital tools and interfaces we use daily in an analog way. In the analog office, your computer desktop becomes your actual desk, your inbox gets flooded with Spam cans, the server runs past you multiple times a day (and perhaps crashes every now and then), and Twitter users follow each other around the space. This concept is essentially just fo..
For me, Nowadays, history/war is only the news on the television or newspapers or some borring lessons in a class room. War (or History), also being modified into many cultural aspect of human being like a movie,novel, game, even art work.. Superhero is a portrait of now generation who 'enjoy' war/history as entertainment of our daily lives without care about the actual impact. We see and we kno..
i29 Architects have completed the interior design for an apartment in Amsterdam. This single-family apartment for four people is situated in a stately building in southern Amsterdam, NL. The original structure, with rooms for staff, a double hall and long hallways with lots of doors has been transformed into a spacious, transparent dwelling full of light and air. A kitchen in combination with ca..
There are few buildings as famous as the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Arguably considered the eighth wonder of the world, the opera house has a long history behind its design. The story behind this magnificent structure began in 1956 when the New South Wales Government called an open competition for the design of two performance halls, for opera and for symphony concerts, that would ..
Located on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 3,500-square-foot Zeidler Residence arranges interior and exterior living spaces to maximize views, natural light, and ocean breezes within a subtle, sophisticated material palette. Designed for a retired couple with grown children, the house sits on a relatively flat corner lot with expansive views of the Pacific and vegetated cliff that ..
Spanish architect Alejandro Munoz Miranda’s kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours. It is built around a central courtyard onto which all the classrooms open. Communal spaces such as corridors are scattered with multicoloured light while the windows in classrooms are colourless. Photographs are by Fernando Alda. The following inf..
A-lab just won a competition to design a military base in Norway which will be situated on the northern border with Russia. The design challenge was to create a cohesive complex where work and private life coexist, and where military services meet the civil community. The project is comprised of a larger u-shaped building which houses most of the functional needs, while the remaining program is ..
3GATTI Architecture Studio of Rome and Shanghai have won a competition to design an automobile museum in Nanjing, China. An external concentric ramp allows visitors to drive around the exterior of the museum in their own car, past the exhibits to a roof-top car park. Visitors then descend through the museum on foot via an internal ramp. Here are more details from 3GATTI: Automobile museum in Nan..
Architects: Studio EDR Eskew+Dumez+Ripple / Guidry Beazley Architects Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, USA Consultants: J.B. Mouton, Inc. – General Contractor, Associated Design Group – MEP Engineers, Bellard and Associates – Structural Engineer, Visual Acuity – Visualization Systems, Global Data Systems – Communications/IT, Jon Emerson & Associates – Landscape Architect Client: Lafayette Economi..
