Last year, BIG completed Mountain Dwellings (winner of the Building of the Year 2009 Award under the Housing category), showing us new approaches to a complex typology. Along this line of innovation in housing, we now present you a sneak peek of the soon to be completed 8 House a 62,000sqm project located in Copenhagen with an interesting approach to mixed use. Over 540 units for different confi..
Designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has completed the interior of a boutique in Tokyo by adding a display level above head height made of expanded metal. Called DURAS Daiba, the shop has a stepped platform in the centre allowing shoppers to reach the merchandise spread out on the mesh surface. Mirrors round the edge of the upper space visually expand the shop. Photographs are by Takumi Ota. Here’s s..
Architects: Studio Mumbai Location: Kashid, Maharashtra, India Principal Architect: Bijoy Jain Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Helene Binet & Studio Mumbai Surrounded by mountains, forests, and the waters of the Arabian Sea, the house is configured around a tropical garden filled with Plumeria, ferns, grasses, bamboo and jasmine. Under the wood framed roof, rooms are loosely arranged around the ..
Austrian architect Stephan Unger designed the Villa San Valentino in Merano-Alto Adige, Italy. Task: Planning of a bi-familiar house on high architectonic level for the cohabitation of 3 generations with common spaces. Idea: To create a monolithic house with common spaces, under whose roof two independent habitation units are unified. Orientation: Considering the orientation of the views. The ea..
French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance has completed the interior of a gallery in Paris featuring a strip of white Corian wrapped around the space. Called Galerie BSL, the Corian ribbon sweeps through the narrowmonochrome interior, providing surfaces on which objects can bedisplayed. The gallery opened last month and will exhibit one-off pieces including jewellery pieces and fashion. Photograph..
Architects: C+C04STUDIO Location: Cagliari, Italy Collaborators: Ing. S.Pusceddu, Ing G.Meloni Contractor: Edilizia Bandini snc Budget: € 400,000 Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Pierluigi Dessì / Confinivisivi The building is located in the hinterland of Cagliari, in one of the smaller towns developed in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century and lacking in the quality of construction and form..
Architects: Aires Mateus Location: Santo Tirso, Portugal Collaborators: Marco Arraiolos, Anna Bacchetta, Bruna Parro Engineering: AFA Consult Client: Portugal Telecom Constructor: LENA / ABRANTINA Surface Area: 4,700 sqm Built Area: 3,985 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: João Morgado The plot assimilates a sequence of different levels, that can be seen from the higher city, in different point..
Japanese architect Makoto Yamaguchi has created a hair salon in the basement of a Tokyo building, showcasing the patchwork of alterations made by previous occupants of the space. Called Kilico, the project involved patching the floor to make it flat and coating the various textures of the walls with white paint. White furniture, lighting and mirrors were then added. Photographs are by Ken’ichi S..
BAK Architects have completed the JD House, located in the forest of Mar Azul, in the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires. from contemporist
Task: To marry eighty-four years of history by integrating a contemporary, open and functional living space inside a 1924 landmark that overlooks the Rideau Canal. Project Challenge: The starting point for this renovation was a modest Victorian home in poor condition, whose rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from one another, as was typical of homes built in an era ..
