Architect: HHF Architects + Ai Weiwei Design team: HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER & AI WEIWEI with Bhavana Hameed, Tom Strub, Fumiko Takahama, Magnus Zwyssig Structural engineering: Crawford & Associates, Hudson, NY Construction management: Crawford & Associates, Hudson, NY General Contractor: Robert Reed Construction, Germantown, NY Photos: Iwan Baan and Nikolas Koenig Client: private Livable ar..
Architects: Hidalgo Hartmann - Jordi Hidalgo Tané & Daniela Hartmann Location: Girona, Spain Project year: 2004 Technical Architec: Mateu Batlle Client: Lluis and Montserrat Contractor: Constructions Santa Pau S.L. Constructed Area: 375 sqm Photographs: Hidalgo Hartmann The structure and location of country houses is the result of a century-long study of ways to overcome conditionings such as to..
New York office Butler Rogers Baskett Architects have been awarded an AIA New York 2010 Design Award for their renovation of a chapel at a New York school. Called Johnson Chapel, the interior features a slot in the ceiling that funnels in daylight and wooden panels on two sides that incorporate doors, seating and storage. The text that follows is from Butler Rogers Baskett: BUTLER ROGERS BASKETT..
KINZO applied their crystalline signature style, inspired by stealth bombers and 80’s science-fiction movies, to fashion retail: Instead of hiding the cables of the light installation behind a drywall ceiling, KINZO displays them openly to create a “computer chip” pattern that lures the visitor into the centre of the store. The ceiling-mounted lamps were also designed by KINZO and specially manu..
Architects: b720 Location: Alguaire, Lérida, Spain Project Team: Fermín Vázquez, Peco Mulet, Mónica Xampeny, Zelia Alves, Daniel Valdés, Iván Arellano, Gemma Ojea, Magdalena Ostornol, Egbert Oosterhoof, Sandra Palou, Jaime Luaces, Alessandro Zanchetta, Ángel Gaspar (maquetas) Ingeniería aeronáutica: Aertec Client: Aeroports de Catalunya, PTOP Contractor: UTE Alguaire ( Dragados / Obrum ) Structu..
One Shelley Street in Sydney, Australia is an effort to reframe the requirements and performance of the 21st Century office. On behalf of the Macquarie Group, Clive Wilkinson Architects implemented a radical, large-scale workplace design that leverages mobility, transparency, multiple tailor-made work settings, destination work plazas, follow-me technology, and carbon neutral systems. The result..
Architects: Plan B Arquitectos (Felipe Mesa) + Giancarlo Mazzanti Location: Urbanización Aposentos, Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia Collaborators: Viviana Peña, Jose Orozco, Jaime Borbón, Andrés Sarmiento, Juan Pablo Buitrago Contractor: Jaime Pizarro Structural Engineer: Nicolás Parra Design Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Rodrigo Davila House to enjoy a native garden and t..
A-cero Architects have designed the Sotogrande House in Cadiz, Spain. from contemporist
A new house, guesthouse, and garage form a community of buildings on a rural hilltop site, evoking a rural homestead. The buildings define a formal courtyard that opens to specific views of the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains. Copper, wood, and bluestone are the primary materials, deployed to affect a minimal and sculptural vocabulary. The buildings are embedded to varying degree within the roc..
Architect: Harald Opitz Location: Camino a Ensenada, Puerto Varas, Chile Contractor: Inmobiliaria Cielos del Sur Ltda Structure Engineer: Jose Torres Herrera Site Area: 14.000 sqm Constructed Area: 1.500 sqm Project Year: 2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Materials: Wood, Steel & Concrete Photographs: Francisco Negroni Young chilean architect Harald Opitz shared with us this impressive hotel lo..
