Peru studio 51-1 Arquitectos and Colombian architects Ctrl G have won a competition to design an extension to the Modern Art Museum of Medellin, Colombia. Drawing on the brick structures of the local barrios, the new building will be made up of stacked boxes. These will create a series of terraces that visitors will access by internal or external circulation. The information below is from the ar..
San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz has completed a museum in Florida, USA, which is wrapped in a perforated metal skin and cantilevers out from its glazed base. Called Tampa Museum of Art, the building is divided into two volumes, each organised around a courtyard. The first contains public areas of the museum and the other is for offices and curatorial facilities. A cafe and bookstore ar..
Architects: Suppose design office Location: Hiroshima city, Hiroshima, Japan Project Team: Makoto Tanijiri, Masafumi Shimatani Client: Yusuke Yamamoto Total Floor Area: 83.99 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano When I design, I think about space without any stereotypes. To delete the all common sense in my mind is a key for me to bring up new or beyond ideas of spaces. The hair sa..
Architects: GH+A / Guillermo Hevia Location: Graneros, Chile Collaborators: Tomás Villalón, Francisco Carrión, Guillermo Hevia García, Marcela Suazo Client: Nestlé Chile S.A. Contractor: Precon S.A. Bioclimatic Consultant: Biotech Lighting: Opendark Project Area: 2,800 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Cristián Barahona, Guillermo Hevia H. & Guillermo Hevia García The new building, part of Nes..
Architects: Lior Vaknin & Sabi Aroch Location: Rehovot, Israel Project year: 2007-2008 The hair strand project started its way by considering the idea of what a hair strand is and what kind of insights it can provide for designing the interior space of the barber shop. Hair has a particular geometry and dynamics derived from natural law. The strand geometry is curved, in accordance with natural ..
Architect: Daniel Libeskind Location: Dublin Docklands, Ireland Principal in Charge: Stefan Blach Project Leader: Gerhard Brun Project Team: Feargal Doyle, Patrick Cox, Andreas Baumgärtner, Matthias Rühl, Toralf Sümmchen, Anna Poullou, Guillaume Chapallaz, Nathaniel Lloyd, Jens Jessen, Jens Hoffman, Kaori Hirasawa, Luca Mangione, Anja Bungies and Christian Müller Client: Ramford Limited, Charter..
Architects: Jaime Rendon Arquitectos Location: Medellin, Colombia Project Team: Jaime Rendon, Felipe Campuzano, Fernando Zapata Structure Engineer: Luis Bernardo Gonzalez Contractor: Luz Estella Orrego Soil Study: SOLINGRAL LTDA Electrical Design: INGELECTRICA LTDA Construction year: 2006-2007 Photographs: Sergio Gomez, Felipe Campuzano This house is located at the suburbs of Medellin (Colombia..
Architects: KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten Location: Nanjing, China Developer: Jiangsu Province, represented by the Jiangsu Olympic Center, China Partner Company: Nanjing Kingdom Architecture Design Co. Ltd., China Structural Engineering: Breuninger Tragwerksplanung, Dr. Ulrich Breuninger Site Area: 10,605 sqm Project Area: 27,449 sqm Project Year: 2006-2010 Photographs: Courtesy of KSP Jürgen Eng..
Project name: Zamet Centre Program: Public, cultural, business, sport Location: B. Vidas Street, Zamet, Rijeka, Croatia Architect: 3LHD - Sasa Begovic, Tatjana Grozdanic Begovic, Marko Dabrovic, Silvije Novak, Paula Kukuljica, Zvonimir Marcic, Leon Lazaneo, Eugen Popovic, Nives Krsnik Rister, Andrea Vukojic Collaborators: Mateo Bilus, Building Physics / Details; Berislav Medic, UPI-2M, Structura..
Architects: ARX PORTUGAL - José Mateus y Nuno Mateus Location: Martinhal, Portugal Project year: 2002-2003 Construction year: 2005-2007 Constructed area: 320 sqm Structure: SAFRE, Estudos e Projectos de Engenharia Lda. Photographs: FG + SG - Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra This house is located in Sagres (Algarve), the furthest southwest location in Portugal. This town hosted the Navigation Schoo..
