NBBJ’s proposed design for the new Dalian Shide football stadium in China represents a new direction in sports architecture by moving away from the creation of a building based on pure form. The organic architecture of the building challenges the typical stadium typology to become more than an impressive skin wrapped around an ordinary seating bowl. Designed to emulate a garden, NBBJ’s Garden St..
The site is located in Kanagawa Prefecture on a mountainside that overviews a sea and a city. The client couple, who are friends of mine, and I visited there, when the project was initiated. Walking around in the pre-project site, where too many tall trees stand on, views changed variously, because of the slanted land’s height differences. The experience was comparable to a pleasure of wandering..
Facts & Figures Credits Theatre Agora, Lelystad > Client: Gemeente Lelystad > Opening former Agora Theater: 1976 > Demolishment former Agora Theater: 2004 > Start construction new Agora Theater: 4 march 2005 > First show: 31 march 2007 > Official opening: 25 may 2007 Architecture UNStudio, Amsterdam Ben van Berkel and Gerard Loozekoot with Jacques van Wijk, Job Mouwen en Holger Hoffmann, Khoi Tr..
The architects at the Zurich based Smolenicky & Partners, designed the Tamina Thermal Baths for the Grand Resort in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. COMPETITION The project for the Tamina thermal baths is the result of a two-stage competition from 2003. The aim of the first phase of the process was to coordinate the large pending architectural interventions in terms of town planning. Where should the new..
Proyecto de diseño interior de una residencia privada ubicada en Trastevere, en el corazón del centro histórico de Roma. La renovación de la casa incluye la reorganización completa de espacios interiores, así como el nuevo diseño de muebles e iluminación. El objetivo del proyecto es crear un equilibrio entre la antigua estructura rústica del edificio y el estilo moderno del interior. El área de ..
A 2000 SF, three-bedroom apartment in an elegant 1927 coop building in Greenwich Village, the project is a modernist edit of a classic prewar residence. The spacious dwelling was created by combining two one-bedroom units. In a bold move, the architects decided to raise the floor of one of the two original sunken living rooms to make a large master bedroom suite and, at the same time, space unde..
The concept of Casa G is based on reading and feedback to the landscape it exists on. The characteristic landscape situation and view differences distinctively in each direction. Towards south the view to the sea and islands, towards north the characteristic triangular mountain, towards east the glacier and towards west the river and canyon. Those elements are the creator of the project, the tra..
