Architects: Atelier Phileas (member of PLAN01) Location: Malakoff, France Client: RATP/SEDP Program: Head quarter room, technical spaces, Offices, meeting rooms, Renovation of the subway station Etienne Dolet, Urban lanscape Consultant: CETBA Constructed Area: 1,600 sqm Budget: 4.5M Euro + tax (US $5.67M + tax) Project year: 2006 Photographer: Stéphane Chalmeau, Frédéric Delangle THE SITE: Locat..
MVRDV shared with us their design of The Water Cube, a pavilion for the World Expo 2012 in Yeosu, Korea. The theme of the Expo is “The Living Ocean and Coast”. You can see more proposals for the thematic pavilion by Ginseng Chicken, PTA, and Nicoletti Associati. WORLD WONDERS World expos are fantastic. In the literal meaning. They show man kinds fantasies. They allow for this great opportunity t..
Architects: AK2 Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Designers: Andrea Klimková, Peter Kručay Project Year: 2008 Site Area: 5,418 sqm Construction Area: 9,271 sqm Photographs: Andrea Klimková, Ľubo Stacho Einsteinova Road is probably the most frequented artery in Bratislava, situated misfortunately, like a big cut through Petržalka town quarter. But some architects show us it is possible to refine suc..
Zack|de Vito Architecture have completed the remodel of a 3,400 sq. ft, 19th floor apartment in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood, for a couple with an extensive collection of contemporary art from contemporist
Project: Haus L. Individual House for a four person family Status: 2006 completed Location: Berlin . Glienicke Germany Projectsize: 350 m2 GROSS Architects: HamannPottArchitekten now Pott Architects and Ulrich Hamann Architekt Cooperations: Kappes & Partner Ingenieurbüro: Dr. Müller Haustechnik: Dr. Specht Photographs: Rudi Meisel Life in the countryside, in the midst of nature, has always had a..
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Ringsted, Denmark Project Year: 2006 Client: Brainstones Development ApS Engineer: Lemming & Eriksson A/S Construction Area: 790 sqm Photographs: Adam Mørk The terrace houses have been built in connection with the official exhibition ‘Living 2006+’ in Ringsted. The construction consists of 7 terrace houses, placed in rows of 2 with respectively 3..
Architects: KPMB Architects Location: Toronto, Canada Client: Gardiner Museum Project Team: Bruce Kuwabara (design principal), Shirley Blumberg (partner-in-charge), Paulo Rocha (design/project architect); Shane O’Neill, Javier Uribe, Kevin Bridgman, Tyler Sharpe, Ramon Janer, Steven Casey, Bill Colaco (project team) Structural Enginnering: Halsall Associates Ltd. Mechanical and Electrical Engine..
The house is located on a 2.204m2 plot presenting a strong slope, with a difference of height of 17m in a 55m long terrain. The site is delimited by the access road on the South, neighbouring plots on the North and East sides and a stepped walkway in the West. The main idea behind the project is to make a house integrated within the surrounding context, oriented towards the views over the Mera r..
Japanese studio Takuro Yamamoto Architects have completed a small house in Kashiwa, Japan, centred around a rectangular courtyard that has been rotated at an oblique angle to the rest of the building. Named F-WHITE, the one storey house has few outward-facing windows with most of the natural light coming from the courtyard, a private space with views only to the sky. F-WHITE is an independent on..
