The new 300-room, five-star-rated Sheraton Incheon Hotel recently opened in New Songdo City, Korea, offering a new state-of-the-art facility in the heart of a new urban center. HOK provided architectural design, landscape design and sustainable design services for the new 500,000-square-foot, LEED® certified hotel. Adjacent to the city’s new Convention Center, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower and ..
The T House is located in Israel in a suburb of Tel Aviv. The lot is 750 Meters Sq. On it are two single family house sharing a central courtyard and pool. The houses are shared by two sisters and their families. Structure: All vertical structure (columns) are steel except the west wall which is sheer concrete – 12 meters high – to resist earthquakes. The house, having no walls on the east side ..
Architect: Vector Architects Location: Hefei, China Client: CR Land Design-partner-in-charge: Gong Dong Project Architect: Jiajun Chen, Qun Sun Structural/Mechanical Engineer: Huanyu Design Institute, Hefei Project Area: 900 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Shuhe Photo & Vector Architects Like many other cities in China, Hefei is undergoing a rapid transformation. The original urban fabric wa..
Spanish practice XPIRAL shared with us this nice urban residence in a very narrow site in Murcia, Spain. With a very tight budget, they decided to built a concrete structure house attached to the party walls that creates a central courtyard facing west to the neighbors. from archdaily
Concept: The purpose of the newly-founded chain, nat. fine bio food, is to make fast food healthy, to offer delicious organic food in a timely manner – and this in a contemporary environment. nat. brings together Organic and Lifestyle, and with this follows the increasingly-important LOHAS-Trend (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability). The claim, “nature comes to the city” guided the design con..
autor: Affonso Risi arq. colab.: Willian T. S. Miyagui maquete: Lucas BittarFAUMack fotos: Paulo Risi estrutura: eng. José Luiz Botta de Assis luminotecnia: Espaço Luz paisagismo: Julia Risi e Marina Toscano obra: eng. Lineu Botta de Assis mestre de obras: José Antônio da Silva Publicação Vertentes:arquitetura e design/interiores brasileiros contemporâneos- MAB/FAAP/ Vv.Aa./ novembro de 2008/ pa..
Developed by Alf Naman and currently in construction, HL23 is a 14 floor condominium tower that responds to a unique and challenging site directly adjacent to the High Line at 23rd street in New York's West Chelsea Arts district. Partially impacted by a spur from the elevated tracks that make up the High Line superstructure, the site is 40' (12.20 m) x 99' (30.20 m) at the ground floor. The site..
B199 Istanbul Residences Architecture: Oncuoglu Architecture-Planning Location: Istanbul, Turkey Client: Zorlu Real Estate Architects: Enis Oncuoglu, Onder Kaya, Cem Altinoz, Cumhur Keskinok Project Team: Ozge Ozden, Sibel Konu, Ebru Aras, Fatih Kaplanoglu Landscape Architecture: Promim (Can Kubin) Project Date: 2008 Gross Land Area: 12.700 m² Gross Construction Area: 74.500 m² Oncuoglu Architec..
Architects: Rangr Studio Location: Cabrera, Dominican Republic Design Team: Jasmit Singh Rangr, Eivind Karlsen, Josh Weiselberg Construction: Paradise Investments, Rolando Widman Project Area: 1,000 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Hilary Ferris White A New York based client commissioned Rangr Studio to design a Caribbean get-away large enough to accommodate his family and groups of friends. ..
In keeping with Mandarin Oriental’s passion for working with creative and exciting design concepts, the prestigious Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola was commissioned to create the interior décor of Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona. The project reflects the open, cosmopolitan character of the great Mediterranean city where the hotel stands, along with the unmistakeable seal of Mandarin Oriental Hot..
