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..
Date of planning : 2007 Date of construction : 2009 Location : A1 Motorway – Arezzo Exit –Battifolle 36/T – 52100 Arezzo, Italy Area in square meters : 10.000 122 rooms 1 restaurant 1 bar 1 wellness center 1 250 seat convention center 7 meeting halls 1 open swimming pool “The work of interior architecture I designed for Claudio and Cinzia Alliata bears the anticanonical message expressing ethics..
From the head and hand of master draftsman Scott Teplin comes a series of 26 dream-houses fashioned after our alphabet. Explore in each a bizarre, miniaturized constellation of bed rooms, drawing rooms, fantasy swimming pools, mysterious laboratories, personal ice cream parlors, gambling halls, nuclear reactors, and oozing phenomena of unknown consequence. Each crisp drawing pops from its page i..
The architecture studio A-cero, that Joaquín Torres directs with his collaborating associate Rafael Llamzares, it finishes the first phase (the first office) of the design of interiors of the building Torre de Cristal “Crystal Tower” of recent construction in Madrid. It is a question of a building of shaping the skyline of Madrid and it has a 250 m height and 52 floors. This project of interior ..
Interior designer Olga Polizzi and architect Flavio Albanese have designed the recently opened Verdura Resort in Sicily. Set across 230 hectares of olive groves and countryside, the rooms are in two distinct types of building, Courtyard and Landscape, which are woven subtly into the landscape and offer a real sense of privacy and space. Natural materials such as stone, sand, wood and cane echo t..
'cite du design' by LIN architects was recently inaugurated in loire, france. the project situated on the historic site of the national arms manufacture in saint etienne involved the renovation of several historic buildings, as well as the integration of a new building the 'platine', an observation tower, two gardens and the place d'armes, a public esplanade. the 'platine' is an interclimatic la..
Architects: Akihisa Hirata Location: Nigata, Japan Program: Showroom, Office Design Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 824 sqm Constructed Area: 294.2 sqm Photographer: Akihisa Hirata This is the building for a showroom exhibiting small agricultural equipments. I tried to create a place similar to natural environment in an artificial way. People are invited to go deep into the continu..
도심 속 협소주택에게 물어 본다. 4미터, 12미터의 한정적인 대지위에 어떻게 자리 할 것인지. 그에 대답은 오히려 심플하다. 공간 구성상 적층할 수 밖에 없는 숙명을 겸허히 받아 들인 스킵플로어라고.공간확장성은 물론 연속된 공간감을 구현할 수 있다. 전면과 후면 수평적인 개방감과 수직적인 개방감을 동시에 만족시킨다. 물론, 사전에 비움으로 시작된 간결한 생활공간이 바탕이 되어야 하고, 각 개실에 필요한 공간의 최소면적이 확보되어야 한다. Describe the client and the program. We build this house for ourselves, Britt Crepain & Stefan Spaens (previously CSO ontwerpers, currently CSD Archit..
Architect Bruce Bolander has shared with us a house he has designed in Malibu, California. from contemporist
Architecture students attending the Chinese University of Hong Kong will enjoy the spatial variety and openness of Ida and Billy’s New School of Architecture situated on the edge of the campus. The form, a diagonal shape which is pierced to preserve views of the sky, has large openings to capture the campus’ topology and views of Tolo Harbor, “giving an infinite boundary to architectural thinkin..
