Architects: Supersudaka / Juan Pablo Corvalán & Gabriel Vergara Location: Villa la Paz, Talca, Chile Collaborators: Pablo Sepúlveda, Jaime Pavez Mosaic: Simón Fuentes / Simbiotika Engineers: Cesar Moreira / Sigma Ingenieros Project Area: 200 sqm Budget: US $64,700 Project Year: 2006–2009 Photographs: Supersudaka Next to one of the city of Talca’s harshest ghettos –Villa Las Americas- this Church..
Taylor Smyth Architects have designed the conversion of a 3,500 square foot two storey office building into an urban residence in Toronto, Canada. from contemporist
Architects: SeARCH & CMA Location: Vals, Switzerland Design: Bjarne Mastenbroek & Christian Müller Interior design cardboard bedroom: Studio JVM, Jeroen van Mechelen Interior design excluding cardboard bedroom: Bjarne Mastenbroek Interior advises: Christian Müller, Monica Ketting & Thomas Eyck Contractor main structure: Kurt Schnyder Bauunternehmung, Vals, CH Structural engineering: Alex Kilchma..
Libraries are something that has been revolving my head ever since I read some writings by Kahn on the Exeter Academy Library. Part of my graduate studies focused on how this typology has evolved during this last few years, moving between the silent sanctuary of books we find at Exeter and new public spaces like OMA’s Seattle Library. As the publishing/reading platforms are changing at an unprec..
Located on the west side of Mercer Island, Washington, this house is a reconstruction of one of iconic Seattle architect Fred Bassetti’s earliest designs built in 1962. Fronting a busy street, we wanted to root the house to its sloping wooded site and provide a protective shelter for family life. The plan is opened up allowing for large family gathering spaces and perspectives throughout the ful..
Architecture: VHM I Departamento de Arquitectura: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque, Ana Luísa Almeida, José Magno Coordinator: Jorge Sodré Albuquerque Team: Isabel Flamínio, Rui Silva, Eduardo Brito, Carlos Sousa, Pedro Couto Structure: A400 Services: VHM, Gestão e Coordenação de projectos Landscape: Nuno Viterbo Construction Management: Vítor Hugo Leal Gomes, Carlos Xavier Contractor: Europa Arlindo, Sc..
Last week, Bustler reported that DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition for Downtown Miami, published a preview of all competition entries in a Flickr gallery just a few days before the official announcement of the winners on Friday, December 4. Now the results are in, and the first prize goes to the team “office 247” (Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, and Armando Oliver Su..
A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The balance on which rest the three principles defining this construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching purpose that places value on aesthet..
MAD Architects, china, urban forest, urban design, green roof, residential building, nature, inspired by nature, forest, stacked forest Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical forest set in ..
Architects: Izquierdo Lehmann / Luis Izquierdo W., Antonia Lehmann S.B. Location: Santiago, Chile Structural engineering: Santolaya y Asoc. Main contractor: Echeverría Izquierdo Site Area: 3,987 sqm Project Area: 43,129 sqm Project Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Cristobal Palma & Luis Izquierdo The project consists of an office tower with a commercial complex in the ba..
