The city council of Weilburg, Germany, a dense medieval city, organized a design competition upon the demolition of an existing parking structure. ACME’s terrace design is a contemporary spin on the Baroque terraced-landscape building typology found nearby in the Weilburg Castle Gardens. The form becomes an integrated part of the landscape, allowing the project to blend into the surrounding cont..
Architects: Pasel.Kuenzel Architects Location: Leiden, The Netherlands Project Area: 130 sqm building + 60 sqm garden Project year: 2005-2009 Photographer: Marcel van der Burg As the plot does not allow for traditional front or back gardens, the design incorporates open-air spaces within the build structure. The open floor plan with its voids generates exciting views inside the volume and enhanc..
Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Location: Thiais, France Engineering: BETOM - SIT Main Contractor: DUTHEIL - BETSINOR / LABASETERE Client: PARIS HABITAT Program: Administrative building Project year: 2003-2007 Site Area: 3,5 há Constructed Area: 2,450 sqm Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol - Philippe Ruault Located in the southern suburban area of Paris along wide boulevards and roadwa..
Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Blairgowrie, Australia Project Team: Adam Pustola, Meredith Dufour, Michael McManus, Angela Woda Constructed Area: 290 sqm Photographs: John Gollings It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out - a new version of the good old Aussie verandah. Its like a giant multi-sensory organ, the sun, the sky, ..
Architect: Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office Location: Almadén, Ciudad Real, Spain Principals: Sol Madridejos & Juan Carlos Sancho Assistant - Technical Architect: Martin Pozuelo Project Leader: Luis Renedo Collaborators: Luis Renedo, Juan A. Garrido, Emilio Gómez Ramos, Patricia Planell, Marta Toral, Andrey García, Javier Moreno Project year: 1996-2001 Photographs: Hisao Suzuki The idea of ..
client : Christophe Lemaire, Avant Co architecte et designer : Franklin Azzi consultant design : Robert Carr superficie : 240m² coût : 250 000€ HT ouverture : janvier 2007 activité : boutique, showroom, bureau de création emplacement : 28, rue de Poitou 75003 Paris France LEMAIRE IS BACK Tout en continuant son activité de directeur artistique chez Lacoste, Christophe Lemaire relance l'activité d..
By Ethel Baraona Pohl — Filed under: Institutional Architecture , Interiors , Glass, Netherlands Size: 250 m2 Design: Tjep Project team: Frank Tjepkema, Janneke Hooymans, Tina Stieger, Leonie Janssen Production: Hypsos Location: Amsterdam What do you do when Heineken asks you to design their first shop? Do you place furniture and displays into a given space? At Tjep, they thought it would be rat..
Fluid, one of the most eye-catching designs for the much-anticipated 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, South Korea, is a whale-like pavilion designed by Melbourne-based Peddle Thorpe Architects (PTA). Their organic floating exhibition space is designed around the concept of adaptability, making the structure useful for many scenarios, even long after the World Expo has concluded. With it’s environmental..
PROJECT: WVOWS TYPE: Invited Competition CLIENT: H-Hagen Fastighets AB COLLABORATORS: AKT, Tyréns, Transsolar SIZE: 100.000 M2 LOCATION: Malmo, Sweden STATUS: 1st Prize Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Nanna Gyldholm Moller Team: Gabrielle Nadeau, Daniel Sundlin, Jonas Barre, Nicklas Antoni Rasch, Jin Kyung Park, Fan Zhang, Steve Huang, Flavien Menu, Ken Aoki BIG, in collaboratio..
German designers KARO have designed an outdoor library in Leipzig, Germany. Developed from an installation in 2005 made of beer crates, the new building comprises sheltered seating areas and niches to store books. The new building is clad in wood and materials from a former warehouse. Photographs are by Anja Schlamann. Here’s some text from KARO: – We established in 2005 in an abandoned district..
