Architects: Mozas Aguirre arquitectos - Javier Mozas & Eduardo Aguirre Location: Madrid, Spain Project year: 2005 Construction year: 2007 Client: Local Savings Bank: Caja Vital Kutxa Headquarters Structural Engineer: NB 35, Madrid Artists: Javier Perez: two walls and ceiling of the main hall / Miguel Gonzalez de San Román: paintings on the basement Site Area: 11,042 sqm Constructed Area: 16,578 ..
Architects: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Location: Milan, Italy Food and restaurant consultant: Ford McDonald Consultancy Lighting consultant: Equation Lighting Design Cost consultant: Davis Langdon Mechanical engineer: BRE Enginnering s.r.l. Electrical engineer: CS Progetti Main contractor: Impresa Minotti s.r.l. Feature ceiling sub-contractor: Camagni Arredamenti s.r.l. Project Area: 1,900 sq..
Architects: stación-ARquitectura Arquitectos Location: Monterrey, México Associated Architect: Armando Cantú Project team: César Augusto Guerrero Rodríguez, Armando Cantú, Ana Cecilia Garza Villarreal, Carlos Raúl Flores Leal, María Sevilla Gómez Programme: Showroom and design room for furniture Client: Ofimodul S. A. de C. V. Size of the project : 272 sqm Project year: 2008 Construction: 2008-2..
Architects: ADD+ Arquitectura - Manuel Bailo Esteve, Rosa Rull Bertran Location: Igualada, Spain Collaborators: O.Florejachs, N.Canas, D.Franz, E.Grammont, M.Hita, P.Juarez, J.Maroto, A.Romero, M.Rull, M.Cabestany, J.Vives Client: Godo Family Constructed Area: 200 sqm Budget: US $627,000 Project year: 2003 Photographs: Jose Hevia The house has been designed in a parcel with extremely high topogr..
Various Architects is a collaborative design office based in Norway, and they shared with us a very innovative project: a Mobile Performance Venue. Designed to host the performance “ID - Identity of the soul” (touring worldwide in 2009), the client requested a unique and iconic structure. Also, this venue needs to be mobile, so volume/weight were key on this design developed as a flexible ellips..
Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. Called Ecolodge and situated overlooking the desert, the building is constructed from locally-available materials including mud, sun-fired bricks, palm wood, reeds and stone. The walls are made of a traditional local building material called kershef that consists of mud, sand and ..
Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates Location: Beverly Hills, California, USA Project year: 2007 Project Architects: Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston AIA, Katrin Terstegen Project team: Albert Chu, Robert Garlipp, Nicholas Hofstede Client: Sonia Eram (Mameg), Staff USA (Maison Martin Margiela) Contractor: Lofton Contracting, Inc. (Sherman Oaks, CA) Structural Engineer: B.W. Smith Structural Engine..
by Mark Leveno
In the ‘new European architecture’ magazine A10 I came across this marvelous project by Moxon architects. It is a design for an office building in Preston, in the North West of England. The exterior of the building is dominated by ‘an array of anodized aluminium fins suspended from tensile rods’. All fins are oriented in the same direction. The brilliance of the three-dimensional cladding is tha..
Architects: REX | OMA Location: Dallas, USA Key Personnel: Joshua Prince-Ramus (Partner-in-Charge) and Rem Koolhaas, with Erez Ella, Vincent Bandy, Vanessa Kassabian, Tim Archambault Executive Architect: Kendall/Heaton Associates Client: The AT&T Performing Arts Center Consultants: Cosentini, DHV, Donnell, Front, HKA, Magnusson Klemencic, McCarthy, McGuire, Pielow Fair, Plus Group, Quinze & Mila..
