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..
Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a community centre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Called Community Centre of La Candida, the project consists of a small pavilion built on existing concrete foundations. It comprises public toilets alongside one multi-purpose room. Sliding glass doors allow one wall to be opened to the surrounding park. from dezeen
Architects: Salto AB Location: Aseri, Estonia Project team: Maarja Kask, Karli Luik, Ralf Lõoke Client: Private Project area: 300 sqm Project year: 2006 Photographs: Salto AB Villa forms an harmonious whole together with the flowing surrounding landscape and takes into consideration the location, dimensions and proportions of the existent edifices. The house is designed to be as transparent and ..
Architects: MAD Location: Erdos, Inner Mongolia Director in Charge: Ma Yansong, Yosuke Hayano, Dang Qun Design team: Shang Li, Andrew C. Bryant, Howard Jiho Kim, Matthias Helmreich , Zheng Tao, Qin Lichao, Yang Lin, Sun Jieming Yin Zhao , Du Zhijian Collaborators: China Institute of Building Standard Design and Research, The Institute of Shanxi Architectural Design and Research Site Area: 27,760..
Architect: Jordi Badia Collaborators: Daniel Guerra, Rafael Berengena, Andreu Orradre Location: Salt, Girona, Spain Structure: Eduard Doce, architect Measurement: FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats Services: Consulting Lluís Duart Client: GISA. Gestió d’infraestructures S.A. - Departament de Sanitat Project year: 2004 Construction year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute Summary The project gua..
Architects: A+F Arquitectos - Cristián Ayçaguer F., Cristián Ferrari C., Carlos Cavagnaro I. Location: Santiago, Chile Acoustics: Acusticos.cl, Mario Parma Structural Engineering: RSA Ingeniería, Raúl Sepúlveda Electrical Engineering: Incoseelig, Bruno Meneses Lighting: DIAV, Ximena Muñoz y Paulina Villalobos Contractor: Faser, Rodrigo Beltrán Total room Area: 400 sqm Lecture Room Area: 125 sqm ..
