Amanda Levete Architects shared with us their submission for the extension for the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. The form intends to compliment the 19th century gallery, yet still maintain its individuality as a separate element. The extension, then, becomes not “one building connected to another but as something more abstract: a gesture that merges landscape with building.” The urban gal..
Czech architects Projektil Architekti have completed the National Technical Library in Prague, Czech Republic. The library was designed to house 1.2 million volumes alongside an exhibition hall, conference centre, cafe, and bookshop. The building has three floors below ground (comprising storage and parking) and six storeys above. Visitors can access the ground floor entrance hall from four dire..
Our friends from XTEN Architecture just sent us one of their latest projects. The Saphire Gallery is a residential gallery addition to a private residente in Los Angeles, California. It is designed to display a private collection of contemporary art while also providing for a home office with views to the sorrounding hills. The owners’ collection includes work by the artists Gregory Crewdson, Ut..
The transformation of this small appartment has above all been strategic : Decompartmentalize the place so as to fit out an open plan and elude the demand of an extra room by conceiving in the center of the volume a suspended white cube which generates comic and disconcerting use situations. This former artist studio caracterised by a difference in height which shares the volume from a simple to..
project > brick house location > São Paulo . SP project > april ,2007 conclusion > january ,2009 site plan area > 960 m2 builted area > 780 m2 architecture author > marcio kogan co-author > renata furlanetto collaborator > fernanda neiva interior design co-author> diana radomysler . renata furlanetto team > oswaldo pessano . samanta cafardo . suzana glogowski lair reis . carolina castroviejo . e..
This house in the hills above West Hollywood, California was designed by architect Angelo Cassiello, with interior design by Luis Ortega Design Studio. from contemporist
Architects: Lyn Rice Architects Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Architects in Charge: Lyn Rice, principal, with Astrid Lipka, associate principal Project Architect: Ivan Chabra Project Designer: Benjamin Cadena Design Team: Karl-Erik Larson, Steven Chen, Daria Supp Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, I..
Singapore-based design firm Design Act was a finalist in the competition for the World Expo 2010 Singapore Pavilion organized by the Singapore Tourism Board (for the winning pavilion design by Kay Ngee Tan Architects, click here). Titled “MY DREAM, OUR VISION”, Design Act’s competition entry uses permutated cubes to generate a spectacular sculpture that is visually stunning and celebrative. Fina..
Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Pamplona, Spain Project manager: Daniel Galar Irurre, architect Lighting: Anton Aman - ALS LIGHTING Builder: Ignacio Huarte - Construcciones CLEYS S.L. Client: Danieli Joyeros Project year: 2006-2007 Photographs: Jose M. Cutillas Project picks archaic magical conception of the universe that surrounds the value of jewel..
