Architects: ODOS architects Location: Dublin, Ireland Construction: SHALE Construction Constructed Area: 140 sqm Design Year: 2006 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Photographs: Ros Kavanagh and Barbara Corsico This new residential development, for a motorcycle enthusiast, adjacent to No.10 Grangegorman Villas, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 is an alternative reaction to the more traditional city centre infi..
Architects: Neeson Murcutt Architects Location: Sydney, Australia Principals in Charge: Rachel Neeson, Nicholas Murcutt Project team: Andrew Burns, Amelia Holiday, Jeff Morgan, Sean Choo, David Coleborne Builder: Coddington Constructions Pty Ltd Landscape Architect: Sue Barnsley Design Structural Engineer: Tihanyi Consulting Engineers Hydraulic Engineer: ACOR Consultants Geotechnical: Geotechniq..
Architects: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos Location: Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil Architects in Charge: Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz Collaborators: Renata Davi, Renata Buschinelli Goes, Luiz Florence, Adriana Junqueira, Paloma Delgado, Ivo Magaldi, André Malheiros, Luciana Muller, Débora Zeppellini, Marília Caetano, Nilton Rossi, Ana Paula Barbosa L..
FORMER ALFA ROMEO FACTORY 2B-2C AREA URBAN PLAN NUOVO PORTELLO The project creates a new city part in coherence with the larger process of transformation affecting the area.The anomalous scale of the existing industrial Alfa Romeo precinct is opened to collective use by tracing a new series of pathways connecting it with the surrounding urban net. A new square along via Traiano generates a new d..
PARKRAND BUILDING Buurt 9 (neighborhood number nine) is a characteristic piece of the Amsterdam Western Garden Cities, a big housing development of the 1950s and 1960s built with the aim to house as many people as quickly as possible. But the design of the Garden Cities has enormous spatial qualities: sequences of spacious parks surround the neighborhoods and give the development its name. Recen..
Introduction This project aimed towards the creation of a small, though outstanding and unique residential building complex in the already densely built area of Varkiza.On the 379 m2 site, the building was positioned semi-attached on the side of the vertical circulation core, leaving the maximum possible distance from the road and allowing the creation of a spacious pool-garden. Additionally, th..
Architects: 57 STUDIO - Maurizio Angelini / Benjamín Oportot Location: Colina, Chile Collaborators: Felipe Zamora / Carla Uribe Project year: 2006-2007 Construction year: 2007-2008 Structural Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa Contractor: CYBCO Materials: Concrete / Steel / Stone Photographs: 57 STUDIO The assignment is a single unit house in a residential park in northern Santiago. The sites - about 50..
When I first got all the info to write my article on it I was soconfused! Just amazing architecture, different design ideas which areso distinctive and different from one another, yet they all tie upreally well! I felt like a kid left alone without any restrictions in FAO Schwarztoy store and candy shop simultaneously! I just didn’t know where tolook at, what to comment on, and I was definitely ..
Architects: Marek Rytych Architekt Location: Warsaw, Poland Project team: Marek Rytych, Krzysztof Kryska, Joanna Kiepas Project Area: 436 sqm Photographs: MRA Through this house you can rush by and not even notice that you have trespassed a kind of a border. There is no threshold - literally and figuratively. Paved road, on which we step towards the entrance penetrates the interiors and comes ou..
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleo have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. The large block is divided into thirty smaller, staggered blocks of apartments, creating communal patios throughout the building and allowing air and light to penetrate between the homes. In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartment..
