UNIQLO MEGASTORE in Tokyo has opened Tokyo based design studio, Curiosity has completed the design of the Uniqlo Megastore that has opened near Shinjuku station in Tokyo. The new design is strongly influenced by the Tokyo urban landscape and the large entrance, marked with three display towers, recreates a mini-Shinjuku city. As the lighting floor wraps the towers in a glow of light that illumin..
Architect: Roberto Rijo + Arquitectos Asociados Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Collaborators: Elaine Rodriguez & Franklin Garcia Electrical Engineer: Ing. Gabino Hernandez Contractor, Lighting and Landscape: Roberto Rijo + Arquitectos Asociados Sanitary Engineer: Ing. Rafael Ramirez Site Area: 9,894 sqm Constructed Area: 7,340 sqm Project year: 2007?2008 Photographs: Roberto Rijo + ..
Estonian architects Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere have designed a shelter for cooking outdoors at Korvamäe farm in Estonia. The shelter has a timber frame covered in sheet material, punctured by circular holes in two facades. “As Estonian weather is not famous for its warmth and sunshine it has become popular to have summer parties at so-called summer kitchens and shelters,” explains Pere. “It is ..
Architects: Platoon Cultural Development + Graft Architects Location: Seoul, Korea Program: Exhibitions, Bar & Restaurant, Event Hall, Artist Studios, Library Lounge, Office Studios, Workshop Room, Roof Top Bar Structure: M. Cabestany Footprint Area: 415 sqm Main hall Area: 272 sqm Project year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Platoon PLATOON KUNSTHALLE opened its doors on 11th april 2009. PLATOON KUNSTH..
Location: Kamakura,Kanagawa,Japan Type Of Project: Single family house Structural Engineers: Nawakenji – M /// Kenji Nawa Project Architect: Suppose Design Office /// Makoto Tanijiri Design Team: Hayato Komatsu (ex-staff) /// Kazutaka Sumi Gross internal floor area: 113.62 m2 Year of Construction: 2009 Main contractor: Eiko Kensetsu Kamakura is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan, about 50 kilomet..
Architects: C-Laboratory Location: Sanjhih, Taipei County, Taiwan Project and Construction team: Marco Casagrande, Frank Chen, Shi-Ding Chen, Nikita Wu, Shu-Gi Bai Local Knowledge: Missis Lee Site Area: 3,890 sqm Building foot print: 138 sqm Interior space: 62.5 sqm Materials: mahogany, concrete Completed: 2008 Photographs: C-Lab The house is realized on an old Japanese cherry-farm in the Datun ..
Architects: PROJEKTSTUDIO, ing.arch. David Kotek Location: Ostrava, Czech Republic Consultant: Hutní projekt Ostrava a.s. Constructed Area: 2,200 sqm Project year: 2006 Photographs: PROJEKTSTUDIO The fundamental concept of the design is the division of the Substance of the structure into two clearly defined buildings – hall and administration. It is dialogue between the static and the dynamic, a..
Primitive Living in Saijo – Hiroshima text by Marcia Argyriades for Yatzer Design: Suppose Design Office, Japan Lead Architect: Makoto Tanijiri Site area: 246 m2 Building area: 50.41 m2 Total floor area: 115.51m2 “When I always create, I think that I want to find the charm of the plan,” claims 35 year old talented architect Makoto Tanijiri, chief architect of Suppose Design Office. In the nine y..
Danish architects C.F.Møller and Norwegian practice Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter have won a competition to design three office towers in Oslo. Called Crystal Clear, the winning design features towers composed of consists of stacked glazed boxes. Here’s some info from C.F.Møller: – C.F.Møller Architects and Norwegian Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter cooperate to design a new landmark for Oslo C. F. Mølle..
Designer: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, Inc. Location: Marin, CA The site is fifteen acres of wooded grasslands with a ravine running through. The house, a continuous twenty-two-foot-wide two-story bar, bridges the ravine from east to west. from spaceinvading
