Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects have completed a church in Foligno, Italy. The new building will be opened on Friday. Photographs by Moreno Maggi. Here’s some more information from Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects: – Friday 24 April at 11 a.m. will be presented the new Church in Foligno, based on plans by Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas. The project was won in 200..
Design studio 1:2:3 and student Kristoffer Sundin have developed an interior and graphic identity for the Rio cinema in Stockholm, Sweden. The concept echoes the original design of the 1940’s cinema while accommodating the venue’s events programme of seminars, theatre, art installations and musical performances. Modular furniture can be rearranged and the pendant lights can be gathered together ..
A green heart Luca Peralta, Alessandra Centrone, Italy 3ti Engineering Integrated Projects Campobasso (CB), Italy introduction. Our project proposal aimed at upgrading the Provincial Library P. Albino Campobasso, is an objective not only the extension and resolution of critical point of the existing library system, but especially the reorganization of the whole plant architecture in a coherent a..
Designer Marcel Wanders has completed the interior of fashion store Villa Moda in Bahrain. The heavily patterned interior includes mannequins with mirrors in place of heads. More information in our previous story; see also Jaime Hayon’s design for Villa Moda in Dudbai. Win a copy of new monograph Marcel Wanders - Behind the Ceiling in our competition. Here’s some more information from Marcel Wan..
Architects: Polaris Architects Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Principals in Charge: Jean & Luc Larnaudie Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox Villa #63 by Polaris Architects is entitled Showcase Study House. The building aims to meet the expectati..
Lima-based architect Juan Carlos Doblado featured in our 2006 architect's directory. Since then, he's completed several more beach houses on Playa del Sol and this structure, a spectacular new private house in the foothills of the Andes. The new building comprises of two concrete pavilions, one nestled into the shallow slope, the other cantilevered forwards across the site. Doblado describes the..
Our friends from Mass Studies sent us their design for the Korean Pavillion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. The Korean Pavillion is situated in Zone A, directly neighboring the Japan Pavillion and the Saudi Arabia Pavillion, and in close proximity to the China Pavilion. The site is around 6000m2, and it is one of the largest lots within the expo compound. Located on the perimeter of the zon..
Architect: MAPT + DARK Architects Location: Oslo, Norway Program: Highrise with Shopping, Wellness and Office Facilities Project year: 2009 Images: MAPT With this project we looked for a reinterpretation of the urban block typology in combination with vertical multiplication and urban density. The site is situated next to Oslo Central Station and had been formerly occupied by the postal headquar..
Here’s a selection of projects by architect Peter Zumthor, who wasnamed 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate earlier this week (see our previous story). Captions are from Peter Zumthor. Above photo by Walter Mair. Above: Brother Klaus Field Chapel, 2007 Wachendorf, Eifel, Germany The field chapel dedicated to Swiss Saint Nicholas von der Flüe(1417–1487), known as Brother Klaus, was commissio..
Canadian firm Saucier + Perrotte Architects redesigned an old warehouse into a spa that provides a thermal therapy. The design conept is derived from contact between hot and cold. It destills the idea of 'cool glacial forms and the warmness of volcanic rocks', which duality is articulated through forms and various materials used in the building. These forms and angles, give a perceptual differen..
