The Joule, A Luxury Collection Hotel Dallas, Texas. Located in the heart of one of America뭩 most dynamic cities, The Joule is one of Dallas뭩 most stylish and contemporary hotels. Adam D. Tihany conceived the 129-room boutique hotel, rooftop pool, and public spaces with effortless elegance, putting The Joule in a unique class of its own. Jules Verne뭩 Journey to the Center of the Earth is the insp..
Casa Monte na Comporta in Grândola, Portugal is a house that sits in its surroundings as if it had always been there yet it also manages to look completely fresh, cool, new and spectacular. The house’s undulating shape echoes the gently sloping sand dunes, and its hard and angular surface planes contrast beautifully with the rounded shapes of the surrounding trees. It has a bunker-like feel but ..
location ：Aichi Prefecture,Japan program ：concert hall、restaurant、residence site area ：831.96㎡ total area ：4076.3㎡ Norihiko Dan — born in 1956 in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan — is the designer of the beautiful Munetsugu Hall, completed in 2007 in Naka Ward, Nagoya, Japan. It is a privately-funded concert hall that continues the age-old but almost-dead tradition of wealthy arts patrons initia..
Amanda Levete Architects have unveiled Central Embassy, a 30-storey retail and hotel project in Bangkok, Thailand. The tower will be built in the former gardens of the British Embassy in the city. Amanda Levete Architects was formed after Levete and former partner Jan Kaplicky, who had previously worked together as Future Systems architects, went their separate ways. Kaplicky died earlier this y..
Casa no Gerês, designed by Porto-based Correia/Ragazzi Aquitectos, has received its fair share of international awards and exposure, but we cannot help but show it off one more time. This is the first project by Graça Correia and her new Italian partner, Roberto Ragazzi. It is a bold statement that hides nothing. This is also a house that is easy to love from certain perspectives and from others..
Our friends from RSVP shared with ous a project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where a successful advertising agency wants to expand its current facilities on their present site in San Juan’s Roosevelt Avenue, where surrounding buildings have also undergone a process of urban densification. The existing building is a two story modernist box from the sixties occupying the central part of the lot and l..
authors: Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig cooperation: Tomáš Amtmann investor: Johana a Tomáš Růžičkovi photographer: Ester Havlová The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architec..
Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects Location: Rimini, Italy Project Team: Mario Cucinella, Elizabeth Francis, Davide Paolini, Enrico Iascone Structure: Gilberto Sarti, Fabio Bombardini Construction Management: Arch Massimo Morandi Design year: 2004-2006 client: Edile Carpentieri Srl Construction Area: 1,500 sqm Photographs: Daniele Domenicali The project involved redeveloping a site and const..
Architects: Sadar Vuga Architects Location: Portorož, Slovenia Project Team: Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Anamarija Volk, Corina Trunz, Goran Golubič Structural Engineer: Elea IC Landscape: GLG projektiranje Client: Lesnina Inženiring, d.d. Project year: 2009 Site Area: 626 sqm Constructed Area: 398 sqm Photographs: Sadar Vuga Villa Beli križ stands on the incline of the hill above Portorož. The m..
Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku took on its first large-scale integrated architectural and interior design commission in 2003, when YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, invited it to design the residence of a Malaysian power family. Completed in the latter part of 2008, the residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent fam..
