Architects: LAN Architecture Location: Saint Mesmes, France Client: Marchesini France Programme: Design and construction of a company headquarters Constructed Area: 1,250 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Jean-Marie Monthiers The primary intention of the programme is to explore the relationship between the building and its surroundings and between the building users and the landscape. One of t..
Architects: Rintala Eggertsson Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,170 sqm SITUATION The landscape of the Ordos plateau in Inner Mongolia is wide and open, characterized by dunes of sand and low vegetation. The climate is stable and d..
Or: Sylvia Lavin - Practice Makes Perfect. This spring Sylvia Lavin gave a lecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam about why she discards iconography in architecture. She started her lecture by stating: “We do not need any more penis-buildings”. That statement was illustrated by some penis-buildings in architectural history, the penis-building in Hong Hong, the penis-buildings by Jean Nouv..
Architects: Klein Dytham architecture Location: Shibaura, Tokyo, Japan Client: TBWA/ Hakuhodo Team: Astrid Klein, Mark Dytham , Yukinari Hisayama, Yoshinori Nishmura, Joe Keating Contractor: D Brian, Masaya Tanimoto Totem Project Year: 2007 The finished design for the new T/H office space was a creative adaptive reuse enterprise and a joint venture between TBWA, a global advertising company, and..
Architects: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza Location: Oaxtepec, Mexico Design team: Carlos Rubio Martinez Project Year: 2007 Furniture: Gandiablasco By Designet Art: Victor Reyes Sculptures: Alfonso Magana Photographs: Paul Czitrom This house is located in a residential area of Oaxtepec, a place of exceptional natural beauty. It is contiguous to the north with the hill of Tepozteco and to the south ..
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Arons & Gelauff Architects - Dormitory, Enschede (Copyright Jeroen Musch) Arons & Gelauff Architects send me photographs of their recently finished dormitory building in Enschede, a city in the east of the Netherlands. One of the sides of the nine story building features a climbing wall. According to the architect it is the second highest one in the Netherlands. The addition of the climbing wall..
Architecture: Pedro Gadanho Location: Porto Date: 2007/2008 Built area: 110 square meters General Contractor: Semedidas Photographer: Fernando Guerra Materials: Lacquered MDF, Polyurethane Resin, Stucco, Plasterboard. Plan Captions 1.Entrance 2.Dining 3.Living 4.Kitchen 5.Storage 6.Bathroom 7.Bedroom 8.Bedroom 9.Hall 10.Master bedroom 11.Walk-in closet 12.Bathroom Ghosts in the Shell Sometimes i..
Erick van Egeraat - Entry Forum Competition, Groningen, Model (Copyright EEA) The ‘instant criticism’ this blog aims for, is often a bit relayed. About a month ago the inhabitants of Groningen, a city in the north of the Netherlands, could vote about seven proposals for a mixed-use cultural building that is projected in the middle of the old city. Among the entrants were Zaha Hadid, Neutelings R..
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