Architects: Xavier Vilalta Studio Location: Els Alamús, Spain Client: Alamús City Council Structural Engineering: GN Arquitectos Quantity Surveyor: Mario Campos Design year: 2005-2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Budget: US $304,088 Constructed Area: 254 sqm Photographs: Jordi Anguera Els Alamús, a small village of seven hundred inhabitants, is situated on a hill in the middle of the plain of Ll..
Architects: Buscando la Aurora - Carlos Coronel + Héctor de la Peña Location: Malinalco, Mexico Project Year: 2007-2008 Site Area: 1,000 sqm Constructed Area: 400 sqm Photographs: Buscando la Aurora In the middle of a gorgeous GolfClub in Malinalco-Mexico, it is possible to discover a quiet composition of geometric “objects” with white estuco an mexican-teja roof cover. Those geometric “objects”..
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Principal in Charge: Gilles Saucier Project Architect: André Perrotte Project team: Trevor Davies, Andrew Butler, Dominique Dumais, Eric Majer, Pierre-Alexandre Rhéaume, Anna Bendix, Sudhir Suri, Christian Hébert, Laurence LeBeux, Quinlan Osborne, Jean-Louis Léger, Samantha Schneider, Nathalie Cloutier, Christine Levi..
Architects: RSVP 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: 1,000 sqm aprox While the search for paradigms in architecture is not a recent one, the conscious pursuit of utopia seems to be another species in danger of extinction at a moment whe..
Architects: Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects Location: London, England Client: The Peabody Trust Design team: Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects; Ellis & Moore (Structural Engineering); Max Fordham LLP (Building Services) Contractor: Sandwood Construction Design year: 2001-2005 Construction year: 2006-2007 Photographs: James Morris Antony House on the Pembury Estate in Hackney provides 30 units of..
Villa in the Dunes is a house designed by architects Zandbelt&vandenBerg, located at the edge of the dunes in the Hook of Holland, the Netherlands. The ground floor of the three-storey residence is partly covered by the dunes and includes a guest house. Photographs by Christian Richters. The following text is from Zandbelt&vandenBerg – Villa in the dunes Hoek van Holland A villa for an art-lovin..
The site faces the sea and has deep depth. And it inclines toward the sea by the vertical interval like 2M. We arranged the house in the center of the site. The plane shape of the house is wedge to spread towards the sea. We planned the first floor as a place to enjoy a garden. The part facing the garden of the half underground is a glass window. By it, a slope of the ground just appears as form..
Villanueva’s public library is the result of a national contest summoned by the Colombian Architect’s Society where the winners Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza, architects from the Javeriana University Bogota-Colombia, all below 27 years of age, won first prize in this contest, and designed 3000 square meters for reading rooms, an auditorium, a kid’s library, staff..
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan Site area: 4791.69 m2 / Foot print area: 1699.10 m2 / Total floor space: 1094.83 m2 Ceilinng heights (varies): 2.172 m / Total heights: 2.78 5m Floors: 1 LEVEL Master planning: Feb 2005-March 2006 Phase 1 construction (50%): March 2006 - Sep2006 Phase 2 construction (100%): July 2006 - Jan 2007 Owner: Montesoli School Fuji Kindergarten Creative Director: Kashiwa..
Italian architect Francesco Moncada has completed the interior of a three-storey home in Syracuse, Italy. The residence includes a guest house on the ground floor, with marine-plywood flooring and a folding, steel divide. Rubber and concrete flooring is used in the kitchen and living area, located on the first floor. A cantilevered staircase leads to a bedroom on the third floor, which is connec..
