Brazilian architects Konigsberger & Vannucchi have completed construction of two office towers for property company Brascan Imobiliaria in São Paulo, Brazil. The project, comprising of two adjacent towers of 24 and 21 storeys, is situated in the city’s financial and commercial centre. Each floor of the tower features a different interior layout, with every office having its own exterior terrace...
In the early 1970s, artist Kazuaki Saito’s fantastic alien landscape illustrations graced the covers of SF Magazine, Japan’s first successful and longest running science fiction periodical.
Architects: Manel Brullet & Albert de Pineda Location: Barcelona, Spain Project year: 2006 Client: Grup Agrupació Mutua, Ajuntament de Barcelona y el Consorci (Zona Franca de Barcelona) Structural Engineer: Manuel Arguijo, Arq. Artists: $42,35M Euro (US $54M) Constructed Area: 55,000 sqm PRBB building has a total surface of more than 55.000 m2 and is located at a 9000 m2 site at Barcelona’s seaf..
this delightfully deranged promo video for Maximum The Hormone’s “Bikini Sports Ponchin” was directed by Kōki Tange (Yellow Brain).
Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Location: Bistrupvej, Birkerød, Denmark Client: Birkerød Municipality Ingeneering: Moe & Brødsgaard Consulting Engineers Construction Year: 2005-2008 Constructed Area: 9,200 sqm / New build 8,000 sqm - Refurbishment: 1,200 sqm Photographs: SHL This newly completed sports and leisure complex has a distinctive, sculptural quality, further enhanced by the..
Victoria University School of Design student Brittany Bell has designed a conceptual seed archive in Wellington, New Zealand. “Seeds will be stored in the event of a future apocalypse,” explains Bell, who goes on to say that “Structure is a plant that has grown from the city.” The following text is from Brittany Bell: – Every year more and more species of plants are becoming endangered or extinc..
Architects Baumschlager Eberle have designed a combined clubhouse and boathouse at Port Rohner on Lake Constance in Fussach, Austria. The cube-shaped building consists of an irregular concrete structure enveloped in glass. “The irregular structure of the concrete elements is set off against the regular rectangular shapes of the sheets of glass,” say the architects. “The randomness of the glass d..
Marwan Al-Sayed Architects have completed a house in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Bedrooms and bathrooms are located on the ground floor in twoseparate, one-storey, cast concrete structures, which are partiallysunken into the ground to provide privacy and shade. The upper floor spans these two volumes and comprises living, dining and cooking spaces, as well as outdoor decking. The following informa..
Architects: Arkhefield Location: Ballandean, Queensland, Australia Project Team: Andrew Gutteridge, John Croser, Steffen Tuck, Justin Boland Project Year: 2006 Photographer: Scott Burrows, Aperture Architectural Photography The Tobin Winery is located on a North facing gently sloping site on a vineyard in the heart of the Granite Belt. The vineyard merges with remnant scrub that borders a creek ..
