Location: Kathmandu, Nepal Building type: Representation and Offices (Consulate) Project Scope: Full contract Client: Statsbygg, The Directorate of Public Constuction and Property Size: 800m2 Budget: 10 MILL. NOK Schedule: Completed June 2008 The Norwegian Embassy in Nepal by Kristin Jarmund Architects The new Norwegian Embassy is to be built onthe north end of the existing embassy site in the P..
Architects: King Roselli Architetti Client: Pontificial Lateran University Location: Rome, Italy Collaborators: Giandomenico Florio, Ulich Grosse, Christina Hoffmann, Arianna Nobile, Enrica Testi, Katia Scarioni, Toyohiko Yamaguchi Project chief: Andrea Ricci Building cost: 7m Euros Interior Cost: 1m Euros Materials: Concrete Project Start: 2004 Project Complete: 2006 Photographers: Santi Caleca..
Architect: Doriana e Massimiliano Fuksas Location: Tokyo, Japan Programme: Multibrand - GIORGIO ARMANI, EMPORIO ARMANI, ARMANI/RISTORANTE, ARMANI/PRIVE’ Construction year: December 2005 - November 2007 Site: Ginza, CHUO-KU TOKIO Client: Gruppo Giorgio Armani Interior and Furniture Design Team: Filippo Bich, Ana Gugic & Maria Lucrezia Rendace Lighting design: Speirs & Major Associates Area: 7,370..
Venice Architecture Biennale: here are some images of Symbiotic Villa, a house designed by Zaha Hadid for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan. The project has invited ten international architects and ten Taiwanese architects to design houses. More info and images in our earlier story. The project was launched in Venice last week during the architecture biennale.
Architects: Jose Maria Saez and David Barragan Client: Desiree Marin Location: La Morita, Tumbaco, Quito-Ecuador Collaborators: Alejandra Andrade Builder: Jaime Quinga Prefabricated Elements: Hector Sanchez Engineering: Cesar Izurieta Material Aspect: concrete, wood, glass Status: Complete: 2006 Photographers: Raed Gindeya, Jose Maria Saez Bearing Flowerpots A garden and a client without fear. A..
LTSC Project by architects Zellnerplus is a proposed renovation of a shopping mall in downtown Los Angeles. The architects plan to remove part of the roof to create an open air mall, add four bridges between the existing shopping centre and car parks, and clad the building in semi-corrugated aluminium panels. The facade will include new balconies and windows, and will also be shaped to accommoda..
Venice Architecture Biennale: Dutch architects NL present this series of images in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Fly United - go with the flow! Google Forest - the sea levels rise. Less land is available. How can we increase the capacity of our cities? Flower Power - can we move from what the Dutch call “pollution of the horizon” to “heroic” configurations? Is it poss..
Three students from Studio Lynn at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna have designed a conceptual boat factory for the island of Cres in Croatia. Called Factoreef, it has been designed by Julcsi Futo, Bika Rebek and Stefan Ritter, students on the course run by architect Greg Lynn. The architects describe the project as “a large scale, smoothly undulating roof held by an intricate steel trus..
Taylors Island, Maryland Named for the tall pines that characterize its site on the Chesapeake Bay, this 2,200 square-foot single family residence seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form. Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines and a lush foreground of saltmeadow cordgrass and the bay, the architecture is formed about and within the eleme..
We´ve seen tons of pictures of both the exterior and the inner court of Herzog & de Meuron’s bird nest in Beijing during the Olympics. But what we haven’t seen is the intermediate space inside the nest fibers, a space which looked amazing on the early renderings. But thanks to Edgar Gonzalez, we can see the colorful inners of the Bird’s Nest through Manuel Ocaña’s Flickr. Pictures after the break.
