Architects: IKONIKO Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Structural Engineer: Lukas Quach, Axial Engineering, Van Nuys, CA Landscape Design: Laurel Stutsman General Contractor: Becker General Contractors Project area: 367 sqm Project year: 2007 – 2009 Photographs: David Lena Photography Nestled in the heart of Cheviot Hills, this house on Kilrenney Avenue sits deftly on its hillside site. IKON..
The extension of the Mother house of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heard of Jesus in Sherbrooke is 56,680 sqf and includes a 54-room health care unit with all the attached services, a kitchen to serve 200 people, a physiotherapy room, a library, maintenance workshops and an inner courtyard designed with a garden. More photographs, drawings, and sketches of this project following the break..
plexus no. 3 + site specific installation at guerillaarts + gütermann thread, wood and nails + 12' x 6' x 16' + 2010 from gabrieldawe
Milan 09: House of Furniture Parts by Studio Makkink & Bey is a shed-like structure where furniture components are pressed out from the walls and assembled. Made of CNC-cut ply, the structure is intended to create a small room within larger offices or public spaces. The project was presented by Dutch brand Droog in Via Alserio, Milan, last month and is a development of the studio’s Stairhouse pr..
Designer: Arjen Reas Location: Zoermeer, The Netherlands Project area: 744 m2 Project year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Kees Hageman Construction: Adviesbureau Docter Contractor: C.L. de Boer & Zn BV Thatch: Voogt Rietdekkers This project is a private assignment for an entrepreneur from the city center, and the question was posed, how could the family find peace on the edge of that same city. The sit..
Photographer Montse Zamorano has sent us his photographs of Álvaro Siza’s recently-completed auditorium for the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao. Called Paraninfo de la Universidad del País Vasco, the L-shaped upper storeys create a terrace at first-floor level. The project sits opposite the Nueva Biblioteca de la Universidad de Deusto by architect Rafael Moneo, opened in 2007, with the two ..
We recieved this Urban Action 2010 by Dror Bill from the Bat-Yam Biennale in Israel. It focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that process. Our goal is to enc..
Architects: Sequeira Arquitectos Associados Lda Location: Guimarães, Portugal Project Architects: Mário Sequeira, Alfredo Machado Project Team: Nuno Veiga Site Area: 1018 sqm Project Area: 650 sqm Project Year: 2005- 2010 Photographs: Nelson Garrido 650 square meters were needed to solve all the requirements of the owner. The house would have to be spread over three floors in order to adjust to ..
YKB Banking Academy client: yapı kredi bank date: 2009 location: gebze, izmit construction area: 9.500 m² from teget
Spanish designer Javier Alejandre has created the Oddbod Chair. The chair plays at the boundary between an inert object such as a chair and to give life to this object. The formal inspiration are the weird sci-fi movies of the mid-twentieth century design and retrofuturistic organic design tendences. It´s made in rotomoulded PET and pine legs. from contemporist
