ELLE Decoration Suite by Jean Paul Gaultier enjoys the sponsorship of Roche Bobois Jean Paul Gaultier is a prime example that when you really love what you do and your heart is beating faster when you do it well you will reach success, touch other people through your work and achieve greatness. Gaultier's creativity and knowledge of the 'garment' is glorious. He understands that there are many t..
This villa by Athens firm Deca Architecture is one of a collection of 24 to be introduced to the Greek island of Antiparos by Athens developers Oliaros. Alonis is one of seven already completed as part of AntiarosDesignProperties, a development split over four sites that includes designs from Harry Gugger Studio and Atelier Bow-Wow. This villa has a roof supported on two parallel stone walls wit..
Studio101 Architects have designed a house in Point Lonsdale, Australia. This permanent beachside home, designed for a young family is located in an established, heavily treed native coastal environment. The rectilinear nature of the site and natural typography encouraged a simple yet highly efficient floor plan incorporating three pavilions linked by a continuous circulation spine. The eastern ..
Concrete Architectural Associates have completed the design for the most recent citizenM Hotel location, this time it’s in Glasgow, Scotland. GENERAL INFORMATION: CitizenM Glasgow will be the third hotel to open in the citizenM family, and offers mobile citizens of the world affordable luxury in the heart of the city. The concept of the hotel is to cut out all hidden costs and remove all unneces..
Architects: Studio Kuadra Location: Fossano, CN, Italy Project Year: 2006 Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kuadra A cascade of chains on the facade, dynamic space, mobile, changing, not what you would expect from a bank, especially in a province at the foot of the Maritime Alps. The branch of this Credit Agency, winner of a closed competition, brings a breath of lightness and a levity that would ..
“Hovering” a large volume above the landscape eliminates the typical discontinuity between the front and rear garden areas and situates a built outdoor environment in the midst of a measurably larger feeling garden space. The blanketing roof is shaped to conduct softly gradient, reflected clerestory light while seemingly floating gently and protectively over the interior spaces. The second of th..
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. San Blas, Usera and Villaverde were all built on previously unused sites surrounded by social housing. Usera is clad in perforated metal panels with a gold finish. San Blas is a concrete cons..
Showtime House 2010, The Borgias Media Room, Marc Thorpe and Hush Studios at Cassa Hotel and Residences Earlier this week the cable channel Showtime unveiled anexperimental exhibition at the TEN Arquitectos-designed Cassa Hotel andResidences in New York City. Invited designers were commissioned toinperprent the network's hit shows through the design of individualrooms. Invited designers include ..
Swedish architects We Are You shared with us their latest project “Jönköping by Bike”, a gift they offered along with Super Sustainable to the city of Jönköping. It is a proposal for a sustainable future development where biking is one of the leading aspects. More images and architect’s description after the break. The municipality of Jönköping has presented 3 strategies for the future developme..
Design Systems have sent us photos of the Embrace lampposts that they designed for the pedestrian path in front of the Kaifong Community Hall in Hong Kong. As a community-oriented organization serving the Tsimshatsui precinct for over 50 years in Hong Kong, the Tsimshatsui Kaifong Welfare Association is dedicated to nurture community lives with respects, in particular minors and seniors. This wa..
