Project name: Park Life Client: Eurocol Assignment: Master plan Location: Tirana, Albania Size: 51,300 sqm + 14,000 sqm parking garage Status: Invited competition, 1st prize, realisation 2010 - 2012 Principal architect: Marc Joubert Project team: Jeroen de Loor, Marian Dusinsky, Alessandro Guida, Kim Byungchan JA Joubert Architecture, a Rotterdam-based architectural office, has won first prize i..
name Dalarna Media Arena type invited competition task University Library + Plaza client Högskolan Dalarna, Falun Municipality size 3000 m2 year 2010 collaboration Sou Fujimoto, Topotek1, Rambøll A/S and Bosch & Fjord The new library, placed centrally at the Dalarna university campus, is organized as a ”spiral of knowledge”. The sloping terrain continues in a ramp through the building. Wrapping ..
Self-navigating cars, small streets and a city crawling with information is architect Jurgen Mayer H.'s winning idea for Audi's Urban Future Award, announced this week at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. Audi's Urban Future competition tapped six firms--also included were Alison Brooks Architects, BIG, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Cloud 9 and Standardarchitecture--to imagine mobility and..
The AK-47, that fearsome weapon of mass destruction lugged by everyone from the Taliban and the Vietcong to Sylvester Stallone and Dianne Feinstein, is being put to use in an entirely new racket: bike design. Yes, one plucky designer fresh from Savannah College of Art and Design, Bryan Walsh, has fired off a bike concept modeled after the ultra-durable construction and rugged looks of the 1947 A..
아크릴 프리즘 커튼월 기존 극장에 반투명 아크릴 패턴 커튼월로 공용공간을 확보 했어요. 반투명막으로 걸려저 들어오는 태양빛은 일정한 조도를 유지하여 내부의 환경을 일정하게 유지시켜 주네요. Copenhagen-based COBE has just sent us their recently completed project for Taastrup Theater. The theater has recently been shortlisted for WAF 2010 in the group New and Old. The project for the extension and renovation of Taastrup Theatre seeks to improve the communication of the building w..
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Based on the idea of Mirage, described at the wikipedia as a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky, the team that designed the Croatian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale decided to create a floating pavilion to present arts and architecture of Croatia at the Venice Biennale. Based on the idea of Mirage, descr..
ParedesPino Architects have completed the Centro Abierto de Actividades Ciudadanas (CAAC) project in Cordoba, Spain. Its location close to the railway station of the AVE high speed train in Cordoba city can take advantage of this gap as a unique opportunity, giving the character and scale necessary to assume as a new focus of interest not only confined to the neighborhood, but as a magnet in con..
Arcsine Architecture and Bellusci Design have completed the Vesu Restaurant in Walnut Creek, a small city near San Francisco, California. Arcsine Architecture and Bellusci Design transformed a piano store with little curb appeal into a vibrant and engaging restaurant, fitting the bustling downtown Walnut Creek. The clients sought an inviting, modern environment to complement the globally inspire..
Desitecture, a British Architecture Collective, have recently been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival in the future project-experimental category for their Vertical City in Venezuela. More images and architect’s description after the break. Originally 23 de Enero was designed to become a mass housing block for residents of the city to live and work in. On January 23rd, 1958, when the..
