Architects: feld72 Location: Mistelbach, Austria Client: Community of Paasdorf, Public Art Lower Austria Floor Area: 1,590 sqm Project Year: 2005-2007 Photographs: Courtesy of feld72 Would you choose between parking and public space? Paasdorf is a small “street village” in Lower Austria. The task of feld72 was to position “Kulturlandschaft Paasdorf”– an art project that is known far beyond the b..
Italian designer Giuseppe Viganò has created the Oyster bed for NEST Italia. from contemporist
Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have designed this apartment tower with overhanging floor plates and terraces for Beirut, Lebanon. Created as part of a wider masterplan to regenerate this area of the city that includes a marina, the building will comprise five different modular floor slabs used in varying combinations to create a mixture of overhangs and terraces. The building will have ve..
Feathers fly around this 15 metre-long tank installed by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo. Called The Snow, the installation is part of an exhibition called Sensing Nature that continues until 7 November. See all our stories about Tokujin Yoshioka » Here’s some more information from Yoshioka: In recent years, I have been studying the essence that human beings wo..
Architects: Ábalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Director: Iñaki Ábalos Collaborators: Víctor Garzón, Renata Sentkiewicz, Alfonso Miguel, Ismael Martín, Elena Cuerda, Haizea Aguirre Client: Fundació Antoni Tàpies Structure: BOMA (Agustí Obiol, Javier Asensio) Services: AB2, FLUIDSA, PREFIRE Contractor: SAPIC Technical Architect: CASOBI (Eduard Casanovas) Lighting: ..
Bark Architects have designed the Marcus Beach House, located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia. The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdo..
Architects: Safdie Architects Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Director: Moshe Safdie Executive Architects: Aedas, Pte, Ltd. Structural Engineering: Arup Landscape Design: Peter Walker & Partners Landscape Construction: Peridian International Inc Site Area: 154,938 sqm Project Area: 845,000 sqm Budget: US $5.7 billion Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Safdie Architects Program 1...
Mekano, a team of young Egyptian architects shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition, for which they received an honorable mention. More images and architect’s description after the break. Our main concept is to convert the building to a landmark through the participation of all the children in the city in the construction of the building where the design comprises cu..
Inception The Architect Poster New York’s heat wave gave us the perfect excuse to escape into the cool movie theater for a few hours to check out Christopher Nolan’s latest production, Inception (don’t worry, we won’t spoil the movie for you, we just want to share some thoughts about this very architectural-ish movie). The movie’s protagonist, Dom Cobb, assembles a skilled team to extract secret..
Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled their design for an office building in Paris, where the middle section will appear broken and twisted open. Called Pushed Slab, the office building requires this window through the middle to maintain views of a historic building beyond. The twisted layers form terraces for the building’s workers on the south side. Here’s some more information from MVRDV: MVRD..
