Here are some more of the villas from Athens developer Oliaros‘ project on the island of Antiparos, Greece including designs from Tokyo architects Atelier Bow-Wow, Swiss firm Harry Gugger Studio and Greek firm decaArchitecture (see our earlier story). Above and top: Panagia I&II by Katerina Tsigarida Architects Antiaros Design Properties comprises 24 residences of which seven have already been b..
Our collection of extraordinarily beautiful lights created using ultra high-tech Digital Manufacturing technologies continues with the Tulip.MGX table light. Part of the 2009 Bouquet Collection by MGX featuring flower shaped laser sintered lights, Tulip.MGX takes its shape from intriguing organic forms – forms that are so far unknown and yet seem so familiar. Rather than translating something fr..
Architects: Radionica Arhitekture Location: Zagreb, Croatia Project Team: Blanka Gutschy, Vedrana Ivanda, Kristina Jeren, Goran Rako, Nenad Ravnić, Josip Sabolić, Marusja Tus Structural Engineering: Branko Galic Project Area: 18,000 sqm Project Year: 2004-2008 Construction Year: 2009 Photographs: Boris Cvjetanovic Cascade commercial center is situated in the center of Zagreb, about 500m to the n..
Architect: Barnes Coy Architects / Robert Barnes and Chris Coy Location: St. Barthelemy, France Project Architect: Charles Sferrazza Interiors: Lynne Grossman Builder: Xavier David EURL Floor Area: Interior 3,000 sq. ft.; Terraces 3,500 sq. ft. Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Robert Moore Brown The house is sited on a high, thin peninsula, affording 270 degree views from South through West to No..
London Design Festival 2010: London designer Héctor Serrano will present these reconfigurable wooden figures at 100% Design this week. Mr Cube comprises a set of wooden pieces with hidden magnets that can be attached to form the head, arms and legs of a figure or combined to create a cube. The figures will be on display as part of Ten Plan 23-26 September, which showcases the work of ten designe..
Paul McAneary Architects are delighted to announce the completion of the project Faceted House 1, an Edwardian terrace house located within a conservation area, in Hammersmith, London. The project’s brief was to remodel and extend the three bedroom two storey house that was in a decrepit state and in need of considerable refurbishment and modernisation. The client asked for a contemporary design..
New York architecture practice Axis Mundi have designed a conceptual extension to the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, featuring a giant lattice structure. The existing museum is a 1960s concrete building by Marcel Breuer and Axis Mundi claim the extension’s exposed concrete frame would be a continuation of Breuer’s brutalist aesthetic. The extension would have an irregular floor pla..
FARO Architects have designed their 2nd residence on Steigereiland in Amsterdam. FARO built on Steigereiland an energy neutral residence according to the principles of cradle to cradle meaning that materials after use either decompose or can be used in another product. This house was the first one in the Netherlands that received the PassiefBouwen certificate for both the design and the executio..
Architects: Piratininga Arquitetos Associados / José Armênio de Brito Cruz Location: Av. Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil Coordinating Architects: Fabiana Terenzi Stuchi Collaborators: Julie Trickett, Bruno Salvador, Leonardo de Araújo Cunha Client: Fabio Cimino Project Area: 190 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Maíra Acayaba This apartment was designed for a trader who shares it with his son, and..
Back in April, we published the fascinating bridge proposal by Toronto-based Ja Studio incollaboration with Tadj-Farzin Studio which earned them lots ofpositive feedback. Following up is another proposal by this team; thistime, for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center InternationalCompetition in Taiwan. The entry didn't make the competition shortlist,but we think it's definitely worth sh..
