Steven Holl Architects have won a competition to masterplan the Futian business district in Shenzhen, China. Steven Holl Architects’ design for the competition included four towers connected by a horizontal linking structure. The firm was awarded the design of the overall master plan, while the tower designs (not pictured here) were won by Morphosis, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Atelier FCJZ, Hans Hollein..
Architects: ACXT Location: Boroa, Amorebieta-Etxano, Biscay, Spain Project Architects: Javier Pérez Uribarri, Xabier Aparicio Ortega Client: AIC Fundation Project Team: Jose Cavallero, Nuno Lobo, Roberto Fdez De Gamboa, Roberto Aparicio, Cristina Lamikiz, Oscar Costa, Marc Rips, Jose Cavallero, Nuno Lobo, Fernado Ortega, Marina Duran, Oscar Malo, Arrate Achalandobaso, Ziortza Bardeci, Francisco ..
Architects: Dellekamp arquitectos Location: Desierto de los Leones, Mexico DF, Mexico Project Leader: Derek Dellekamp Project Team: Honore Carmona, Fernando Valencia, Horacio Merediz, Omar Chavez Godoy Program: Single Family House Constructed Area: 130 sqm Project Year: 2002-2003 Photographs: Dellekamp arquitectos This 130m2 house is located on a rural area adjacent to Mexico City. Built with a ..
The main carcass and legs of the sideboard are crafted using American black walnut whilst the doors are formed using a mixture of walnut, oak, ash, poplar and sapele solid wood lamination’s. In today’s throwaway society it has never been more important to reuse and recycle materials. My “Neapolitan” range of furniture does exactly this. By utilising what most furniture manufacturers would consid..
Architects Standardarchitecture-Zhaoyang Studio have completed a visitors centre next to a river in Tibet. The building was constructed using local vernacular techniques and brightly coloured pigments from local minerals have been painted directly onto the stone walls of the interior. Called Niyang River Visitor Center, the building contains a ticket office, changing room and bathroom. Photograp..
Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. Called Embedded Project, the structure was built in October 2008 in collaboration with artist Xu wenkai. It housed an installation that projected imaginary buildings and images from mapping programme Google Earth in response to..
Location Ponta Delgada, Açores Client Administração dos Portos das Ilhas de São Miguel e Santa Maria S.A. Date 2002 – 2008 Architecture and Urban Design Manuel Salgado, Marino Fei, Tomás Salgado and Pedro Pinto Interior light design Piero Castiglione Sculpture / Instalation Filipe Franco Site Area 50.153 m2 Build Area 18.000 m2 Cost 50.000.000 € The intervention has encompassed the city's long, ..
To coincide with Icelandic design festival DesignMarch, which began in Reykjavik yesterday, here are some parchment gas masks by Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht. Called Masked – In Flight, the masks are made of folded parchment and contain respirators with replaceable filters. They form part of the Non-Product series of objects from Recht’s fashion studio. More about Sruli Recht on Dezeen: R¿ng (..
ARCHITECTS: Risco (Manuel Salgado, Joao Almeida eTomás Salgado) www.risco.org ARCHITECTURE TEAM: João Almeida (site architect), Cristina Picoto, Catarina Pires e GianLuca Bono. INTERIOR DESIGN: FSSMGN (Fernando Sanchez Salvador e Margarida Grácio Nunes) www.fssmgn.com INTERIOR TEAM: Ana Tsukagoshi, Claire Campens, Eliana Candeias Alves, Miguel Ribeiro Carvalho, Nelson Magro, Sofia Torres Pereira..
Influenced by the coming season and of nature, this chair is inspired by a bird’s nest. My idea was to create a graphical chaos which still felt like a unified whole. The chair’s supporting structure consists of a bottom, seat and four stabilizing legs. To create a “nest feeling” I played with birch strips in different thicknesses and hurled them around the supporting structure. In order not to ..
