Perkins+Will’s Master Plan for SANY Beijing was selected as the first place winner in the “Conceptual Design” category at the 8th International Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. The judging committee based their award selection on four central themes of the exhibition: spatiality, connectivity, originality and sustainability. The Perkins+Will submission featured the SANY Beijing Master Plan..
Designer: stoosarchitekten Location: Switzerland Image Credits: Reinhard Zimmermann, Adliswil from spaceinvading
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Sako Architects have designed the BUMPS building complex in Beijing, China. The complex is a mixed-use residential and commercial development, which will be a landmark that leads to further development in the surrounding area of the city. The building is characterized by it’s constant variation between the different levels. Every two floors are set as a unit, and every unit is staggered by 2 met..
PROJECT: Faroe Islands Education Centre CLIENT: Mentamalaradid (Ministry of Culture) / Landsverk SIZE: 19,200 m2 LOCATION: Torshavn, Faroe Islands STATUS: 1st Prize ARCHITECT: BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Fuglark COLLABORATORS: Lemming & Eriksson, Samal Johannesen, Martin E. Leo SP/F, KJ Elrad Radgevandi Verkfroedingar PARTNER IN CHARGE: Bjarke Ingels PROJECT LEADER: Jakob Lange PROJECT MANAGER: D..
wHY Architecture has shown us their expertise on cultural projects at different scales: the Grand Rapids Art Museum (the first LEED Gold certified museum) on the large scale in one side and the Royal/T Gallery on a smaller scale, among other cultural projects shown on their website. And now they share with us a cultural project on the infrastructure scale that I had the chance to see when I visi..
Belgian designer Bart Lens has designed a ceiling lamp for eden design which, at four metres wide, they claim is the largest lamp in production. The °XXXLamp measures 4m x 160m and is inspired by a Chinese lantern. Here’s some info from eden design: – °XXXL(amp) Perhaps symptomatic of an architect’s mindset, the lamps and objects are becoming increasingly ‘space defining’. The XXL-amp is essenti..
The house is located in a triangular shape site and with the added problem of a great slope. The parcel is next to another in its eastern side, to the access road in its western side and to a precipice that it is the boundary of the ground in the zone the house opens to the fantastic views of the estuary of A Corunna in its north side. The project is developed under these conditionings in two co..
Further to the first project - Ruth Hiller Residence. Here is the second project submitted by Michael P. Johnson Design Studios Ltd - Yoder/Doornbos Residence. Of the multitude of structures built across the country each year, few ever become elevated to a level considered the “art of architecture” by architectural critics and/or historians. The vast majority of these houses and buildings remain..
PRODUCT TYPE: multifunctional furniture OPTIONS: chair, footstool, table MATERIAL: birch plywood SIZE: table 40cm x 75cm, foot stool 30cm x 52.5cm chair 67cm x 75cm - 60cm x 86cm PRICE: FROM 440 DELIVERY: up to 6 weeks (CUSTOM ORDER) Series X, an innovative and exciting range of contemporary multifunctional furniture designed by award-winning Graeme Massie Architects of Edinburgh, consists of se..