Architects: Chiasmus Partners Principal Architect: James Wei Ke, Hyunho Lee Project Team: Oscar Ko, Gu Yun Duan, Feng Bo Client: Beijing Modern Dance Company Location: Beijing, China Program: Performance Hall, Practice Hall, Saloon Project years: 2008-2009 Photographer: Chiasmus, Jenny Hung The Red Diamond was until recently used as an old factory complex in the historic DongCheng district of Be..
Architects: ACXT Location: Derio, Bizkaia, Spain Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro & Javier Pérez Uribarri Collaborator: Carlos Miguel Guimaraes Project Development: Gonzalo Carro & ATHOS (Pedro Berroya, Aitziber Goikoetxea) Structure: Javier Eskubi, Amaia Oyón, Ángel Gómez Project Area: 2,600 sqm Budget: 2,600 sqm Design year: 2006–2007 Construction year: 2007–2009 Photographer: Aitor Ortiz BTE..
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of a community centre near Avelgem, Belgium, designed by Belgian architects Dierendonck Blancke. Dierendonck Blancke collaborated with architects Stefaan Onraet, Tom Callebaut and Jonas Desmyter to design the centre, built on an existing slope on the border of a nature reserve in a small village. The concrete building consists of a theatre, a..
A luxurious on-ground villa, that offers to its residents the comfort, spaciousness and interior flexibility but yet immobile? Or a limited in space and wavering but at the same time capable of transferring you to any place you want yacht? That could always be the question faced by clients of the luxury leisure sector. Trying to address this issue while simultaneously implementing the know-how a..
The Subjektbeschleuniger (subject accelerator) mimics signatures subatomic particles leave in collision detectors such as installed at the CERN in Geneva. I have always been fascinated by the beauty and simplicity of these signatures as opposed to their invisible meaningfulness. I use these shapes to create an image that still carries the symbolic reference of these signatures but that is dispen..
The Hespeler Library addition and renovation in the Town of Hespeler, Ontario (now part of Cambridge) wraps a 1922 Carnegie Library in this historically significant textile mill town within an elegant and generous glass case. The new building envelope is contemporary in its materiality with modulated ceramic frit patterns on glass that weave around the building to create varying degrees of trans..
Architect: Verónica Arcos Clients: Rodrigo Arcos, Alejandra Schmidt Location: Santiago de Chile Structural Engenieer: José Manuel Morales Design: 2006 Construction: 2007-2008 Built surface: 220m2 Photographs: Gonzalo Puga Work in progress photographs: Verónica Arcos Chile-based architect Veronica Arcos has completed an angular house in the El Arrayán area of Santiago, Chile. Called Casadetodos, ..
Architects: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL / Einar Jarmund, Hakon Vigsnæs & Alessandra Kosberg Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway Design Period: 2001-2003 Construction period: 2003-2005 Collaborators: Anders Granli, Nevzat Vize, Sissil Morseth Gromholt, Thor Christian Pethon, Halina Noach, Harald Lode, Stian Schjelderup Client: Statsbygg / Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction a..
Polish Design Season: Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala has designed a floating island that purifies river water, powered by exercise machines. The river water is passed through four filters by kinetic pumps attached to the exercise equipment. It is then collected in four tanks before being returned to the river through a fountain in the raft’s centre. Szczęsny created the installation for architecture..
Architects: Barkow Leibinger Architects - Frank Barkow & Regine Leibinger Location: Stuttgart, Germany Design Phase Team: Jason Sandy, Johanna Doherty, Christina Eickmeier, Klaus Reintjes Construction Phase Team: Lukas Weder (Project Architect), Philipp Heidemann, Caspar Hoesch, Christina Möller, Mathias Oliva, Dagmar Pelger, Jason Sandy Project Year: 2006-2008 Constructed Area: 5,400 sqm Client..
