Project Facts & Credits: Location: St Patrick’s College, Old Dublin Road, Carlow Gross External area: 4,679 sqm Gross floor area: 3,726 sqm Project value: €18 million Construction value: €12.7 million Architect: Terry Pawson Architects Commissioning Client: Carlow County Council Project Funding: Carlow County Council, Department of Arts Sport & Tourism Structural Engineer: Arup, Dublin Services ..
Architects: Kanner Architects Location: Los Angeles, California, USA Architect in Charge: Stephen H. Kanner Project team: Damian Lemons, Nicolas O.S. Marques, Jay Fukuzawa, Clare Olsen, John Mebasser, Claudia Wiehen, Lincoln Tobier, Stephane Corbel Client: United Oil Project Area: 630.8 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: John Linden & Nicolas O.S. Marques Situated at La Brea and Slauson avenues..
Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects (KPMB) have designed Koerner Hall in Toronto, Canada, as part of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning. The design of the 1135-seat concert hall is based on the classic shoe-box shape of some of the world’s finest concert halls, and features two balcony tiers above the main orchestra level, and a third technical bal..
Beijng architects MAD have designed a convention centre for Taichung, Taiwan. The project will consist of a series of mountain-like buildings with pleated exterior surfaces, allowing natural ventilation and accommodating photovoltaic panels. The architects wanted to seamlessly integrate the topology of the landscape and the architecture. Here are some more details from Mad: – TAICHUNG CONVENTION..
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas Location: Pescara, Italy Client: De Cecco Spa Structure: Studio Ing. Toniolo, Sirmione (BS) Total area: 6,300 sqm Budget: 20M Euro Project Year: 2001-2009 Photographs: Moreno Maggi The New Business Centre for Pescara is the result of integration of two simple elements: a low height building with a punctured plane and the “annular” building sitting on top..
Location: Kyoto // JAPAN Type of Project: 5 story Residential Complex Project Architects: EASTERN design office /// Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno Total floor area: 992.94 square meters Site area: 440.12 square meters Year of Construction: 2009 We’ve seen their work on Yatzer before with a presentation of their House in Crest in Kyoto // JAPAN. Architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno of Japanese..
Architect: monovolume architecture + design Location: Bolzano, Italy Project team: Christian Gold, Barbara Waldboth, Thomas Garasi Structural Engineering: Baucon Bozen (Ing. Neulichedl Simon) Program: Commercial building Building area: 1,250 sqm Budget: 2,5 Mil. Euro Project year: 2007 Photographs: Oskar Da Riz The company Blaas in Bolzano is specialized in electro-mechanics. In the new head off..
Buenos Aires architects Dieguez Fridman Arquitectos & Asociados have designed the flagship store for female fashion brand Ayres Store in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The shop interior is characterised by several different floor levels that are connected by steps and ramps. The central staircase ascends diagonally across the shop interior to create space with unusual geometries on either side. Here’s..
Ubicación: Mar Azul, provincia de Buenos Aires. Arquitectos: María Victoria Besonías, Guillermo de Almeida, Luciano Kruk Colaborador: Diego Grosso Superficie del terreno: 470 m2 Superficie construida: 75 m2 Costo: 800 pesos/ m2 (U$D 262 / m2) Año de construcción: 2004 Tiempo de ejecución: 6 meses Contratista hormigón: Nemecio Cano Hormigón elaborado: Nivel SRL Aberturas de aluminio: Jorge Ayala,..
Flip Sellin of Berlin-based design group Coordination has designed a pendant lamp called Polygon Crash. Three shades comprising folded polygonal shapes are suspended from thin wire and each houses a “micro-tube light”. Measuring more than a metre across, the hand-made pendant light is made of mild steel and partially-mirrored, stainless steel. Sellin also designed the Crush sofa and NoVolume tab..