555 KUBIK_ extended version from urbanscreen on Vimeo. Art Direction: Daniel Rossa 3D Operator: David Starmann Sound Design: Jonas Wiese "How it would be, if a house was dreaming" The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break throug..
Architect: Paul de Ruiter Location: Rhenen, Netherlands Project Architects: Paul de Ruiter & Rob Hootsmans Project Team: Sander van Veen, Willeke Smit, Monique Verhoef Client: Private Constructed Area: 491 sqm Project Year: 2004 Photographs: Pieter Kers The starting concept of the design of Villa Room was to allow the daily activities of the residents to form the main structure of the building. ..
Architect: HyoManKim, IROJE KHM Architects, Seoul Location: GaPyeong, GyeongGi Site area: 955 square meters Building area: 337.33 square meters Gross floor area: 728.02 square meters Stories: Basement and Two Floors Photo: Sergio Pironne // seen @ wallpaper Year: 2008 Island house by IROJE KHM Architects in Kangwon-do, South Korea text by Marcia Argyriades for Yatzer Island House is built on the..
Architect: archimania Location: Smyrna, TN, USA Client: Baker & Rhonda Raborn General Contractor: Homeowner, consulting with Architect Project year: 2006 Budget: US$ 289,000 Project Area: 278.7 sqm Photographs: © Jeffrey Jacobs Photography House in the Woods is a progressive home for a young family in rural Tennessee. The home responds to their needs for functionality and practicality, while sta..
This project to us is a platform to establish a critical dialogue within our built environment; to raise questions as much as it is to finding solutions. The project is a critique on our cultural attitudes and how we determine them. A critique on what we consider to be of heritage significance and how to narrate such ideas in a critical and contemporary manner. This once vacant site is nestled a..
DeStefano and Partners have created a new commercial center for Ninbgo, China. Extending the existing canal system, the Yinzhou Fantasy Island master plan fuses the current wetlands and parks with the commercial aspects of the city as a way to balance the ecological with the cultural. The plan will not only include retail areas, but also entertainment, business, leisure and cultural facilities p..
Architects: Arquitectos Anónimos® and Paulo Teodósio Location: Esposende, Portugal Client: Maria Helena Ramos Structural consultant: Ricardo Fonseca, Luís Fernandes and Luís Gonçalves Floor area: 157 sqm Site area: 8,900 sqm Built-up area: 288 sqm Start of planning: 2004 Start of construction: 2005 Completion: 2007 Photographs: Ivo Canelas An unusual and inverted process. The client convinced us..
Architects: Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément Location: Luz, Mourão, Portugal Programme: Cemetery Anthropology: Clara Saraiva Engineering: G.O.P. - Gabinete de Organização e Projectos, Lda. Lighting engeneering: Raul Serafim Landscape Architecture: Sebastião Pereira Client: E.D.I.A. - Empresa de Desenvolvimento e Infra-estruturas do Alqueva, S.A. Constructed Area: 820 sqm Budget: US $ 800,000.00 Pro..
Canadian architects Bricault Design have completed a plant-covered extension to a house in Venice, Los Angeles. Large glass doors on the ground floor pivot open onto the courtyard. Air is drawn inside and up a sculptural staircase to an opening in the roof, cooling the building. The building is clad with cedar batons and the new bedroom is covered in plants, including vegetables and indigenous s..
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Project team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse General Contractor: Brian Spiers Acoustics: Dale Pekrul Project year: 2007 Photographs: Rien van Rijthoven Conduit Restaurant emerged from the found circumstances. The ground floor commercial space in a new residential building had a low ceiling and a tangled maze of plumb..