Architect: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture AB Location: Falsterbo, Sweden Project team: Joakim Kaminsky,Fredrik Kjellgren, Oscar Arnklitt and Jonas Tjäder Competition year: 2006 Design year: 2006-2008 Construction year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Kalle Sanner In 2006 Fredrik Kjellgren and Joakim Kaminsky won the international architecture competition for a new dancehall in Falsterbo, Sweden, and sta..
The Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg designed the Harbour Isle apartment buildings in Copenhagen, Denmark. The buildings are part of the new Havneholmen area of Copenhagen, which is a former industrial area that has been transformed into a residential and business zone, taking better advantage of the harbour front location. The project consists of 236 apartments in two U-shaped blocks with..
Jordanék Music Hall Torún. Poland - 2008. Competition 1st Prize Architect: Fernando Menis. The Jordanek plot is located between the Torún’s old town, protected by the UNESCO, and the new development area of the city. This is why the Municipality of Torún asked for a building which, inserted into a wider programme, could solve its planning by a fine integration of the cultural and natural landsca..
Canadian-based ACDF Architects have designed an International Financial Center for Dubai (DIFC). The DIFC draws inspiration from geographical and geological properties to create a structure that becomes a natural extension of the site. ACDF Architects work to link the architecture with the region to “give the impression that the building takes root from these natural components instead of simply..
El bar lounge se ubica en Acapulco, es un lugar para el entretenimiento dedicado a la exaltación de los sentidos por medio de la arquitectura, la gente, la música y las imágenes, lográndose así un ambiente alterno y virtual. Pascal Arquitectos | Foto: Sófocles Hernández Se accede al lugar a través de un vestíbulo que simula el interior de una nave forrada de madera, donde se encuentran cinco pan..
Designed and built by second year students of the Alice Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, the Evolver is a wooden alpine structure that “provides a more interactive way to take in the views of the glorious mountains ? especially the Matterhorn.” Located near a clear alpine lake near Zermatt, Switzerland, the spiraling wooden structure is made of 24 round wooden frames that twis..
project: Slit house Architects : Eastern Design Office location: Japan Client: NIWAKA, INC. Site Area: 318 square meters Building Area: 210 square meters Total Floor Area: 210 square meters Structure: Reinforced Concrete Levels: At ground level Materials used: Concrete, Glass, Timber, Hemp carpet Slit House by Eastern Design Office text by Marcia Argyriades for Yatzer To my amazement once some a..
Yigal Ozeri is an Israeli painter that lives and works for the last twenty years in New York. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites // artists from nineteenth century England who went out into nature and celebrated it // he has managed with his cinematic portraits to challenge perception and illusion. His latest exhibition at Mike Weiss Gallery in New York is called Desire for Anima, as a tribute to C..
Parent advisory: the following photos are certainly not for the faint-hearted! All fairy tales have good endings, don’t they? At least that’s what everybody wanted us to believe till now. Well, it’s time to reveal the aching truth: reality always is stronger than fiction and Yatzer, after having spent loads of money on private detectives, finally found where all those Disney princesses have ende..
Designed by Matsys Designs, Sietch Nevada is a response to the idea of a water-poor world becoming a reality, especially in the American Southwest. With so much of the press focused on wars over oil, the world is often unaware of the slowly depleting water sources, which are indeed exponentially more valuable than oil. This futuristic urban prototype addresses the water situation as a complex un..
