team: zeng xiaoming, he fan, ke jun, li si, ye xiaoqin, jiao chongxia, jing suchun and zhang jingwen design: 2008-2009 construction: 2009 total building area: 5,793sqm chinese studio pei-zhu has designed the xixi wetland art museum located in a rural nature preserved near hangzhou, china. the concept stems from the interaction between building and nature. as leaves fall from trees they arrive na..
Architects: Stefano Boeri Architetti Location: Seregno, Italy Client: Muinicipality of Seregno Constructed Area: 2,700 sqm Budget: 2,600,000 euro Project Year: 2003-2009 Photographs: Paolo Rosselli This housing block is conceived as an L-shaped building, strictly included by the area edges; three-dimensional articulation is obtained by alternating full volumes and voids over the given surface. T..
But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of experts, which does not always leave room for imagination and almost always exhausts itself. We like to think of a history to call our own, and which never ends, because it lives on in each small or large finding, and in the eye of the observer, a whimsical eye that relies on what it wants to see, rather than on what it actua..
Ansicht auf Vorder- und Seitenfront, die röhrenförmige Haushülle besteht aus Betonfertigteilen, die Fassade und Hausrückseite aus Glas und schwarz eloxiertem Aluminium. Ansicht auf die Seitenfront mit Toreinfahrt in die Werkhalle. Der Handlauf, aus einer Stahlplatte gearbeitet, überspannt das insgesamt zehn Meter lange Treppenhaus und geht an seinem oberen Ende fugenlos in die Balustrade über. A..
The plan of this house was strongly conditioned by the life-style of the client and his work in the field of advertising, with its requirements for creativity. Because of the extremely frequent journeys of the client over the five continents as well as of his own idea about his dwelling space, the plan was intended to respond his needs for peculiarity. In fact our client wished to obtain an open..
Nestled among the Forest Hill neighborhood in Toronto, Paul Raff Studio’s latest sustainable residence is “a marriage of environmentally responsible building strategies and elegant architectural composition.” The 353m2 residence, entitled the Cascade House, is designed in an I-formation around an outdoor swimming pool and offers a high quality of aesthetics in addition to environmentally friendl..
UNIQLO MEGASTORE in Tokyo has opened Tokyo based design studio, Curiosity has completed the design of the Uniqlo Megastore that has opened near Shinjuku station in Tokyo. The new design is strongly influenced by the Tokyo urban landscape and the large entrance, marked with three display towers, recreates a mini-Shinjuku city. As the lighting floor wraps the towers in a glow of light that illumin..
The chamber music hall has been installed within Manchester Art Gallery for the duration of the Manchester International Festival 2009.From the festival program: “Across a series of nine concerts, threeinternationally acclaimed musicians will perform Bach’s soloinstrumental works in this unique, intimate space. The aim: to create anear-perfect environment for the audience to experience some of t..
Architect: Roberto Rijo + Arquitectos Asociados Location: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Collaborators: Elaine Rodriguez & Franklin Garcia Electrical Engineer: Ing. Gabino Hernandez Contractor, Lighting and Landscape: Roberto Rijo + Arquitectos Asociados Sanitary Engineer: Ing. Rafael Ramirez Site Area: 9,894 sqm Constructed Area: 7,340 sqm Project year: 2007?2008 Photographs: Roberto Rijo + ..
Estonian architects Urmas Muru and Peeter Pere have designed a shelter for cooking outdoors at Korvamäe farm in Estonia. The shelter has a timber frame covered in sheet material, punctured by circular holes in two facades. “As Estonian weather is not famous for its warmth and sunshine it has become popular to have summer parties at so-called summer kitchens and shelters,” explains Pere. “It is ..
