ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message. The green surroundings, and the development of a new typology of affordable houses, following traditional constr..
Just a few days ago, we reported on drdharchitects’s winning proposal in the international competition to design a new library and concert hall in Bodø, Norway. Here is another exciting proposal for Bodø’s new cultural center that made it into the shortlist, by London-based Langdon Reis Zahn in collaboration with 4B Arkitekter and Gullik Gulliksen Landscape Arkitekter. This is how the architects..
Principal use: Residence Building site: Okayama, Japan Site area: 1035.92m2 Building area: 288.64m2 Total floor area: 342.70m2 Number of stories: 1F Structure: Reinforced Concret + Steel Architects: Tezuka Architects - Takaharu+Yui Tezuka, Masahiro Ikeda, Chie Nabeshima, Hiroshi Tomikawa Architectural and Structural desing: Tezuka Architects + MASAHIRO IKEDA co., ltd Lighting design: Masahide Ka..
Architect: 1100 Architect Location: New York, USA Principal: Juergen Riehm, David Piscuskas Project Architect: Christine Harper Project Managers: Bo Lee, Sebastian Kaempf Designer: Jessica Spiegel MEP Engineer: ESC Consulting Engineers Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates General Contractor: Hunter Roberts Construction Group Exterior Consultant: Israel Berger Project Year: 2008 Construc..
Architects: Jose Mª Torres Nadal y Antonio Marquerie Tamayo Location: Alicante, Spain Collaborators: Christohp Schmid, Ivan Capdevila, Andres Silanes, Mabel Toledo, Leticia Ballester Structural Engineering: BOMA, Agusti Obiol Acoustical Engineering: Jaime Llinares, Jose Forteza Rigger: Rafael Pastor + Francisco Perez Martinez Promotor: Ayuntamiento de La Vila Joiosa Project year: 2002-2004 Const..
The project explores how new forms of habitable infrastructure might be extrapolated from a geopolitical agreement – in this case, materializing architectural form from the legal interstices of the Oslo Accords. The result is a fantastic example of architectural speculation: genuinely massive – and impossibly cantilevered – bridges used as transport links, aerial housing, and skyborne agricultur..
statoilhydro office, norway eco office, a-lab eco office, sustainable architecture, green design, energy-efficient architecture, green building This stunning energy-efficient office recently won a competition to design the 2012 location for Norway’s oil company StatoilHydro. Conceived by Oslo’s A-lab, the modern and flexible office compound took the winning bid from a pool of some 40 entries. Th..
KHR Architects wins competition for new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City KHR architects won the competition for a new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City with consulting engineers WSP Group Cenergia Energy Consult and Bisgaard Landscape Architects ApS. They won over Witraz architects and architects Henning Larsen. The reasons for the choice of architects KHR for th..
dutch firm cie architects recently received first prize in the competition to design the tianjin urban planning museum, china. the building is composed of 3 distinct sections: urban planning museum and offices, new year's painting gallery and studios, and a conference centre totaling 29,000 sqm including parking. the conceptual framework for the project emerged from superimposing different urban..
RECENT CBD’S... Many recent Central Business’ Districts (CBD) consist of series of more or less straightforward office towers without much coherence, each of them celebrating individuality over the collective. These developments are leading to very similar CBD’s. Is this desirable? Or can we find a way to combine individuality with more collective urban qualities? Can there be a more distinguish..
