Designer: Michael Kenna Location: n/a Image Credits: Michael Kenna from spaceinvading
Architects: Lyn Rice Architects Location: New York, USA Architects in Charge: Lyn Rice & Astrid Lipka Project Manager: Kimberlae Saul Team Leaders: Karl-Erik Larson & Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Design Team: Leif Halverson (SD project architect), Kai Hotson, Julie Torres Moscovitz, Pamela Torres, Erik Carver, Jonathan Garnett, Joanna Gulik Structural, MEP, & Fire Protection Engineering: Buro Happold ..
The Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi (MAC) is a landmark of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Oscar Niemeyer designed this museum perched on the cliff in the city of Niteroi. The disk stretches out over the massive reflecting pool underneath. Similarities to a UFO is entirely intentional. The visitor approaches the disk in a snaking, red-carpet path through the air. The museum opened in 1996 after a..
Formosa 1140 by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) is a new eleven-unit housing project in West Hollywood, California. The facade is clad in red, metal panels that provide shade for the windows and separate the circulation of residents from the public domain. The building is located on one side of the site in order to accommodate a park, open to the public, on the remainder. Each apartment has a..
Architects: Studio Granda Location: Reykjavík, Iceland Client: City of Reykjavík Structural Engineers: VSÓ Electrical Engineers: VJÍ Contractor: Trésmiðjan Borg Service Engineers: VGK Project Year: 2004 Photographs: Studio Granda Two identical, three storey, school buildings built in the 60’s are connected by this new extension. To reduce the visual impact of the new building the connection to t..
NL Architects proposed this design for the Taipei Performing Arts Center to host a variety of large-scale performances, including dramas and operas. The structure contains three theaters including a 1500-seat Grand Theater, and two 800-seat theaters for repertory performances. With "four legs" that support a "tabletop", critics praised the aesthetics of the design, but noted two critical issues:..
Berlin, Germany is hosting its "Festival of Lights" this week, until October 26th. Dozens of landmarks are lit up with lamps, projectors and lasers, accompanied by fireworks and other events. We humans light up the night for many reasons, practical, artistic - even reasons with more meaningful messages. Pictured below are night scenes from Berlin and around the world, illuminated in interesting ..
Project: Turistroute in Eggum Location: Eggum, Norway Typology: Turistroute/landscape Scope: Concurrent design Size: 5500 m2 Client: Norwegian Public Roads Administration Schedule: 2007 In winter 2004 Snøhetta won the concurrent design at Eggum, which is part of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s E10 tourist route project through the dramatic and beautiful landscape of Lofoten. The task..
Architects: Tham & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox The starting point of this proposal is a vertical experience as a complement to the horizontal condition of the Ordos plateau, a new topo..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Culver City, California, USA Constructed: 353 sqm Budget: US $500.000 Photographs: Sander Architects Case Study House for the 21st Century? Whitney Sander, principal architect and founder of the firm, has developed a way of creating residential buildings that is both very green and extremely efficient in terms of construction costs. He calls this Hybrid Ho..
