Portuguese architect Ana Reis has completed a family house in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. The 2-storey home is characterised by white, clean-cut volumes arranged around an internal courtyard. Photography by NG Photo. Here’s some more information from Ana Reis: – House RA The house is for a young couple with two kids. The building volume, shape and location are the result of different restrictio..
San Francisco designer Yves Béhar of fuseproject has unveiled Mission One, the world’s fastest electric production motorcycle. Designed for Mission Motors, the bike was unveiled at the TED 2009 conference at Long Beach, California, today. The bike has a top speed of 150 MPH and an estimated range of 150 miles. Here’s some info from fuseproject: – America’s Newest Motorcycle Company, Mission Moto..
Santiago studio Guillermo Hevia Architects have completed a factory for olive oil manufacturers Olisur, located 200 km south of Santiago in Chile. The building comprises the company offices and factory, and is made of concrete clad in wood and glass. The factory uses geothermic energy, natural lighting and natural ventilation. According to the architects, all materials used in production of the ..
powder coated steel, ash Mr.1, Mr.2 and Mr.3 are the first three of a series of lights designed around the new LED T8 tube light bulbs. Aside from being radically more energy efficient and durable than standard fluorescent bulbs, these newly developed light tubes allow for more flexibility with the design by reducing the number of components needed to power them as well as by not needing a refle..
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Architects: EM2N Location: Liestal, Switzerland Project team: Bernd Druffel, Marc Holle, Fredrik Johansson, Katharina Klinger, Thilo Kroeschell, Satu Marjanen, Claudia Meier, Mathias Muller, Daniel Niggli, Claudia Peter, Christoph Rothenhofer Programme: Shelter rooms for cultural assets / Archive extension / New office spaces for archivists / Customers‘ area and reading room Client: Department f..
Architects: LAN Architecture Location: Saint Mesmes, France Client: Marchesini France Programme: Design and construction of a company headquarters Constructed Area: 1,250 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Jean-Marie Monthiers The primary intention of the programme is to explore the relationship between the building and its surroundings and between the building users and the landscape. One of t..
Architects: Rintala Eggertsson 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: 1,170 sqm SITUATION The landscape of the Ordos plateau in Inner Mongolia is wide and open, characterized by dunes of sand and low vegetation. The climate is stable and d..
Or: Sylvia Lavin - Practice Makes Perfect. This spring Sylvia Lavin gave a lecture at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam about why she discards iconography in architecture. She started her lecture by stating: “We do not need any more penis-buildings”. That statement was illustrated by some penis-buildings in architectural history, the penis-building in Hong Hong, the penis-buildings by Jean Nouv..
Architects: Klein Dytham architecture Location: Shibaura, Tokyo, Japan Client: TBWA/ Hakuhodo Team: Astrid Klein, Mark Dytham , Yukinari Hisayama, Yoshinori Nishmura, Joe Keating Contractor: D Brian, Masaya Tanimoto Totem Project Year: 2007 The finished design for the new T/H office space was a creative adaptive reuse enterprise and a joint venture between TBWA, a global advertising company, and..