Por su ubicación respecto de las áreas industriales y químicas del entorno, que no permiten un uso residencial, el edificio rehabilitado de una antigua serrería alberga ahora un taller de arquitectura. El proyecto recupera el edificio conservando su estructura y cerramiento perimetral. La rehabilitación se materializa en dos tratamientos diferentes para el interior y el exterior. El exterior val..
Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au have completed a visual and performing arts high school in Los Angeles, USA. The campus is comprised of seven buildings: four classroom buildings, a library, a cafeteria and a professional performing arts theatre. The comprehensive high school will accommodate about 1,800 students, organised into four academies. Here’s some more information from Coop Himmelb(l)au: – ..
An exhibition of work by french designer Matali Crasset called Living Wood is on show at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France. Pieces include furniture that consists of orange leather seats arranged on a block of wood, and an animation entitled Spring City. The exhibition continues until 10 January. The following information is from Matali Crasset: – LIVING WOOD Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pl..
Here are some more images of the Welcome Back bus designed by Héctor Serrano Studio, Miñarro García and Javier Esteban, which won second prize in the New Bus For London competition last week. See our previous story for details of the other winners. Lighting in the entrance platform at the back of the vehicle alerts boarding or alighting passengers when the bus is about to move. The bus is compac..
First year students of the Vehicle Design course at London’s Royal College of Art presented concepts for light, compact cars at the Science Museum in London earlier this month. The students were asked to research Japanese light vehicles Kei cars, then design a version for a chosen European city. Above: Augustin Barbot, 25 from France Aimed at commuters who need to travel into the city from the r..
Proposals by architects MAD, BIG, INABA, and Mass Studies for an urban plan for the city of Ansan in South Korea are on show at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Ansan. Each of the four projects is meant to be viewed at two scales - asproposals for monumental buildings in the city and as furniture in thegallery where they are displayed. Top image: Rendered site view of newAnsan city plan. “Th..
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these photos of Casa Parr, a recently completed house by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos in Chiguayante, Chile. The single-storey house is built on the site of the owner’s childhood home. The new building comprises twelve rooms arranged around nine courtyards, constructed around the existing trees on the site. Each room has a high, pitched ceiling wit..
Buenos Aires-based architects Moarqs have designed an office building in Acassuso, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All dimensions of the three-storey building are derived from the proportions of the bricks used for the facade, in order to avoid cutting them. The following is from Moarqs: – It is a small office building for rent, standing on the corner of Dardo Rocha and Tres Sargentos streets in Acassu..
Client: H&M Architecture, interiors and graphic design: Estudio Mariscal Location: c/ Portal de l’Angel 22, Barcelona, Spain Area: 1.720 m2 Year: 2008 Contractor: Dula Bau Furniture and commercial equipment: Dula Iberica Structural engineering: nb35 Technical architecture and services: MC Arquitectura e Ingenieria Leds (provider): BARCO Leds (installation): SONO Lighting: iGuzzini Renovation: Ar..
Here are some more images and plans of Alpine Capsule by Lovegrove Studio, which was officially presented by Ross Lovegrove at Alta Badia, Italy, this month. The capsule comprises a mounting living unit, where visitors can stay over night in the Italian Alps. Power is provided by several “power plants’, which consist of photovoltaic panels combined with a vertical axis wind turbine. See our prev..