Owner: Mark Raab and Hemant Chowdhry of SOWA Restaurant Group, LLC Architect: Office dA, Inc. Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Project Design: Nader Tehrani, Monica Ponce de Leon Principal in Charge: Nader Tehrani Project Architect: Dan Gallagher (registered) Project Coordinators: Catie Newell, Brandon Clifford Project Team: Harry Lowd, Richard Lee, Lisa Huang, Re..
Architect of record: Hagy Belzberg, A.I.A. Interior designer: Elizabeth Paige Smith Engineer(s): Structural Dan Echeto Consultant(s) Landscape: Bill Nicholas of Nicholas Budd Dutton Architects Other: Furniture Elizabeth Paige Smith Special Fabrication Spectrum Oak General contractor: Belzberg Architects Photographer Benny Chan (Fotoworks) According to Hagy Belzberg, AIA, principal of Los Angeles..
Light tubes Light tubes Undercroft Undercroft Front façade Kiosk on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin Kiosks on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin with Parliament House in background Canberra is distinctive in international terms as a planned city and seat of government. At the centre of the planning geometry sits the Parliament House, the foreground of which consists of a range of buildings containi..
Here’s another student project, this time a pavilion designed by Alan Lu at the University of California. The conceptual pavilion was designed for a fictional perfume brand and would be situated at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan. The information below is from Alan Lu: – I am a forth year (last year) architecture student at University of California, Berkeley in the U.S. The work was done as ..
University of Innsbruck graduate Andreas Hoerl has sent us these images of his thesis project called Flotsam - swimming architecture. The project is a conceptual design for a floating gallery where students and architects can exhibit their designs. Here’s some text from Hoerl: – flo tSA_M - swimming architecture (function: architecture gallery) The idea is to create a stage for architects/studen..
This villa is located in plot #80 of the ORDOS project. Architects: Rocker-Lange Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leaders: Ingeborg M. Rocker & Christian J. Lange 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 The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part o..
Austrian designer Christian Precht has designed a compact living environment called OrganiCube. The conceptual nine square metre apartment is made of Corian and comprises facilities for living, sleeping, working and bathing. Here’s some more information from Precht:–OrganiCube explores the creative potential of the material world on the one hand and a study of living in a limited space on the ot..
The Cornerstone Arts Building at Colorado College was conceived from the Colorado Arts Initiative (CAI), which began as a series of conversations and brainstorming sessions among faculty in the arts and humanities as a way of living in the creative arts. The goals of the CAI evolved into the creation of a relationship where artists are brought together for the production, presentation and discus..
The journey into the site begins with a spatial contraction where aspens grow denser. The house settles into the site as if becoming displaced strata, inscribed by adjacent origins from the land. Spatial faults and outcroppings are heightened as hidden copper planes refract light, suggesting the landscape’s dynamism by transforming the interior space throughout the passage of the day. A sheltere..
