Architects: Hidalgo Hartmann - Jordi Hidalgo Tané & Daniela Hartmann Location: Vall de Bianya, La Garrotxa, Spain Project year: 2002 Construction year: 2002-2006 Client: Jordi Sala, Susanna Comamala Contractors: Estructures Olot S.L. , Libra-S.L., Plantalech S.L., Fusteria Serra S.L. Constructed Area: 362 sqm Photographs: Hisao Suzuki, Eugeni Pons Located in an agricultural valley surrounded by ..
Architects: Dellekamp arquitectos + Juan Pablo Maza Location: Colonia Polanco, Mexico DF, Mexico Project Leader: Juan Pablo Maza Project Team: Aisha Ballesteros, Aline Wallach, Arais Reyes, Sandra Ortiz, Verónica Alatorre Program: Apartment Building Project Year: 2003-2006 Photographs: Dante Busquets & Oscar Necoechea This building has 3 apartments looking onto the street as well as a 2-story ho..
Katsuya Fukushima and Hiroko Tominaga of FT Architects have completed a residence called Column and Slab in Tokyo, Japan. The three-storey building is situated on a narrow 5 x 14 metre site. Eight concrete columns pierce the interior and support two 100mm-thick floors, which cantilever out at the sides. The third storey is constructed from timber. “The grid frame is modernist, while the columns ..
Milan 08: Designer Arne Quinze will present two new pieces at the Swarovski Crystal Palace exhibition in Milan next month. We just have some renderings for now - top two images: Fragments sculpture/cabinet. Above and below: Ellipsis sculpture/lamp. Below: Ellipsis sculpture/lamp Below: Fragments sculpture/cabinet
As we already published the Aurland Look out project by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, we are featuring now the public toilets included on that amazing wooden platform. From the Look out text: “The architecture of the public toilet is opposite of the lookout. While the lookout is light looking the pubic toilet is black painted concrete that is more heavy and solid in appearance. The building..
The winners of the RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards were announced at a ceremony in London yesterday. James Tait from the University of Strathclyde was awarded the Design Part 2 silver medal for his project Time and Tide for Seaweed (above and below), a seaweed farm complex for Arisaig in Scotland that comprises an offshore farm, bothy, steam baths, restaurant and spa. Waynne Leung and Fra..
The giant Mutagenesis installation by Belgian designer Arne Quinze opened at the Abitate Il Tempo design show in Verona, Italy this weekend. The show closes tomorrow (Monday 24 September). For more info on the exhibition, see our earlier story. More Dezeen stories about Arne Quinze. Below: Arne Quinze
Architect: Vector Architects Location: Beijing, China Project Year: 2008 Client: CR Land Design Partner in Charge: Gong Dong Managing Partner in Charge: Hongyu Zhang Project Architect: Shuo Li Site Area: 500 sqm Photographs: Vector Architecture Design Concept: The project is a “temporary” Green Technology Showroom of 3-year use for one of CR Land’s (华润置地) residential projects in Beijing. The ide..
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Rotterdam-based designer Reinier de Jong has designed an extending bookcase. Called REK, the bookcase consists of five parts, which slide out to accommodate books in the resulting voids as the user accumulates them. “REK is a bookcase that grows with your book collection. The more books, the bigger the bookcase,” explains de Jong. The following information is from the designer: – The zigzag shap..