The guys from OFIS sent us the their latest won competition in Paris, France. Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Paris, France Project Year: 2008 Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Robert Janez, katja aljaz, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera Structural Engineering: Matjaz Pilic - Elea IC Mechanical, Electrical engineering & sustainability: Menerga d...
Project: 4-star Hotel Aire de Bardenas / Location: Tudela, Navarre, Spain / Client: Aire de Bardenas S.L./ Commission 2004, Completed 2007/ Built area: 1,500m2 / Scope of work: Full architectural services, interior, landscape and furniture design / Contractor: Alejandro Ahedo / Quantity Surveyor: Leticia Montes / Collaborators: Gillermo Zuaznabar, María E. Seligra, Karen Pinheiro, Carla Isern, G..
Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier Location: Oita-city, Oita, Japan Client: Private Project year: 2008 Constructed area: 119 sqm Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,) It is a hairsalon built in the suburbs. A mountain type design code is repeated from facade and an opening to interior design. This brings the visual effect as an icon to construction. “Paper-cutting” will be a mot..
Architects: Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA Constructed Area: 558 sqm Project Team: Jeffrey S. Lee, FAIA; Jennifer Olson, AIA Associate Architect: SFL+A Architects Client: City of Fayetteville Structural Engineers: Fleming & Associates Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Engineer: Stanford White & Associates Contractor: Ellis Walker Construction Co. Project ..
London-based designer and curator Rabih Hage has opened a hotel in a Georgian terraced house in London, UK. The hotel has nine rooms and incorporates partially sanded walls, chipped paint and bare floorboards alongside opulent furnishings chosen by Hage. Murals created from photographs of interiors by artist Massimo Listri cover some of the walls. “The rough texture of the walls now celebrates t..
Italian designer Riccardo Giovanetti has designed a pavilion to host the premier of new Walt Disney movie Trilli. The 130 square meter structure is made from shiny, white, plastic disks and houses an exhibition for children about plastics and recycling. It was commissioned by the Italian Institute of Plastic Recycled and will travel to several cities over the coming months. The following is from..
Boston- and Hong Kong-based Rocker-Lange Architects have designed a villa called Inside Out - Outside In for the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia, China. The house is one of 100 private residences, all designed by different architects selected by architects Herzog & de Meuron for the Ordos 100 project, which is master planned by artist Ai Wei Wei. “Especially in the widely varying Mongolian c..
Spanish designers Discoh have created a sex toy inspired by the aloe vera plant. Called Aloe, the product comes packaged in a “pot” and its function only becomes apparent once removed. Here’s some text from the designers: – ALOE Physical stimulation. Aesthetic pleasure. A complicit wink able to be a natural part of our daily environment. “Aloe” reimagines the role of erotic toys, becoming itself..
Mapuche es un condominio cerrado en Pilar, localidad cuyo espectacular desarrollo en los últimos años se debe a la proliferación de este tipo de núcleos suburbanos. A éste en particular los años le han sumado el valor de una espléndida forestación. Los propios arquitectos asesoraron en la selección del condominio y del lote. “Cada obra es una oportunidad de investigación. En este caso profundiza..
Belgrade-based design studio 4of7 and London-based practice Superfuisonlab have completed the conversion of a former restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, into a gym and spa. The former communist building is cantilevered 15 metres above the river. Approximately 390 translucent, triangular, back-lit panels are suspended from the ceiling’s steel structure. More information about the project on the 4of7 ..