eVolo Skyscraper Competition 2008 Winner - Elie Gamburg eVolo Architecture was created by a group of international architects in New York as a forum of discussion of new ideas. One of their strategies have been architectural competitions, held since 2005. For the last 3 years (2006-2008) the competition has been inviting architects around the world to explore the future of skyscrapers. The 2009 ..
Steven Holl Architects have won a competition to design a new harbour entrance in Copenhagen, Denmark. Holl’s winning proposal for The LM Project involves building an office tower on either side of the harbour, linked by a 65m high public walkway. The walkway consists of two bridges meeting at an angle, “joining like a handshake over the harbor”. The following is from Steven Holl Architects: – S..
CitizenM is a hotel made of prefabricated room modules at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, designed by Dutch architectural firm Concrete. Each of the 230 rooms was built ad furnished in a factory and then stacked like shipping containers to form the hotel. The following is from CitizenM: – Project: CitizenM Hotel Client: CitizenM GENERAL INFORMATION: citizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens th..
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Project Year: 2006-2008 Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Anna Breda, Luis Ferreira, Ana Kosi, Katja Aljaz Client: Mercator d.d. Interior Design: Mercator Optima Structural Engineering: Projecta d.o.o. Contractor: Gradis Skupina G d.d. Constructed Area: 2,000 ..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Opole, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny Collaborators: Marlena Wolnik, Łukasz Pra?uch Design Year: 2002-2003 Construction Year: 2003-2006 Site Area: 10,057 sqm Constructed Area: 660 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES Location The house is situated in Poland, close to Opole. Majority of low density settlement in the surroundings is formed of “cube - houses”, bu..
Architects: Sou Fujimoto Architects Location: Hokkaido, Japan Project Team: Hiroshi Kato Project Year: 2006 Site Area: 14,590 sqm Constructed Area: 2,536 sqm Photographer: Daici Ano & Sou Fujimoto This is the treatment center for mentally disturbed children where they live together to get regaining their mental health. It may be thought that it is a very special building when I write so, but it ..
Here are more images of the Second Nature exhibition at 21_21 Design Sight in Tokyo, featuring work by designers including Ross Lovegrove. Makoto Azuma and the Campana Brothers. The exhibition was directed by Japanese designer Tokujin, who invited eight other practitioners to contribute to the exhibition: Japanese artist Noriko(top image), flower-artist Makoto Azuma, designers Humberto and Ferna..
Architects: Architecture W Location: Nagoya, Japan Project Team: Michel Weenick, Ayumi Sengoku, Yukiko Iwanaga, Brian White Client: Sadao Tokuda Project Year: 2004 Constructed Area: 597 sqm Structural Engineer: Astec Landscape: KK Design Photographer: Andy Boone The design of the m/f house was driven by the desire top create an unique multifamily housing project that addresses the needs of a con..
Architect: Saunders Architecture Location: Bergen, Norway Principal Architect: Todd Saunders Project Team: Geneviéve Charbonneau & Joakim Skajaa Client: Eli Bakke Sem Olsen & Jan Sem Olsen Project year: 2008 Photographs: Saunders Architecture This family dwelling is located on one of Bergen’s most attractive sites, overlooking the southern fjords and the West coast archipelago. The site comprise..
David Chipperfield Architects have completed the Liangzhu Culture Museum at Hangzhou, China. The museum, which will house a collection of archaeological findings from the Liangzhu period, is part of a new garden town called Liangzhu Cultural Village. The museum is composed of four parallel bar-shaped volumes, clad in Iranian travertine. The following is from David Chipperfield Architects: – Lian..