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..
Photographer Joao Morgado shared with us this industrial building by portuguese architects Menos é Mais (Less is More). It´s nice to see this type of buildings, as most of the times industrial projects don´t offer much in terms of fresh architecture. More pictures after the break.
The following text and images are courtesy of Croatia's 3LHD for their 2006 competition-winning design for Hotel Lone in Rovinj, Croatia. The 26,290 square meter (86,250 square foot) hotel is expected to open in 2010. Click on images for larger views. The future Lone Hotel is situated in the attractive tourist area of Monte Mulini, the green oasis of the town of Rovinj. The hotel is loctated i..
MVRDV and ADEPT win Copenhagen high-rise competition with ‘Sky Village’ design The municipality of Rødovre, an independent municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark, announced today MVRDV and co-architect ADEPT winner of the design competition of the Rødovre Skyscraper. The 116 meter tall tower accommodates apartments, a hotel, retail and offices. A public park and a plaza are also part of the private..
Tokyo Bench by Gehry Partners Gehry Partners, the architecture office of Frank Gehry, presented a snaking bench as part of Design Tide in Tokyo over the weekend. Called Tokyo Bench, the maple bench was installed in the lobby of World Co Aoyama Building. Design Tide is a series of exhibitions that took place in Tokyo form 30 October to 3 November, concurrently with Tokyo Designers Week. The bench..
Dutch designer Jan Van Hoof exhibited a wall made of cut-up books at the Design Academy Eindhoven graduation show as part of Dutch Design Week earlier this month. “Books like this tell us a lot of stories, the story in the book, the story of the book itself as a product you own with a history and the story as a collection of books,” says Van Hoof. “With my project storyboard I tried to give the ..
Architects: Akihisa Hirata Location: Tokyo, Japan Program: Shopping Design Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2007 Site Area: 538 sqm Constructed Area: 851.5 sqm Photographer: Akihisa Hirata This is a set of commercial tenant building in Daikanyama, Tokyo. From legal condition it was demanded to build several small volumes in narrow site, and we decided to make several volumes that seemed to be ..
Well, here we have another skyscrapper in Dubai, this time in the shape of a giant wind turbine. When I saw this, i thought it had this turbine to generate eolic energy, but actually it’s a structure that holds a panoramic restaurant in the glass capsule at the top of the building, as you can see on the further images. The 2,15 feet (655m) tall tower includes a mixed use developement with ret..
Foreign Office Architects have unveiled their design for the redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station in Birmingham, UK. The metal-clad station features digital information boards at the entrance and is designed to handle over 52 million passengers per year. The £600 million project, titled New Street New Start is due to be completed in 2014. See also our story on Meydan shopping square by..
