Addition to Residence Koenigswarte, Sesto- Italy completed November 2007 Located on a steep hillside in the Italian Dolomites this new-built hotel has been developed as the interweaving of the free-flowing topography- indexed and organized by series of timber strips- and the serial sequence of apartment units perpendicular to it. Skin organisation as strata Since the overall shape was developed ..
Vivaldi Tower interior by Merkx+Girod Ernst & Young Amsterdam Interior design for the new office building of Ernst&Young designed by Foster Architects, located at the Zuidas in Amsterdam. The architecture of the 26.000 square metre, 22 storey-high building is very clear and straightforward in reaction to which Merkx+Girod designed a ‘softer’ layer for the entire interior. Special attention was h..
An exhibition of the British graphic designer Alan Aldridge opened at the Design Museum in London last week. It is the first UK retrospective featuring illustrations and graphic design works by Aldridge, who was one of the key graphic designers of the sixties and seventies and who worked extensively with The Beatles. Above: Beatles illustrated lyrics, A Hard Days Night 1969 The exhibition runs t..
Architects: ARAD - Bahram Kalantari, Kourosh Dabbagh Location: Tehran, Iran Design Team: Majid Pazhuhi, Niloofar Niksar Technical Team: Anoushiravan Kharrazi, Mehdi Holakouie, Mona haddadi Project Manager: Eskandar Hadjizadeh Structural consultant: Behrang Baniadam (Afarinesh consulting co.) Site Area: 10,500 sqm Constructed Area: 4,200 sqm Project year: 2006 Photographer: Kamran Adl, Ali Daghig..
The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm, but are continually monitoring our closest star with an array of telescopes an..
Casa H está situada en un lugar prestigioso, un barrio residencial de Rožna Dolina. El proyecto consiste en integrar con el jardín una introvertida casa de los 60. Para ello se añadió un pabellón a modo de jardín de invierno y sala de estar extra que actúa como transición entre la casa y el jardín. Aunque el pabellón es una cáscara de hormigón armado, flota leve sobre el suelo y preserva la cont..
“Pues esa es la belleza que cualquiera quiere para su arquitectura. Una belleza desnuda, inteligente, esencial, capaz de cautivarnos por la cabeza y por el corazón.” Alberto Campo Baeza, en "A ideia Construída", pág. 47, Caleidoscópio, 2004. Este equipamiento de apoyo para eventos está en un jardín, entre árboles y arbustos que determinaron su diseño. La churrasqueira vuela sobre la fuerte pendi..
Diseño interior para una residencia privada ubicada en la zona Aventino de Roma. La renovación de la casa incluía la completa reorganización de los ambientes, así como el diseño de nuevos muebles e iluminación. El propósito del proyecto fue crear un espacio que respondiese a la voluntad del cliente de cambiar en su totalidad las características del apartamento. El área diurna fue abierta totalme..
A sólo 50 kilómetros de Tromsø, Noruega, el fiordo Skarsfjord esconde un paraíso de islotes y playas de mar. La cabaña mira hacia el paisaje panorámico y las puestas de sol, más allá de la cadena de colinas que emergen en el fiordo. Los grandes paneles acristalados permiten vistas en 180º, y parte de la pared sur se desliza comunicando el living con la terraza. De los 40m2 de superficie total, l..
Swiss Re London Headquarters is a landmark 40-storey office building in the heart of London’s financial centre, developed by Swiss Re and designed by architects Foster and Partners. Located on the former site of the Baltic Exchange, the distinctive form of the building adds to the cluster of tall buildings. This London’s first ecological tall building is instantly recognisable, rooted in a radic..
