Technically acting as a sunscreen and weather barrier the curved façade is fully glazed and combines the curtain wall glazing with horizontal lamellas and vertical glass fins. The position and size of each of the façade elements are derived from a twisted frame system, which is related to the interior organisation of the building. The concave front of the building displays different fluent forms..
PROGRAM: 7 high-end residential towers and landscape deck CLIENT: CapitaLand, Singapore ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher Project Architects: Michele Pasca di Magliano, Viviana Muscettola Project Manager: Charles Walker Project Team: Effie Kuan, Bozana Komljenovic, Sophie Le Bienvenu, Helen Lee, Kelly Lee, Evan Erlebacher, Ludovico Lombardi, Annarita Pape schi, Hoon Lee, Clara ..
Client: Louis Vuitton Malletier Program: Flagship store / Landmark building. Retail, café, spa, bookstore, event and exhibition space. Building surface: ca. 6.000 m2 Building volume: ca. 40.000 m2 Building site: 746 m2 Competition dates: Nov 2006 – Feb 2007 Credits UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, Astrid Piber with Mirko Bergmann and Sebastian Schott, Ger Gijzen, Cristina Bolis, Juliane M..
Davide Marchetti Architetto have won a competition to design the new Australian Pavilion in the Giardini at the Venice Biennale in Italy. The 500 square metre concrete pavilion will be constructed for the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens 14 September to 23 November. Davide Marchetti Architetto’s design was the winning entry to a competition commissioned by Cafe Di Stasio. An exhibi..
An extremely successful building in energy and environmental term The project concerns the construction of a management and conservation Archives Centre for the EDF Group (French Leading Electricity Producer) in Bure-Saudron, France (55), for which the client carries a strong environmental ambition. Beyond the functional dimension for the management of the Archives, we conceived a strategic proj..
In reply to a competition of ideias launched by the Institute of the Wine of the Douro and Porto, for the one construction stand exposition, appeared the proposal here presented. More of the one than to draw one stand, intends this projecto to create a intimamente on space of exposition to the displayed product, the Wine of the Douro and Porto. Leaving of an analysis to the reality and the proce..
Low-Income Housing with Heart It has been a crucial question for ages: how best to house low-income people in densely populated urban environments. As the world becomes more crowded and urbanised, the matter grows increasingly urgent. Eve Kushner reports. Has anyone come up with a solution to embrace the problem of high-density housing wholeheartedly? Many experiments have failed, and some have ..
Feldbalz is a new home overlooking Lake Zurich designed by Swiss architect Gus Wüstemann. The three-storey house includes space for children on the ground floor, which leads to the garden, family living rooms on the first floor and the parents’ rooms at the top of the house. A concrete path connects the garden with the house, bordering a swimming pool. Photographs by Bruno Helbing. See Wüstemann..
bispebjerg bakke dwellings 135 rented accomodation dwellings designed by Professor Bjørn Nørgaard, sculptor, in collaboration with Boldsen & Holm Architects. The sculptor Bjørn Nørgaard used music as his point of departure when he modeled the first version of the building in clay, noting, “If it cannot be modeled, it should not be built.” The complex comprises two buildings that wind like a serp..
