Over the years the Vitra Campus has become an architecture museum, featuring works by the most renowned architects: Frank Ghery, Zaha Hadid, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Jean Pruvé, Nicholas Grimshaw, Buckminster Fuller and SANAA (under construction). The latest addition to the complex is the VitraHaus building, a series of stacked pitched-roof boxed, designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Vitra’s Home ..
Architects: Standard Location: Mount Washington, Los Angeles, USA Project team: Jeffrey Allsbrook, Yoshihiro Miura, Monica Oller, Sylwia Pasciak Constructed Area: 325 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Benny Chan Hidden House is located on a serene 7-acre site (in Glassell Park where the paved road ends at an old hand written sign marking the entrance to “Hidden Valley.”) The property, which ca..
Architect: Massimiliano Fuksas Location: Strasbourg, France Programme: Zenith Music Hall (10.000 seats) Construction year: 2008 Site: Municipality of Eckbolsheim, Strasbourg Client: Citta di Strasburgo (CUS) Delegate Consultants: Concrete Betom / Acoustics Altia / Scenography Architecture and Technique Area: 14.000 sqm Photographs: Moreno Maggi & Philippe Ruault by Moreno Maggi by Moreno Maggi b..
Architects: Atelier Phileas (member of PLAN01) Location: Malakoff, France Client: RATP/SEDP Program: Head quarter room, technical spaces, Offices, meeting rooms, Renovation of the subway station Etienne Dolet, Urban lanscape Consultant: CETBA Constructed Area: 1,600 sqm Budget: 4.5M Euro + tax (US $5.67M + tax) Project year: 2006 Photographer: Stéphane Chalmeau, Frédéric Delangle THE SITE: Locat..
Architects: AK2 Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Designers: Andrea Klimková, Peter Kručay Project Year: 2008 Site Area: 5,418 sqm Construction Area: 9,271 sqm Photographs: Andrea Klimková, Ľubo Stacho Einsteinova Road is probably the most frequented artery in Bratislava, situated misfortunately, like a big cut through Petržalka town quarter. But some architects show us it is possible to refine suc..
Project: Haus L. Individual House for a four person family Status: 2006 completed Location: Berlin . Glienicke Germany Projectsize: 350 m2 GROSS Architects: HamannPottArchitekten now Pott Architects and Ulrich Hamann Architekt Cooperations: Kappes & Partner Ingenieurbüro: Dr. Müller Haustechnik: Dr. Specht Photographs: Rudi Meisel Life in the countryside, in the midst of nature, has always had a..
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Ringsted, Denmark Project Year: 2006 Client: Brainstones Development ApS Engineer: Lemming & Eriksson A/S Construction Area: 790 sqm Photographs: Adam Mørk The terrace houses have been built in connection with the official exhibition ‘Living 2006+’ in Ringsted. The construction consists of 7 terrace houses, placed in rows of 2 with respectively 3..
Architects: KPMB Architects Location: Toronto, Canada Client: Gardiner Museum Project Team: Bruce Kuwabara (design principal), Shirley Blumberg (partner-in-charge), Paulo Rocha (design/project architect); Shane O’Neill, Javier Uribe, Kevin Bridgman, Tyler Sharpe, Ramon Janer, Steven Casey, Bill Colaco (project team) Structural Enginnering: Halsall Associates Ltd. Mechanical and Electrical Engine..
The house is located on a 2.204m2 plot presenting a strong slope, with a difference of height of 17m in a 55m long terrain. The site is delimited by the access road on the South, neighbouring plots on the North and East sides and a stepped walkway in the West. The main idea behind the project is to make a house integrated within the surrounding context, oriented towards the views over the Mera r..
Architects: XPIRAL / Javier Peña Galiano Location: Murcia, Spain Collaborators: Lola Jiménez, Susana Velasco, Malte Eglinger Structural Engineering: IDEEE Services: Federico Garcia Salmerón Construction Engineering: Luis Fernando Perona, Miguel Ángel Carceles Promotor: Juan Carlos López Orenes Project year: 2003-2006 Budget: US $1,15 M Constructed Area: 467 sqm Photographs: Juan de la Cruz Megía..
