Architects: Blank Studio Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Structural Engineer: BDA Engineers Landscape Design: DBLD Electrical Engineer: Tony Woo Engineering Mechanical + Plumbing: Kunka Engineering Civil + Solis: Fugro South General Contractor: 180 Degrees Constructed Area: 209 sqm Project year: 2006 Photography: Bill Timmerman The Xeros project is sited within a late 1950’s era neighborhood where th..
Architect: archimania Location: Smyrna, TN, USA Client: Baker & Rhonda Raborn General Contractor: Homeowner, consulting with Architect Project year: 2006 Budget: US$ 289,000 Project Area: 278.7 sqm Photographs: © Jeffrey Jacobs Photography House in the Woods is a progressive home for a young family in rural Tennessee. The home responds to their needs for functionality and practicality, while sta..
This project to us is a platform to establish a critical dialogue within our built environment; to raise questions as much as it is to finding solutions. The project is a critique on our cultural attitudes and how we determine them. A critique on what we consider to be of heritage significance and how to narrate such ideas in a critical and contemporary manner. This once vacant site is nestled a..
A few months ago, we featured the Washplane sink/basin from Australian manufacturer Omvivo. That post, which you can see by clicking here, was rather popular, and now Omvivo have sent us photos of a custom version of the Washplane that was installed in the Sydney Opera House. from contemporist
Architects: Arquitectos Anónimos®, Maria Veloso and Vasco Aragão Location: St. Tirso, Portugal Client: Norte Golfe Structural consultant: Hélder Ferreira Floor area: 80 sqm Site area: 1,100 sqm Built-up area: 80 sqm Start of planning: 2006 Start of construction: 2006 Completion: 2006 Photographs: Abel Andrade Sometimes we dig up foundations only to cover them up again. A safe certainty to determ..
Steven Holl Architects have been selected as the winning firm for the design of the master plan of the “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” competition by unanimous decision. Bird’s eye view of the winning “Shenzhen 4 Tower in 1” master plan proposal by Steven Holl Architects This competition was for an office tower complex around the new Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters located in Shenzhen’s Futian comm..
A restricted competition for a new museum in the middle of one of the most iconic places in Rio de Janeiro, the Avenida Atlantica at Copacabana, has just been awarded. The building will host the Museu da Imagen e de Som (Image and Audio Museum), that as of now is desegregated through the city in separate offices. The new building will host in one place facilities for the conservation and study o..
The Compass Pointe House is a recently completed contemporary home in Whistler, Canada. The home’s layout & design was the creation of Sean Anderson of Progressive Concept Design, while the interior & exterior finishes were completed by Kelly Deck, who provided contemporary touches that were inspired by the natural surroundings. from contemporist
On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied Works Architecture/BKDI, Portland, OR, Saucier + Perrotte, Montreal, Quebec, and Studio Pali..
Nearly 4 years after the competition for a new administration building of the Schwandorf Incineration Plant in Bavaria, Germany was won by Stuttgart-based archimedialab, this unique ensemble of building and landscape has now been officially inaugurated. Here is how archimedialab describe their project: The task to design a new administration building, reorganize the power station compound and cr..
