Architects: EM2N Location: Liestal, Switzerland Project team: Bernd Druffel, Marc Holle, Fredrik Johansson, Katharina Klinger, Thilo Kroeschell, Satu Marjanen, Claudia Meier, Mathias Muller, Daniel Niggli, Claudia Peter, Christoph Rothenhofer Programme: Shelter rooms for cultural assets / Archive extension / New office spaces for archivists / Customers‘ area and reading room Client: Department f..
Architects: LAN Architecture Location: Saint Mesmes, France Client: Marchesini France Programme: Design and construction of a company headquarters Constructed Area: 1,250 sqm Project year: 2008 Photographs: Jean-Marie Monthiers The primary intention of the programme is to explore the relationship between the building and its surroundings and between the building users and the landscape. One of t..
Architects: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza Location: Oaxtepec, Mexico Design team: Carlos Rubio Martinez Project Year: 2007 Furniture: Gandiablasco By Designet Art: Victor Reyes Sculptures: Alfonso Magana Photographs: Paul Czitrom This house is located in a residential area of Oaxtepec, a place of exceptional natural beauty. It is contiguous to the north with the hill of Tepozteco and to the south ..
Arons & Gelauff Architects - Dormitory, Enschede (Copyright Jeroen Musch) Arons & Gelauff Architects send me photographs of their recently finished dormitory building in Enschede, a city in the east of the Netherlands. One of the sides of the nine story building features a climbing wall. According to the architect it is the second highest one in the Netherlands. The addition of the climbing wall..
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Principal in Charge: Gilles Saucier Project Architect: Anik Shooner Executive Architect: MENKÈS SHOONER DAGENAIS Project team: Gilles Saucier, Anik Shooner, Caroline Elias, Maxime-Alexis Frappier, Anna Bendix, Anne Sophie Allard, Audrey Archambault, Eda Ascioglu, Patrice Bégin, Catherine Bélanger, Alain Boudrias, Natha..
'bubbletecture M' is a kindergarten designed by japanese studio shuhei endo architect institute. located in shiga, japan the maihara kindergarten is surrounded by a newly developed residential area. the structure consists of concrete boxes between each of the rooms and a wooden roof that ties them together. the shell-form roof is made of triangular continuous surfaces; its structural strength an..
Paris architects ECDM have completed this 63-unit social housing development in Paris. It is located between existing buildings, at the intersection of two streets. A courtyard, hidden from the street, separates the building into two volumes connected by a basement car park. The front facade is composed of coloured glass in different shades of green. The text below is from the architects: – Coll..
Split & Rotate, a holiday home designed by architect Nicos Kalogirou, has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. Located at the foot of East Vermion mountain inNaoussa Greece, the single-family house consists of two volumes linked by a glass passageway. The main residence has a metal structure and is clad in shipping plywood. The second volume consists of a children’s pavilion with..
Architects: Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects Location: Brione sopra Minusio, TI, Switzerland Construction Supervision: Guscetti Arch. Dipl., 6648 Minusio Engineer: Anastasi SA, 6604 Locarno Building Physics: IFEC Consulenze SA, 6802 Rivera Contractor: Merlini + Ferrari SA, 6648 Minusio Carpenter: Erich Keller AG, 8583 Sulgen Project year: 2004-2005 Photographs: Hannes Henz The new buildi..
Architects: debartolo architects ltd. Location: Gilbert, Arizona, USA Project team: Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, J. Eric Huffman Civil Engineer: integra engineering Structural Engineer: rudow + berry Mechanical engineer: kunka engineering Electrical Engineer: woodward engineering Contractor: the construction zone Landscape: GBtwo Constructed Area: 1,672 sqm Design year: 2005-200..