Mexican architects DCPP Arquitectos have completed a textile warehouse and office building in Mexico City. Completed in 2007 for textile company Bayon Artell, the building features an entrance clad in white stone. Here’s some more information from DCPP Arquitectos: – The complex is located in south Mexico City, consisting of 4180 square meters. The project is marked by the horizontality of the w..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bilbao, Spain Architect in Charge: César Azcárate Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro, Raimundo Bambó, Javier Vergara, Jorge Minguet, Manuel Andrades, Marc Rips, Iñigo Arana, María Labastida, Ruth Mendoza, Javier Oteiza, Cruz Lacoma, Eloy Olabarri Project year: 2005 Constructed Area: 450,000 sqm Project Managment: Alexander Zeuss, Eva Madariaga, Álvaro Gutiérrez Structur..
Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Location: Washington DC, USA Principal Architects: Gert Wingårdh & Tomas Hansen Architects in Charge: Gunilla Murnieks Competition Team: Gert Wingårdh, Thomas Hansen, Ulrika Davidsson, Fredrik Gullberg, Pål Ericsson, Jacob Sahlqvist, Jacek Zalecki, Petter Leyman, Ola Frödell, Henrik Schulz, Tobias Fasth, Robert Hendberg Building Team: Gert Wingårdh, Thomas Han..
Architect: Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Solà-Morales Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico Collaborator: Eugenio Eraña Lagos Structures: Ricardo Camacho de la Fuente Construction Managment: Marcial Burgos & Hugo López Solano Constructed Area: 350 sqm Project Year: 2005-2006 Photograhs: Santiago Garcés / Cadaval & Solà-Morales Where are the limits of materials? Are they in their apparently implic..
Architects: Workr - Ashton Cates Location: Amarillo, Texas, USA Project Year: 2008 Construction Area: 274 sqm Budget: US $722.750 Contractor: Southwest General Contractors Photographs: Ashton Cates A new donut shop in the Panhandle of West Texas celebrates post-war roadside Architecture along Route 66. This is the fourth new building completed by the Donut Stop in the past five years, all design..
Architects: at103 / Julio Amezcua + Francisco Pardo Location: Acapulco, Mexico Project Team: Jorge Vazquez, Aida Hurtado Constructed Area: 600 sqm Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2007 Photographs: Frida Escobedo, Adolfo Pardo The Project consists on a restoration and addition of an existing house in the old part of the city of Acapulco, Mexico. Acapulco in the 50’s and 60’s was a Hollywood..
Architects: Studio Paralelo Location: Bento Golçalves, RS – Brazil Project team: Luciano Andrades, Rochelle Castro e Valéria Bertolini Contractor: Icon Incorporadora Structural Engineering: Pasquali e Associados Lighting: Potencial Engenharia Landscape: Samuel Seben Site Area: 930 sqm Constructed Area: 360 sqm Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2008 Photographs: Eduardo Aigner The house is lo..
Japanese architects ARTechnic have completed Shell, a holiday villa in Karuizawa, Japan. The two-storey, concrete house comprises two tubes with oval sections, arranged around a fir tree. The floor is raised 1.4 metres from the ground; the architects intended to minimise time spent on maintaining the property by separating the house from its natural surroundings. “Being in sync with nature isn’t..
The Cornerstone Arts Building at Colorado College was conceived from the Colorado Arts Initiative (CAI), which began as a series of conversations and brainstorming sessions among faculty in the arts and humanities as a way of living in the creative arts. The goals of the CAI evolved into the creation of a relationship where artists are brought together for the production, presentation and discus..
The journey into the site begins with a spatial contraction where aspens grow denser. The house settles into the site as if becoming displaced strata, inscribed by adjacent origins from the land. Spatial faults and outcroppings are heightened as hidden copper planes refract light, suggesting the landscape’s dynamism by transforming the interior space throughout the passage of the day. A sheltere..
