Architect: Li Xiaodong/atelier Location: Pinghe, Fujian, China Project Area: 240 sqm Budget: RMB650,000 Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Li Xiaodong Located at a remote village, Fujian Province in China, the project does not only provides a physical function – a school + a bridge, but also presents a spiritual centre. The main concept of the design is to enliven an old community (the village..
PROJECT 53 Albert Street CLIENT Nettleton Tribe Architects LOCATION Brisbane, QLD, Australia ARTIST Jennifer Marchant ARTWORK TITLE Landlines ART MANAGEMENT Urban Art Projects YEAR 2008 Jennifer Marchant's map installation of Cunningham's Gap and the Main Range veils three elevations of a car park, creating a pedestrian viewpoint of the view to the south. They wrap counter clockwise around the s..
Last week, Bustler reported that DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition for Downtown Miami, published a preview of all competition entries in a Flickr gallery just a few days before the official announcement of the winners on Friday, December 4. Now the results are in, and the first prize goes to the team “office 247” (Rosalea Monacella, Craig Douglas, and Armando Oliver Su..
August 31st, 2008 Harmonia 57 by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque is an office building in Sao Paulo with a planted facade irrigated by a mist system. Plants grow in ¡°pores¡± set into the concrete facade and will eventually cover the building. The Harmonia 57 concept will be on show at Venice Architectural Biennale from 13 September, as part of the French Pavilion. More information about t..
The YAS Hotel in Abu Dhabi was recently completed, and its curvilinear grid-shell which is covered with over 5,300 diamond-shaped steel panels, containing nearly 5000 LED fixtures is being announced as the world’s largest LED project controlled through RDM (Remote Device Management). New York based lighting designers Arup Lighting worked with Germany based e:cue lighting control to create lighti..
Walking around the streets of Bangkok, it is possible to find inspiration in the way building owners modify their shop houses. These buildings usually begin as concrete constructions, but owners would later add layers over existing surfaces in order to block out heat and sun. Low cost and lightweight metal materials are cut into panels or pieces to create a pattern over the existing shop house. ..
Italian based Stefano Boeri Architetti shared with us their latest project: The requalification and recovery of the ex Military Arsenal on the island of La Maddalena, Italy. This project includes a hotel, a congress centre, a conference building, two large exhibition and commercial spaces and a quay for 700 boats. It was conceived as the central point of the G8 summit at Maddalena, event that wa..
Architects: BP Architectures (member of PLAN01) Location: Paris, France Client : Trouseau Children Hospital Project Area : 360 sqm Project year : 2009 Photographs: Luc Boegly The initially program ask to install 3 emergency staircases on the Trouseau Children Hospital main building. The context of this children hospital in the center of Paris is an extraordinary accumulation of architectural lay..
Los Angeles-based architect Marcelo Spina of architectural practice Patterns has completed an art gallery on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Called PRISM, the project is a three-storey gallery space designed to showcase work by new artists. The building incorporates exhibition space, film-viewing and lecture areas, and a bookshop. The facade is made of a polycarbonate resin-based composite, which..
Architect: Produkcija 004 Location: Osijek, Croatia Client: City of Osijek and Panteon d.o.o. Project architects: Davor Katušic Project team: Venko Ćurlin, Robert Franjo, Ivana Senjak, Mirko Buvinić, Maja Furlan Zimmermann Construction: Studio Arhing, Borivoj Pojatina; P&D, Hrvoje Petrovic Installation: Mario Josipović; Renato Majcunić; Nenad Šutevski Project area: 14,200 sqm Budget: 10 mi..
