Last week we posted about the new installation by David Letellier and Lab [au] for their gallery in Brussels. Now we have some great new details, supplied by Jerome Decock of Lab[au]. The installation was inspired by the notion of ”tessellation”, a term applied to the geometric subdivision of a surface into plane units. It includes a suspended topography of 4 x 2 m, subdivided into forty triangu..
Toronto-based firm GH3 designed the Williams Studio on Stony Lake in Ontario, Canada. A photographer’s studio over a boathouse on Stony Lake is a re-imagination of the archetypal glass house in a landscape in the Canadian Shield. A continuation of thinking about this architectural ambition, the central concept of the house is reconceived through a contemporary lens of sustainability, program, si..
Spanish studio Hoz Fontán Arquitectos have completed this rectangular office tower in Irun, Spain. The eight-storey tower sits atop an elliptical plinth, which in turn is built on top of an existing car park. The building has a double-glazed facade and features gardens on the upper two floors. The tower houses the headquarters for the Zaisa transportation hub and its offices are located in the h..
Architect Werner van der Meulen has sent us photos of a redevelopment of an old house situated in the Northern part of South Africa. from contemporist
Glen Irani Architects have designed the third in their series of Hover Houses located on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California. Situated on the Venice Canals of Los Angeles, California, Hover House 3 represents the third in the architects’ Hover House series. This series focuses on maximizing outdoor living on small lots by ‘hovering’ the building envelope above the grade level in order t..
EGM Architects designed a new office for the Verkerk Group in Hoevelaken, The Netherlands. The new branch of Verkerk Group, an electrical installation company with 375 employees, located in the industrial area in the Eastern Hogebrink Entry into Hoevelaken. The terrain is characterized by a motley collection of rectangular buildings, interspersed here and there with a house. To stand out from th..
New York-based Julian King Architect shared with us their proposal for the Atlantic City Holocaust Memorial Design Competition, selected as one of the six finalists. The competition will announce the winning project in November. More images and architect’s description after the break. An ethereal wall of over 100,000 glass bottles-representing those who survived the Nazi death camps, and each co..
Architects: Audrius Ambrasas Architects Location: Skanstes str. 12, Riga, Latvia Design team: Audrius Ambrasas, Mindaugas Reklaitis, Monika Sriubaitė Project management: “Merks”, Ltd. Interior design: “XYZ”, Ltd. Client: “SKANSTES 12″, Ltd. Foot print: 1,530 sqm Gross area: 14,445 sqm Net area of typical floor: 1,035 sqm Project Year: 2007-2008 Construction Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Courtesy ..
Swedish architects Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff, designed the H-House in Trosa, Sweden. A private residence in the archipelago of Stockholm situated on a beautiful site overlooking the ocean. The setting is scenic but the climate is harsh. Summers are light but short and the wind can often be a problem in these coastal areas. As in many of our projects great emphasis is put on exploring the border ..
Architects: Norman Foster, Foster + Partners Location: 257 Bowery, New York, USA Co-architects: Adamson Associates Client: Sperone Westwater Consultants: Buro Happold, Sciame, Edgett Williams, JAM Consultants Inc. Project Year: 2008-2010 Photographs: Nigel Young Nearly 35 years after its conception, Sperone Westwater continues to exhibit the work of prominent artists of diverse nationality and a..
