The Glasshouse is an arts, conference and entertainment centre in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, that has been designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer Architects. The Glasshouse: Arts Conference and Entertainment Centre comprises a 600-seat performing arts theatre, a 600m2 Regional Art Gallery, a studio theatre, conference facilities and a community workshop located in the centre of Port ..
Our friends at Abitare published several works by Italian firm Buratti + Battiston, an architect and engineer, respectively. With a strong grasp of aesthetics as their foundation for creating spaces, their Vetreria Airoldi Office + Showroom works with the characteristics of colored glass to form a contemporary working space. The office + showroom is an entire experimentation of glass. On the ext..
Architects: Safdie Architects Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Director: Moshe Safdie Executive Architects: Aedas, Pte, Ltd. Structural Engineering: Arup Landscape Design: Peter Walker & Partners Landscape Construction: Peridian International Inc Site Area: 154,938 sqm Project Area: 845,000 sqm Budget: US $5.7 billion Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of Safdie Architects Program 1...
Petra Architects in collaboration with Papaioannou + Associates shared with us their proposal for the Piraeus Tower 2010 Competition in Greece. The “tower of Piraeus”, a building left abandoned for years, dominates the port of Piraeus and remains a rather dry landmark of the cityscape so much for the citizens of the immediate area but as well for the travelers that approach one of the larger har..
Architect: bittonidesignstudio Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA Project Team: Mark Bittoni, Ross Jeffries, Salomé Reeves Structural Engineer: C.W. Howe & Associates Area: 185.8 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier Photography Los Angeles-based bittonidesignstudio has recently completed the evansHOUSE, located in the modernist landmark community of Crestwood Hills. This small moder..
The “18 septemberplein” is one of the major squares in the city of Eindhoven. The square is the connection between the central station area and the main shopping district of the city. The demand for 2000 parking places for bicycles together with the important logistical function of the square led to a design of an underground bicycle parking, leaving room for the movement of people on the square..
Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects have won a competition to design a new campus for the University College Sealand in Roskilde, Denmark. The campus will be made up of four adjacent volumes, each slightly angled to create a series of sheltered courtyards. The new 14,000 square-metre facilities will be used for existing bachelor programs in social education and social work, health, and teachin..
Eastern Design Office have sent us one of their latest projects, the Mountains & Opening House in Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan. This building is a design room for a Japanese sneaker brand as well as a residential house. The site is in Takarazuka-city of Hyogo Prfecture. It is located in an exclusive residential district that commands an entire view of the Osaka Plain. The architecture is built on th..
Located in the Portugal Northwest border, the Vila Nova de Cerveira House was designed for weekend use, promoting the relationship between interior and exterior, integrating the astonishing surroundings on a glass interior. Emphasizing the equilibrium with the surrounding morphology, the horizontal volumes contrast with the stone coating of the basement floor, on a material and chromatic counter..
© 2007 Portus ehf., Olafur Eliasson, and Henning Larsen Architects A concert hall and conference centre by Henning Larsen Architects in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson is under construction in Reykjavík, Iceland. © 2007 Portus ehf., Olafur Eliasson, and Henning Larsen Architects Called Harpa, building will accommodate four concert halls, the largest of which will accommodate up to 1,8..
