Located on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the 3,500-square-foot Zeidler Residence arranges interior and exterior living spaces to maximize views, natural light, and ocean breezes within a subtle, sophisticated material palette. Designed for a retired couple with grown children, the house sits on a relatively flat corner lot with expansive views of the Pacific and vegetated cliff that ..
Spanish architect Alejandro Munoz Miranda’s kindergarten in Granada is designed for children up to three years old and has windows in rainbow colours. It is built around a central courtyard onto which all the classrooms open. Communal spaces such as corridors are scattered with multicoloured light while the windows in classrooms are colourless. Photographs are by Fernando Alda. The following inf..
Middap Ditchfield Architects have designed the Peregian Beach House in Queensland, Australia. This holiday house is located on an elevated site overlooking Peregian Beach and foreshore. It has been designed to take full advantage of dramatic ocean views. The house steps down the site which helps connect internal and external spaces to the ground plane. Courtyard spaces have been introduced to re..
Guillermo Hevia Garcia took this nice pictures of the Neue National Gallery in Berlin, by Mies van der Rohe. This building is from 1968, and it´s a jump from the traditional museum idea of a closed building with exhibition rooms, into an open-plan flexible space. The building is 64.8m long, with only 2 steel columns on each side, which free the corners giving the building a lightweight look. A v..
Architect: DLR Group Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Owner: Phoenix Union High School District #210 Engineer: DLR Group Contractor: Adolfson & Peterson Construction Project Year: 2007 Area: 345,000 SF; 51 Acres Photographs: Mark Boisclair Challenge Adapt a school district’s commitment to the Small Schools Movement within a new 2,400 student urban high school. Beginning in 2000, the Phoenix Union High..
In 1954 Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill were commissioned to design the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. Located in El Paso Country, Colorado, just outside of Colorado Springs, the chapel is of the training center for officers of the United States Air Force which is a large self-contained community. At an elevation of 6500 feet on the East of the Rocky Mountains, the 3,000 acre Academy ..
Architectural photographer Joao Morgado has sent us some images of a house made of glass in Maastricht, Netherlands, designed by Wiel Arets Architects. Called H House, all the internal and external walls are a combination of transparent and opaque glass, however a series of curtains on the interior provide privacy. The building has no structural walls, with a few rectangular columns providing su..
Last year, BIG completed Mountain Dwellings (winner of the Building of the Year 2009 Award under the Housing category), showing us new approaches to a complex typology. Along this line of innovation in housing, we now present you a sneak peek of the soon to be completed 8 House a 62,000sqm project located in Copenhagen with an interesting approach to mixed use. Over 540 units for different confi..
Designer Chikara Ohno of Sinato has completed the interior of a boutique in Tokyo by adding a display level above head height made of expanded metal. Called DURAS Daiba, the shop has a stepped platform in the centre allowing shoppers to reach the merchandise spread out on the mesh surface. Mirrors round the edge of the upper space visually expand the shop. Photographs are by Takumi Ota. Here’s s..
The winning team in the prestigious competition to build Navitas Park at the new waterfront in Aarhus has been announced; Contractor E. Pihl & Son A.S. Kjaer & Richter Architects Ltd, Christensen & Co Architects Ltd, Marianne Levinsen Landscape Ltd and advisory firm ALECTIA A / S are chosen to build the 35,000 m2 to accommodate the Aarhus School of Engineering, Aarhus School of Marine and Techni..
