The Permanent Secretary for Transport and Housing (Transport), Mr Francis Ho, said at the prize presentation ceremony last week that the superb quality of entries for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB)‧Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF) International Design Ideas Competition had provided lots of valuable creative concepts to serve as reference for the detailed design of the HKB..
Architect: Nicolas Loi – Loi Arquitectos Location: Tunquén, V Región, Chile Site Area: 5,000 sqm Project Area: 139 sqm Design Year: 2007 Construction Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Marcos Mendizabal The house is located in Tunquén, a costal area in the central region of Chile, in a 5.000 sq.m. site overlooking the sea. The acces of the site is located in the lower part, so you enter with your back..
Architects: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Location: Sydney, Australia Landscape: FJMT Cost Consultant: Davis Langdon Australia Structural & Civil Consultant: Taylor Thomson Whitting Mechanical & Electrical Consultant: Lincolne Scott Hydraulic Consultant: ThomsonKane Environmental consultant: Advanced Environmental Concepts Acoustic consultant: Arup Acoustics Facade Engineer: Connell Mott MacDonald..
The plot is located in the middle of Kojetín, close to Nový Ji?ín, on a hill with a view of the surrounding landscape. The investor’s intention was to reconstruct a former barn into a place for work and living in the first phase, and build a new family house in the vicinity in the future. The original sandstone walls and pillars from 1862 have been preserved. A reinforcing concrete ring was desi..
As the previous pavilions we have featured on AD for the World Expo 2010 illustrate, the exhibition is, undoubtedly, a giant testing ground to experiment with the latest avant-garde design concepts. In late March, we featured Naço Architectures‘ pavilion and we have just be informed of some details of the facade treatment. The facade’s main focus was to capitalize on Monaco’s seemingly eternal p..
Our friends from CEBRA shared their recently awarded Sports Center design with us. The 3.5 m2 extension will incorporate handicap friendly solutions within a sports facility, as almost 50 % of the students attending Egmont High School experience some form of disability whether it be that they are blind, mentally challenged or an amputee. Entitled Kolden, the Danish world for ‘the globe’, the pro..
Architects: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Location: Sydney, Australia Quantity Surveyor: Page Kirkland Partnership Pty Ltd Archaeology: Godden Mackay Logan Landscape Architects: Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp Contractor: St Hilliers Heritage Architects: Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners Pty Ltd Structural Consultant: Taylor Thomson Whitting Mechanical / Environmental Consultant: Steensen Varming Elec..
Design: Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering Location: Shanghai, China Client: Shanghai World EXPO Land Holding Co. Ltd., Shanghai Managing Partners: Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers, Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Helbig Contributors: Florian Scheible, Florian Kamp, Dirk Richter, Roman Schieber, Johannes Beran Cooperation: ECADI, Shanghai, China Gross Floor Area: 280,000 sqm Membrane Roof Area: 65,000 sqm Project Y..
american firm archi(te)nsions developed a thematic pavilion for the yeosu 2012 world expo - which intends to raise interests and awareness of the oceans and to explore educational and scientific aspects of the state of the art research on the marine environment. to celebrate the ocean and its unifying element they developed their design concept around the shape of a waterfall. waterfalls are typ..
Programmatically the home is split into two zones, one a 4300 sf. residence for the owners, a couple requiring a very low maintenance lifestyle, and another zone for their extensive family and friends who visit the Arizona sunshine often. While much of the surrounding homes echo themes from distant European cultures of centuries past this home speaks to its specific place in the Sonoran Desert. ..
