HL23_ NEIL M. DENARI ARCHITECTS NEW YORK, 2005-2009 Developed by Alf Naman and currently in construction, HL23 is a 14 floor condominium tower that responds to a unique and challenging site directly adjacent to the High Line at 23rd street in New York's West Chelsea Arts district. Partially impacted by a spur from the elevated tracks that make up the High Line superstructure, the site is 40' x 9..
Nombre de la obra: residencia DN Local: São Paulo – SP Fecha de finalización: Diciembre de 2004 Área aproximada: 612 m2 Autores del proyecto: Cláudio Bernardes, Thiago Bernardes e Paulo Jacobsen Equipo técnico: Andrés Galvez, Adriana Dias e Paulo Mattos Principales suministradores: Proyecto de estructuras de concreto: João Leão Ejecución de la estructura metálica: Açomig Proyecto hidráulico: Pau..
A cube is filled with water and fish. Underneath is an array of ultra-violet lights (blacklights) that light up the fish from below. Because of the properties of UV light, the light source itself doesn't glow but only the light bounced off certain surfaces does. The fish are used as light reflectors, glowing as the UV light is bounced off them. An organic lighting system. Exhibited for Cliche ma..
Architects Baumschlager Eberle have designed a combined clubhouse and boathouse at Port Rohner on Lake Constance in Fussach, Austria. The cube-shaped building consists of an irregular concrete structure enveloped in glass. “The irregular structure of the concrete elements is set off against the regular rectangular shapes of the sheets of glass,” say the architects. “The randomness of the glass d..
La Casa en Bahía de los Piratas explota las virtudes de un terreno incómodo, con dos actitudes opuestas respecto del paisaje: el gesto dramático de cara al mar y la integración casi mimética en la vegetación que la respalda. La estructura ligera de acero galvanizado levita sobre el camino de acceso vehicular. El sutil detalle del perfil alado de la cubierta, con pendiente contraria y longitudina..
More from UNStudio: the Dutch architects have completed Star Place department store in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The structure centres around a 10-storey atrium, where each escalator spirals up to the next floor. Called Ta Lee Plaza during development, the completed building has been renamed Star Place. More information about the project in our previous story. Photographs by Christian Richters. More in..
Architects: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor Location: Stockholm, Sweden Architects in charge: Gert Wingårdh, Cecilia Ström, Per Söderberg Collaborators: Gustav Appell, Ewa Bialecka-Colin, David Christoffersson, Daniel Frickeus, Bengt Hellsten, Robert Hendberg, Rickard Karlsson, Stefan Nilsson, Hanna Samuelsson Design Year: 2003 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Client: AB Svenska Bostäder Construction: Tyrén..
Lighting designer Bruce Munro has completed his Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. The installation is situated on the grass roof of the visitors’ centre, and consists of 6,000 acrylic tubes capped with glass spheres and containing optical fibres. See our previous story for more information about the installation, which will remain in place until spring 2009. T..
Young Argentinian architects Adamo-Faiden have completed a new residential building in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The building, called Conesa 4560, contains twelve apartments and is situated in the Saavedra district of the city. “Every house tries to continue the tradition of the old houses of the neighbourhood by adding open spaces,” say the architects. “A central patio organises the internal cir..
CitizenM is a hotel made of prefabricated room modules at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, designed by Dutch architectural firm Concrete. Each of the 230 rooms was built ad furnished in a factory and then stacked like shipping containers to form the hotel. The following is from CitizenM: – Project: CitizenM Hotel Client: CitizenM GENERAL INFORMATION: citizenM is a new Dutch hotel group that opens th..
