Back in April, we published the fascinating bridge proposal by Toronto-based Ja Studio incollaboration with Tadj-Farzin Studio which earned them lots ofpositive feedback. Following up is another proposal by this team; thistime, for the Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Service Center InternationalCompetition in Taiwan. The entry didn't make the competition shortlist,but we think it's definitely worth sh..
This villa by Athens firm Deca Architecture is one of a collection of 24 to be introduced to the Greek island of Antiparos by Athens developers Oliaros. Alonis is one of seven already completed as part of AntiarosDesignProperties, a development split over four sites that includes designs from Harry Gugger Studio and Atelier Bow-Wow. This villa has a roof supported on two parallel stone walls wit..
Studio101 Architects have designed a house in Point Lonsdale, Australia. This permanent beachside home, designed for a young family is located in an established, heavily treed native coastal environment. The rectilinear nature of the site and natural typography encouraged a simple yet highly efficient floor plan incorporating three pavilions linked by a continuous circulation spine. The eastern ..
Architects: Studio Kuadra Location: Fossano, CN, Italy Project Year: 2006 Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kuadra A cascade of chains on the facade, dynamic space, mobile, changing, not what you would expect from a bank, especially in a province at the foot of the Maritime Alps. The branch of this Credit Agency, winner of a closed competition, brings a breath of lightness and a levity that would ..
“Hovering” a large volume above the landscape eliminates the typical discontinuity between the front and rear garden areas and situates a built outdoor environment in the midst of a measurably larger feeling garden space. The blanketing roof is shaped to conduct softly gradient, reflected clerestory light while seemingly floating gently and protectively over the interior spaces. The second of th..
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photos of three health centres in Madrid by Spanish architects Estudio Entresitio, all with identical floor plans but executed in different materials. San Blas, Usera and Villaverde were all built on previously unused sites surrounded by social housing. Usera is clad in perforated metal panels with a gold finish. San Blas is a concrete cons..
Chinese architects NHDRO have transformed this disused Japanese army headquarters in Shanghai into a hotel, maintaining the building’s stripped concrete and brick walls while adding a new Corten steel extension on the roof. The Waterhouse hotel has nineteen rentable rooms spread over four storeys and a roof-terrace looking onto the neighbouring Huangpu River. Existing features like exposed concr..
Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff Architects have designed the Casa Barone in Ingarö-Evlinge, Sweden. An existing summer house on a steep continues slope was the starting point for this project. The old house sat in the middle of the property leaving only unusable narrow and highly sloping ground around it. A main issue was therefore to regain the property and to create flat areas with good sun conditio..
Architect: MoederscheimMoonen Architects Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Project Architect: Erik Moederscheim Project Team: Erik Moederscheim, Ruud Moonen, Jelle Rinsema Engineering: Bureau Bouwkunde Structural Engineering: IBT Bouwtechniek General Contractor: Batenburg BV Client: Municipality of Rotterdam Gross floor space: 1,410 sqm Photographs: Rob ‘t Hart MoederscheimMoonen Architects r..
Studio H:T have designed the Fractured residence in Boulder, Colorado. The project creates spatial experience from the fracture implied by splayed property lines. The resulting volumetric fissure of the building mass organizes the horizontal circulation and creates the space of the stair cavern. The fracture also serves as a connector between the two entries of the long narrow dwelling, thus rem..
