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..
A-lab just won a competition to design a military base in Norway which will be situated on the northern border with Russia. The design challenge was to create a cohesive complex where work and private life coexist, and where military services meet the civil community. The project is comprised of a larger u-shaped building which houses most of the functional needs, while the remaining program is ..
Architects: Studio EDR Eskew+Dumez+Ripple / Guidry Beazley Architects Location: Lafayette, Louisiana, USA Consultants: J.B. Mouton, Inc. – General Contractor, Associated Design Group – MEP Engineers, Bellard and Associates – Structural Engineer, Visual Acuity – Visualization Systems, Global Data Systems – Communications/IT, Jon Emerson & Associates – Landscape Architect Client: Lafayette Economi..
Architects: Studio EDR Eskew+Dumez+Ripple – Guidry Beazley Architects Location: Key West, Florida, USA General Contractor: BRPH MEP Engineer: Associated Design Group, Inc. Structural Engineer: McKee and Deville Consulting Engineers Civil Engineer: URS Group, Inc. Cost Management: Atkins HF+G Year of Completion: 2006 Client: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra..
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..
Architects: Klab architecture Location: Plateia Theatrou, Psiri, Athens, Greece Design team: Konstantinos Labrinopoulos, Miltos Farmakis Area: 150m2 Completion date: 2007 photos: Babis Louizidis ‘Guru Bar’ was one of the first bars to open in the central area of Psiri in Athens at a time when the neighbourhood was beginning to be transformed into a vibrant cultural area. The rebuilding of the di..
Architect: Iñaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares Location: Los Peñascales, Madrid, Spain Technical Architect: Manuel Iglesias Contractor: Antón Iakobiny Pitch S.L. Client: Guirao-Carnicero Project Year: 2005-2009 Photographs: Courtesy of Iñaqui Carnicero The house is located in a small neighbourhood on the west boundaries of Madrid in a place called “los Peñascales”, that mean something as well as ..
In the 1970’s architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, both unknown at the time, collaborated and erected one of the most famous and radical buildings of our time, Centre Georges Pompidou. The cultural center in Paris, France turned our world inside out, literally. It all began with Georges Pompidou, President of France from 1969 to 1974, who wanted to construct a cultural center in Paris that..
Parque Humano Architects have designed a club house on a golf course in Morelia, Mexico. The house occupies a natural ledge on a hillside looking towards the panoramic valley of Montana Monarca, in Morelia, Mexico. The building has been conceived as a homogenous stone mass, hollowing out a huge opening that slopes from ceiling to floor, framing the hillside panorama. A sloped celosia grid meant ..
