Architect: HHF Architects + Ai Weiwei Design team: HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER & AI WEIWEI with Bhavana Hameed, Tom Strub, Fumiko Takahama, Magnus Zwyssig Structural engineering: Crawford & Associates, Hudson, NY Construction management: Crawford & Associates, Hudson, NY General Contractor: Robert Reed Construction, Germantown, NY Photos: Iwan Baan and Nikolas Koenig Client: private Livable ar..
Architects: Hidalgo Hartmann - Jordi Hidalgo Tané & Daniela Hartmann Location: Girona, Spain Project year: 2004 Technical Architec: Mateu Batlle Client: Lluis and Montserrat Contractor: Constructions Santa Pau S.L. Constructed Area: 375 sqm Photographs: Hidalgo Hartmann The structure and location of country houses is the result of a century-long study of ways to overcome conditionings such as to..
A new house, guesthouse, and garage form a community of buildings on a rural hilltop site, evoking a rural homestead. The buildings define a formal courtyard that opens to specific views of the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains. Copper, wood, and bluestone are the primary materials, deployed to affect a minimal and sculptural vocabulary. The buildings are embedded to varying degree within the roc..
Architect: Harald Opitz Location: Camino a Ensenada, Puerto Varas, Chile Contractor: Inmobiliaria Cielos del Sur Ltda Structure Engineer: Jose Torres Herrera Site Area: 14.000 sqm Constructed Area: 1.500 sqm Project Year: 2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Materials: Wood, Steel & Concrete Photographs: Francisco Negroni Young chilean architect Harald Opitz shared with us this impressive hotel lo..
Australian studio b.e. Architecture have completed a house in Melbourne clad in basalt slabs of varying size and thickness. The house, 57 Tivoli Road, is located on a sloping corner plot and has internal courtyards. A six metre-long window in the living room slides open over views of the city. The interior is primarily fitted out in wood, with a staircase twisting through the space and guest bed..
Architects: Murtinho y Asociados Arquitectos Location: Calle Holanda Nº64, Providencia, Santiago, Chile Client: Los Héroes Caja Compensación Architect in Charge: Santiago Raby Pinto Collaborators: Miguel Angel Contreras Ch. y Alejandra López Contractor: ALTIUS Refurbishment Area: 3.350 sqm Photographs: Pedro Mutis Johnson CONTEXT The challenge was the rehabilitation of a ‘70s building for a new ..
Architects: Choi Ropiha Location: Mona Vale, NSW, Australia Client: Graeme Jessup & Barbara Elkan Environmental Systems: Graeme Jessup Landscape: ExParrot Engineering: Simpson Design Associates - Northrop Engineers Construction: Graybuilt Photographs: Brett Boardman The client for the project has a long standing interest in building sustainability developed through working at the Sustainable Ene..
Architects Standardarchitecture-Zhaoyang Studio have completed a visitors centre next to a river in Tibet. The building was constructed using local vernacular techniques and brightly coloured pigments from local minerals have been painted directly onto the stone walls of the interior. Called Niyang River Visitor Center, the building contains a ticket office, changing room and bathroom. Photograp..
Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. Called Embedded Project, the structure was built in October 2008 in collaboration with artist Xu wenkai. It housed an installation that projected imaginary buildings and images from mapping programme Google Earth in response to..
Location Ponta Delgada, Açores Client Administração dos Portos das Ilhas de São Miguel e Santa Maria S.A. Date 2002 – 2008 Architecture and Urban Design Manuel Salgado, Marino Fei, Tomás Salgado and Pedro Pinto Interior light design Piero Castiglione Sculpture / Instalation Filipe Franco Site Area 50.153 m2 Build Area 18.000 m2 Cost 50.000.000 € The intervention has encompassed the city's long, ..