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, ..
ARCHITECTS: Risco (Manuel Salgado, Joao Almeida eTomás Salgado) www.risco.org ARCHITECTURE TEAM: João Almeida (site architect), Cristina Picoto, Catarina Pires e GianLuca Bono. INTERIOR DESIGN: FSSMGN (Fernando Sanchez Salvador e Margarida Grácio Nunes) www.fssmgn.com INTERIOR TEAM: Ana Tsukagoshi, Claire Campens, Eliana Candeias Alves, Miguel Ribeiro Carvalho, Nelson Magro, Sofia Torres Pereira..
Architects: Felber Szélpal Architekten ag, Solothurn Location: Solothurn, Switzerland Contractor: Galli AG, Surface and Civil Construction Structural Engineering: BSB+Partners, Engineers and Planners Furniture: Theo Jakob AG, Berne Project Year: 2006 Photographs: Bruno Helbling, Zurich The narrow form of the property together with its descending topography has amazing architectural consequences ..
San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz has completed a museum in Florida, USA, which is wrapped in a perforated metal skin and cantilevers out from its glazed base. Called Tampa Museum of Art, the building is divided into two volumes, each organised around a courtyard. The first contains public areas of the museum and the other is for offices and curatorial facilities. A cafe and bookstore ar..
Architects: GH+A / Guillermo Hevia Location: Graneros, Chile Collaborators: Tomás Villalón, Francisco Carrión, Guillermo Hevia García, Marcela Suazo Client: Nestlé Chile S.A. Contractor: Precon S.A. Bioclimatic Consultant: Biotech Lighting: Opendark Project Area: 2,800 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Cristián Barahona, Guillermo Hevia H. & Guillermo Hevia García The new building, part of Nes..
Architects: Jaime Rendon Arquitectos Location: Medellin, Colombia Project Team: Jaime Rendon, Felipe Campuzano, Fernando Zapata Structure Engineer: Luis Bernardo Gonzalez Contractor: Luz Estella Orrego Soil Study: SOLINGRAL LTDA Electrical Design: INGELECTRICA LTDA Construction year: 2006-2007 Photographs: Sergio Gomez, Felipe Campuzano This house is located at the suburbs of Medellin (Colombia..
Architects: KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten Location: Nanjing, China Developer: Jiangsu Province, represented by the Jiangsu Olympic Center, China Partner Company: Nanjing Kingdom Architecture Design Co. Ltd., China Structural Engineering: Breuninger Tragwerksplanung, Dr. Ulrich Breuninger Site Area: 10,605 sqm Project Area: 27,449 sqm Project Year: 2006-2010 Photographs: Courtesy of KSP Jürgen Eng..
