Architects: A2RC Architects Location: Brussels, Belgium Client: Palais des Congrès sa and SPF Artist: Arne Quinze Budget: 60,000,000 € Area: 52,000 sqm Competition year: 2000 Project year: 2002-2006 Construction year: 2006-2009 Photographs: A2RC Architects An audacious architectural proposition to the city offers a newfound visibility to the former “Palais des Congrès” by means of a poetic emble..
Australian design firm Carr Design Group have completed a modular house in Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. Called Modular House, the residence comprises two buildings, each arranged along a spine housing all services. The main building contains the living room, dining room, kitchen, study, storage and bedrooms, connected by glazed walkways. Split-level timber decking joins this building to the gue..
Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice, have designed a studio for themselves that showcases their philosophy of design and provides a great space to work. The “workhouse”, an elevated steel, glass and plywood studio, “explores the notion of a mixed work / house typology.” The architects intended for the project to expresses lightness in its modular structural form, transparency, te..
Site: Vitoria, Spain Architect: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Work direction: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Collaborators: Architecture: José Mª Gastaldo, Richard Král’ovič, Eduardo Pérez de Arenaza. Structural engineering: NB 35 SL (Jesús Jiménez Cañas / Alberto López) Ingenieros. Installations engineering: Iturralde y Sagüés ingenieros / César Martín Gómez. Acoustic engineering: Higini Arau...
Tokyo Designers Week 09: Japanese designer Nosigner presented a jewellery box with square drawers at Design Tide Tokyo earlier this week. Called Squares, the front of the piece is divided into squares of different sizes. The surface is pollished using a technique traditionally used for finishing mirror stands in the Tokushima prefecture of Japan. Drawers are only released if the central one is o..
Architect: António Sérgio Koch Location: Oporto, Portugal Program: Private House Site area: 1,275 sqm Constructed area: 655 sqm Project Year: 2006-2009 Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra The building sit is a street corner, in a natural terrace by the sea and the occupation of that is based on the search for optimal morphology of the land as a form of resolution for the deploy..
Paris practice LAN Architecture have designed a 142m high “mirror tower” for Beirut, Lebanon. The tower is part of 486 Mina El Hosn, a development also consisting of a shopping centre and five blocks of housing. Located in the port area of the city, the tower will be clad in glass and steel mesh, reflecting views of the surrounding city. Here’s some more information from LAN: – 486 Mina El Hosn ..
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photographs of a community centre near Avelgem, Belgium, designed by Belgian architects Dierendonck Blancke. Dierendonck Blancke collaborated with architects Stefaan Onraet, Tom Callebaut and Jonas Desmyter to design the centre, built on an existing slope on the border of a nature reserve in a small village. The concrete building consists of a theatre, a..
The Hespeler Library addition and renovation in the Town of Hespeler, Ontario (now part of Cambridge) wraps a 1922 Carnegie Library in this historically significant textile mill town within an elegant and generous glass case. The new building envelope is contemporary in its materiality with modulated ceramic frit patterns on glass that weave around the building to create varying degrees of trans..
Architects: Pasel.Kuenzel Architects Location: Leiden, The Netherlands Project Area: 130 sqm building + 60 sqm garden Project year: 2005-2009 Photographer: Marcel van der Burg As the plot does not allow for traditional front or back gardens, the design incorporates open-air spaces within the build structure. The open floor plan with its voids generates exciting views inside the volume and enhanc..
