Architect: Martin Fenlon Architecture Location: Eagle Rock, California, USA Client: Michele & Wiley Langford Contractor: Pieter Rousseau Constructed Area: 912 sqm Project Year: 2006-2009 Photographs: Martin Fenlon Architecture A dilapidated Spanish Colonial duplex sat empty and neglected on a quant hillside street in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles. As an anomaly with two legal units in a sin..
The Paraty House by Marcio Kogan Architects Paraty House’s two reinforced concrete boxes, sit atop each other, connected on the mountainside of one of the islands of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), like two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast. The building projects outward from the mountain, almost onto the..
Architects: al bordE - David Barragan y Pascual Gangotena Location: Tumbaco, Quito, Ecuador Client: Sra. Carla Flor Technical Advisor: Arq. Bolivar Romero, Rammed Earth specialist Contractor: Sr. Miguel Ramos Site area: 5.000 sqm Constructed area: 180 sqm Project year: 2007 Construction year: 2007?2008 Photographs: Raed Gindeya, Pascual Gangotena, David Barragan The wish to set up, the search fo..
Architects: Irisarri + Piñera / Jesús Irisarri Castro & Guadalupe Piñera Location: Pontevedra, Spain Structural Collaborator: Antonio Reboreda Martínez Technical Architect: Sandra Valverde Concrete & Structure: CHS – Construcciones Hnos. Sanz S.L. Domotic: Indomotika Sistemas y Comunicaciones, S.L. Project year: 2004-2006 Photographs: Manuel Gonzalez Vicente, Jesús Irisarri & Angel Baltanás Our ..
Architects: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos Location: Várzea Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil Architects in Charge: Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz Coordinator: Renata Davi Collaborators: Adriana Junqueira, Ana Paula Barbosa, Fernanda Alpiste Trainees: Paloma Delgado, Luciana Muller Structure: Catuta Engenharia Contractor: Construtora Linic Site Area: 6,344 ..
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Albertslund, Denmark Client: Freja Ejendomme A/S Constractor: N. H. Hansen og Søn A/S Construction Engineer: Jørgen Nielsen A/S Engineering, Electricity & Plumbing: Jens-Peter Madsen ApS Landscape: Svend Kierkegaard A/S Site Area: 875 sqm Construction Area: 408 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Adam Mørk Architectural Concept Community Centre H..
Architects: Ezzo Location: Felgueiras, Portugal Architect in Charge: César Machado Moreira Collaborators: Fátima Barroso, Hugo Torres, Carla Barbosa Project year: 2008 Constructed Area: 200 sqm Photographs: Joao Ferrand The Place It’s a project for a rural hotel located in a farm with 10 hectares of land, 90% of which are used as vineyards. The interior of the land contains various previously ex..
A year and a half ago, OMA unveiled the first images for a residential project in Singapore, on schematic design phase. Basically it was a set of stacked low-rise blocks. Today OMA sent us an update on this project, The Interlace, and more details appear. The project is located on a green belt outside the capital city, and consists on 31 stacked apartment blocks, each six-stories tall and identi..
Architects: Arquitectos Anónimos® and Paulo Teodósio Location: Vila Nova Gaia, Portugal Client: Fernando Afonso and Fátima Cardoso Structural consultant: Paulo Lima and Manuel Branco Leite Floor area: 90 sqm Site area: 320 sqm Built-up area: 270 sqm Start of planning: 2004 Start of construction: 2005 Completion: 2006 Photographs: Abel Andrade Two criteria lead to the final solution: 1. Geometric..
Architects: PK Arkitektar ehf Location: Keflavík, Iceland Client: KFC Iceland Design team: Pálmar Kristmundsson and Fernando de Mendonça Consultants: VSB Engineers Constructed area: 530 sqm Project year: 2005 Photographs: Rafael Pinho Fast food restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken are usually known for the standardized look. The architecture in these places seems to never take much considerat..
