Architect: Rati Chomakhidze, Studia Arci Location: Tbilisi, Georgia Client: Arci development Design year: 2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Total plot area: 1,105 sqm Total built area: 4,310 sqm Living area: 2,100 sqm Office area: 650 sqm Photographs: Goga Mamasakhlisi The presented project is located in the general development plan of the Vake district and the surrounding area. The general plan..
Most city parts of Almere, a city with almost 190,000 inhabitants, have a petting farm. In the 'den Uyl' park there used to be one, but it burned down in the early 80's, leaving only its concrete foundation. Early 2005 we were commissioned by the municipality of Almere to design a new petting farm on the exact location and the remaining foundation. The building was finally built using almost onl..
German architect Ole Scheeren of Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed a skyscraper for Bangkok in Thailand. Called MahaNakhon, the building consists of a 77-storey glass tower. A band of shifted, box-like elements breaks up the surface and creates terraces and balconies. There will also be a public plaza, retail space, 200 homes, a hotel, bar and restaurant. Building is due for comp..
Architects: Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Oslo Norway Location: Remmen in Halden, Norway Project team: Reiulf D Ramstad, Espen Surnevik, Anja Strandskogen, Anders Tjønneland ++ ( all Architects MNAL) Client: Statsbygg, Norwegian Public Construction and Property Management Structural Engineer: Dr Techn. Kristoffer Apeland AS, Oslo Norway Mechanical Engineer: Erichsen & Horgen engineering AS, Oslo No..
Architects: ODOS architects Location: Dublin, Ireland Construction: SHALE Construction Constructed Area: 140 sqm Design Year: 2006 Construction Year: 2007-2008 Photographs: Ros Kavanagh and Barbara Corsico This new residential development, for a motorcycle enthusiast, adjacent to No.10 Grangegorman Villas, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 is an alternative reaction to the more traditional city centre infi..
Architects: Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz Arquitetos Location: Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil Architects in Charge: Fernando Forte, Lourenço Gimenes and Rodrigo Marcondes Ferraz Collaborators: Renata Davi, Renata Buschinelli Goes, Luiz Florence, Adriana Junqueira, Paloma Delgado, Ivo Magaldi, André Malheiros, Luciana Muller, Débora Zeppellini, Marília Caetano, Nilton Rossi, Ana Paula Barbosa L..
FORMER ALFA ROMEO FACTORY 2B-2C AREA URBAN PLAN NUOVO PORTELLO The project creates a new city part in coherence with the larger process of transformation affecting the area.The anomalous scale of the existing industrial Alfa Romeo precinct is opened to collective use by tracing a new series of pathways connecting it with the surrounding urban net. A new square along via Traiano generates a new d..
PARKRAND BUILDING Buurt 9 (neighborhood number nine) is a characteristic piece of the Amsterdam Western Garden Cities, a big housing development of the 1950s and 1960s built with the aim to house as many people as quickly as possible. But the design of the Garden Cities has enormous spatial qualities: sequences of spacious parks surround the neighborhoods and give the development its name. Recen..
Introduction This project aimed towards the creation of a small, though outstanding and unique residential building complex in the already densely built area of Varkiza.On the 379 m2 site, the building was positioned semi-attached on the side of the vertical circulation core, leaving the maximum possible distance from the road and allowing the creation of a spacious pool-garden. Additionally, th..
Architects: 57 STUDIO - Maurizio Angelini / Benjamín Oportot Location: Colina, Chile Collaborators: Felipe Zamora / Carla Uribe Project year: 2006-2007 Construction year: 2007-2008 Structural Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa Contractor: CYBCO Materials: Concrete / Steel / Stone Photographs: 57 STUDIO The assignment is a single unit house in a residential park in northern Santiago. The sites - about 50..