On July 27, Bustler reported about the big night at Calgary’s Grand Theatre where the five competition finalists presented their designs for the Cantos National Music Center competition. Presenting firms that night were Diller Scofidio and Renfro, New York, NY, Jean Nouvel Workshop, Paris, France, Allied Works Architecture/BKDI, Portland, OR, Saucier + Perrotte, Montreal, Quebec, and Studio Pali..
REX and Principal in Charge Joshua Prince-Ramus have been named the winner of the BibLLLiotheek competition to build a “Library of the Future” for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. New York-based REX partnered with landscape architects Bureau Bas Smets in entering the competition, which included both a building and master plan. In making its decision, the BibLLLiotheek jury noted that the REX desig..
This villa is located in plot #52 of the ORDOS project. Architects: Tatiana Bilbao Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox The design is based on the archetype form of a house. The concept is composed of a study of seve..
name: n house place: warsaw design: 2008 construction: 2009 status: design designers: jakub majewski, lukasz pastuszka collaborator: tomasz bierzanowski, katarzyna kazimierczyk investors: private usable floor area: 265㎡ from moomoo
Polish architecture practice moomoo architects have designed a house that will be clad entirely in a plastic insulating material normally used for roofing. To be located in Łódź, Poland, the design is based on that of traditional Polish houses but the roof rises steeply towards one end of the building. One wall will protrude from the residence at an angle to accommodate planning laws that mean t..
Architect: QVE Arquitectos Location: Vitoria, Spain Architects in charge: Jose Maria Garcia del Monte, Ana Maria Montiel Jimenez & Fernando Garcia Colorado Cost consultant: Rafael Valin Alcocer / Project Phase Structure Consultant: Jose Luis Fernandez Cabo Cost consultant: Jose Luis Montoya & Luis Alberto Martinez de Sarria / Construction Phase Services Consultant: GEA S.L. Project year: 2002-20..
KSP Engel und Zimmermann recently designed a 77,000 square meter library extension to accommodate the existing National Library of Beijing. The new addition will hold approximately 12 million books and be used by an estimated 12,000 people per day. The Si Ku Quan Shu collection, “unparalleled in its historical and cultural significance”, includes manuscripts produced during the Ch’ing dynasty (1..
Danish firm schmidt hammer lassen architects has won an international design competition for a new 13,500 m2 auditorium complex for the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University) in Aachen, Germany. Twenty-one German and international companies were invited to participate in the competition. This is the first project for the Danish firm in Germany. The new audit..
Architects: Single Speed Design Location： North Cambridge, MA, USA Programme： Housing, Commercial Project year： 2008 Site Area： 2,335 sqm Constructed Area： 2,936 sqm Images: Single Speed Design Most are familiar with Boston’s ongoing “Big Dig”- the Central Artery Tunnel Project that is one of the largest construction undertakings in American urban history. Few, however, give thought to the massi..
Another project by recent Dezeen regulars Suppose Design Office: this time a house in Matsuyama, Japan, designed to offer a view of the surrounding scenery from every room. Walls integral to the structure of the building have been scattered across the floor-plan, opening various clear views through the structure while maintaining the building’s required earthquake resistance. The toilet can be h..
