Architects: Marek Rytych Architekt Location: Warsaw, Poland Project team: Marek Rytych, Krzysztof Kryska, Joanna Kiepas Project Area: 436 sqm Photographs: MRA Through this house you can rush by and not even notice that you have trespassed a kind of a border. There is no threshold - literally and figuratively. Paved road, on which we step towards the entrance penetrates the interiors and comes ou..
Dutch architects MVRDV in collaboration with Madrid architect Blanca Lleo have completed a social housing project in Madrid, Spain. The large block is divided into thirty smaller, staggered blocks of apartments, creating communal patios throughout the building and allowing air and light to penetrate between the homes. In Madrid-Sanchinarro the first residents received the keys to their apartment..
Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Nagoya, Japan, featuring a room dedicated to plants. The house, situated on a narrow plot surrounded by neighbouring houses, accommodates the client’s desire for a vibrant garden by including a landscaped “garden room” bordering the main living space. The architects aimed to treat the rooms and garden in the same way. Object..
Architect: Studio Gang Architects Location: Chicago, IL, USA Owner: SOS Children’s Villages Completion: 2008 Photographs: Steve Hall @ Hedrich Blessing SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings. Multi-faceted public spaces in t..
Casa en la Cala Galiota, Mallorca, Spain, by Joan Riera + Francisco Barceló from dailyicon
German firm Architekten Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck have completed a copper-clad concert hall in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria. Called the Schloss Grafengg Concert Hall and located in the grounds of Grafenegg Castle, the new building has been integrated with the castle’s existing, heritage-protected, former riding-school buildings, to which it is connected by a series of glazed lobbi..
We just received this from OMA: After almost 12 years in the boards, OMA announced that the De Rotterdam complex will enter construction during December 2009, expecting completion in 2013. Tree stacked towers with a total height of 150m, will result on a gross floor area of approximately 160,000m2, making De Rotterdam the largest building in the Netherland, with a total cost of €340m. The mixed-..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Venice, California, USA Constructed Area: 672 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Sander Architects The Orange Office is an architecturally distinctive landmark on Lincoln Blvd that will be immediately identifiable by its orange exterior. Orange fiber grate provides a screen over translucent acrylic to diminish heat gain. At night the building will glow th..
Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Location: Epinay, France Project Manager: Aliette Chauchat Client: Espacil Habitat Project Management Associate: Betom, BET - Michel Larsonneur Constructed Area: 9,000 sqm Project year: 2003-2008 Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol The conception of our project joins in a second reading of the landscape of the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history..
Location: Zenotz. Ultzama Valley Total Area: 5.200 m2 Prizes: Finalist X Bienal Spanish Architecture 2009 The plot is in the middle of one of the most humid valleys of northern Navarre. A valley of gentle but sturdy hills, where the green pasture and oak trees configure a landscape of strong character, whose color changes with the seasons. A valley dotted with a system of small and relatively cl..