Rojkind Arquitectos and Copenhagen architects BIG have won a competition to design a museum overlooking Mexico City. The cross-shaped museum will occupy a hillside above the city and incorporate a large viewing platform on the roof. Cantilevered exhibition spaces provide shade for the social spaces beneath. Packaging, restoration and storage areas will also be open to visitors. The information b..
Here’s another project from FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects who designed the House of Vision in our previous story: this time, House of Inclusion in Shiga, Japan. The residence includes a courtyard sheltered from the street by a high wall. Photographs by Takumi Ot. Here’s some text from the architect: – House of inclusion This house, located in a new residential area, is for a 30-something couple..
House of Vision is a private home in Shiga, Japan by FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects that is designed to shield the client from neighbours. Completed last year, the house features largely blank exterior elevations but has large windows looking onto an enclosed central courtyard. Photographs are by Takumi Ota. Here’s some info from the architects: – House of vision The lot is located at the foot o..
Traditional materials of brick, concrete, limestone, steel, and zinc are used to form a non-traditional house on a typical lot on the north side of Chicago. The house further resists city conventions by uniting the front yard with the back with visual transparency, where sheets of glass more than ten feet high and fourteen feet wide terminate an open plan of sixty-three feet in length on the fir..
Switzerland based HHF architects recently have finished an invited project study for an industrial building in switzerland, it is a teaching and information center for the swiss sanitary supplier “Nussbaum“. Architects: HHF architects Project: Invited project study for an information- and trainingcenter Location: Olten, Switzerland Function: Information and Training center Footprint: 1200 m2 Tot..
Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed School Gym 704 in Barberà del Vallès, Spain. Commissioned by the city council of Barberà del Vallès, School Gym 704 is a prefabricated, prism shaped building with a sloping roof. The gym’s design includes a porch which provides access to the changing rooms and an outdoor running track for the children’s education centre. The structure of the gym is ma..
NRJA, previously featured on our AD Futures series, shared their entry for the House of Arts and Culture competition in Beirut, Lebanon. Project description and images after the break. Proposal for the House of Arts and Culture (the Lebanese-Omani Centre) is based on principles incorporated within competition’s guideline and architecture brief. The House of Arts and Culture tend to become the fi..
Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects have completed a church in Foligno, Italy. The new building will be opened on Friday. Photographs by Moreno Maggi. Here’s some more information from Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects: – Friday 24 April at 11 a.m. will be presented the new Church in Foligno, based on plans by Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas. The project was won in 200..
Lima-based architect Juan Carlos Doblado featured in our 2006 architect's directory. Since then, he's completed several more beach houses on Playa del Sol and this structure, a spectacular new private house in the foothills of the Andes. The new building comprises of two concrete pavilions, one nestled into the shallow slope, the other cantilevered forwards across the site. Doblado describes the..
Our friends from Mass Studies sent us their design for the Korean Pavillion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. The Korean Pavillion is situated in Zone A, directly neighboring the Japan Pavillion and the Saudi Arabia Pavillion, and in close proximity to the China Pavilion. The site is around 6000m2, and it is one of the largest lots within the expo compound. Located on the perimeter of the zon..