Holland Park School, due for completion in 2012, is a landmark education scheme within the Kensington conservation area adjacent to Holland Park in London. It will provide accommodation for 1,500 students aged between 11 and 18, and over 100 staff. The site benefits from excellent public transport links and will serve as a social and educational hub. Extended operating hours will enable the Kens..
This house is a tower rising above the rolling topography of its cherry orchard site, peering outwards toward spectacular westward views of Lake Michigan and the surrounding agricultural landscape. The site is left minimally disturbed, other than the mounding of two earthen enclosures adjacent to the tower, utilizing the excavated earth of the foundation and offering a ground bound contrast to t..
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message. The green surroundings, and the development of a new typology of affordable houses, following traditional constr..
Principal use: Residence Building site: Okayama, Japan Site area: 1035.92m2 Building area: 288.64m2 Total floor area: 342.70m2 Number of stories: 1F Structure: Reinforced Concret + Steel Architects: Tezuka Architects - Takaharu+Yui Tezuka, Masahiro Ikeda, Chie Nabeshima, Hiroshi Tomikawa Architectural and Structural desing: Tezuka Architects + MASAHIRO IKEDA co., ltd Lighting design: Masahide Ka..
Architect: 1100 Architect Location: New York, USA Principal: Juergen Riehm, David Piscuskas Project Architect: Christine Harper Project Managers: Bo Lee, Sebastian Kaempf Designer: Jessica Spiegel MEP Engineer: ESC Consulting Engineers Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates General Contractor: Hunter Roberts Construction Group Exterior Consultant: Israel Berger Project Year: 2008 Construc..
statoilhydro office, norway eco office, a-lab eco office, sustainable architecture, green design, energy-efficient architecture, green building This stunning energy-efficient office recently won a competition to design the 2012 location for Norway’s oil company StatoilHydro. Conceived by Oslo’s A-lab, the modern and flexible office compound took the winning bid from a pool of some 40 entries. Th..
KHR Architects wins competition for new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City KHR architects won the competition for a new school, leisure space and library in Ørestad City with consulting engineers WSP Group Cenergia Energy Consult and Bisgaard Landscape Architects ApS. They won over Witraz architects and architects Henning Larsen. The reasons for the choice of architects KHR for th..
dutch firm cie architects recently received first prize in the competition to design the tianjin urban planning museum, china. the building is composed of 3 distinct sections: urban planning museum and offices, new year's painting gallery and studios, and a conference centre totaling 29,000 sqm including parking. the conceptual framework for the project emerged from superimposing different urban..
RECENT CBD’S... Many recent Central Business’ Districts (CBD) consist of series of more or less straightforward office towers without much coherence, each of them celebrating individuality over the collective. These developments are leading to very similar CBD’s. Is this desirable? Or can we find a way to combine individuality with more collective urban qualities? Can there be a more distinguish..
Architects: Babel Architecture / Sharon Rotbard, Dan Hasson, Yuval Yasky Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Collaborators: Shira Gleitman, Jessy Feng, Igor Shevchenko, Amit Mandelkern, Omer Barr Structure Consultant: Itzhak Rokach, Rokach-Ashkenazi Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Cons..
