XTEN Architecture have designed Sapphire Gallery, an extension to a house for art collectors in Los Angeles, USA. Cantilevered above the existing 1960’s house, the structure is clad in perforated aluminium to protect the artwork from direct sun but allow views of the gardens beyond. Solar cells are arranged in a similar pattern on the south facade and sloping roof. Radiant heating and cooling sy..
Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke Location: Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile Collaborators: Danilo Lazcano, Gonzalo Torres Structural Engineer: Claudio Assar Olguín Technical Inspection: Smiljan Radic Contractor: Eugenio Durán Constructive System: Masonry Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 1600 sqm Constructed Area: 210 sqm Photographs: Gonzalo Puga These two houses -actually there´s..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Katowice, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny, Marlena Wolnik Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski Design Year: 2000 Construction Year: 2001-2002 Site Area: 3,500 sqm Constructed Area: 330 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic fau..
Client Helse Sør-Øst RHF Engineering Multiconsult AS SWECO AS Hjellnes COWI AS / Interconsult ASA Architect Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller Landscape Bjørbekk & Lindheim AS Schønherr Landskab A/S Artist Troels Wörsel, Gunilla Klingberg, Mari Slaattelid, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Jan Christensen, Tony Cragg, Birgir Andrésson, Petteri Nisunen, Tommi Grönlund, Julie Nord, Per Sundberg, Vesa Honkonen, Jan..
Artfarm Town of Clinton, New York, 2006 - 2008 , in collaboration with the artist Ai Weiwei Client private Team HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Tom Strub, Fumiko Takahama Photos by Iwan Baan, www.iwan.com The ARTFARM is located in upstate New York, on the site of a private residence. The building is designed as a gallery for a professional art collection. On the interior it is subdivided into..
Architects: Garduno Arquitectos - Juan Garduno, Ernesto Flores, Ricardo Guzman, Daniel Banda Location: Polanco, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico Project year: 2008 Site Area: 1,100 sqm Constructed Area: 6,300 sqm Structural Design: Diseno y Supervision S.C. Contractor: BICYQ Construcciones Photographs: Sofocles Hernandez, Paul Czitrom The lot was located in a difficult area, originally classified as hig..
Por su ubicación respecto de las áreas industriales y químicas del entorno, que no permiten un uso residencial, el edificio rehabilitado de una antigua serrería alberga ahora un taller de arquitectura. El proyecto recupera el edificio conservando su estructura y cerramiento perimetral. La rehabilitación se materializa en dos tratamientos diferentes para el interior y el exterior. El exterior val..
Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these photos of Casa Parr, a recently completed house by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos in Chiguayante, Chile. The single-storey house is built on the site of the owner’s childhood home. The new building comprises twelve rooms arranged around nine courtyards, constructed around the existing trees on the site. Each room has a high, pitched ceiling wit..
Buenos Aires-based architects Moarqs have designed an office building in Acassuso, Buenos Aires, Argentina. All dimensions of the three-storey building are derived from the proportions of the bricks used for the facade, in order to avoid cutting them. The following is from Moarqs: – It is a small office building for rent, standing on the corner of Dardo Rocha and Tres Sargentos streets in Acassu..
Architects: nArchitects Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project team: Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang; Dominique Gonfard, Hubert Pelletier, Alice Wong (Project Manager), Adam Vana Engineers: Ove Arup NY; MEP (Mahadev Raman), Structures (Markus Schulte, Thomas Claassen) Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongo..
