A-cero Architects have sent us photos of a house they designed in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid. The balance on which rest the three principles defining this construction, beauty, firmness and utility give us the key to confront its forcefulness, which emerges as a great sculptural work. It is a plastic reality: the singularity of the house defines a researching purpose that places value on aesthet..
Paris architects Laetitia Delubac and Christian Félix have completed a holiday home and guest house in Siwa, Egypt. Called Ecolodge and situated overlooking the desert, the building is constructed from locally-available materials including mud, sun-fired bricks, palm wood, reeds and stone. The walls are made of a traditional local building material called kershef that consists of mud, sand and ..
Architects: Max Pritchard Architect Location: Kangaroo Island, SA, Australia Engineering Consultant: Engineers Pocius & Associates Project year: 2008 Project Area: 1,548 sqm Photographs: Sam Noonan & George Apostolidis Sam noonan - Copyrighted 2009-05-6422-06-Southern Ocean Lodge-George Apostolidis Sam noonan - Copyrighted Sam noonan - Copyrighted Southern Ocean Lodge is being described as Austr..
Architects: DnA Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia Project team: Tiantian Xu,Guillaume Aubry,Yingnan Chen Program: Museum Client: Ordos Jiangyuan Water Engineering Co. Ltd Design year: 2005-2006 Construction year: 2006-2007 Site area: 420 sqm Building area: 270 sqm Photographs: Savoye/Ruogu Zhou, Iwan Baan Ordos Art Museum is the first building of Ordos’ new civic center on a stretch of sand dunes ..
Architect: Fearon Hay Architects Location: Closeburn Station, Queenstown, New Zealand Constructed Area: 100 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Patrick Reynolds The mountain retreat is a small structure set within a high country station occupying 1,300 hectares on the south facing shores of Lake Wakatipu, Central Otago. This region of New Zealand is also known as the Southern Lakes. It is an alp..
spanish architecture studio menis arquitectos has been awarded 1st prize for the design of the auditorium and congress center in morro jable. the center is located on a rocky hillside right above the beaches south fuerteventura. the building will be embedded into the terrain, emerging from within the rocks. the design of the whole structure has been deliberately textured, coloured and finished t..
Architects: Studio NminusOne Location: Whistler, British Columbia, Canada Client: Marc Morisset Construction Year: 2005 Contractor: Michael McGillion Engineering: David Strandberg and C. A. Boom Photographs: Studio NminusOne The Khyber Ridge house was commissioned by a professional snowboarder. The strategy takes its cue from the intimate engagement of a shredder following the line of a mountain..
Architects: Bernard Quirot & Olivier Vichard Location: Buillon, France Collaborator: Delphine Tempesta Structure: FDI, François Durant Constructed Area: 135 sqm Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle Located in a small village 10 kilometers south of Besançon, the main town of the region « Franche Comté », this house was built far from the center of the village, up on the hill which dominates the river..
Architect: Paulo Henrique Paranhos Location: Brasilia, Brazil Collaborators: Eder Alencar, Ana Carolina Vaz Project year: 2005-2007 Constructed Area: 2,600 sqm Structure: Yasser Vasconcelos Installations: Promap Photographs: Joana França, Tao Arquitetura and Telmo Ximenes A neighborhood in constant changes where buildings are adapting their destination to commerce and service, this building show..
Project: Turistroute in Eggum Location: Eggum, Norway Typology: Turistroute/landscape Scope: Concurrent design Size: 5500 m2 Client: Norwegian Public Roads Administration Schedule: 2007 In winter 2004 Snøhetta won the concurrent design at Eggum, which is part of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration’s E10 tourist route project through the dramatic and beautiful landscape of Lofoten. The task..