We have been featuring different proposals for the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec competition including Saucier + Perrotte’s proposal and the winning proposal by OMA. BIG, who teamed with Fugere Architectes, just shared their proposal for the expansion with us. The design includes a grand green roof that, although it seems to slope at quite a precarious angle, is accessible for people t..
Project: House 6 Location: São Paulo, Brazil Site Area: 890 m2 Built Area: 995 m2 Architecture Author: Marcio Kogan Co-author: Diana Radomysler Interior Design Co-authors: Diana Radomysler, Mariana Simas Team: Beatriz Meyer, Carolina Castroviejo, Eduardo Chalabi Eduardo Glycerio, Gabriel Kogan, Lair Reis Maria Cristina Motta, Oswaldo Pessano, Renata Furlanetto Samanta Cafardo, Suzana Glogowski L..
New York studio Axis Mundi have designed a house for a mountainside in Montana, USA, which incorporates a 60 foot internal bridge Called Ark House, the building will have an entrance hall at one end sheltered by one of two steeply-sloping roof structures. From here residents will cross to the main house in the other end of the long narrow building, either by ascending to a platform that cantilev..
Architects: Samuel Ruiz Torres de Carvalho, Pedro Palmero Cabezas, architects Location: Monte da Caparica, Almada, Portugal Project Team: João Caetano, Xana Gavancha, Catarina Faria, Paulo Valente, Susana Medeiros, Sofia Afonso, Elise Azemard, Ricardo Alves Landscape: PROAP, João Nunes, Carlos Ribas, architects Structure: PPE, Eng. Eduardo Freitas Acoustics: APEN, Eng. João Gonçalves, Eng. Horác..
This house was designed as a part of the 189 house Elysium Noosa development. This generous and open house celebrates its wonderful location on the edge of an environmental park overlooking Lake Weyba. The sculptured modernist expression of its white washed walls and deeply carved recesses combine with thesoftening effects of finely detailed timber screens and natural finishes for a sense of con..
NBBJ, in collaboration and partnership with CCDI, have designed the Hangzhou Sports Park: A vibrant, pedestrian-centric sports and recreation development located in the midst of Hangzhou’s new urban environment. Situated on the Qian Tang riverfront opposite of the new Central Business District, and encompassing a site of approximately 400,000 square meters, the sports park is seen as an opportun..
“Stone On Stone” is a stop-motion video animation that uses the architectural language of High Gothic and Modernism to invent a contradictory history of their evolvement. The theme starts and finishes with the vast and unfinished Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC. It is contrasted with Le Corbusier’s La Tourette monastery in France, competed in 1960. The video uses this anomalous bu..
Architects: Béal & Blanckaert Location: Scientific quarter, Villeneuve d’Ascq, Paris, France Principals: Antoine Béal and Ludovic Blanckaert Project Team: J. Ramet, E. Veauvy, T. Foucray, L. Zimny Bet: HDM – Becquart Project Area: 950 sqm Budget: 1,850,000 euro Project Year: 2007-2009 Photographs: Julien Lanoo The project is integrated into the scientific university of Lille I. It groups the ent..
BLALYS is an apartment block designed by Japanese architects Suga Architects Office in Toyonaka city, Osaka, Japan. The building comprises 34 apartments.
Architects: MAD Office Location: Beijing, China Construction year: 2006 Constructed Area: 487.2 sqm Interior Area: 189.7 sqm Project Directors: Yansong Ma, Yosuke Hayano Project Architect: Florian Pucher Design team: Shen Jun, Christian Taubert, Marco Zuttioni, Yu Kui Associate Architects & Engineers: IDEA Design Studio Photographs: Shu He The expansion of Beijing city has intensively accelerate..
