As we shared earlier this week, the Desiging in Teheran international competition urged designers to creatively rethink the potential a retail area can have upon an evolving metropolis (Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz’s won as we reported earlier on AD). Giuseppe Iodice’s proposal placed third as it aimed to create an architecture that ”would investigate a social, political, cultural function and bec..
Who: Junichi Sampei/ A.L.X. (ARCHITECT LABEL Xain) What: Single-family residence (2 adults and a child) w/ dance studio Where: Yokohama, Kanagawa When: May 2008 How: Three-story reinforced concrete construction Site Area: 1,093 square feet Construction Area: 634 square feet Total Floor Area: 1,224 square feet/ 1st Fl - 185 sf., 2nd Fl - 609 sf., 3rd Fl - 430 sf from whatwedoissecret
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ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. In this special series of ShowCase features, we are profiling a single project from each of the eight Architectural League's "Emerging Voices", as profiled in our recent feature 3 Questions for 8 Emerging Voices. We are always accepting nomination..
Daniel Libeskind’s recent project, a series of signature prefabricated homes, is a drastic change from his usual commissions. Although a smaller project (5,500 square foot), the residence strongly speaks his language of design with drastic angles, strong geometries and seamless transitions between spaces. In this ever-growing age of prefab dominance, Libeskind’s villas will be able to be shipped..
London practice ThreefoldArchitects have completed Ladderstile House, a courtyard house on Richmond Park in London. The house features a heated indoor swimming pool, wine cellars, stables and a large courtyard garden. It even has its own website (run by estate agents), www.ladderstilehouse.co.uk. Whoever buys the house will be able to make use of historic rights to a private gate to the park and..
Architects: TYIN Tegnestue Location: Noh Bo, Tak, Thailand Project team: Pasi Aalto, Andreas Grøntvedt Gjertsen, Yashar Hanstad, Magnus Henriksen, Line Ramstad, Erlend Bauck Sole Client: Ole Jørgen Edna Program: 6 sleeping units Budget: 68.000 NOK (Approx. 10.000 USD) Project year: November 2008 - February 2009 Photographs: Pasi Aalto TYIN tegnestue is a non-profit organization working humanitar..
Valenciennes, France HUBERT & ROY ARCHITECTS Above ground parking lot with 850 parking places. Valenciennes Hospital Centre. ICADE G3A client’s representative. (maître d'ouvrage délégué) Competition 2003, hand over 2005, complete mission, project underway. Surface area 19 113 m2, construction cost 4 900 000 Euros. Bruno J. Hubert & Michel Roy, architects. ARVAL, associated architects. Thomas Ada..
No se trata de un barco con un exquisito y amplio interior sino de una plataforma sobre la que se erige toda una edificación. Hace un tiempo crearon el prototipo y vista la viabilidad del proyecto se dedicaron a llevarlo adelante. El resultado: una casa amplia, bonita, cerca de la ciudad y perfectamente anclada. Estas singulares soluciones son perfectas para países en los que el terreno es limit..
Ginseng Chicken Architecture, a promising new firm, has proposed a design for the National Wildflower Center in Liverpool. The science center, which provides a variety of activities such as plant production areas and facilities for seed processing, “will inspire people to visit the center to learn about the relationship between nature, mathematics and physics…it will provide an operational hub f..