Architects: Gigaplex Architects Location: Woodland, Utah, USA Client: Jonathan “Earl” Stein Project year: 2006 Constructed area: 147 sqm Photographs: Gigaplex Program: Our charge was to design a house for a newly single man with two grown daughters from whom he expects multiple grandchildren. Earl, the client, is foremost a sound engineer, but also a screenwriter (of course), director and produc..
Architects: Kristin Jarmund Architects Location: Oslo, Norway Project year: 2005-2008 Project Team: Kristin Jarmund, Leif D. Houck, Børge N. Anfinsen, Gunn Andresen, Nora Müller, Arild Eriksen, Aud Randi Astad Client: Bertel O.Steen Constructed Area: 23,500 sqm Photographs: Leif D. Houck Functionally the building is a combined office building, car salesroom and workshop. Formally we worked with ..
Warsaw-based architects Are have designed a new terminal building for Lublin International Airport in Poland. The airport extension and renovation was designed in collaboration with Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas in Poland and Spain, and Polconsult. The project is due for construction in 2012. The following is from Are: – Competition for the renovation of the Lublin International Airport in Poland ..
Architects: GBGV Arquitectos - Federico García Barba y Cristina González Vázquez de Parga Program: Edificio Deportivo cubierto con canchas, gimnasio y piscinas Location: La Higuerita, La Laguna, Tenerife, España Project: 2003 Completion: Junio de 2008 Client: Excmo. Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Programa Urban de La Cuesta y Taco Contractor: Dragados S.A. Collaborators: Jorge Mosquera Paniagua (Arq..
Home.Haus by J. Mayer H. Architects and Sebastian Finckh Home.Haus - Home for Children and Adolescent Located near the edge of the forest in Hamburg, a new residential building is now finished as a home for children and adolescents. The characteristics of the building are based on a two colour relief facade embracing a compact house volume. A central staircase penetrates the division between flo..
A university faculty building in Milan by Irish practice Grafton Architects has been named World Building of the Year at the inaugural World Architecture Festival, held in Barcelona last week. Luigi Bocconi University was praised as a “magical subterranean realm” by judges including Robert Stern, Richard Burdett and Cecil Balmond. Here’s a statement from the World Architecture Festival, followed..
El diseño de pequeños edificios de apartamentos encuentra en Buenos Aires un terreno evidentemente fértil. La variedad y originalidad de las propuestas hacen de cada edificio una pieza arquitectónica singular, un nuevo modelo. La originalidad radica, en la mayoría de los casos, en la búsqueda de diversidad tipológica en el marco de una estricta economía de diseño; en la búsqueda de la poesía de ..
Private Residence and Workspace. Houston, Texas 2004-2006 Residential Projects 48’ House is a modest single family residence and workspace located in Houston, Texas. The size and proportion of the house is based upon a 4' x 8' framing module ideal for wood and steel construction. 48' House is sited at the rear of a standard residential lot adjacent to interstate I-59. The interstate is depressed..
Villa D es una vivienda unifamiliar situada al sudeste de Estocolmo, muy por encima del nivel de la calle en una parcela rocosa y escarpada que domina un hermoso paisaje. Dos criterios principales fueron considerados en la fase de diseño: a) el cliente deseaba acceder por la parte superior, y b) reducir todo lo posible la dificultosa modificación del terreno y los escombros resultantes. Se decid..
Una construcción ligera en madera y vidrio, una casa de veraneo en el archipiélago de Estocolmo. La organización de la planta está generada por las particularidades del terreno, una superficie plana entre dos grandes rocas que surgen del suelo, y con dos orientaciones importantes: hacia el sol, sur, y hacia el mar en el oeste. Excepto los servicios, los ambientes de la casa se vuelcan a una plat..