A few weeks ago we presented you photos from architectural offices that our readers shared through Facebook. And now, we bring to you the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, designed by Studio O+A. Studio O+A is a San Francisco based practice, founded by Primo Orpilla and Verda Alexander during the dot-com boom of the early 1990s, bringing quality design to start-ups and venture firms at Silicon Vall..
London practice Amanda Levete Architects have completed the facade of an office building off Oxford Street in London. Work on 10 Hills Place is now complete. Amanda Levete Architects has harnessed high quality ship hull technology to create an ingenious sculptural facade for a new office building just off London’s Oxford Street. Lack of daylight in the narrow streets around this major retail art..
Architects: Sinato - Chikara Ohno Location: Tokyo, Japan Use: Shop Project year: 2009 Constructed area: 79 sqm Photographs: Toshiyuki Yano The interior design of Patrick Cox shop who sells bags, leather goods and accessories. The shop is in a 17-story building Tokyo’s fashion-centric Aoyama district and it is only a few steps inside the building’s main entrance. The important point of this shop ..
Architects: PK Arkitektar ehf Location: Keflavík, Iceland Client: KFC Iceland Design team: Pálmar Kristmundsson and Fernando de Mendonça Consultants: VSB Engineers Constructed area: 530 sqm Project year: 2005 Photographs: Rafael Pinho Fast food restaurants like Kentucky Fried Chicken are usually known for the standardized look. The architecture in these places seems to never take much considerat..
Architects: Irisarri + Piñera / Jesús Irisarri Castro & Guadalupe Piñera Location: Pontevedra, Spain Client: Colegio de Arquitectos de Galicia Technical Architect: Sancho Páramo Cerqueira Contractor: Varela Villamar Master Builder: J. Manuel Pérez Boga Project area: 1,980 sqm Budget: 1,800,000 Euro Project year: 2007-2009 Photographs: Manuel Gonzalez Vicente Four constrictions for four freedoms ..
Architects: The Design Workshop, Parsons The New School for Design Location: Delisle, Mississippi, USA Spring Studio Instructor: David J. Lewis Summer Studio Instructor: Terry Erickson Summer Staff: Joel Stoehr Students: Huy Bui, Ivan Chabra, Sarah Coffin, Christian Eusubio, Dominique Gonfard, Kailin Gregga, Dominic Griffin, Parker B. Lee, Laura Lyon, Kip Katich, Nora Meehan, Shana Sandberg, Emi..
Yazdani Studio shared with us the Ordos Restaurant they are building in the Mongolian Desert. As I told you before on our interview with Mehrdad Yazdani, Yazdani Studio was one of the first practices working on the new city, with one villa finishing construction and also a Concert Hall and this restaurant (also nearing completion), public programs required by this huge development. During the in..
Architects: Kristin Jarmund Architects Location: Tjuvholmen, Oslo, Norway Building Type: Office building Project Scope: Full Contract Client: Tjuvholmen KS, Eitzen Group Size: 5000m2 Schedule: Completed 2007 Project Team: Kristin Jarmund, Ola Helle, Nils Herland, Patrik Larsson, Leif D.Houck, Marlene F. Andersen, Geir Messel, Line Strand, Aud Randi Astad, Arild Eriksen The area of Tjuvholmen, on..
New York and Beijing designers Elevation Workshop have completed the interior of a clothing store in Beijing, China. Called SongMax, the interior contains raised platforms arranged in an L-shape with dark grey walkways cutting between them. The designers wanted this division of space to simultaneously evoke a walk-in cupboard, catwalk and stage. Two red rails span three walls of the shop. Photog..
Architect: Spanjers Architect Location: Westkapelle, The Netherlands Client: Fletcher Hotel Group Footprint: 370 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Spanjers Architect On the beach of Westkapelle, a small coastal town in the Netherlands, recently a new beachclub called ‘Zuiderduin’ has opened its doors for the public. A building with a maximum outdoor floor surface where people can enjoy a snack..
