French architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture have designed a car showroom and leisure centre for Cairo, Egypt. The structure is based on a series of connecting circles and spherical cavities. “The intersection between them creates all the circulations, atriums, and visual perspectives through the whole building,” explain the architects. Made of concrete, the building will be made up of ident..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Venice, California, USA Constructed Area: 672 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Sander Architects The Orange Office is an architecturally distinctive landmark on Lincoln Blvd that will be immediately identifiable by its orange exterior. Orange fiber grate provides a screen over translucent acrylic to diminish heat gain. At night the building will glow th..
Architect: Epstein | Metter Studio Location: Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA Principal Designer: Andrew Metter, FAIA Design Architect: Daesun Park, AIA|LEED AP Interiors: Epstein Interiors Landscape Architect: Jacobs/Ryan Engineer: Epstein Engineering General Contractor: G.A. Johnson Constructed Area: 8,360 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Mark Ballogg This project is a 90,000 s.f. Corporate H..
UNIQLO MEGASTORE in Tokyo has opened Tokyo based design studio, Curiosity has completed the design of the Uniqlo Megastore that has opened near Shinjuku station in Tokyo. The new design is strongly influenced by the Tokyo urban landscape and the large entrance, marked with three display towers, recreates a mini-Shinjuku city. As the lighting floor wraps the towers in a glow of light that illumin..
Architects: PROJEKTSTUDIO, ing.arch. David Kotek Location: Ostrava, Czech Republic Consultant: Hutní projekt Ostrava a.s. Constructed Area: 2,200 sqm Project year: 2006 Photographs: PROJEKTSTUDIO The fundamental concept of the design is the division of the Substance of the structure into two clearly defined buildings – hall and administration. It is dialogue between the static and the dynamic, a..
Danish architects C.F.Møller and Norwegian practice Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter have won a competition to design three office towers in Oslo. Called Crystal Clear, the winning design features towers composed of consists of stacked glazed boxes. Here’s some info from C.F.Møller: – C.F.Møller Architects and Norwegian Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter cooperate to design a new landmark for Oslo C. F. Mølle..
Architect: Workshop 1 Dunn + Hillam Architects Location: Botany, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Project Team: Ashley Dunn, Lee Hillam, Linden Thorley Structural Engineer: John Carrick Builder: Workshop 1 Dunn + Hillam Architects and Brett Wiley Constructions Constructed Area (Studio): 140 sqm Constructed Area (House): 50 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photographer: Kilian O’Sullivan In 2002 we bough..
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..
Architects: Antonio Eraso Co. Location: One Fullerton, Singapore Client: Mr. Loh Lik Peng and Chef Yong Bing Ngen Design Team: Antonio Eraso, Andres Atela, Akira Kita, Narisa C.watananun, Sharon de Guzman General Contractor: Cheng Meng Furniture Co Pte Ltd Electrical Contractor: Emac Pte Ltd M&E Consultant: Bescon Consulting Engineers Pte Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Derek Swalwell Jing is a ..
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..
