Architect: Massimo Mariani Location: Livorno, Italy Project Team: Elda Bellone, Roseda Gentile, Alessandro Mariani Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Alessandro Ciampi The project concerns the redesign of a building at Donoratico (in Livorno) located next the head office of the bank “Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Castagneto Carducci” (also designed by architect Mariani in 2002). The building is o..
Gross Floor Area: 6,400 sqm Bldg. Scale: 22 business units between 80 sqm and 250 sqm Rooftop restaurant with rooftop terrace. Building Cost Estimate: €7.040.000 Design Team : Allard Meine Jansen- bna- architect director, Jurriën Boon-project Architect, Daniël Baker-technical manager, Cruz Garcia Santiago, Jennifer Gauthier, Roderick van der Weiden, Jeroen Linnenbank, Jan Nauta Design Office: Al..
the glass tower by eric owen moss architects is posed to be encourage a re-development in south central los angeles. the building has been in planning since the nineties but was stalled for some years until it was re-designed in 2006 as a single tower. a rail line installed nearby spurred the redesign. the structure is part of the redevelopment of south central LA, an area plagued with poverty a..
Designer Marcel Wanders has completed the interior of fashion store Villa Moda in Bahrain. The heavily patterned interior includes mannequins with mirrors in place of heads. More information in our previous story; see also Jaime Hayon’s design for Villa Moda in Dudbai. Win a copy of new monograph Marcel Wanders - Behind the Ceiling in our competition. Here’s some more information from Marcel Wan..
Architect: MAPT + DARK Architects Location: Oslo, Norway Program: Highrise with Shopping, Wellness and Office Facilities Project year: 2009 Images: MAPT With this project we looked for a reinterpretation of the urban block typology in combination with vertical multiplication and urban density. The site is situated next to Oslo Central Station and had been formerly occupied by the postal headquar..
The team composed of graduates of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and headed by Cesar Perez Becerril, has been announced winner in a national competition for a memorial to commemorate the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence. The design proposes a vertical height of 104 meters of coated quartz and slender, which eliminates the role and obstruction of reform. “It’s simple and effecti..
Canadian firm Saucier + Perrotte Architects redesigned an old warehouse into a spa that provides a thermal therapy. The design conept is derived from contact between hot and cold. It destills the idea of 'cool glacial forms and the warmness of volcanic rocks', which duality is articulated through forms and various materials used in the building. These forms and angles, give a perceptual differen..
Amanda Levete Architects have unveiled Central Embassy, a 30-storey retail and hotel project in Bangkok, Thailand. The tower will be built in the former gardens of the British Embassy in the city. Amanda Levete Architects was formed after Levete and former partner Jan Kaplicky, who had previously worked together as Future Systems architects, went their separate ways. Kaplicky died earlier this y..
Our friends from RSVP shared with ous a project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where a successful advertising agency wants to expand its current facilities on their present site in San Juan’s Roosevelt Avenue, where surrounding buildings have also undergone a process of urban densification. The existing building is a two story modernist box from the sixties occupying the central part of the lot and l..
Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects Location: Rimini, Italy Project Team: Mario Cucinella, Elizabeth Francis, Davide Paolini, Enrico Iascone Structure: Gilberto Sarti, Fabio Bombardini Construction Management: Arch Massimo Morandi Design year: 2004-2006 client: Edile Carpentieri Srl Construction Area: 1,500 sqm Photographs: Daniele Domenicali The project involved redeveloping a site and const..
