Architects: [N2X] Arquitectos Location: Azores Island, Portugal Project Leader: Pedro Furtado Project Team: Bruno Pinto, Isabel Ourique, Pedro Furtado Graphical Design: Raquel Fernandes Structural Engineering: Joao Serpa Area: 265,00 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Isabel Ourique The restaurant and bakery is located in a farm composed of different arborean species of a certain age. Its ..
Architect: Zaha Hadid Location: Haro, La Rioja, Spain Project Architect: Jim Heverin Design Team: Jim Heverin, Tiago Correia, Raza Hadid Local Architect: I.O.A. Arquitectura - Joan Ramon Rius, Nuria Ayala, Xavier Medina, Candi Casadevall Client: Rafael López de Heredia Tondonia Winery Structural Engineers: Jane Wernick Associates Area: 800m2 Year: 2001-2006 Rafael López de Heredia Tondonia Winer..
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz / Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, California, USA Project Team: Stanley Saitowitz, Alan Tse, John Winder Construction: Lyon Construction Project Area: 167 sqm Project Year: 2008 Photograph: Rien van Rijthoven Mississippi is a soul food restaurant in the Fillmore Jazz District of San Francisco. Like the river, a single table meanders through the space – he..
Architects: Audrius Ambrasas Architects Location: Konstitucijos Ave. 20, Vilnius, Lithuania Design team: Audrius Ambrasas, Vilma Adomonytė, Tomas Eidukevičius, Donatas Malinauskas Client: UAB “Swedbank valda” Construction: Idea Constructiva Engineering: COWI Baltic Project manager: Saulius Mikaliūnas Total area (above-ground): 23,000 sqm Total area (underground): 19,000 sqm Project Year: 2007-20..
Architect: Vector Architects Location: Hefei, China Client: CR Land Design-partner-in-charge: Gong Dong Project Architect: Jiajun Chen, Qun Sun Structural/Mechanical Engineer: Huanyu Design Institute, Hefei Project Area: 900 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Shuhe Photo & Vector Architects Like many other cities in China, Hefei is undergoing a rapid transformation. The original urban fabric wa..
Concept: The purpose of the newly-founded chain, nat. fine bio food, is to make fast food healthy, to offer delicious organic food in a timely manner – and this in a contemporary environment. nat. brings together Organic and Lifestyle, and with this follows the increasingly-important LOHAS-Trend (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability). The claim, “nature comes to the city” guided the design con..
The architecture studio A-cero, that Joaquín Torres directs with his collaborating associate Rafael Llamzares, it finishes the first phase (the first office) of the design of interiors of the building Torre de Cristal “Crystal Tower” of recent construction in Madrid. It is a question of a building of shaping the skyline of Madrid and it has a 250 m height and 52 floors. This project of interior ..
Architects: Akihisa Hirata Location: Nigata, Japan Program: Showroom, Office Design Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006 Site Area: 824 sqm Constructed Area: 294.2 sqm Photographer: Akihisa Hirata This is the building for a showroom exhibiting small agricultural equipments. I tried to create a place similar to natural environment in an artificial way. People are invited to go deep into the continu..
Earlier this fall, Sauerbruch Hutton was announced first prize winner in the international competition to design a new home for Hamburg’s Behörde für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt/BSU (Office for Urban Development and Environment). The new BSU building will be erected in Hamburg Wilhelmsburg and is slated for completion in 2013. The design entry by the Berlin-based practice lastly won over 24 othe..
Melbourne architect, March Studio’s Rodney Eggleston has recently completed the third Singapore store at Millenia Walk for Australian skincare brand Aesop. In collaboration with Aesop’s founder Dennis Paphitis, the store features a significantly mesmerizing mass of coconut husk strings suspended from the ceiling. Referencing Aesop’s subtle and understated method of gift wrapping using the humble..
