Gnädinger Architects have completed the Otto Bock building in Berlin, Germany. The building was designed for the Otto Bock HealthCare company, a world leader in prosthetics and orthotics. The organic-dynamic design of the six-storey building is based on the principles of nature – as a model of harmony between technology and people. The facade bands have modeled the structure of muscle fibers tha..
Architects: 3XN Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Carlsberg Ejendomme Engineering: Rambøll Project Area: 10,000 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Adam Mørk Danish law firm Horten wanted their new headquarters to present itself in a contemporary as well as classical and solid way. Our solution was to design a modern office with a new interpretation of the classical stone-clad facade. Inside..
Assigned by Karl Lagerfeld Zaha Hadid created the Mobile Art CHANEL Contemporary Art Container. This ground-breaking and dynamic project reflects her visionary aesthetics in innovative space concepts and in the fields of architecture, urbanism and design. She integrates natural topography and human built systems with cutting-edge technologies and reaches the powerful dynamics in her architecture..
MAD Architects, china, urban forest, urban design, green roof, residential building, nature, inspired by nature, forest, stacked forest Inspired by mountainous Chinese landscapes and the traditional villages built their hillsides, MAD Architects has unveiled plans to create a towering vertical Urban Forest. Designed for Chongqing, China, the projects consists of a stacked vertical forest set in ..
Radical Craft was awarded third for their proposal Soms Atoll for the World Sustainability Center (one of the winning proposals by KOW was previously featured on AD). For the project, the architects questioned the possibility of the World Sustainability Centre in Friesland creating a new interpretation of the relationship between the man-made and the natural. The Soms Atoll operates at the scale..
Architects: Izquierdo Lehmann / Luis Izquierdo W., Antonia Lehmann S.B. Location: Santiago, Chile Structural engineering: Santolaya y Asoc. Main contractor: Echeverría Izquierdo Site Area: 3,987 sqm Project Area: 43,129 sqm Project Year: 2006-2007 Construction Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Cristobal Palma & Luis Izquierdo The project consists of an office tower with a commercial complex in the ba..
August 31st, 2008 Harmonia 57 by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque is an office building in Sao Paulo with a planted facade irrigated by a mist system. Plants grow in ¡°pores¡± set into the concrete facade and will eventually cover the building. The Harmonia 57 concept will be on show at Venice Architectural Biennale from 13 September, as part of the French Pavilion. More information about t..
CSET/Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies by mc-architects in Ningbo, China text by Pascal Panagiotidis for Yatzer Architectural projects with minimum environmental impact are quite a necessity nowadays and we are glad to welcome every such effort. The Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) designed by Mario Cucinella Architects meets all the requirements using all nature’s reso..
Architects: Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes Location: Linz, Austria Project Leader: Gerhard Pfeiler Competition Team: Claire Bodénez, Benni Eder, Simone Breitkopf, Barbara Feichtinger-Felber, Vicentiu Sopterean, Silviu Aldea, Markus Himmel, Ruth Pofahl, Rupert Siller Project Team: Philipp Hugo Urabl, Dorit Böhme, Roland Basista, Albert Moosbrugger, Ulli Gabriel, Andreas Trampe-Kieslich, Ralitsa ..
Architects: LGLS Arquitectos / Antonio Santos, Pedro Gaspar and Nuno Gaspar Location: Setúbal, Portugal Collaborators: André Rodrigues, Joana Lousada, Sara Oliveira Enginnering: PTV Ltd (Structure, Lighting, HVAC, Fluids, Communication) Promotor: SANTANDER-TOTTA BANK Built Area: 120 sqm (65 sqm enclosed) Project year: 2008 Photographs: FG + SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra The Campus of the S..