Architects: Charles Pictet Architecte FAS SIA Location: Colony, Switzerland Collaborator: Anjéla Aubert, architecte DPLG Engineering: ESM, Jérôme Ponti, Genève Project Year: 2003-2005 Photographs: Francesca Giovanelli Standing on a steeply inclined plot of land, this house articulates its layout of over 800 sqm in two volumes. The two-level residential area in light-colored masonry is set on a d..
Architect: Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Solà-Morales Location: Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico Collaborator: Eugenio Eraña Lagos Structures: Ricardo Camacho de la Fuente Construction Managment: Marcial Burgos & Hugo López Solano Constructed Area: 350 sqm Project Year: 2005-2006 Photograhs: Santiago Garcés / Cadaval & Solà-Morales Where are the limits of materials? Are they in their apparently implic..
Architects: Studio Paralelo Location: Bento Golçalves, RS – Brazil Project team: Luciano Andrades, Rochelle Castro e Valéria Bertolini Contractor: Icon Incorporadora Structural Engineering: Pasquali e Associados Lighting: Potencial Engenharia Landscape: Samuel Seben Site Area: 930 sqm Constructed Area: 360 sqm Project year: 2006 Construction year: 2008 Photographs: Eduardo Aigner The house is lo..
Ficha técnica Proyecto: Casa Hemeroscopium Localización: Las Rozas- Madrid Fecha del proyecto: Diciembre 2005 Fecha de finalización de la obra: Junio 2008 Autor del proyecto: Antón García- Abril Arquitectos colaboradores: Elena Pérez, Débora Mesa - Ensamble Studio: Jorge Consuegra, Marina Otero, Ricardo Sanz Arquitecto técnico: Javier Cuesta Promotor: Hemeroscopium Empresa constructora: Materia ..
Japanese architects ARTechnic have completed Shell, a holiday villa in Karuizawa, Japan. The two-storey, concrete house comprises two tubes with oval sections, arranged around a fir tree. The floor is raised 1.4 metres from the ground; the architects intended to minimise time spent on maintaining the property by separating the house from its natural surroundings. “Being in sync with nature isn’t..
This villa is located in plot #80 of the ORDOS project. Architects: Rocker-Lange Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leaders: Ingeborg M. Rocker & Christian J. Lange Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part o..
Ruta del Peregrino - HHF Lookout Point State of Jalisco, Mexico, 2008 - Client Secretaria de Turismo, Gobierno de Jalisco Official project Site: http://rutaperegrino.wordpress.com/ List of Architects HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Alexa den Hartog, Janna Jessen Team HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER with Alexa den Hartog, Janna Jessen The other Architects and Designers involved in the Project ar..
Architects: KWK PROMES Location: Katowice, Poland Project Architect: Robert Konieczny, Marlena Wolnik Structural Engineer: Jaroslaw Kaminski Design Year: 2000 Construction Year: 2001-2002 Site Area: 3,500 sqm Constructed Area: 330 sqm Photographs: KWK PROMES The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic fau..
Architects: Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden architects + urbanistes Location: Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada Principal in charge: Bruce Haden Project Architect: Brady Dunlop Project Team: Norm Hotson, Stephanie Forsythe, Tina Hubert, Julie Bogdanowicza Project year: 2006 Site Area: 1,600 acre Constructed Area: 1,115 sqm Materials: Rammed Earth, Concrete, Bluestain Pine Cladding Structural Engine..
Japanese architect Teruhiro Yanagihara of Isolation Unit has completed a hair salon in Osaka. The salon, for Japanese chain LIM, features individual rooms for each of six stylists. Photos are by Takumi Ota. See our earlier story about Isolation Unit’s Climie hair salon for LIM. Here’s some info from Isolation Unit: – The spacious salon with an area of 247 square metres is composed of six scatter..
