location ：Aichi Prefecture,Japan program ：concert hall、restaurant、residence site area ：831.96㎡ total area ：4076.3㎡ Norihiko Dan — born in 1956 in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan — is the designer of the beautiful Munetsugu Hall, completed in 2007 in Naka Ward, Nagoya, Japan. It is a privately-funded concert hall that continues the age-old but almost-dead tradition of wealthy arts patrons initia..
Casa no Gerês, designed by Porto-based Correia/Ragazzi Aquitectos, has received its fair share of international awards and exposure, but we cannot help but show it off one more time. This is the first project by Graça Correia and her new Italian partner, Roberto Ragazzi. It is a bold statement that hides nothing. This is also a house that is easy to love from certain perspectives and from others..
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..
authors: Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig cooperation: Tomáš Amtmann investor: Johana a Tomáš Růžičkovi photographer: Ester Havlová The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architec..
Architects: Sadar Vuga Architects Location: Portorož, Slovenia Project Team: Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Anamarija Volk, Corina Trunz, Goran Golubič Structural Engineer: Elea IC Landscape: GLG projektiranje Client: Lesnina Inženiring, d.d. Project year: 2009 Site Area: 626 sqm Constructed Area: 398 sqm Photographs: Sadar Vuga Villa Beli križ stands on the incline of the hill above Portorož. The m..
Architects: F451 Arquitectura Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China F451 Team: Santi Ibarra, Toni Montes, Lluis Ortega, Xavier Osarte & Esther Segura Engineering Consultant: AKT Landscape: Jeronimo Hagerman Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox Our propos..
La Capital, a restaurant designed by architects Dellekamp, opened in Mexico City this week. The tall, narrow building has a glass facade at street level, below a patterned screen and opaque concrete facade concealing the entertainment venue above. Photographs by Iwan Baan. Here’s some text from Dellekamp: – La Capital 2008 La Capital has infused a modern twist on the cantina while evoking its sp..
Architect: Pedevilla Architekten Location: St. Lorenzen, Italy Project Team: Armin Pedevilla, Kurt Egger Project type: Town Hall Client: Community of St. Lorenzen Constructed Volume: 8,500 m³ Budget: US $3.7 M Project Year: 2007 Energy Consumption: 5,5 kWh/m²a Photographs: Armin Pedevilla, Günter Wett St. Lorenzen is a small community in South Tyrol, an area of the Italian Alps that lies near th..
Architects: Multiplicities Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project Team: Daniel Holguin, Issei Suma, Perla Pequeño, Joanna Park Sohn, Christopher Chan, Nicole Rodríguez, Masayuki Sono Consultants: Methus Srisuchart + Tatchapon Lertwirojkul / Jee Won Kim Architect / ID engineers Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engin..
Architect: 1100 Architect Location: Okinawa, Japan Principal: Juergen Riehm Project Architect: Joanna Chen Project Managers: Bo Lee, Sebastian Kaempf Designer: Jesse Wark MEP Engineer:American Engineering Corporation Lighting: Litelab/ Continental Lighting General Contractor: Katsuko Tokuchi, Taishin Kensetsu Project Year: 2003 Constructed Area: 650 sqm Photographs: Shinito Sato The Naha project..
