Villanueva’s public library is the result of a national contest summoned by the Colombian Architect’s Society where the winners Miguel Torres, German Ramirez, Alejandro Piñol and Carlos Meza, architects from the Javeriana University Bogota-Colombia, all below 27 years of age, won first prize in this contest, and designed 3000 square meters for reading rooms, an auditorium, a kid’s library, staff..
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan Site area: 4791.69 m2 / Foot print area: 1699.10 m2 / Total floor space: 1094.83 m2 Ceilinng heights (varies): 2.172 m / Total heights: 2.78 5m Floors: 1 LEVEL Master planning: Feb 2005-March 2006 Phase 1 construction (50%): March 2006 - Sep2006 Phase 2 construction (100%): July 2006 - Jan 2007 Owner: Montesoli School Fuji Kindergarten Creative Director: Kashiwa..
Brazilian architect Paula Sertorio has sent us these images of a conceptual, mobile gallery, designed to travel along the river Thames in London. The project was developed for a competition organised by architectural agency Arquitectum, called London 2008, by a team of Brazilian architects made up of Victor Paixao, Miguel Felipe Muralha, Paula Sertorio, Thiago Florez, Andre Mack and Bruno Castro..
In October 2007, Dow Jones Architects won an architectural competition to redesign the museum. The competition brief asked for a new gallery space where temporary exhibitions could be housed in secure and environmentally-controlled conditions. Text description and more photographs and drawings after the break. It appeared to us that creating a dedicated place for the museum’s permanent collectio..
Tenerife architects Menis Arquitectos have designed a music hall in Torún, Poland. Two separate music halls, of 3000 and 1000 seats respectively, can be joined together to create one space for large performances. The site is located on a plot of land between the medieval old town and a modern development. The architects used white concrete for the exterior and red brick for the interior, which t..
Architects: JKMM Architects Location: Turku, Finland Main Designer: Asmo Jaaksi architect SAFA Design Team: Teemu Kurkela, Samuli Miettinen, Juha Mäki-Jyllilä, Mikko Rossi, Katja Savolainen architects SAFA, Päivi Meuronen interior architect SIO Landscaping: Molino Oy Structural Design: Narmaplan Oy Lighting: Eficientysul Main Contractor: NCC Rakennus Oy Constructed Area: 6,900 sqm Project Year: ..
Kalmar Museum of Modern Art in Sweden was designed by Stockholm-based architects Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter. The four-storey building is clad in black wooden panels. Tham + Videgard Hansson Arkitekter designed some of the furniture for the interior, which comprises exposed concrete, black-stained plywood doors and panels and white walls. The museum will house the Kalmar collection of mod..
Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Kvaterloft Copenhagen, Loa Fund Collaborator: JDS ARCHITECTS, BIRCH & KROGBOE Constructed Area: 2,000 sqm Project year: 2004 Budget: US $1,950,000 Photographs: Julien de Smedt, Mads Hilmer, Esben Bruun, Paolo Rosselli How do you turn the problem of a polluted site into an architectural potential? A third of our budget was allocat..
Architects: ACXT Location: Bilbao, Spain Architect in Charge: César Azcárate Project Architects: Gonzalo Carro, Raimundo Bambó, Javier Vergara, Jorge Minguet, Manuel Andrades, Marc Rips, Iñigo Arana, María Labastida, Ruth Mendoza, Javier Oteiza, Cruz Lacoma, Eloy Olabarri Project year: 2005 Constructed Area: 450,000 sqm Project Managment: Alexander Zeuss, Eva Madariaga, Álvaro Gutiérrez Structur..
Studio Arne Quinze have completed the interior of die Kunstbar in Cologne, Germany. Situated at the base of the Dome cathedral, the bar is covered with packing crates used to ship artwork. The space was furnished by Quinze and Milan with variations of Studio Arne Quinze’s own chair design, Room 26 Seat. The first piece of artwork to be exhibited is a video installation by Quinze entitled EYE.C.U..
