Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Albertslund, Denmark Client: Freja Ejendomme A/S Constractor: N. H. Hansen og Søn A/S Construction Engineer: Jørgen Nielsen A/S Engineering, Electricity & Plumbing: Jens-Peter Madsen ApS Landscape: Svend Kierkegaard A/S Site Area: 875 sqm Construction Area: 408 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Adam Mørk Architectural Concept Community Centre H..
Location: Zenotz. Ultzama Valley Total Area: 5.200 m2 Prizes: Finalist X Bienal Spanish Architecture 2009 The plot is in the middle of one of the most humid valleys of northern Navarre. A valley of gentle but sturdy hills, where the green pasture and oak trees configure a landscape of strong character, whose color changes with the seasons. A valley dotted with a system of small and relatively cl..
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. In this special series of ShowCase features, we are profiling a single project from each of the eight Architectural League's "Emerging Voices", as profiled in our recent feature 3 Questions for 8 Emerging Voices. We are always accepting nomination..
Architect: Armon Choros Architects / Eleftheria Serghidou, Vasilis Pashiourtides Location: Nicosia, Cyprus Structural Engineering: Nicos Kalathas, George Demetriades Mechanical & Electrical Engineering: Giannos Zempylas, Kyriakos Ioannides Budget: US $13.5 M Design Year: 1999 Construction Year: 2006 Photographs: Christos Papantoniou The design for the Olympic House and Park sought to achieve an ..
Architects: Pushak Location: Nordkynnhalvøya, Finnmark, Norway Project Year: 2007 Program: Roadstop, benches Photographs: Pushak The site is in a steep slope with views to the Torskfjord valley and the fjord in the west. The siting area is on a lower level than the road and parking. The back of the bench is shielding from the winds blowing from the mountain in east. from archdaily
In a forest in the east of the Netherlands one of the best architecture offices in the Netherlands has just completed a new lookout tower. The structure is part of a small park in the vicinity of the village Putten. The concept that the architect, SeARCH, has put forward works like this: take a circular piece of the forest and put it 36 meters up in the sky. From this elevated ground there is a ..
Architects: Zwarts & Jansma Architecten Location: The Hague, The Netherlands Client: City of The Hague, project organisation RandstadRail Project year: 1999-2006 Contractor: combination Ballast-Nedam / De Boer Technical Design: Ingenieursbureau Gemeentewerken Rotterdam and IbDH Den Haag Photographs: 3D Pro, DigiDaan Randstadrail is a project for a new light urban rail network for the area betwee..
xian horticulture expo, courtesy serie architects xian horticulture expo, courtesy serie architects serie architects have just sent images of their 'xian horticulture expo masterplan' that was awarded a 2nd prize in xian china. like the xian city wall, this new structure, named the 'five climates crossing' will mark the centre of the park and simultaneously act as a connector, linking the entran..
Architect Dietmar Koering of Arphenotype has designed these electricity pylons for a competition to envisage a new power transmission network in Iceland. Each pylon would be between 17 and 32 metres tall, with the shape of each one varying according to its longitude and latitude. “A parametric code drives the heights in an continuous gradient, which will be manufactured physically through help o..
Architects: Pushak Location: Lillefjord, Finnmark, Norway Project Year: 2006 Client: Norwegian Road Administration, The National Tourist Road Project Photographs: Pushak The program for the road stop is benches, toilet, waste bin and a wind shed. It is also the start of a trail to a waterfall in the end of the wally. The path was originally on the parking side, with a run down bridge crossing th..
