More from Rojkind Arquitectos, who collaborated on the New Tamayo Museum in our previous story: the architects have recently completed a laboratory building for food brand Nestlé. Rojkind Arquitectos also designed the Nestlé Chocolate Museum in our previous story. Located in Querétaro, Mexico, the laboratory comprises cubic volumes with intersecting domes cut from underneath. The exterior is cla..
Prada Transformer, a portable, shape-shifting cultural pavilion designed by Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas, will open to the public tomorrow in Seoul, Korea. The pavilion - a temporary structure that has to be picked up with three cranes in order to rotate and transform the structure - will accommodate a variety of events in its opening three months including a fashion exhibit..
Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos - Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutierrez Zarza Location: Jaca (Huesca), Spain Collaborators: Pablo Castro, Gorka Garcia, Estibaliz Sanz Reyero, Jorge Bilbao Project year: 2004-2005 Construction year: 2005-2008 Constructed area: 18,123 sqm Budget: 24,418,149 EURO (US $32,97M) Structure: Arup Ice Production: Ati Contractor: Vias Photographs: Aleix Bague The City of..
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..
Los Angeles architects Frederick Fisher and Partners have sent in images of Santa Ynez Residence, a family home in California’s Santa Ynez Valley. The home was completed in 2006. Here’s some info from the architects: – SANTA YNEZ RESIDENCE Santa Ynez, California 2006 A 20 acre site in the Santa Ynez Valley of California dominates the landscape with extensive views of the surrounding mountains an..
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..
Italian architects Massimo Mariani have completed the company headquarters for software company Cabel Industry in Empoli, near Florence, Italy. The building has two storeys above ground, with exhibition spaces in the basement. The area around the building has been excavated to admit light to the lower level. Three bridges span the gap, which contains a public lawn. The structure is made of pre-c..
Architects: debartolo architects ltd. Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, USA Project team: Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Aaron Taylor, Christoph Kaiser Civil Engineer: hec engineering Structural Engineer: rudow + berry Mep engineering: sullivan designs Lighting design: roger smith lighting design Contractor: arthur porter construction Landscape: e group Constructed Area: 2,415 sqm De..
Architect: Smiljan Radic Clarke Location: Santiago, Chile Collaborators: Danilo Lazcano, Cristobal Tirado, Gonzalo Torres Contractor: Constructora Alcoy Ltda. Structural Engineer: Luis Soler y Asoc. Lighting: Eduardo Godoy Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2007 Constructed Area: 652 sqm Photographs: Gonzalo Puga This Project won a public competition convoked by the Municipality of Vitacura i..
Turkish design firm Autoban, have completed the design of another location for The House Café, located in the Kanyon Shopping Mall in Istanbul, Turkey. From Autoban: The latest branch of The House Café chain at the shopping mall Kanyon, is an integration of the mall’s original architecture, The House Café brand identity and the Atutoban design approach. A site-built structure made of steel and g..
