Manchester architects Arca have completed a beach café on the promenade in Morecambe, UK. A band of stainless-steel cladding wraps around the sides and roof of the cafe, and overhangs the two glazed facades that face the promenade and the bay. In front of the cafe there is a south-facing outdoor seating area on two levels. Photography by Timothy Soar. Below is some more information from Arca: – ..
Split & Rotate, a holiday home designed by architect Nicos Kalogirou, has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. Located at the foot of East Vermion mountain inNaoussa Greece, the single-family house consists of two volumes linked by a glass passageway. The main residence has a metal structure and is clad in shipping plywood. The second volume consists of a children’s pavilion with..
Architects: debartolo architects ltd. Location: Gilbert, Arizona, USA Project team: Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, J. Eric Huffman Civil Engineer: integra engineering Structural Engineer: rudow + berry Mechanical engineer: kunka engineering Electrical Engineer: woodward engineering Contractor: the construction zone Landscape: GBtwo Constructed Area: 1,672 sqm Design year: 2005-200..
Architects: Xavier Vilalta Studio Location: Els Alamús, Spain Client: Alamús City Council Structural Engineering: GN Arquitectos Quantity Surveyor: Mario Campos Design year: 2005-2006 Construction year: 2007-2008 Budget: US $304,088 Constructed Area: 254 sqm Photographs: Jordi Anguera Els Alamús, a small village of seven hundred inhabitants, is situated on a hill in the middle of the plain of Ll..
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Principal in Charge: Gilles Saucier Project Architect: André Perrotte Project team: Trevor Davies, Andrew Butler, Dominique Dumais, Eric Majer, Pierre-Alexandre Rhéaume, Anna Bendix, Sudhir Suri, Christian Hébert, Laurence LeBeux, Quinlan Osborne, Jean-Louis Léger, Samantha Schneider, Nathalie Cloutier, Christine Levi..
The October Series is a collection of light based artworks that bring the excitement of some of our larger projects to a series of immediately available wall hanging mini-installations. These artworks were unveiled on June 3rd 2008 at the Prima Design Show where Cinimod Studio was exhibited by International Art Consultants. The artworks display a seemingly impossible depth of three-dimensional l..
Synaesthetic filter - a mobile pavilion for experimental music Synaesthetic filter is a mobile instrument for experimental music that can stage performances from scenic plays to sound installations and is supposed to be temporarily assembled in public interior spaces. The pavilion acts like a visual and acoustic filter that allows a flexible positioning of the musicians and audience, and a playf..
Tabanlioglu Arhitects Dogan Medya Center Ankara, Turkey The Dogan Medya Center on Ankara-Eskisehir road, planned as a distinctive media figure, houses TV channels and the newspapers Hurriyet and Milliyet. Respecting the square site the architects decided on the cube as the main form. Building from the surface up the straight cube deformed and restructured with the addition and subtraction of cub..
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..