Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura Location: Lleida, Spain Architects in charge: Gerard Veciana Membrado & Elisabet Faura Pavia Arteks Collaborators: Carlos Cobreros, Gemma Roca, Andrea Furlan External Collaborators: Casa O_David Tapias & Nuria Salvador Constructed Area: 270 sqm Project Year: 2007 Structural Engineering: Pascual Sandalinas Facilities Engineering: Ateci_enginyeria installations Photo..
Architects: Takao Shiotsuka Atelier Location: Oita-city, Oita, Japan Client: Private Project year: 2008 Constructed area: 119 sqm Photographs: Toshiyuki YANO (Nacasa & Partners Inc.,) It is a hairsalon built in the suburbs. A mountain type design code is repeated from facade and an opening to interior design. This brings the visual effect as an icon to construction. “Paper-cutting” will be a mot..
Architects: Pearce Brinkley Cease + Lee PA Location: Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA Constructed Area: 558 sqm Project Team: Jeffrey S. Lee, FAIA; Jennifer Olson, AIA Associate Architect: SFL+A Architects Client: City of Fayetteville Structural Engineers: Fleming & Associates Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing Engineer: Stanford White & Associates Contractor: Ellis Walker Construction Co. Project ..
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia PA, 1990. 275’ x 150’: 3’ blown-glass rain gauges mounted on 18’ galvanized steel poles with 11’ pollen-yellow windsocks, 2’ x 2’ sandblasted slides of pollen samples set into 8’ x 4’ x 2’ steel booths, mowed trail connecting the four slide booths and five windsock/rain gauge poles. Installed from July to December. This piece explores the natural forces which have cr..
The “Oca” was developed as a temporary pavilion for the event “Resistance and Tradition”, which was part of the World Cultural Forum that took place in São Paulo in 2004. As a center of discussion about Brazil’s indigenous culture, it sheltered many ceremonies and meetings of representatives from the country’s various native communities. Architect: Königsberger Vannucchi - Jorge Königsberger and..
Studio Lovegrove, the London-based office of designer Ross Lovegrove, have designed a glass mountain shelter called Alpine Capsule. The proposed capsule has a diameter of eight metres, is made from glass with a reflective coating and has a 360 degree view. Solar panels and vertical wind turbines provide power for the capsule, where visitors can stay overnight. The shelter will be located in the ..
Nan16 is a lamp with a power socket in the shade, designed by Sebastian Herkner. The lamps and other electrical appliances can be connected in series; Herkner describes the product as “a lamp for the dining table to plug a toaster or raclette, as well as for your personal workplace to charge the notebook.” Nan16 is produced by Swiss manufacturers Nanoo. Herkner exhibited the design last month as..
Architects: Arkhefield Location: Park Ridge State School, Queensland, Australia Project Team: Shaun Lockyer, Karen Ognibene, Jemima Rosevear Project Year: 2006 Photographer: Scott Burrows, Aperture Architectural Photography Conceptual Framework The Creative Pavilion for Park Ridge State School was developed as an “out of the box” scheme specifically to contrast against the existing standard inst..
Pipe Light is an installation on an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque. The project, part of a design show held at the property earlier this year, comprises metal tubing and lamps wrapped around the inside and outside of the building. The installation was commissioned Houssein Jarouche, owner of the adjacent furniture and homeware store Micasa. More Dez..
Steven Holl Architects have won a competition to design a new harbour entrance in Copenhagen, Denmark. Holl’s winning proposal for The LM Project involves building an office tower on either side of the harbour, linked by a 65m high public walkway. The walkway consists of two bridges meeting at an angle, “joining like a handshake over the harbor”. The following is from Steven Holl Architects: – S..
