This project is a result of our participation in Sixteen Houses - a project organized and curated by Michael Bell in 1998 and funded by the Graham Foundation, the Fifth Ward Redevelopment Corporation, and DiverseWorks in Houston. Sixteen architects and designers were invited nationally to generate innovative concepts and new options for a low-income house - to expand the very limited market. To ..
Una construcción ligera en madera y vidrio, una casa de veraneo en el archipiélago de Estocolmo. La organización de la planta está generada por las particularidades del terreno, una superficie plana entre dos grandes rocas que surgen del suelo, y con dos orientaciones importantes: hacia el sol, sur, y hacia el mar en el oeste. Excepto los servicios, los ambientes de la casa se vuelcan a una plat..
Hedge Gallery in San Francisco presents Not Furniture, an exhibition of work by American sculptor/designer Forrest Myers. “I’m a sculptor, and I use use furniture as a venue, as an idea, a jumping off place to make sculpture.” says Myers. Top image: Parker. Above: 125 Mph The exhibition, which runs until November 8, is presented in collaboration with New York gallery Friedman Benda. Above: Love ..
Innsbruck-based architects Astearchitecture have completed a mountain-top viewing platform above a glacier in Tyrol, Austria. The steel structure, completed last month, cantilevers nine metres over a ridge on Mount Isidor. The following text is from Astearchitecture: – Top of Tyrol by astearchitecture The viewpoint platform on Mountain Isidor in Tyrol, Austria is a drawing in the snow, it forms ..
Las nuevas instalaciones comprenden un Edificio Corporativo para las oficinas de la Compañía y un Edificio de Operaciones con todos sus servicios (casino y baños del personal). Ambos edificios del conjunto se conectan a través de una plaza que es el acceso de todo el personal y remata en un hall vidriado de enlace para circulación vertical. El conjunto tiene calles y patios de operaciones perime..
Architects: ARAD - Bahram Kalantari, Kourosh Dabbagh Location: Tehran, Iran Design Team: Majid Pazhuhi, Niloofar Niksar Technical Team: Anoushiravan Kharrazi, Mehdi Holakouie, Mona haddadi Project Manager: Eskandar Hadjizadeh Structural consultant: Behrang Baniadam (Afarinesh consulting co.) Site Area: 10,500 sqm Constructed Area: 4,200 sqm Project year: 2006 Photographer: Kamran Adl, Ali Daghig..
Swiss Re London Headquarters is a landmark 40-storey office building in the heart of London’s financial centre, developed by Swiss Re and designed by architects Foster and Partners. Located on the former site of the Baltic Exchange, the distinctive form of the building adds to the cluster of tall buildings. This London’s first ecological tall building is instantly recognisable, rooted in a radic..
MADRID CIVIL COURTS OF JUSTICE, Spain 2007-tbc PROGRAM: Courts of Law. CLIENT: Campus de la Justicia de Madrid ARCHITECT: Zaha Hadid Architects Design Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher Project Architect Juan Ignacio Aranguren Competition Team: Andrés Arias Madrid, Jimena Araiza Olivera Toro, Brian Dale, Amit Gupta, Ho-ping Hsia, Sara Sheikh Akbari, Tomas Rabl, Paulo E. Flores. SIZE: 74,448 sqm: 4..
Bühnenbäume 2003 - 2006 Küchwaldpark 24, 09113 Chemnitz Bauherr Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz Projektleitung Susanne Hofmann Baupiloten Hendrik Bohle, Kai Grüne, Stefan Haas Entwurf Eine Baumlichtung Die Chemnitzer Parkeisenbahn feiert Ihr fünfzigstes Jubiläum ganz besonders: Im romantischen Küchwaldpark der Stadt wird eine neue, überdachte Kleinkunstbühne mit 120 Zuschauerplätzen eingeweiht. Das Bahn..
TRAM STOP Sergio Cardell Plaza. Alicante. SPAIN Light Light Alicante is a 400.000 inhabitants city of the southeast mediterranean spanish coast. Over the last years, there has been building a new tram infrastructure, using the old rails of the local train. This line connects all the towns of the coast, ending in Denia, a northern city of the province, where ships departure to Ibiza. This stop, i..
