Architects: oficina de arquitectura - Emilio Marín, Nicolás Norero (competition phase) Location: Paseo Altamirano, Camino la Pólvora, Valparaíso, V Región, Chile Collaborators: Diego Rossel (development phase) Structural Engineer: INGEVSA S.A. Project year: January - March, 2007 Construction year: April - October, 2007 Materials: GRAU concrete ground slab, Concrete, galvanize steel In December 2..
French designer Philippe Starck has designed a motorbike for French motorcycle manufacturer Voxan. According to Motorcyclists Online, it’s a prototype and it’s called the Café Racer Super Naked. More information to follow soon hopefully but for now here’s some images. Update 01/02/08: Here’s some info from Starck’s office: “VOXAN the exclusive and unique French motorbike brand presents its new e..
California Academy of Sciences byRenzo Piano Building Workshop NEW CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES RECONCEIVES TRADITIONAL SCIENCE MUSEUM; OPENS SEPTEMBER 27 IN GOLDEN GATE PARK. Record-setting “green” building designed by Renzo Piano houses an aquarium, planetarium, natural history museum, and world-class research facility—all under one living roof. SAN FRANCISCO (September 18, 2008) — One of th..
Architect: Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter Aps Location: Denmark Project Year: 2004 Engineer: Moe & Brødsgaard A/S Area: 200 sqm Photographs: Torben Eskerod Sitting in the midst of an expanding landscape, the summerhouse is an open-plan dwelling allowing the inhabitants and its visitors to experience a continual interior/exterior natural environment. Raised above the ground by concrete pillars, the hou..
PROGRAM: 1,800 seats Grand theatre, entrance lobby & lounge Multifunction hall, other auxiliary facilities & support premises CLIENT: Guangzhou Municipal Government ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid Project Director Woody K.T. Yao, Patrik Schumacher Project Architect Simon Yu Project Team Jason Guo, Yang Jingwen, Long Jiang, Ta-Kang Hsu, Yi- Ching Liu, Zhi Wang, Christine Chow, Cyril Shing, Filippo I..
Spikvoorde II byRené van Zuuk Architekten Dutch architects René van Zuuk Architekten have completed Spikvoorde II, a building containing a school and apartments in Deventer, Netherlands. A primary school occupies the first three floors of the building, with nine private apartments on the upper floors. All photos are copyright Christian Richters except where specified. The following is from René ..
For the city of St. Petersburg the Russian office Vitruvius & Sons - I am not joking - designed a building called ‘Shtrikh Kod’: Barcode. As the iconography suggests the building houses… shops, shops and shops. “The center is located in a soviet residential area on the bank of the Neva River. Placed in a vast nameless square by the Volodarsky Bridge, formed by gray housing blocks. Vitruvius and ..
Architects: Jose Maria Saez Collaborator: David Barragan Client: Andres Bueno and Ana Maria Armijos Location: Quito Historic Downtown, Ecuador Contractor: Jaime Quinga, Luis Pillajo Engineering: Ing Herberto Novillo Material Aspect: adobe, oxidized steel, brick, concrete, wood, glass Project year: 2005-2007 Photographers: Raed Gindeya, Jose Maria Saez A house in Quito’s Historic Old Town turns ..
By Nico Saieh — Filed under: Selected , Sports Architecture , Green Roof, Japan, Steel Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Hyogo, Japan Collaborator: Wataru Horie Project year: 2008 Client: Hyogo Prefecture Consultant: Masashi Ouji,Design-Structure Laboratory (structure) / Setsubi Giken (service) Structural System: Steel truss Site Area: 1,124,000 sqm Constructed Area: 16,168 sqm Complex functione..
Architects: Snøhetta Location: Alstahaug, Norway Project year: 2001-2007 Collaborators: Kjetil Traedal Thorsen, Tarald Lundevall, Astrid Renata Van Veen, Jim Dodson, Bartek Milewski, Maria Svaland, Jenny B. Osuldsen, Lars Jørstad Nordbye, Heidi Pettersvold Client: Alstahaug kommune Constructed Area: 1350 sqm Photographs: Snøhetta, Aake E. Lindman, Inge Ove Tysnes Introduction The project involve..
