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..
Architect: OFIS arhitekti Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Project Year: 2006-2008 Project leaders: Rok Oman & Špela Videčnik Design Team: Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik, Andrej Gregoric, Javier Carrera, Anna Breda, Luis Ferreira, Ana Kosi, Katja Aljaz Client: Mercator d.d. Interior Design: Mercator Optima Structural Engineering: Projecta d.o.o. Contractor: Gradis Skupina G d.d. Constructed Area: 2,000 ..
Photographer Joao Morgado shared with us this industrial building by portuguese architects Menos é Mais (Less is More). It´s nice to see this type of buildings, as most of the times industrial projects don´t offer much in terms of fresh architecture. More pictures after the break.
Durante el proceso de diseño de la biblioteca se reinterpretaron los edificios existentes, construidos en base a plantas estandarizadas y repetibles. El proyecto tomó conceptualmente dichos edificios como punto de partida, girándolos, haciéndolos interactuar entre sí hasta obtener un esquema que vagamente recuerda al sembrado de edificios existentes. La planta está compuesta por barras que colap..
Architects Oyler Wu have created an aluminium staircase called Live Wire at the SCI-Arc gallery in Los Angeles, USA. The installation consists of a staircase linking the ground floor of the gallery to a catwalk above. The staircase is made from approximately 2,400 feet of aluminum tubing and rods. According to the architects the treads can support more than 100 pound per square foot. Photos by O..
At the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate show earlier this month, designer Hung-Pin Hsueh presented a system for using Taiwan Cypress driftwood as an architectural building material. Hsueh proposes that small pieces of timber - usually discarded as unsuitable for architectural purposes - could be used in construction to reduce the need for intensive logging. “The forests are logged in search for..
Architects: Gigaplex Architects Location: Woodland, Utah, USA Client: Jonathan “Earl” Stein Project year: 2006 Constructed area: 147 sqm Photographs: Gigaplex Program: Our charge was to design a house for a newly single man with two grown daughters from whom he expects multiple grandchildren. Earl, the client, is foremost a sound engineer, but also a screenwriter (of course), director and produc..
Our friends at Inhabitat tipped us on this amazing project, the Folded Bamboo Houses + Paper House by Ming Tang. This structures were conceived as a response to the 7.9 earthquake that strucked China last May. In order to relocate the people that lost their houses, the Chinese goverment decided to build 1.5 million temporary homes. For this, Ming Tang proposed a shelter that was easily produced,..
Private Residence and Workspace. Houston, Texas 2004-2006 Residential Projects 48’ House is a modest single family residence and workspace located in Houston, Texas. The size and proportion of the house is based upon a 4' x 8' framing module ideal for wood and steel construction. 48' House is sited at the rear of a standard residential lot adjacent to interstate I-59. The interstate is depressed..
Private Client. Richardson, Texas. 2002-2003 Fabrication Products Residential Projects Plug-On is the first in a series of product prototypes, intended for residential structures. It was fabricated and assembled in Houston, then delivered and installed onto an existing modest one-story ranch style house in Richardson, Texas. The client was interested in an addition that would complement the exis..
