Architects: 70ºN Arkitektur Location: No defined location Client: 70ºN Arkitektur Constructed Area: 36 sqm Type: Experimental Prefab Builder: Senja Elementer AS Project year: 2004 Photographs: BR - Bent Raanes and Sarah Cameron Sørensen, RSB - Rune Stoltz Bertinussen, 70N - 70°N arkitektur The xbo is primarly a result of the Rotterdam based project ‘PARASITE’ (Prototypes for Advanced/ Ready-made..
located in antwerp belgium ‘fragile lab’ is a new complex design by the belgian architecture studio import/export architecture. the lab is a four part complex housing a retail showroom, storage facilities, offices and a duplex apartment. the building is characterized by it light structure, featuring large expanses of glass and off-kilter columns. the architects aim was to intentionally make the ..
2006 INTERMEDIAE - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER OF MADRID Contemporary Art and Research Center of Madrid, Museum Network of the Caixa Fundacion and the Reina Sofia Museum Site: Serreria Belga, Calle Alameda y Cenicero, Madrid, Spain Client: Ciudad de Madrid Area: 6000m2 Competition Finalist Design Team : David Serero, Elena Fernandez with Lionel Leotardi, Yves Ubelmann, Alice Sabatier, Fabrice Zaini ..
Architects: 3XN / Kim Herforth Nielsen, Bo Boje Larsen, Kim Christiansen Location: København, Denmark Client: Tivoli Year of Design: 2004 Year of Construction: 2005 Engineering: Arup, BIrch & Krogboe Contractor: NCC (partnering process) Constructed Area: 4,000 sqm Photographs: Adam Mørk In 2004, 3XN was awarded the prestigious task of performing the renovation and extensions of the Concert Hall ..
Architects: ADD+ Arquitectura - Manuel Bailo Esteve, Rosa Rull Bertran Location: Barcelona, Spain Client: MTC INVERSIONSs Project year: 2008 Photographs: José Hevia The project has been planned understanding the closer environment and the relation between the city and the landscape. The project is situated on a place where the urban conditions are loosing the density and the compactness in front..
Architect: nArchitects Location: Lacoste, France Project Completion Year: July 2006 Design Team: Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang (Partners); Daniela Zimmer (Project Architect), Kazuya Katagiri, Takuya Shinoda, Shuji Suzumori / Fabrication by nARCHITECTS and SCAD (Jim Bischoff, Michael Gunter, Cindy Hartness, Michael Porten, Ryan Townsend, Troy Wandzel, with Natalie Bray and Sarah Walko) Client: Savannah ..
Kew House Melbourne, Australia Jackson Clements Burrows Architects By Ingrid Spencer No one told Jackson Clements Burrows Architects they weren’t supposed to play with stacking blocks on a tennis court—and the Australian firm’s clients are glad. Before the Kew House, in Victoria, Australia, came to be, the clients, family friends with firm principal Tim Jackson, came to the architect with an int..
Kunsthaus Art House Extension / ssm Architekten Architects: ssm Architekten ag Location: Grenchen, Switzerland Project year: 2005 Construction year: 2007-2008 Landscape: bbzlandschaftsarchitekten Site Area: 3,838 sqm Constructed Area: 458.5 sqm The project proposal aims at a holistic view of the Kunsthaus entity, but equally taking its near as well as its extended urban architectural surrounding..
New Designers 08: Goldsmiths University graduate Oliver Bishop-Young presented two projects about skips at New Designers in London earlier this month. The first is a proposal for a website where people upload information about the contents of skips so others can salvage items they need from them. The SkipWaste site would be searchable by items required or location and shows a photo of each skip ..
Designer Gerry Judah attached Land Rovers to a 34-metre high steel framework at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England last weekend. The Land Rover Sculpture was commissioned by Land Rover (surprise surprise) and was fabricated by Littlehampton Welding, which also made Thomas Heatherwick’s East Beach Cafe. Height: 34 metres Drawings: 2560 Parts: 3415 Bolts: 4890 Net weight: 106 tonnes Gross w..
