Architects: Malcotti Roussey Architectes Location: Salins-les-Bains, France Structure Engineering: Cetel Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle This project is located in the space that was left free in the ancient saline, a place that was partially destroyed. It is situated in Salins-les-Bains near the museum, which is being restored (see the museum fact sheet). In March 2007, a fi..
Shanghai Expo 2010: here are some photos of the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, designed by Foster + Partners. The design of the pavilion is inspired by sand dunes and the desert landscape of the emirate, and features undulating structures clad in a triangulated lattice of gold-coloured stainless steel panels. A series of louvres feature on certain parts of the façade, a..
Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio have collaborated with UCLA Architecture and Urban Design students to create a courtyard stage set made of coffee tables. Called Table Cloth, the installation features furniture components joined together to form an platform and backdrop hanging from one wall of the courtyard. It will be used throughout the summer as a backdrop for performances by the UCL..
Architects: Vandeventer + Carlander Architects Location: Seattle, Washington, USA Structural Engineer: Swenson Say Faget Landscape Architects: Samuel Williamson Associates Lighting: dePelecyn Studio light & shadow Energy Consultant: Ecotope Contractor: Schilperoort & Brooks, Inc. General Contractors Floor Area: 5,546 sq ft Project Year: 2008 Photographs: Ben Benschneider The site for this home i..
During Milan Design Week 2010, we met German designer Daniel Rohr, who was exhibiting the Colander Table that we featured last October from contemporist
Here’s another triangulated outcrop: Technische Universität Dresden students Philip Modest Schambelan and Anton Fromm have designed a hotel for mountain bikers for the edge of a cliff in Pregasina, Italy. Called Hiding in Triangles, the conceptual project would include continuous ramps from top to bottom so all parts could be accessed by riders on their bikes. Here’s some more information from t..
Architects: Malcotti Roussey Architectes Location: Salins-les-Bains, France Associate Architect: Thierry Gheza Landscape: Fabienne Méline Structure Engineering: Cetel Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Nicolas Waltefaugle & Olivier Leblanc Closed since 1962, the salt works in Salins-les-Bain have been an important productive site since the middle ages right in the centre of the French city in the F..
San Francisco architects IwamotoScott have completed a design study for a tower (above, right) straddling a street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The proposal was commissioned by New York’s Downtown Alliance as part of the Greenwich South project, a study into how to transform a 41 acre-site south of the World Trade Center site. “The Downtown Alliance commissioned the larger project that thi..
garden composting shed by groves-raines architects a garden composting shed in scotland, designed by nicholas groves-raines of groves-raines architects (GRA). has won an american institute of architects (AIA) excellence in design award for 2010. detail of the woven bars conceived as an extension to the garden at inverleith terrace, edinburgh (a detached house remodelled by GRA in 2003) the organ..
Dan Brill Architects of the UK are among 12 international practices shortlisted to design a pedestrian footbridge for Trestles Beach, a surf spot in southern California. The Safe Trestles design competition, organised by Architecture for Humanity, sought designs that give provide surfers access to the beach from the road on the bluff above, carrying them safely across a railway line while protec..
