Project: Haus L. Individual House for a four person family Status: 2006 completed Location: Berlin . Glienicke Germany Projectsize: 350 m2 GROSS Architects: HamannPottArchitekten now Pott Architects and Ulrich Hamann Architekt Cooperations: Kappes & Partner Ingenieurbüro: Dr. Müller Haustechnik: Dr. Specht Photographs: Rudi Meisel Life in the countryside, in the midst of nature, has always had a..
Architects: XPIRAL / Javier Peña Galiano Location: Murcia, Spain Collaborators: Lola Jiménez, Susana Velasco, Malte Eglinger Structural Engineering: IDEEE Services: Federico Garcia Salmerón Construction Engineering: Luis Fernando Perona, Miguel Ángel Carceles Promotor: Juan Carlos López Orenes Project year: 2003-2006 Budget: US $1,15 M Constructed Area: 467 sqm Photographs: Juan de la Cruz Megía..
Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo - Japan Architect : Kengo Kuma & Associates Design: 2004 - 2006 - Construction: 2006 - 2007 Client : Private client Engineering Firm : Ejiri Structural Engineers Contractor : Eiger Co. Ltd. Photographer : Mitsumasa Fujitsuka Using 3.2mm thick corrugated steel plates, a house of monocoque construction which resembles a freight car was made, with out having any beams or columns. T..
Architect: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects Location: Silkeborg, Denmark Ingeneering: The DAI Group Contractor: SKANSKA Danmark A/S Project Year: 2005 Construction Year: 2006-2007 Constructed Area: 3,700 sqm Photographs: SHL The project – centred on a 19th-century paper mill - was commended for the simplicity of the design, characterised by the choice of materials as well as the successful trans..
Stockholm 2010: in Stockholm this week Swedish lighting brand Wästberg will launch a task light made of brass and rubber, designed by architect David Chipperfield. Called Chipperfield w102, the design consists of a cylindrical lamp head and base joined by an L-shaped arm. The lamp features LEDs that can be dimmed, and rotates at the base and head joints. Wästberg and David Chipperfield in coll..
Architects: Archivision Location: Tokyo, Japan Principals in Charge: Yoshihiro Hirotani & Yusaku Ishida Structural Engineers: Umezawa Structural Engineers Mechanical Engineers: Azu Planning General Contractor: Daido Housing Site Area: 67.88 sqm Constructed Area: 108.31 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Yuichi Higurashi This beauty parlor stands in the Omote-sando area of Tokyo, which repr..
Cologne 2010: at imm cologne last week French design brand Ligne Roset launched a sofa by Paris designer Inga Sempé, consisting of a quilted cover draped over a wooden frame. Called Ruché, the seating is made of birch wood and is available as a sofa or chaise longue. See all out stories about Cologne 2010 in our special category. The information below is from Ligne Roset: – RUCHÉ We invited I..
Client: British Land Project Manager: M3 Consulting Architects: Carmody Groarke Engineering: Arup Landscape Architecture: EDCO Lighting design: Maurice Brill Lighting Design Contractor: BOVIS Sub Contractor: Skanska Specialist Sub contractors: Sheetfabs, Nottingham London architects Carmody Groarke have completed a pavilion in London featuring a steel plate supported eight meters above the groun..
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled the iPad, a large touch-screen device for reading, browsing the internet, listening to music and playing games. The much-anticipated product has a 9.7 inch screen, is 13 mm thick and weighs 0.7 kg. The display automatically switches from portrait to landscape as the device is turned. It runs almost all existing apps and allows users to read and send email, look ..
Caltech's Newest Shining Star: The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics press release by Morohosis Architects The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) scientists who study the outer reaches of space got some space of their own with the official opening of the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The opening on January 27,2009, not only marks the beginning of a new era fo..