‘The Alphabet’ is the name of the first joint project between ewo, the manufacturer of superior-quality lighting systems, and the inter-disciplinary team at JDS ARCHITECTS. The project in the ewoLAB series will be revealed to the public for the first time at Frankfurt’s Light+Building from 11.04.2010 to 16.04.2010. The idea here was to develop a lighting system, which in terms of both form and t..
Work has started on the construction of 56 Leonard Street, a 56-storey residential tower in New York designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron. The tower, the architects’ first, will be built on the corner of Leonard Street and Church Street in Tribeca. A specially commissioned sculpture by Anish Kapoor will sit at the corner of the building at street level. All images are Copyright Herzog & de ..
A new branch of the Swedish Museum of Modern Art in Malmö. Public opening on December 26th 2009. Moderna Museet Malmö is the first branch of the main museum in Stockholm. The former Electricity Station dating from 1900 and once the Rooseum gallery, has been refurbished to meet international museum standards. Seen from the exterior a new extension marks the arrival of the new museum. The extensio..
The Salon Mittermeier hair salon in Linz by Austrian architects Xarchitekten features a facade with a “three-dimensional architectural (hair) wave”. Completed last year, the store front is composed of waterjet-cut, laminated profiles arranged along the facade to create an undulating wave. Photos are by David Schreyer. Here’s some more information from Xarchitekten: – Hairstyle Interface Salon Mi..
The task was the construction of a guests house and a house of games to give support to the main house located in Calera de Tango. The programme requested to have two bedrooms each one with bathroom, one kitchen / bar and a visits bathroom, plus a living area that should include a pool table and a games table. The house should have a maximum area of 100 square metres The land, a 4.5 hectares ten..
Lead Designer: Heatherwick StudioKey Construction Materials: steel and timber composite structure, 60,000 fiber optic filaments, aluminum sleevesSite area: 6000 square metersSeed Cathedral dimensions: 25m x 25m x 20mSeed Cathedral floor area: 105 square metersOptic fibers: 60,588Optic fibers length: 7.5 metersSeeds in Seed Cathedral: 217,300Landscape area: 4490 square metersPublic park area: 24..
Architects: Architecture W Location: Nagoya, Japan Project Team: Michel Weenick, Yukiko Iwanaga, Brian White Client: Michel Weenick Project Year: 2005 Constructed Area: 320 sqm Structural Engineer: Structure NANA Photographer: Andy Boone Located in one of Nagoya’s more attractive residential neighborhoods, but with only 2.5 meters of dead end street access and set on a difficult site that steps ..
Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Shioya Tarumi-ku Kobe, Hyogo-Pref., Japan Consultants: Masashi Ooji, Design-Structure Laboratory Project year: 2005 Principal use: House Site Area: 130 sqm Constructed Area: 65.7 sqm Photographs: Shuhei Endo A small residence for a couple, clinging onto a steep inclination that faces Setonaikai(Inland Sea) and bordered by a Y-intersection at the base of a hill, ..
Volúmenes esenciales y voladizos audaces. Gramática distributiva casta y juegos de formas plásticas. También, un ejemplo impecable de propuesta constructiva. Es la Casa Capece Venanzi en Giulianova, nacida del entusiamo y de la sintonía, muchas veces declarada, entre el comitente y el arquitecto. La vivienda recientemente terminada constituye un signo de calidad en el paisaje que la contiene, en..
Architects: Hidalgo Hartmann - Jordi Hidalgo Tané & Daniela Hartmann Location: Girona, Spain Project year: 2004 Technical Architec: Mateu Batlle Client: Lluis and Montserrat Contractor: Constructions Santa Pau S.L. Constructed Area: 375 sqm Photographs: Hidalgo Hartmann The structure and location of country houses is the result of a century-long study of ways to overcome conditionings such as to..
