Architect: McBride Charles Ryan - Rob McBride & Debbie-Lyn Ryan Location: Melbourne, Australia Project year: 2007 Photographs: Trevor Mein This is a new 4 storey building located in a largely pedestrian lane (Ridgway place) at the East end of Melbourne’s CBD. Dominant in the lane is the historic Melbourne Club wall and the gigantic plane trees emanating from the Melbourne Club Garden which ar..
Designer Fabio Novembre has belatedly sent us these images of Insegna Anche a Me la Liberta delle Rondine, a retrospective exhibition of his work at Rotonda di via Besana in Milan, which ended last month. The exhibition title means ‘Teach me too the freedom of swallows’. Open from 11 April to 8 June, the exhibition was designed by Peter Bottazzi and curated by Beppe Finessi.
Architects: ACXT Location: Boroa, Amorebieta-Etxano, Biscay, Spain Project Architects: Javier Pérez Uribarri, Xabier Aparicio Ortega Client: AIC Fundation Project Team: Jose Cavallero, Nuno Lobo, Roberto Fdez De Gamboa, Roberto Aparicio, Cristina Lamikiz, Oscar Costa, Marc Rips, Jose Cavallero, Nuno Lobo, Fernado Ortega, Marina Duran, Oscar Malo, Arrate Achalandobaso, Ziortza Bardeci, Francisco ..
Rather belatedly, here’s a pavilion designed by Beijing studio HHD_FUN for Shanghai, with a surface composed of triangles, divided and divided again in a fractal pattern. Called Embedded Project, the structure was built in October 2008 in collaboration with artist Xu wenkai. It housed an installation that projected imaginary buildings and images from mapping programme Google Earth in response to..
San Francisco architect Stanley Saitowitz has completed a museum in Florida, USA, which is wrapped in a perforated metal skin and cantilevers out from its glazed base. Called Tampa Museum of Art, the building is divided into two volumes, each organised around a courtyard. The first contains public areas of the museum and the other is for offices and curatorial facilities. A cafe and bookstore ar..
Architects: GH+A / Guillermo Hevia Location: Graneros, Chile Collaborators: Tomás Villalón, Francisco Carrión, Guillermo Hevia García, Marcela Suazo Client: Nestlé Chile S.A. Contractor: Precon S.A. Bioclimatic Consultant: Biotech Lighting: Opendark Project Area: 2,800 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Cristián Barahona, Guillermo Hevia H. & Guillermo Hevia García The new building, part of Nes..
The concept for Line of Work is inspired by the “ripple effect” or more specifically the notion that single elements working together can become more than the sum of their parts. The sculpture is composed of a changing series of individual elements that together create a giant wave-form that reaches out towards the sea. The elements grow in both size and reach along the edge of a pedestrian path..
Architects: x Architekten Location: Ebelsberg, Austria Client: Mrs. and Mr. Seebacher Construction: Mixed Structure Constructed Area: 215 sqm Project Year: 2004-2007 Photographs: Max Nirnberger Task: The existing building from the 1920s proved itself valuable to the client mainly due to the surrounding garden landscape. Nevertheless, there was the aim to create more space and living quality whic..
Facts & Figures Credits Theatre Agora, Lelystad > Client: Gemeente Lelystad > Opening former Agora Theater: 1976 > Demolishment former Agora Theater: 2004 > Start construction new Agora Theater: 4 march 2005 > First show: 31 march 2007 > Official opening: 25 may 2007 Architecture UNStudio, Amsterdam Ben van Berkel and Gerard Loozekoot with Jacques van Wijk, Job Mouwen en Holger Hoffmann, Khoi Tr..
Temporarer Pavillon fur die skulptur projekte munster 2007. Der ?Vorplatz“ des ehem. archaologischen Museums erhalt fur die Zeit der Ausstellung eine temporare Platzgestaltung und einen Pavillon als Unterbringung einiger zentraler Servicebereiche (Infopoint, PDA-Ausgabe, Katalogverkauf und einen thematischen Bookshop). Der geplante Pavillon funktioniert als eine Art ?urbane Weiche“ - ein bewegli..
