Walking around the streets of Bangkok, it is possible to find inspiration in the way building owners modify their shop houses. These buildings usually begin as concrete constructions, but owners would later add layers over existing surfaces in order to block out heat and sun. Low cost and lightweight metal materials are cut into panels or pieces to create a pattern over the existing shop house. ..
Architects: BOB361 Architects Location: Niklaas, Belgium Project Architect: Jan Opdekamp Collaborators: Eveline Vyncke, Maarten Deconinck, Gunther Slagmeulder, Nathan Ooms, Bram Aerts, Maureen Heyns Project Area: 3,838 sqm Budget: $5,500,000 Euro Project year: 2005 Photographs: André Nullens, Jan Kempenaers & Frederik Vercruysse Concerning the implantation of the building, the volume is entirely..
Architects: Elenberg Fraser Architecture Location: Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia Client: Zacamoco Project team: Callum Fraser, Valerie Tan, Hazel Porter, Frank Olbrich, Lorenzo Nuti, Kathrin Wheib, Marcus Ieraci, Caroline King, Iva Foschia, Andrew Prodromou, Beth Solomon, Karl Engstrom Project Management: PDS Group Structural consultant: Bonacci Group Pty Ltd & VSL Australia Pty Ltd Builder: ..
Adam Kalkin’s Push Button House 1 demonstrates how industrial products can repurposed as architectural elements, or as entire homes. The Push Button House was originally displayed at Art Basel Miami in 2005, and uses a standard shipping container as the structure of a home. Kalkin’s concept uses hydraulic power to lift and lower the sides of the shipping container, vastly expanding the usable li..
Architects: BP Architectures (member of PLAN01) Location: Paris, France Client : Trouseau Children Hospital Project Area : 360 sqm Project year : 2009 Photographs: Luc Boegly The initially program ask to install 3 emergency staircases on the Trouseau Children Hospital main building. The context of this children hospital in the center of Paris is an extraordinary accumulation of architectural lay..
The project “Steckelhörn 11” is located in the old centre of Hamburg, close to the prominent new “Hafen City” development. It replaces a ruinous building and fills the gap between two historic premises. The triangular-shaped lot stretches across the city block, thus allowing for a narrow façade of about 1.3 m width facing the harbor and a main elevation of about 26.4 m oriented toward Steckelhör..
Los Angeles-based architect Marcelo Spina of architectural practice Patterns has completed an art gallery on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. Called PRISM, the project is a three-storey gallery space designed to showcase work by new artists. The building incorporates exhibition space, film-viewing and lecture areas, and a bookshop. The facade is made of a polycarbonate resin-based composite, which..
Architect: Produkcija 004 Location: Osijek, Croatia Client: City of Osijek and Panteon d.o.o. Project architects: Davor Katušic Project team: Venko Ćurlin, Robert Franjo, Ivana Senjak, Mirko Buvinić, Maja Furlan Zimmermann Construction: Studio Arhing, Borivoj Pojatina; P&D, Hrvoje Petrovic Installation: Mario Josipović; Renato Majcunić; Nenad Šutevski Project area: 14,200 sqm Budget: 10 mi..
The Spanish architects Vicens + Ramos has designed a fantastic church in Madrid, which goes its own way without the intention of the normal conventions. Hats off for a brave developer who has dared to say yes to the wild architects plan. A trend that we see more and more, are the rusty facade panels which actually provides an interesting appearance and glow to the façade. from dagensdesign
