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
Bark Design Architects, a small Australian practice, have designed a studio for themselves that showcases their philosophy of design and provides a great space to work. The “workhouse”, an elevated steel, glass and plywood studio, “explores the notion of a mixed work / house typology.” The architects intended for the project to expresses lightness in its modular structural form, transparency, te..
Site: Vitoria, Spain Architect: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Work direction: Francisco José Mangado Beloqui Collaborators: Architecture: José Mª Gastaldo, Richard Král’ovič, Eduardo Pérez de Arenaza. Structural engineering: NB 35 SL (Jesús Jiménez Cañas / Alberto López) Ingenieros. Installations engineering: Iturralde y Sagüés ingenieros / César Martín Gómez. Acoustic engineering: Higini Arau...
Architects: Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects MNAL / Einar Jarmund, Hakon Vigsnæs & Alessandra Kosberg Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway Design Period: 2001-2003 Construction period: 2003-2005 Collaborators: Anders Granli, Nevzat Vize, Sissil Morseth Gromholt, Thor Christian Pethon, Halina Noach, Harald Lode, Stian Schjelderup Client: Statsbygg / Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction a..
Polish Design Season: Jakub Szczęsny of Centrala has designed a floating island that purifies river water, powered by exercise machines. The river water is passed through four filters by kinetic pumps attached to the exercise equipment. It is then collected in four tanks before being returned to the river through a fountain in the raft’s centre. Szczęsny created the installation for architecture..
French designer Nicolas Vrignaud has designed the signage for a building comprising a fashion school, shopping centre, exhibition hall and restaurants on the banks of the Seine in Paris. Created for the development (called DOCKS en Seine) by architects Jakob+MacFarlane, the signs wrap around the existing concrete structure. Vrignaud designed the project in collaboration with architect Lorenzo As..
