Architect: QVE Arquitectos Location: Vitoria, Spain Architects in charge: Jose Maria Garcia del Monte, Ana Maria Montiel Jimenez & Fernando Garcia Colorado Cost consultant: Rafael Valin Alcocer / Project Phase Structure Consultant: Jose Luis Fernandez Cabo Cost consultant: Jose Luis Montoya & Luis Alberto Martinez de Sarria / Construction Phase Services Consultant: GEA S.L. Project year: 2002-20..
KSP Engel und Zimmermann recently designed a 77,000 square meter library extension to accommodate the existing National Library of Beijing. The new addition will hold approximately 12 million books and be used by an estimated 12,000 people per day. The Si Ku Quan Shu collection, “unparalleled in its historical and cultural significance”, includes manuscripts produced during the Ch’ing dynasty (1..
Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au Location: Munich, Germany Principal in Charge: Wolf D. Prix Project Architects: Paul Kath Design Team: Wolf D. Prix, Tom Wiscombe, Paul Kath, Waltraut Hohenender, Mona Marbach Partial Project Architects: Günther Weber, Penelope Rüttimann, Renate Weissenböck, Mona Marbach, Verena Perius Project team: Hans Aescht, Beatrix Basting, Guy Bebiè, Chris Beccone, Johannes Beh..
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects and Patrik Schumacher Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Director: Tiago Correia Project Architects: Alejandro Diaz & Aurora Santana Project team: Fabiano Continanza, Víctor Orive, Rafael González, Oihane Santiuste, Mónica Bartolomé, Raquel Gallego, Esther Rivas, Jessica Knobloch, Hooman Talebi, Maria Araya, Ebru Simsek Local Architect: Ferran Pelegrina Associats..
German firm Architekten Schröder Schulte-Ladbeck have completed a copper-clad concert hall in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria. Called the Schloss Grafengg Concert Hall and located in the grounds of Grafenegg Castle, the new building has been integrated with the castle’s existing, heritage-protected, former riding-school buildings, to which it is connected by a series of glazed lobbi..
The Melbourne Recital Centre, and its neighbor, the first permanent home for the Melbourne Theatre Company, have taken out four of the highest honors at this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards. Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, 37 awards and prizes were announced today at a dinner on Friday, July 10 attended by over 800 guests. The recital centre and MTC buildings by ARM and..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Venice, California, USA Constructed Area: 672 sqm Project year: 2009 Photographs: Sander Architects The Orange Office is an architecturally distinctive landmark on Lincoln Blvd that will be immediately identifiable by its orange exterior. Orange fiber grate provides a screen over translucent acrylic to diminish heat gain. At night the building will glow th..
Architects: Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec Location: Epinay, France Project Manager: Aliette Chauchat Client: Espacil Habitat Project Management Associate: Betom, BET - Michel Larsonneur Constructed Area: 9,000 sqm Project year: 2003-2008 Photographs: Benoit Fougeirol The conception of our project joins in a second reading of the landscape of the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history..
Location: Zenotz. Ultzama Valley Total Area: 5.200 m2 Prizes: Finalist X Bienal Spanish Architecture 2009 The plot is in the middle of one of the most humid valleys of northern Navarre. A valley of gentle but sturdy hills, where the green pasture and oak trees configure a landscape of strong character, whose color changes with the seasons. A valley dotted with a system of small and relatively cl..
Architects: Stefano Boeri Architetti Location: Seregno, Italy Client: Muinicipality of Seregno Constructed Area: 2,700 sqm Budget: 2,600,000 euro Project Year: 2003-2009 Photographs: Paolo Rosselli This housing block is conceived as an L-shaped building, strictly included by the area edges; three-dimensional articulation is obtained by alternating full volumes and voids over the given surface. T..
