Architect: Jordi Badia Collaborators: Daniel Guerra, Rafael Berengena, Andreu Orradre Location: Salt, Girona, Spain Structure: Eduard Doce, architect Measurement: FCA Forteza Carbonell Associats Services: Consulting Lluís Duart Client: GISA. Gestió d’infraestructures S.A. - Departament de Sanitat Project year: 2004 Construction year: 2006-2008 Photographs: Pedro Pegenaute Summary The project gua..
Architects: Drost + van Veen architecten Location: Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands Project Architects: Evelien van Veen, Simone Drost Client: Bedrijventerrein De President Structural Engineer: ABT Delft Project year: 2006 Photographs: Drost + van Veen architecten Accents in a new rustic business park The business park ‘ De president’ is located in the municipality Haarlemmermeer. As an underlay ..
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of the recently-completed academic building for The Cooper Union in New York, designed by Thom Mayne of American practice Morphosis. Located at 41 Cooper Square, the building houses the college’s three schools teaching art, architecture and engineering. The building is wrapped in a perforated stainless steel skin. A six metre-wi..
Down to Earth: Artists Create Edible Landscapes, Fall, 2009. Two exclosures: each 40’ x 10’ x 8’ metal and plastic. Two sites (both facing a great deal of pressure from their deer populations): Ridge and Valley region and Schuylkill Environmental and Education Center, Piedmont region. Curated by Amy Lipton, Co-director of ecoartspace. Deer are innocent accomplices in the destruction of the fores..
Various Architects' project "Yorkshire Diamond" was a finalist in the open international competition for a mobile pavilion for Yorkshire Forward. The Yorkshire Diamond Pavilion is a unique and iconic venue that is designed to represent Yorkshire Forward at events around Yorkshire and Humber or further abroad. The project is an attraction in itself with a striking exterior in the form of inflatab..
Tower Liverpool, UK, EcoLogicStudio and FCB studios. The concept of a double skin has beenexpanded taking as inspiration the sharkskin system; as for the shark, a secondlayer of micro fins protrudes from thesmooth skin to manipulate the flow locally,allowing for a differentiated optimalresponse.In our design solution a system of largewooden fins have been shaped andmanipulated to allow specific ..
The e-volved table, which was designed by Timothy Schreiber in 2007, has been put into production by Dutch manufacturer FueraDentro as part of their 2010 collection. The design was inspired by natural fluid patterns and naturally grown shapes. This approach was translated into an initial digital model, which was subsequently optimized using digital structural and artificial intelligence algorith..
In 2002, Ned Kahn worked with the staff of Technorama, the major science center in Switzerland, and their architects, Durig and Rami, to create a facade for the building which is composed of thousands of aluminum panels that move in the air currents and reveal the complex patterns of turbulence in the wind. from jajaarchitects
Our friends from XTEN Architecture just sent us one of their latest projects. The Saphire Gallery is a residential gallery addition to a private residente in Los Angeles, California. It is designed to display a private collection of contemporary art while also providing for a home office with views to the sorrounding hills. The owners’ collection includes work by the artists Gregory Crewdson, Ut..
Architects: ONL [Oosterhuis_Lenard] Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Design team: Kas Oosterhuis, Ilona Lenard, Cas Aalbers, Sander Boer, Tom Hals, Dimitar Karanikolov, Tom Smith, Richard Lewis, Barbara Janssen, Gijs Joosen, Andrei Badescu, Maciek Swiatkowski, Rafael Seemann Engineering: ONL, Meijers Staalbouw BV, Pilkington Benelux BV Client: Projectbureau Leidsche Rijn Utrecht Production: Me..
