Project Title: The Black Pearl Residence Façade Design: Studio Rolf.fr i.s.m. Zecc Architecten Interior Design: Studio Rolf.fr Program: Residence and Workshop Date: 2008 – 2010 Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands I think it was love at first site! That’s what I felt when we received the images from Zecc architecten. The Black Pearl, the residence of my dreams; especially for the story it carries. A..
While Louis Kahn was designing the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh in 1962, he was approached by an admiring Indian architect, Balkrishna Doshi, to design the 60 acre campus for the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India. Much like his project in Bangladesh, he was faced with a culture enamored in tradition, as well as an arid desert climate. For Kahn, the design of the inst..
Van Rooijen Architects designed the Van den Heuvel residence in Leidsche Rijn, The Netherlands. The urban history of Leidsche Rijn dates back to the time of the Roman Empire. Today the region is being transformed from a mainly rural area into a new quarter of the city of Utrecht. Along one of the old routes with its variety of architectural typologies a new house is added after demolishing an ol..
UNStudio shared their new pavilion for the 29th Art Biennale in Sao Paulo, Brazil with us. The project is intended to encourage interaction between the participants and visitors by creating a place for display, discussion, and debate. An artistic expression that also functions programmatically, the pavilion embodies the dynamic geometry and spatial qualities common in the firm’s work (to compare..
Stephen Lindsay of the Canadian design studio UrbanProduct has sent us photos of their Dune Wall Treatments. The tiles are made from local materials in either concrete, wood, or ceramic. Each tile measures 8″ square and rise 1″.7/8ths from the applied surface. Weights… Wooden – 0.47 kilo Gypsum – 0.93 kilo Concrete – 0.96 kilo We produce these tiles in limited batch runs and can offer a wide ran..
Spanish architect Javier Peña of Xpiral has completed two houses in Murcia, Spain, with the lower volume built from stacked ceramic wine racks. Called Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada, the project comprises two residences, with one cantilevered above the other. Some of the holes in the wine racks that make up the lower level are plugged with coloured ceramic tiles. Torreagüera Vivienda Atresada (20..
The house, along the Lisdoddelaan in the Amsterdam vinex-area IJburg, is part of the Kleine Rieteiland, where private families have the opportunity to realize their dream home. In the urban plan by John Bosch, with a square type public space and surrounded by a high, enclosing walls from various houses, the front elevation is relatively closed and rather inconspicuous. This is quite a big contra..
Architects: Köppen Strauch Architekten Location: Leichlingen, Germany Project Area: 600 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Tomas Riehle Situated on a gentle hill this house overlooks the small city of leichlingen in western germany near cologne. with its precise shape and its reduced materials its creating a contrast to the mediocre buildings around. the open space of the groundfloors allo..
In the attic of an emblematic building of classical early 20th century Madrid, this new concept of living space is placed: UNLIMITED SPACE (Ceramic House) is presented by architect Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez and built out of total freedom of layers. As if the design would be a three-dimensional object, every one of the rooms or points of the home can be located by specifying the axis of coordinates. ..
“The conceptual framework behind the design of Juliet is based on the symbols and the tales of “One Thousand and One Nights” told by the legendary Persian queen Scheherazade,” said Di Oronzo. “The stories would speak of adventurous travels on flying carpets and luminous, soft clouds in the warm desert nights. They would speak of kings and queens, and describe encounters in crowded, gleaming citi..
