Japanese architects Suppose Design Office have completed a residence in Hiroshima, Japan, with offset floors allowing natural light from above to penetrate each level. The house can can be naturally illuminated while maintaining privacy on a small, crowded plot of land. The interior comprises a series of terraces, each shaped differently according to its intended purpose. During the process of d..
We recently shared Albert McDonald’s winning entry for the COD competition, and now SO Architecture just shared their proposal with us. The proposal entitled “Free Plan (T)” incorporates the free plan of Le Corbusier in an effort to leave the inner organization undisturbed. Yet, the free plans also means “no walls shall disturb one to live among nature”. Taking inspiration from Raymond’s work an..
Architect: Aboday Architects (Indonesia) Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Project Architect: PT. Parama Loka Cipta Developer: PT. Asiana Lintas Cipta Management Construction: PT. Arkonin Structure Consultant: PT. Agoes Kurnia M & E Consultant: PT. Policipta Multidesain Quantity Surveyor: PT. Korra Antarbuana Lighting Consultant: PT. Litac Consultant Photographs: Happy Lim This 16 storey apartment pr..
if you're going to build a castle, make it sturdy enough to survive attacks; or, so decided the 16th century japanese. they started building castles, like himeji castle, with stone rather than wood. then again, at the time japan was in the midst of civil war and the arrival of the cannon forced a change in architecture. today the owners of himeji observatory house may just fear the dissolution o..
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..
But not any kind of history, or at least not the scientific history of experts, which does not always leave room for imagination and almost always exhausts itself. We like to think of a history to call our own, and which never ends, because it lives on in each small or large finding, and in the eye of the observer, a whimsical eye that relies on what it wants to see, rather than on what it actua..
Ansicht auf Vorder- und Seitenfront, die röhrenförmige Haushülle besteht aus Betonfertigteilen, die Fassade und Hausrückseite aus Glas und schwarz eloxiertem Aluminium. Ansicht auf die Seitenfront mit Toreinfahrt in die Werkhalle. Der Handlauf, aus einer Stahlplatte gearbeitet, überspannt das insgesamt zehn Meter lange Treppenhaus und geht an seinem oberen Ende fugenlos in die Balustrade über. A..
The Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi (MAC) is a landmark of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Oscar Niemeyer designed this museum perched on the cliff in the city of Niteroi. The disk stretches out over the massive reflecting pool underneath. Similarities to a UFO is entirely intentional. The visitor approaches the disk in a snaking, red-carpet path through the air. The museum opened in 1996 after a..
Location: Saka, Latvia Architects: NRJA (Uldis Luksevics, Martins Osans) Client: Una and Andris Vitolins General Constructor: RBS Skals Object: private house Size: 200 sqm2 Year: 2002 The House of Ruins is located in Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea. It is a new family house built inside the19th century ruins of a traditional Latvian barn. The architects here have used the idea of contrast ..
Here is a full set of images of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, designed by architect I.M. Pei, which officially opened yesterday (Monday). Here is some info from the museum: – MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART OPENS DECEMBER 1 IN QATAR IN ICONIC I.M. PEI-DESIGNED LANDMARK BUILDING Inaugural Exhibition Celebrates Cultural Diversity and Complexity of Islamic Art Doha, QATAR, November 22, 2008 – The..
