Architects: Gokhan Avcioglu & GAD Location: Istanbul, Turkey Project Team: Ozan Ertug, Serkan Cedetas Collaborators: Besiktas Municipality Project Area: 320 sqm Budget: $500,000 Project Year: 2007-2008 Construction Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: GAD Located in one of Istanbul’s most populated and diverse neighborhoods, Besiktas is an eclectic area with a village-like atmosphere that is in the proc..
Anne-Mette Jensen and Morten Ernst have designed the In Duplo sofa series for the Danish furniture manufacturer Erik Jørgensen. In Duplo is a series that consist of two sofas in kinship (In Duplo High & Low) that are designed with a common theme. Each sofa consists of a wing shaped corpus that holds a composition of cushions. Like in a stone circle where each element is modified and finds its na..
Designer: Divercity Architects (London; Athens) Building type: Hotel Location: Kefalonia, Greece website: www.divercityarchitects.com Status: Under construction; estimated completion, 2012 For their latest hotel design in Kefalonia, Greece, Divercity Architects intended to blend this contemporary hotel with the vernacular architecture of the surroundings. Due to the site conditions, the hotel co..
Serbian architect Ivo Otasevic of Otako Architects has designed a chair that looks like the letter ‘a’. Called aChair, it is made from wood, plastic and metal. Here is some text from the designer: – This chair is a compromise between an object of everyday use and art installation. The chair that is comfortable to sit on, can be exposed as a sculpture in an inspiring space. The combination of col..
Architects: Archivision Location: Tokyo, Japan Principals in Charge: Yoshihiro Hirotani & Yusaku Ishida Structural Engineers: Umezawa Structural Engineers Mechanical Engineers: Azu Planning General Contractor: Daido Housing Site Area: 67.88 sqm Constructed Area: 108.31 sqm Project Year: 2008-2009 Photographs: Yuichi Higurashi This beauty parlor stands in the Omote-sando area of Tokyo, which repr..
Designer: Ryder Architecture Installation: summer 2009 Client: Kielder Partnership Structural engineer: Edward Bird Associates Planning supervisor: Grit and Pearl Main contractor: Ryder / Norbuild Subcontractors and suppliers: Technosolutions / Northern Fabricators Janus Chairs was created as one of six sculptural shelters at Kielder Water & Forest Park, northern Europe’s largest man made lake a..
The house is hided behind a harmonious sculptural set of curved walls made of stone dark granite and marble travertino that seem to emerge from a big water plate arranged in the house entry. In addition to the beauty of this structure, it offers a high grade of privacy and tact between the exterior (street) and the house. Other more, this structure goes to the back part, as a front, where is a n..
Architect: Armon Choros Architects / Eleftheria Serghidou, Vasilis Pashiourtides Location: Larnaca, Cyprus Structural Engineering: Nicos Kalathas, George Demetriades Mechanical Engineering: Giannos Zempylas Budget: US $676,950 Design Year: 2000 Construction Year: 2007 Photographs: Christos Papantoniou It was asked for an introvert residence, with internal yard where the water would constitute th..
Client: British Land Project Manager: M3 Consulting Architects: Carmody Groarke Engineering: Arup Landscape Architecture: EDCO Lighting design: Maurice Brill Lighting Design Contractor: BOVIS Sub Contractor: Skanska Specialist Sub contractors: Sheetfabs, Nottingham London architects Carmody Groarke have completed a pavilion in London featuring a steel plate supported eight meters above the groun..
Architect: Sebastian Mariscal Studio Location: La Jolla, California, USA Designer & Builder: Sebastian Mariscal Studio Design Team: Sebastian Mariscal & Jeff Svitak Structural Engineering: Omar Mobayed Project Area: 1,546 sqm Project year: 2007 Photographs: Hisao Suzuki Conceived as a series of town residences, SIX in La Jolla combines clear form with continuous indoor/outdoor spaces, elevating ..
