The future well being of cities around the globe depends on mankind’s ability to develop and integrate sustainable technology. LAVA designed the Masdar City as the city of the future; positioned at the forefront of integrating sustainable technology into modern architectural design. Rome, Athens, Florence; most great historical cities have had the plaza, forum, or square at their epicentre – whe..
Architect: BIG Client: Kazakhstan Presidential Office Collaborators: ARUP AGU Size: 33.000 M2 Location: Astana, Kazakhstan Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Thomas Christoffersen Team: Amy Campbell, Jakob Henke, Johan Cool, Jonas Barre, Daniel Sundlin BIG was recently awarded with the first prize on an open international design competition for Kazakhstan’s new National Library in ..
Danish designers Oluf Lund and Eva Paarmann will introduce new furniture designs at CODE09 during Copenhagen Design Week, between August 27th and September 6th, 2009. Below are some of their new designs: from contemporist
Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects have won the competition for a new clubhouse in Fælledparken. The new clubhouse will be common to the four soccer clubs in Fælledparken; Heimdal, Viktoria, ØIF and HB. It was important to create a building that in scale blend in with the local area and Fælledparken. The building is designed as one large unit and carefully placed with perfect view over the park and or..
i.M.A.D.E is an institute within Ball State University, focusing on digital design and fabrication techniques for both industry and education related to architecture and allied arts. It acts as an effective link between the academy and the manufacturing industry, with all the benefits this alliances bring: the fresh ideas on one side, and the technical capacity on the other. With strategic indus..
Korean architects Hohyun Park and Hyunjoo Kim have completed Z-House, a residence in Gwangju Si near Seoul. Situated at the top of a steep hill, the building is surrounded by woods to the west and has views across the surrounding mountains to the south. The Z-shaped roof is made of black zinc and wraps around the upper level of the house. The upper level is clad in red cedar wood in contrast to ..
The Austria Pavilion designed by Solid Architecture for the Expo Zaragoza 2008 was an extension of the popular 19th-century “cyclorama” art form. The viewer platform in the center of the panorama and the plastically designed historic panorama architecture in the foreground merge into a white landscape marked by contour lines, which will serve as the pavilion’s exhibition space. This abstracted l..
Los Angeles architects DRDS have designed a sports complex for the Hyundai-Samsung Consortium in Hwaseong, Korea. The stadium has a perforated metal skin with openings of various size. Designed in collaboration with Junglim, DMP, Haendlim and A&U, the stadium is due to open in 2010. Here’s some more information from DRDS: Hwaseong sports complex DRDS in collaboration with Junglim, DMP, Haenglim ..
Architect: HyoManKim, IROJE KHM Architects, Seoul Location: GaPyeong, GyeongGi Site area: 955 square meters Building area: 337.33 square meters Gross floor area: 728.02 square meters Stories: Basement and Two Floors Photo: Sergio Pironne // seen @ wallpaper Year: 2008 Island house by IROJE KHM Architects in Kangwon-do, South Korea text by Marcia Argyriades for Yatzer Island House is built on the..
Produced for the ‘Eco Trans Pop’ exhibition of ecological design at the Colombari Gallery in Milan, Italy. The chair is made from PET bottles with a stainless steel frame. The bottles can be easily changed if they show signs of damage. The seat is in the form of a flower. The rhythm of hundreds of PET bottles creates an organic structure. An ordinary form is transformed into an extraordinary for..
