Architect: Coop Himmelb(l)au Location: Munich, Germany Principal in Charge: Wolf D. Prix Project Architects: Paul Kath Design Team: Wolf D. Prix, Tom Wiscombe, Paul Kath, Waltraut Hohenender, Mona Marbach Partial Project Architects: Günther Weber, Penelope Rüttimann, Renate Weissenböck, Mona Marbach, Verena Perius Project team: Hans Aescht, Beatrix Basting, Guy Bebiè, Chris Beccone, Johannes Beh..
Cloud Tower is a pavilion for open-air concerts in the grounds of a castle near Vienna, Austria, designed by the next ENTERprise - architects. Located at Grafenegg Castle along with the copper-clad concert hall in our previous story, the auditorium occupies an existing depression in the landscape, accentuated by further excavations. Visitors enter the auditorium through a corridor cut into the s..
Architect: Zaha Hadid Architects and Patrik Schumacher Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Director: Tiago Correia Project Architects: Alejandro Diaz & Aurora Santana Project team: Fabiano Continanza, Víctor Orive, Rafael González, Oihane Santiuste, Mónica Bartolomé, Raquel Gallego, Esther Rivas, Jessica Knobloch, Hooman Talebi, Maria Araya, Ebru Simsek Local Architect: Ferran Pelegrina Associats..
French architects Manuelle Gautrand Architecture have designed a car showroom and leisure centre for Cairo, Egypt. The structure is based on a series of connecting circles and spherical cavities. “The intersection between them creates all the circulations, atriums, and visual perspectives through the whole building,” explain the architects. Made of concrete, the building will be made up of ident..
The Melbourne Recital Centre, and its neighbor, the first permanent home for the Melbourne Theatre Company, have taken out four of the highest honors at this year’s Victorian Architecture Awards. Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects, 37 awards and prizes were announced today at a dinner on Friday, July 10 attended by over 800 guests. The recital centre and MTC buildings by ARM and..
team: zeng xiaoming, he fan, ke jun, li si, ye xiaoqin, jiao chongxia, jing suchun and zhang jingwen design: 2008-2009 construction: 2009 total building area: 5,793sqm chinese studio pei-zhu has designed the xixi wetland art museum located in a rural nature preserved near hangzhou, china. the concept stems from the interaction between building and nature. as leaves fall from trees they arrive na..
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..
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 plan of this house was strongly conditioned by the life-style of the client and his work in the field of advertising, with its requirements for creativity. Because of the extremely frequent journeys of the client over the five continents as well as of his own idea about his dwelling space, the plan was intended to respond his needs for peculiarity. In fact our client wished to obtain an open..
The chamber music hall has been installed within Manchester Art Gallery for the duration of the Manchester International Festival 2009.From the festival program: “Across a series of nine concerts, threeinternationally acclaimed musicians will perform Bach’s soloinstrumental works in this unique, intimate space. The aim: to create anear-perfect environment for the audience to experience some of t..
