Casa Monte na Comporta in Grândola, Portugal is a house that sits in its surroundings as if it had always been there yet it also manages to look completely fresh, cool, new and spectacular. The house’s undulating shape echoes the gently sloping sand dunes, and its hard and angular surface planes contrast beautifully with the rounded shapes of the surrounding trees. It has a bunker-like feel but ..
location ：Aichi Prefecture,Japan program ：concert hall、restaurant、residence site area ：831.96㎡ total area ：4076.3㎡ Norihiko Dan — born in 1956 in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan — is the designer of the beautiful Munetsugu Hall, completed in 2007 in Naka Ward, Nagoya, Japan. It is a privately-funded concert hall that continues the age-old but almost-dead tradition of wealthy arts patrons initia..
Amanda Levete Architects have unveiled Central Embassy, a 30-storey retail and hotel project in Bangkok, Thailand. The tower will be built in the former gardens of the British Embassy in the city. Amanda Levete Architects was formed after Levete and former partner Jan Kaplicky, who had previously worked together as Future Systems architects, went their separate ways. Kaplicky died earlier this y..
authors: Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig cooperation: Tomáš Amtmann investor: Johana a Tomáš Růžičkovi photographer: Ester Havlová The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architec..
Architects: Mario Cucinella Architects Location: Rimini, Italy Project Team: Mario Cucinella, Elizabeth Francis, Davide Paolini, Enrico Iascone Structure: Gilberto Sarti, Fabio Bombardini Construction Management: Arch Massimo Morandi Design year: 2004-2006 client: Edile Carpentieri Srl Construction Area: 1,500 sqm Photographs: Daniele Domenicali The project involved redeveloping a site and const..
Architects: Sadar Vuga Architects Location: Portorož, Slovenia Project Team: Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Anamarija Volk, Corina Trunz, Goran Golubič Structural Engineer: Elea IC Landscape: GLG projektiranje Client: Lesnina Inženiring, d.d. Project year: 2009 Site Area: 626 sqm Constructed Area: 398 sqm Photographs: Sadar Vuga Villa Beli križ stands on the incline of the hill above Portorož. The m..
Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku took on its first large-scale integrated architectural and interior design commission in 2003, when YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, invited it to design the residence of a Malaysian power family. Completed in the latter part of 2008, the residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent fam..
Architect: Tatiana Bilbao & at103 Location: Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico D.F., Mexico Design Team: Tatiana Bilbao S.C. with Francisco Pardo, Julio Amezcua, Israel Alvarez, Aida Hurtado, Arturo Peniche, Jorge Vazquez, Carlos Leguizamo y Octavio Vazquez Structural Engineering: IESSA, Ing. Francisco Javier Ribe Contractor: MZM, Ing. Miguel Cornejo Construction Management: Elizabeth Huerta Project Y..
Architects: F451 Arquitectura Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China F451 Team: Santi Ibarra, Toni Montes, Lluis Ortega, Xavier Osarte & Esther Segura Engineering Consultant: AKT Landscape: Jeronimo Hagerman Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox Our propos..
Architects: x Architekten Location: St. Oswald, Austria Client: Golf und Tourismusforderung Contractor: Passivhaus Constructed Area: 757 sqm Project Year: 2003-2004 Photographs: Dietmar Tollerian The golf course as an integrated design landscape and topography nestles up to the soft downs of the Muhlviertel. The club house merges with the landscape and integrates consistently into the natural su..
