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..
Architects: Sander Architects Location: Culver City, California, USA Constructed: 353 sqm Budget: US $500.000 Photographs: Sander Architects Case Study House for the 21st Century? Whitney Sander, principal architect and founder of the firm, has developed a way of creating residential buildings that is both very green and extremely efficient in terms of construction costs. He calls this Hybrid Ho..
Client: Building: BIG, Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft m.b.H. Interior: KUG, University for music and applied art, Graz Program: University faculty building Gross floor surface: 6.200 m² Volume: 31.600 m³ Site: 2.745 m² Design year 1998-2003 Construction year 2006-2008 UNStudio: Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos and Hannes Pfau with Miklos Deri, Kirstin Hollmann, Markus Berger, Florian Pischetsrieder, U..
Architects: PLOT = BIG + JDS Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Client: Sjakket Youth Club, Realdania Partner in Charge: Bjarke Ingels Collaborator: Julien De Smedt Project Leader: Sophus Søbye Project Architect: Sophus Søbye Contributors: Bo Benzon, Christian Dam, David Zahle, Julie Schmidt-Nielsen, Kathrin Gimmel, Louise Steffensen, Mia Frederiksen, Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Nina Ter-Borch, Ole Elkjær..
The Audi Shark is a futuristic flying concept vehicle with a streamlined design inspired by motorcycles and airplanes. It was designed by Kazim Doku and won the Desire Competition by Domus Academy. The Shark Concept by Kazim Doku reinterprets the Audi's design language in a futuristic way. It placed first in the Desire Design Competition launched in 2008 by Italian Domus Academy. The two-seater ..
French architects Beckmann-N’Thépé and landscape designers TN+ have won a competition to remodel Korkeasaari Zoo in Helsinki, Finland. The proposal involves creating a large glass-domed entrance and animal viewing building on the island zoo, and bringing back polar bears after a 30-year absence. Here’s some info from the architects: – BECKMANN-N’THEPE sarl d’Architecture KORKEASAARI ZOO (Helsink..
Iwan Baan shared with us one of the latest works he photographed, the Ningbo Historic Museum designed by Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio. from archdaily
3XN just shared with us their winning entry for the Randers Museum of Art, a “sculpture sitting in a sculpture garden” according to the architects, a sinuous building both open to both the town and the landscape. The red-tile façade of the exterior becomes the roof, and similarly on the inside, the floor becomes a wall, and then the wall a ceiling. From the architects: Randers Museum of Art will..
Staré Mesto could have its own beautiful park!!! It’s just a piece!! But in fact, we have a little problem here...they are separated and connected by the Danube River. What about making this famous promenade end in a park instead of in a four-lane road? What about making the Danube River flow through the old town and not next to it? Would it be possible to unite the city and the park? And sudden..
Architect: ARTEKS Arquitectura + Esther Pascal architect Location: Ordino, Andorra Architects in charge: Elisabet Faura & Ester Pascal Collaborators: Gemma Roca, Dalila Pregal, Alvaro Briceño, Malte Ruckert, Ruper Maurus, Carlos Cobreros, Cecilia Vázquez , Alex Miralles Artistic Collaborator: Victor Pérez Porro Structure: GETCE BEAL_ Xavier Beal Vilaginés Utilities: Bernabé Rodriguez Acoustics: ..
