Architects: Shuhei Endo Location: Sayo-cho, Hyogo, Japan Project team: Kengo Sasamoto, Aya Umemoto Design year: 2005-2006 Construction year: 2006-2008 Principal use: Institution and exhibition of earth environmental Site Area: 5,000 sqm Constructed Area: 968 sqm The client requested that all people who will visit this place including the inhabitants of Hyogo prefecture, improves the interest for..
German designers ett la benn presented a new modular storage system at the Create Berlin show in London last month. Designers Danilo Dürler and Oliver Bischoff have worked together as ett la benn since July 2006. Create Berlin was part of the Tent London exhibition. The following is from ett la ben: – SWOC Description: SWOC is a modular storage system that offers a variety of combinations and a ..
Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos - Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza Location: Bilbao, Spain Collaborators: Fernando de la Maza, Jorge Bilbao, Pablo Castro, Gorka García Project year: 2003-2004 Construction year: 2004-2008 Constructed area: 9,200 sqm Budget: 12,935,436 EURO (US $17,9M) Structure: Mintegia y Bilbao Electrical Consultant: ndotec Safety: Tesysal Photographs: Aleix Bagué..
PROGRAM: 1,800 seats Grand theatre, entrance lobby & lounge Multifunction hall, other auxiliary facilities & support premises CLIENT: Guangzhou Municipal Government ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid Project Director Woody K.T. Yao, Patrik Schumacher Project Architect Simon Yu Project Team Jason Guo, Yang Jingwen, Long Jiang, Ta-Kang Hsu, Yi- Ching Liu, Zhi Wang, Christine Chow, Cyril Shing, Filippo I..
It keeps intriguing me, the way in this project the fluid concrete bands on the ground with just a fold continue into the facade, and how these flat forms are reflected behind the mirror glass in three-dimensional structures in the interior. As a whole it has a rare sensibility to it. Simply continuing the structure found on the ground onto the facade does not always work out fine, as the Thiais..
Spikvoorde II byRené van Zuuk Architekten Dutch architects René van Zuuk Architekten have completed Spikvoorde II, a building containing a school and apartments in Deventer, Netherlands. A primary school occupies the first three floors of the building, with nine private apartments on the upper floors. All photos are copyright Christian Richters except where specified. The following is from René ..
Mensa Karlsruhe Mensa Karlsruhe is an elastic space, that sits in the center of the Karlsruhe University Campus. As an extension of the already existing facilites, the city of Karlsruhe is building a canteen that will serve the growing number of students. The building becomes the new adress of the campus, negotiating between the identities of three universities as well as between the urban fabri..
Despite what you might think, this is not a temporal installation. The image of the LTL 1000 banknote is brought onto this 10-story building using special enamel paint. During the process the paint turns into a ceramic print that lasts forever. At least in the Netherlands all literal prints on buildings are temporal. (Architects only apply abstract patterns to their designs.) The literal prints ..
Are we looking at the expression of the boosted confidence of the Chinese after Beijing 2008? I think so. The ‘Superstar’ is a design for a different kind of China Town, one that would be more in tune with the rapidly progressing China of today. The project comes from an architecture firm whose office was located closely to the past ? successful ? Olympics. They are Beijing, they are MAD. In th..
Villa MRMM near Ludwigsburg Germany 2005 - Team J. MAYER H.: Jürgen Mayer H. Georg Schmidthals Thorsten Blatter Simon Takasaki Ausschreibung / Bauleitung: Architekturbüro Uli Wiesler, Stuttgart The geometry of the Dupli.Casa is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site, originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and modifications since then. The new bui..
