Architects: Fiona Winzar Architects Location: South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia Client: Joanne Higginson Project year: 2007 Builder: Third Pig Constructions Pty Ltd. Photographs: Emma Cross Context and Core Ideas Turning this tight and difficult inner city site into a home for a family of five is an important contribution to contemporary and sustainable design practice, where issues of energy ..
Architects: Snohetta Location: Bjørvika, Oslo, Norway Client: Ministry of Church an Cultural Affairs Area: 38.500sqm Construction start: 2004 Completion: 2007 Contractors: 55 contracts Geological Engineer: NGI Structural Engineer: Reinertsen Engineering ANS Electrical Engineer: Ingeniør Per Rasmussen AS Theatre Planning: Theatre Project Consultants Acoustics: Brekke Strand Akustikk, Arup Acous..
FEATURED PROJECT BY BING THOM ARCHITECTS Located in a vibrant multicultural neighbourhood in South Vancouver, the Sunset Community Centre houses a pre-school, gymnasium, exercise rooms and a host of other community activities. The building has been integrated into the Vancouver Park Board's nursery which will take on an additional role as an educational and recreational resource for the communit..
Architects Future Systems have been commissioned to design a new concert and congress centre at České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. The centre is named after Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. Here’s some info from Future Systems: – Just out side of Prague in the town of Ceske Budejovice a new Concert and Congress Centre has been designed by the Future Systems team headed by Jan Kaplicky. The..
Lichtenstein design brand Cycle 13 launched the production version of their egg-shaped Lomme bed at 100% Design London this weekend. The bed has been developed over a number of years by young Polish designer Agnieszka Bernacka, and has just gone into production. Lomme, which stands for Light Over Matter Mind Evolution, incorporates sound and light therapies which supposedly help people sleep bet..
In my opinion Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG, is one of the best architects when it comes to give shape to the interests of an “unspoken” client on public buildings,either representing the values of a country or a culture. All with exceptional syntax and presentation skills. And BIG’s latest project (in collaboration with Arup and 2+1), the Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo, does it aga..
Whistler celebration plaza by BINGTHOM ARCHITECTS As the last undeveloped block of property in the Whistler Village, this site has long been reserved for public use. It will be first occupied during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games as Whistler's medal celebration plaza. Once the Games are over, it will become a multi-seasonal playground with amphitheatre seating. Central to this publ..
SWAS tent SWAS tent is an inflatable structure for shelter, water storage, natural ventilation (air) and solar energy collector. The structure is easy to transport to the disaster site. A quiet fan keeps the tent inflated as long as needed. The structure is installed in less than five minutes and can be folded up in the accompanying bag when deflated. Thin photovoltaic-cell film mounted to the i..
Venice Architecture Biennale: here are some images of Symbiotic Villa, a house designed by Zaha Hadid for the Next-Gene 20 project in Taiwan. The project has invited ten international architects and ten Taiwanese architects to design houses. More info and images in our earlier story. The project was launched in Venice last week during the architecture biennale.
Architects: Ecosistema Urbano - blog - Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo, Diego García-Setién Location: Pau de Vallecas, Vial C-91, Madrid, Spain Collaborators: Ignacio Prieto, Maria Eugenia Lacarra, David Delgado, David Benito, Jaime Eizaguirre, Patricia Lucas, Ana López, Asier Barredo, Laura Casas, Fabricio Pepe, Michael Moradiellos Client: Land and Housing Municipal Company, Madrid Council, Dir..
