Architects: Hauvette & Associés Location: Cayenne, French Guyana Design project manager: Christian Felix Site project manager: Stéphanie de Lajartre, interior designer Collaborators: Pierre Champenois, Laetitia Delubac, Stéphanie de Lajartre, Marie Menant and Elena Ranaletti Client: Ministry of National Education Engineering: CERA Ingénierie Project year: 2007 Constructed Area: 5,520 sqm Photogr..
Latvian architects Substance have built a sports hall in Jurmala, Latvia, inspired by chunks of amber washed up on the Baltic coast. The centre is used for athletics, basketball, volleyball and handball in the summer, and transformed into an ice rink for ice-hockey and skating during the winter. Translucent polycarbonate cladding was applied inside the framework in order to reduce the building’s..
Barcelona-based H Arquitectes have completed School Gym 704 in Barberà del Vallès, Spain. Commissioned by the city council of Barberà del Vallès, School Gym 704 is a prefabricated, prism shaped building with a sloping roof. The gym’s design includes a porch which provides access to the changing rooms and an outdoor running track for the children’s education centre. The structure of the gym is ma..
This house is a tower rising above the rolling topography of its cherry orchard site, peering outwards toward spectacular westward views of Lake Michigan and the surrounding agricultural landscape. The site is left minimally disturbed, other than the mounding of two earthen enclosures adjacent to the tower, utilizing the excavated earth of the foundation and offering a ground bound contrast to t..
ShowCase is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies. We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, please send us a message. The green surroundings, and the development of a new typology of affordable houses, following traditional constr..
david altmejd burst onto the contemporary art scene seemingly out of nowhere. the young sculptor began exhibiting at small galleries in his hometown of montréal and then made the move to new york. since graduating with an mfa from columbia university in 2001, he has participated in a number of high profile shows in new york and abroad, including the 2003 istanbul biennial and the 2004 whitney bi..
Triarthrus bangle The Lazerian jewelry creatures text by Vera Tay Shumei for Yatzer Inspired by the animals and the sea creatures which were discovered by the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel in the late 1800's, Lazerian’s latest in jewelry has indeed integrated the same quasi-organic form into the bangles that can now be purchased here. Carefully constructed at the Lazerian atelier, only t..
Architects: f451 Arquitectura Location: Barcelona, Spain Project Year: 2006 Design team: Santiago Ibarra, Toni Montes, Lluis Ortega, Xavier Osarte, Esther Segura Quantity Surveyor: J. Hierro-Tram Structure: NATEC Mechanical: AIA Photographs: José Hevia In this project emphasis was placed on the construction process. The whole building was constructed offsite and then transported. Quality, transp..
Green Gadget fans have been waiting for the holy green grail of gadgets for awhile now: the solar-powered mobile phone. And now it seems that Samsung has finally delivered on this promise with their brand new Blue Earth phone. Blue Earth is a gorgeous green touch phone that has a full solar panel on its back which can generate enough power to charge the phone. And yes - the gadget is still small..
Architects: Ezzo - Cesar Machado Moreira Location: Oporto, Portugal Design Team: Fátima Barroso Project year: 2005-2006 Client: Marta Mello Sampayo Structural Engineering: Eng.Lopes de Oliveira Services: Oval Engenharia Photographs: Joao Ferrand The earliest records of the construction of the house at Outeiro Street date back to the last 19th century where the road to Romanticsm started. Built u..
