The transformation of this small appartment has above all been strategic : Decompartmentalize the place so as to fit out an open plan and elude the demand of an extra room by conceiving in the center of the volume a suspended white cube which generates comic and disconcerting use situations. This former artist studio caracterised by a difference in height which shares the volume from a simple to..
Amidst financial buildings and high-rise apartments, Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut has redefined the conventional skyscraper. His 132 story complex for the south edge of Roosevelt Island addresses the pressing need for environmental and ecological sustainability. This conceptual design focuses on creating a completely self-sustaining organism that not only utilizes solar, wind, and water e..
Architects: medusagroup Location: Gliwice, Poland Architects in Charge: Przemo łukasik, Lukasz zagała Associate Architects: Rafal Dziedzic, Kuba Pudo, Tomasz Majewski, Dominik Jaksik, Dawid Beil, Krzysztof Drozda, Justyna Siwińska, Agnieszka Szewera, Jakub Magoń Structural Engineer: Statyk Client: Wektor Inwestycje sp. z o.o. Project area: 5,000 sqm Design year: 2007-2008 Construction year: 2008..
Location: Kyoto // JAPAN Type of Project: 5 story Residential Complex Project Architects: EASTERN design office /// Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno Total floor area: 992.94 square meters Site area: 440.12 square meters Year of Construction: 2009 We’ve seen their work on Yatzer before with a presentation of their House in Crest in Kyoto // JAPAN. Architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno of Japanese..
The Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg designed the Harbour Isle apartment buildings in Copenhagen, Denmark. The buildings are part of the new Havneholmen area of Copenhagen, which is a former industrial area that has been transformed into a residential and business zone, taking better advantage of the harbour front location. The project consists of 236 apartments in two U-shaped blocks with..
Architects: Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas Site: Mainz, Germany Client: Wohnbau Mainz GmbH Structure: Knippers Helbig beratende Ingenieure Total area: 9,000 sqm Budget: 14M Euro Project Year: 2003-2008 Photographs: Moreno Maggi The building complex is located in the middle of the city center of Mainz, Germany. Its existing “historical” facade shown to the Cathedral in Mainz and its new facade to ..
Project description by Stefan Boublil Combining 3 smaller apartments into one at one of new york city’s most coveted uptown addresses, we delivered a stunning new dwelling on the 61st floor of the metropolitan tower. Every single room is constructed so that the postcard view of central park is the star. With a built-in wraparound sofa, a secret door in the solid walnut library and distributed su..
A year and a half ago, OMA unveiled the first images for a residential project in Singapore, on schematic design phase. Basically it was a set of stacked low-rise blocks. Today OMA sent us an update on this project, The Interlace, and more details appear. The project is located on a green belt outside the capital city, and consists on 31 stacked apartment blocks, each six-stories tall and identi..
Architect: ARJM (Abdelmajid Boulaioun) Location: rue de Jerusalem, Chaussée de Haecht, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belguim Project: 5 logements Social + Cabinet médical Project Team: Abdelmajid Boulaioun, Jean-Marie Bertin, Michel Cuypers, Emmanuel Toglet, Ryo Inagaki Structural Engineer: Michael Nguen, Brussels Client: Renovas ASBL Contractor: Balcan, Brussels Project Year: 2009 Photograph: Filip Duj..
Hong Kong architects Cheungvogl have designed two identical houses to be built side by side in Tokyo, Japan. Each house will have a long, thin courtyard planted with a single tree. Made of rough concrete and aged timber, both buildings have smaller structures with pitched roofs perched on top. Here’s some more information from Cheungvog – 2 houses in Tokyo, cheungvogl Looking out, seeing people ..