PROJECT: WVOWS TYPE: Invited Competition CLIENT: H-Hagen Fastighets AB COLLABORATORS: AKT, Tyréns, Transsolar SIZE: 100.000 M2 LOCATION: Malmo, Sweden STATUS: 1st Prize Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Nanna Gyldholm Moller Team: Gabrielle Nadeau, Daniel Sundlin, Jonas Barre, Nicklas Antoni Rasch, Jin Kyung Park, Fan Zhang, Steve Huang, Flavien Menu, Ken Aoki BIG, in collaboratio..
Architects: Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Location: San Francisco, CA, USA General Contractor: Clandmark Building Engineering Construction Inc Project/Construction Manager: Clive McCarthy Structural Engineer: GFDS Engineers Project year: 2007 Photographs: Rien van Rijthoven A robust Mission district industrial building, built in the 1930’s, has had many lives. First as a Lucky Strike war..
Housing Unit . Facade Component . Cluster . Neighbourhood Last week I attended the presentations of the associative design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio synthetic vernacular. Led by Peter Trummer and assisted by our fellow dysturb evangelist Martin Sobota, the class investigated traditional chinese building typologies. The principles found in the analysis were us..
Carbon Neutral master plans are being adopted in several countries, in times when energy and emissions are becoming very important. And that´s exactly what Azerbaijan will do to develop Zira Island on the Caspian Sea, located in the bay of the capital city Baku. The master plan was developed with danish BIG Architects and Ramboll engineers, with an architectural proposal based upon the country’s..
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 ..
