Architects: Consexto Location: Matosinhos, Portugal Project area: 44 sqm Project year: 2009 – 2010 Photographs: Amândio Neto The Closet house rises from the need to transform 44m2 in a house thoroughly useful and livable. Has five spaces, two of them completely flexible and transformable by result of a displacement of a cabinet/wall, in wood with natural finish, that grants spaces from the livin..
Architects: Todd Saunders Location: Fogo Island, Canada Project Area: 120 sqm Design Year: 2008–2009 Construction Year: 2009–2011 Photographs: Bent Rene´Synnevåg Introduction Fogo Island lies outside of Newfoundland, Canada and is home to a gentle, independent people who have lived for centuries between wind and waves in pursuit of fish. Fogo Islanders live in the untamed landscape of the North ..
The project, located at the shores of the Obersee in Switzerland, will house the headquarters of the internationally recognized landscape architecture firm Enea Garden Design. It emerges from the site as a wooden volume, discrete and elegant, and blends with the landscape as it responds to the natural environment, boundary lines and zoning conditions. After the break are drawings and photographs..
Architects: RUFproject Lead Architect & Designer: Sean Pearson Location: Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa Client: Nike South Africa Local Project Manager: SIP Project Managers Ltd. Project area: 54,800 sqm Photographs: Allan James, Julian Abrams Situated in the heart of Soweto, the Football Training Centre is the centre of football in South Africa, where 1200 teams and 20,000 footballers play each ..
전통 그리고 해석, 레스토랑 클래식, 고전의 힘을 보여주는 레스토랑이에요. 클래식한 재료를 현대적인 해석과정을 통해 고풍스러우면서 모던한 분위기를 연출하고 있어요. 동양의 컨텐츠를 잘 이해하여 서양의 장소로 풀어낸 능력이 뛰어나네요. Interior design firm Munge Leung created the interior for the AME Restaurant in Toronto, Canada. Ame’s staff are dressed in Asian inspired uniforms which are the sleek fashion forward creations of Canadian designer Anne Hung. Ame’s transcendent space fuses the tradit..
J-Tea International is an importer and seller of Taiwanese oolong teas. Designed by Atelier Waechter and located in Eugene, Oregon this adaptive re-use project gracefully transforms an existing single family house located in a commercially zoned area into a retail space for tea sales and sampling. The goal of the project was to achieve this with as few moves as possible. The transformation is co..
RDAI have designed the Hermes Boutique at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris, France. Hermès has entrusted the RDAI agency, which is reponsible for designing all the Hermès stores worldwide, with the design of a new space, singular and unexpected in Paris. Hermès is setting up shop in a swimming pool…An immense volume, empty. An impression more of space than of surface area. And now, at the end of a pro..
Milan 09: House of Furniture Parts by Studio Makkink & Bey is a shed-like structure where furniture components are pressed out from the walls and assembled. Made of CNC-cut ply, the structure is intended to create a small room within larger offices or public spaces. The project was presented by Dutch brand Droog in Via Alserio, Milan, last month and is a development of the studio’s Stairhouse pr..
Designer: Arjen Reas Location: Zoermeer, The Netherlands Project area: 744 m2 Project year: 2009-2010 Photographs: Kees Hageman Construction: Adviesbureau Docter Contractor: C.L. de Boer & Zn BV Thatch: Voogt Rietdekkers This project is a private assignment for an entrepreneur from the city center, and the question was posed, how could the family find peace on the edge of that same city. The sit..
We recieved this Urban Action 2010 by Dror Bill from the Bat-Yam Biennale in Israel. It focuses on the tension between the temporary and the permanent, between the planned and the experienced. The Biennale examines the occasionally tense relationships between the city’s attempt to create order through long-term plans, and the everyday chaos that is the product of that process. Our goal is to enc..
