Modernisation of the Berchtesgaden Youth Hostel– Design meets Adventure: Haus Untersberg – now open LAVA‘s reinterpretation of an existing youth hostel has resulted in a completely new type of space. The transformation of the youth hostel is underway! The design is all about the individuality of spaces – LAVA achieved this by the clever reorganisation [...]
This pavilion at the rear of the large Edwardian house faces directly west, a striking colourful screen was devised to filter the heat load, views to neighbouring properties, provide privacy and to animate interior spaces with a lovely warm afternoon glow through the coloured glass louvres. The copper clad building was designed to graft onto [...]
As part of the Federal Government’s BER initiative, this small private school, in Sydney’s northern suburbs, identified the need for a multi-purpose hall to serve both primary and secondary students. The project had a very tight budget. However, the Client requested that the multi-purpose hall be designed in such a way as to create opportunities [...]
The original house was a massive monochromatic, cavernous, almost windowless building that was remodeled to create spacious, bright interiors with warm contemporary exterior finishes including hardwood for the roof eaves. The cozy interior consists of a living room, kitchen, dining, office, 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, master ensuite and appointed with wood veneers + natural-colored tiles. [...]
Cascading Creek House was conceived less as a house and more as an extension and outgrowth of the limestone and aquifers of Central Texas. The primary formal gesture of the project inserts two long native limestone walls to the sloping site, serving as spines for the public wing and private wing of the house. The [...]
Massimo Iosa Ghini designs for Faraone the balustrade Lumina, a perfect marriage between functionality and aesthetics, where the lightness and the technical elements create an innovative and versatile product. The aluminum frame blends harmoniously with the surrounding architecture and Lumina becomes a design element that draws the spaces with light. The LED illumination is behind [...]
Global construction and property advisor Rider Levett Bucknall has launched its free cost-based app for desktop PCs and smartphones at World Architecture Festival 2011. The Rider Levett Bucknall Intelligence App enables users to access instant cost data, market trend information and analysis without any subscription or purchase fees. For those without access to a smartphone, [...]
IFAC (International Festival of Art & Construction) is organizing the festival of art and construction “IFAC 2012″ for next summer. + About IFAC It is an initiative of the nonprofit association “self-sufficent movement” which seeks to promote the philosophy of self-sufficiency in society, invest aggressive consumer trends, encourage and disseminate self-sufficient practices, investigate and explore [...]
in square lab proposed the recladding project for Puskinsky Cinema, Moscow, Russia. The proposal seeks to reconnect the Cinema back to the city through a series of site driven interventions; reviving the glory of the cinema and providing an icon to the city of Moscow. Symbiotic Facade – Pushkinsky Cinema Located in the heart of [...]
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[global] Crisis & Design ver.1.0: Living in the Crisis Era, between Anxiety and Desire Architects and Designers in New York City Team up to Develop Projects Addressing Currents Global Issues Thursday, November 17– Saturday, December 3, 2011 Opening reception and book launch: Thursday, November 17, 6 – 8pm The Institute of Multidisciplinarity for Art, Architecture [...]
AWP has won the competition to deliver a master plan for the development of all urban spaces in the La Défense central business district, Paris. Our vision at this stage of the process consists in developing, as the major point, spatial continuity with as few separate elements as possible… This spatial continuity is the provison [...]
Origamo is an elegant living room table. The name derived from Japanese art of paper folding, because Origamo made using a rectangular plate of metal, folded and engraved with laser cutting to give him strength and charisma. The main feature is that from every direction you look is always different shape thanks to the meticulous [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
