Two-Tree House was designed by Tel-Aviv based practice Golany Architects. The house is constructed among mature Jerusalem pine trees. Two of the trees have grown in the exact place where the house was to be located. The site was tight, and this led to the decision to integrate the two trees within the perimeter of [...]
Monterey Peninsula College Student Services Center Employing forward-thinking design solutions to meet today’s higher education facility budgets Flexibility and sustainability are more vital now than ever in architecture, particularly in higher education where every dollar counts. The HGA Architects and Engineers-designed Student Services Center at Monterey Peninsula College, which opened in Fall 2011, exemplifies these [...]
Bilbao, Miribilla neighborhood, built on ancient iron mines adyacent to the old part of town. A very hilly solar (46 m from one corner to another, just 200m) in which the building was caught in the neighborhood park. Limestone rocks sticking out between the banks and trees in the park gave us the key to [...]
Design bureau concern is jointly responsible for the interior of upc’s new office and callcentre in leeuwarden; one of the most ecologically sound buildings in the netherlands (leed platinum and breeam-nl certification), designed by architectural firm paul de ruiter. Upc plans to raise the quality of the organisation and it’s properties with this high value [...]
Fragments is a real table created by the virtual designer Uto Balmoral for Tonelli Design that will be presented on the next Milan Design week. The lighness of the extraclear glass contrast with the great stability garanted by the light inclination of the four legs. Engravings under the top realized with craftsmanship create the illusion that the [...]
A Penthouse in Paddington becomes ‘Hotel-at-Home’ for International Family After purchasing the 14th and 15th floors of a new development adjacent to Paddington Basin, together with a roof terrace, the private owner of the empty shell duplex space commissioned renowned London architects and designers SHH to transform it into a luxurious, cool and contemporary penthouse, [...]
Being built as a coastal refuge, the house of Martossa is located in an exceptional place. From the street, it is only possible to notice its presence by the almost imperceptible view of the roof that protects the cars parked below. The house has been built on the hillside, at a lower level, so that [...]
A design for an apartment with floor area of 70m2 (for a 2+2 family) was a challenge for us, mainly because of the small surface. For the investor, ergonomics was important, as well as to make the apartment have character and not to make it boring. Hallway, living room and kitchen (39,5 m2) have been [...]
Designed for DIFFA DBD 2012, this table is a tribute to today’s digital society where everyone is always on the move with a wealth of information at their fingertips. Input Creative Studio wanted to play on the idea of a QR code-abbreviated from Quick Response-it is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes [...]
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has recently designed the Quai de Queyries – Bordeaux. + Project facts Program: Housing and shops Owner: Bordeaux Metropole Development Project manager / Architect: architects ECDM Location: Quai of Queyries, Bordeaux (33) Land area: 23,000 m2 Built area: 45 000 m2 floor area + All images [...]
The BOMBAY SAPPHIRE Sky Pavilion Imagination Project opens in Melbourne, Australia today and its free to the public. It is an interactive 4D installation which facilitates manipulation of virtual clouds and star constellations inside a pop-up space, using your body. The installation is part of an International campaign which communicates what is possible with the [...]
Woods Bagot has won the international competition to design China Southern Airport City, a 988-acre (400-hectare), mixed-use development set on the Liuxi River in Guangzhou, China. The design, which totals 41 million square feet (3.8 million square meters), expands the traditional corporate headquarters to an urban scale, blending business and manufacturing uses with lifestyle and [...]
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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 [...]
