La Valentina Station \ David Baker + Partners
For more than two decades, a high-crime light-rail stop at a toxic empty lot; now, a sustainable affordable housing development and new gateway to downtown. This new affordable rental building remediates a toxic site, bolsters important local electrical and storm-water infrastructure, and brings compact transit oriented homes to a neglected area. The project provides 63 [...]
Garden in Comporta \ Topiaris + Gonçalo Salazar de Sousa
Joao Morgado shared with us one of his architectural photography. Designed by Topiaris, Landscape Architecture + Gonçalo Salazar de Sousa, Architects, the landscape project is located in Comporta, Portugal. The key concept is to regenerate the terrain – severely damaged by the construction works of the house, following a specific design – inspired on the natural [...]
Dutch Gambrel \ Serge Schoemaker Architects
Serge Schoemaker Architects has transformed and extended the attic of this charming Dutch house of the twenties in a radical way. The upper part of the roof construction was completely dismantled and the original rafters were replaced by laminated wood portal frames. The result is a bright, high and spacious attic. Dating from the early [...]
Office building for VINCI Immobilier d’entreprise & NEXITY Entreprises \ Mateo architects
When addressing this project for an office building, we started off by thinking about the entire city block as a series of buildings with spaces between them to introduce light and air into the empty space. In this way we began to see the building as a mass that formed Rue Emile Zola, like a [...]
This project was developed for the Work in Progress’12 contest, for selecting the best proposals for experimental exhibition modules at the architecture and design event Projecto Casa’12. The main intent was to explore the thermo formable property of Corian ©. The piece was not intended to be narrative in its intended function, but rather, and [...]
United Bank \ Söhne & Partner Architekten + BET architects
Söhne & Partner Architekten in collobration with BET architects from Ethiopia to design the United Bank Building in Addis Ababa.
From the design collection called Noèsis – in which movement becomes space – Futura is an expandable, flexible and functional modular storage unit with a stacked system. Futura expresses the concept of expanding an entire container object to make it wider in order to meet various functional needs into any home and office. The base [...]
Hypernuit Offices \ h2o architectes
h2o architectes shared with us their recent project of Hypernuit Offices. The project takes place on the ground floor of a building of flats, behind a large window looking out onto the Clignancourt street. The office space to create has a single orientation; it is a well-lit, plainly treated volume with a simple geometry. The [...]
Six unique projects win Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards
Six winners of the Western Red Cedar Architectural Design Awards demonstrated innovation, stylistic range and an aesthetic design that expressed building structures and surfaces across new construction and renovation projects. For the competition, architects entered commercial, residential and other building projects that included community centers, medical facilities, university buildings, churches and private residences. Projects were [...]
Kites eco friendly 3d-wallpanels \ WallArt
WallArt introduction of eco friendly 3d-wallpanels New 3d Design Kites made out of recycled Sugarcane bagasse! WallArt, Wall Decor Brings your Walls to life! Modern day society is defined by style and innovative thinking. If the two were to combine, one would have the perfect blend. WallArt strives to give new life to your home [...]
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 [...]
