House in Tavira \ Vitor Vilhena Architects
Joao Morgado shared with us one of his latest architectural photography. Designed by Vitor Vilhena Architects, this house is located in South of Portugal, Algarve, Tavira. Here the ocean peeks, while the 400 olive trees surround the house. An old building has to give place to a new one, keeping the two volume-footprint in the soft [...]
LCV: Law-Court Offices in Venice \ C+S Associati
Designed by C+S Associati, LCV: Law-Court Offices in Venice is the winning entry of an international competition and awarded with the Special Prize of the Gold Medal of Italian Architecture 2012. Inhabited infrastructure The project is a winning entry of an international competition. The building is a graft in the complexity of the Venetian urban [...]
Brigida González \ Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
The geometry of the Festival Hall developed from the topographical conditions, placing it in an adequate relationship with the existing Passionsspielhaus. The building’s form and positioning both relate to the impressive landscape setting defi ned by the rock formations in the back, and to the dynamic presence of its neighboring historical counterpart. This existing building [...]
Light Invaders \ Marcin Pogorzelski
“Light Invaders” is a collection of home lamps inspired by a micro insects. Those little invisible creatures are everywhere in our living space. After many years of evolution they are made specially to what is theirs purpose. This is what Marcin Pogorzelski wanted to accomplish designing those lamps. Marcin Pogorzelski’s purpose was to make a [...]
The belTable \ Marcin Pogorzelski
Designed by Marcin Pogorzelski, the belTable is project of table based mainly on simplicity. The plan was to minimize every parts of table and make it even easier to put together after unpacked at home. There are 4 parts which are used to create the belTable. Top, Legs, Pegs and Belt. That’s all what you [...]
Call for entries: Gold Coast Australia International Competition ‘cultural heart and soul’
Australia’s sixth largest city – the Gold Coast – has announced a global design competition to develop it’s ‘cultural heart and soul’. Designers are being invited for form multi-disciplinary teams ready for the two-stage competition, to be launched in March 2013. Shortlisted teams will each receive $A250,000 to develop their designs. + Summary of steps [...]
Simona Sacchi won the SUN.LAB 2012. The SUN.LAB contest was conceived in reference to the theme of “Nature Inside“, nature inherent in the product, nature as material, nature as a resource to be protected, both in terms of aesthetic appeal and form. The project takes its name from the natural element that inspired the Balanus [...]
The project, designed by architects Anna Puigjaner and Guillermo Lopez, members of MAIO design team (www.maio-maio.com), involves the conversion of a space that formerly housed a washing place into an open studio for professionals from different fields of architecture and design. The existing 40-meter long building was a continuous space, with variable sections and extremely [...]
The Lefo Mall Shopping Centre \ Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan‘s largest retail project in China opens its doors The Lefo Mall Shopping Centre has opened its doors to the public in Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province Eastern China, with the scheme being the largest retail project to be built to a design by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan in China to [...]
Located in Valle de Bravo lake in Mexico, the project is located on a steep slope, and with boundaries irregular in its geometry. Bordered by a brook of clear water and by the lake itself, at one very narrow end there is a bridge that provides the only access to the site; the remaining sides [...]
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 [...]
