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Hidden House \ 123DV architecture

123DV has recently designed the zero emission residential project. Ecological concept Generating its own energy The aim of the ecological concept is to achieve a zero emission house which can generate its own energy needs: It generates its own electricity from sun energy by the use of solar panels It collects earth heat or cold from [...]

‘Coach House’ Restaurant by SHH Wins Major Award

Coach House, the new 6,000 sq ft restaurant and café designed by SHH at one Britain’s most historic sites – Hatfield House – has just scooped the ‘Best Café or Fast Food Award’ at the UK’s prestigious Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2012 (‘the world’s only concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to hospitality design’). [...]

Messequartier housing project \ Pernthaler Architekt

Pernthaler Architekt as recently finished his latest project in Graz / Austria (Unesco City of Design). The “Messequartier“- housing project represents an essential contribution to the issues of living in city’s centres and their re-densification. Highest quality in urbanistic, architectural and functional terms has been achieved through a well-balanced mix of functions and the regard [...]

Chinese Coin House \ Juan Carlos Menacho Durán

The sky is round and the earth is square. The supreme manifestation of the universal dialectic is the sky and earth, paired as a couple. In between both, lies man. This house inspires security and balance through its square form. Immersed in a round base, it inspires creativity and harmony from the sky. These two [...]

Winners eVolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition

eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Skyscraper Competition. The award was established in 2006 to recognize outstanding ideas for vertical living. Since then, the publication has received more than 5,000 projects that envision the future of building high. These ideas, through the novel use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics, and [...]

Kirkpatrick Oil Hennessey \ Elliott + Associates Architects

Elliott + Associates Architects recently has completed a headquarters office for an oil company (Kirkpatrick Oil Hennessey) in Oklahoma City, USA. Site History: The Kirkpatrick family began oil exploration in the 1920’s when John Kirkpatrick’s father-in-law, M.B. Blake, drilled their first well. John then founded Kirkpatrick Oil in 1950. Kirkpatrick Oil has been active in the Hennessey [...]

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 [...]