Situated in a residential area in Château d’Oex, this new building was thought as a replacement for the former house whose size and outer layer failed to meet present day standards for a family home. The structure of this new building is made of poles and beams as a reference to the local traditional chalet. [...]
The type of language adopted for the carrying out of work on this project aims to be a means capable of unifying criteria which are at times so difficult to harmonise, such as aesthetics, town planning, and conceptual and constructive ideas. A certain type of manufacturing based language, with an austerity of volume, with some [...]
The current urban area of the Carlos III and Roncesvalles avenues were designed for the flow of vehicular traffic. It is a strongly directional area, isotropic along its axes, whose job it is to deliver the greatest amount of traffic flow with the minimum of fuss, where the only difficulties presented along the length of [...]
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has designed the new office building Lot 4 – Gentilly. + Project facts Program: office building Owner: SODEARIF Architect: ECDM Location: Gentilly (94) Area: 5250 sq.m. Cost: 10.8 M € Contest: 2011 + All images and drawings courtesy ECDM
Due to the demolition of several old sheds a unique plot became vacant in Oud-Empel. Oud-Empel is a small village situated along side embankment of the river Maas. The dike divides the village in two parts: the unsafe waterfront where the smaller labourers cottages are situated and a protected side with the large farms and [...]
A few years ago, the inhabitants of Valer, an quiet Norwegian village not too far from Oslo, surrounded by forests and close to the Swedish border, watched how sadly their ancient wooden church was on fire and got totally destroyed. This is why at the end of 2011, they decided to invite architects from all [...]
The primary school of Welsberg is located in a scenic mountain village in South Tyrol/ Italy. It is situated in close proximity to an existing secondary school in order to create a schoolcenter where existing infrastructures can be used together. The school is built according to the demands of the New Learning. It offers both [...]
Italian architect Klaus Hellweger has completed the fire station. The fire station of Montal is located in a little village in South Tyrol in Italy in proximity of the church and the cemetery. It represents the northern margin of the village. The fire station perpetuates the existing scale of the surrounding houses with a dispersed [...]
This is the last video by Delaine Isaac for the series “Great Spaces” until next series, LOT- EK x Van Alen Books – “Packs a colorful punch”.
EYE, the new Dutch film museum, opens to the public on 5 April 2012 in its brand-new building designed by the Vienna-based firm Delugan Meissl Associated Architects. The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area is bursting with activity in 2012. After a multi-year renovation project, the Stedelijk Museum will reopen with an eye-catching new façade. And the redevelopment [...]
The beautiful Vaaler church from 1805 burnt down in the spring of 2009. We have designed a new church as a symbolic landmark to succeed the old building. The new Vaaler church is placed further east from the placement of the old church, marking the historic axis with its tower. The new building is designed [...]
‘Arquitectos Office’ (AQSO) has recently completed the construction of the ‘Fragmented house’. The concept solution for this residence starts from a compact block transforming, after several divisions and shifts, into an external broken-down form, result of the arrangement of the interior spaces. The house is located near Laguna de Duero, a town situated in the [...]
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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 [...]
