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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Cino Zucchi Architetti, Iconic architecture, Italy, Park Associati, Perforated, Random pattern
Italian architect Cino Zucchi Architetti + Park Associati recently have completed the new Salewa International Headquarters located in Bolzano, Italy. + Read more about plans, elevations, sections and renderings in our earlier story. The new Salewa Headquarters, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location adjacent to the Bolzano [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: Austria, Random pattern, Refurbishment / Extension
SOLID architecture just completed the facade of the Verbund Headquarter in the inner City of Vienna. 1. Starting point and the task set The headquarters of the Verbund AG is a block perimeter development built around a central courtyard in Vienna’s first district. It was erected between 1952 and 1954 to designs by Carl Appel [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: David Wakely, Swimming pool, USA architecture
To build a new sports center in Oakland’s Ira Jinkins Park and make fitness and recreation accessible to the low-income Brookfield neighborhood has been the city’s dream for more than 20 years. After San Francisco’s 2012 Olympics bid failed in 2002 and dashed plans to build an Olympic training center on the site, the city [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: designstudio, Indonesia, Prefab
Prefabrication house/modern contemporary tropical house as an alternative solution Rapid fire technological development and the elaboration of machinic aesthetic have a large contribution nowadays for us architects, designers, artists, engineers, and many other industries were affected. The main tasks for us are to adapt and also to be critical in terms of use, waste consideration, [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: C+S Associati, COR-TEN, Refurbishment / Extension
HBB architectural design intercepts the atmosphere of the Venice Arsenale: a sequence of void spaces temporararily occupied by objects (the ships) which had to be built, repaired or were simply housed. The program for the building is that to become the harbour station housing the computers which control the seaport trafic at the new Venice [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architectural video, Foster + Partners, Hong Kong, Waterfront architecture
If you are now in Hong Kong, let’s take the chance to visit the new exhibition of West Kowloon Cultural District plans. The Plan is based on Foster + Partners’ City Park conceptual plan which earned enormous public support and was selected by the Board of WKCDA in March 2011 as the masterplan for the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Cladding, Fluid form, Frank Gehry, Iconic architecture, New York, Photography, Veronica Morales
Veronica Morales shared with us her photography of the residential tower in Manhattan by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. The tower features 265 metre-high and is now the eighth tallest building in New York (the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere). + Photography: Veronica Morales | http://www.veronicamoralesangulo.com/ + All images courtesy Veronica Morales
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Category: Architecture, Hotel Tags: Alucobond, Alvisi Kirimoto, Italy, Perforated, Random pattern
The ONE HOTEL in Dalmine (Bergamo), designed by the Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners architecture studio, is located in a strategic position close to the A4 highway, Orio al Serio international airport, and the historic city of Bergamo. Oriented toward business travellers requiring hospitality services for varying lengths of time, the hotel offers comfortable, graciously fitted [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office Tags: India architecture, Stair
Contemporary and modular approach to the design by sorting out the project requirements. Creating fresh,vibrant and transparent office spaces which reflect on all levels and faces. The transparent and vibrant structure creates and energetic environment for the employees to work. The lightweight modular structural system eliminates a common bias towards bulky and uninspiring commercial construction [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Israel, White
This is a preservation and an extension of a historic heritage monument on the first street in Yessod Hammala, which was built by the ‘pioneers’ in the late 19th century. It’s located in a tourist area and this makes it possible (or at least part of it) to be used in the future as a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Events/News, Selected Tags: Cinema, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Iconic architecture, Korea, LED, Theater
The Cinema Center in Busan, South Korea, designed by Wolf D. Prix/COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, the new home of the Busan Film Festival (BIFF), was inaugurated with a grand opening on 29 September 2011 in the presence of the president of South Korea. The innovative building combines open space, cultural program, entertainment, technology and architecture in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: dagli + atélier d'architecture, Luxembourg
Designed by dagli + atélier d’architecture, IANUS & IANA are two apartment buildings in Steinsel, in the northern outskirts of Luxembourg-City, with a total of 30 apartments. The project was based on a competition in 2008. Our proposition was chosen because of the architectural concept behind the buildings. Our conception is based on two characters [...]
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