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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Brazil, Fernanda Marques, Green architecture, Loft, Random pattern, Wood
Brazil-based architectural firm Fernanda Marques Arquitetos Associados designed this Sustainable Winter Loft for the Casa Cor 2010 exhibit. A house that expands your horizons. That doesn’t confine. That is virtually and concretely open to the world, nature and its inhabitants. Fernanda Marques From the constructive point of view, Fernanda Marques‘s project for the Casa Cor [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Exhibition, Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Museum, UK, Waterfront architecture, Zaha Hadid, Zinc
The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by world renowned architect Zaha Hadid Architects will be unveiled in JUNE 2011. Check it out our previous story here. The historical development of the Clyde and the city is a unique legacy; with the site situated where the Kelvin flows into the Clyde the building can flow from the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: César San Millán, Glass, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain
Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura designed the Musical School in Bilbao, Spain. The new Conservatory of Bilbao is located on an exempt city block in the neighbourhood of Deusto, where it coexists with an important Metro station whose glass shell stands out ostensibly. Because of the possibility of an intervention on all of the surrounding space, the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: César San Millán, Refurbishment / Extension, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain
The Sancho el Sabio Foundation, dating from 1964, is the main documentation and investigation centre of Basque culture and history. Designed by Spaish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, the proposal involves the recovery of a former cemetery and based on that, the development of the remaining building. Because the programme contemplates important storage spaces, it was [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: Competition, Deve architects, Sweden
Shared by Deve Architects, Näverket is a competition entry for the Södra Tennis Competition in Sweden. How can wood construction be utilized to create the ultimate competitive tennis environment in Växjö, Sweden? After laying out a continuous tennis surface on the Södra Tennis site, a simple shell is created to enclose three indoor courts, while [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architects Eat, Australia NewZealand, James Coombe, Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, swimming, Timber
Designed by Australian architectural firm Architects EAT, Linear House is situated on a slight hill, 500m away from the Portsea back beach. The site is a relatively large and newly subdivided lot of 2600m2, and the client wanted a holiday house that will eventually become their permanent family home. Architects EAT calls the underlying principle of [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architects Eat, Australia NewZealand, Courtyard architecture, James Coombe, Stair, Timber
Open House is an Australian house designed by Architects EAT. The internal planning strategies are devoted to the layering of spaces, and orchestrating the sequences in a mise-en-scene liked methodology. Architects EAT have opened up the interior, got rid of the original rabbit warren internal walls, and starting from the dramatic suspended black raw steel [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Art Gallery, César San Millán, Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura, Spain, Translucent
Spanish firm Roberto Ercilla Arquitectura has recently completed Krea Art Centre in Spain. The solution proposed for the Art Centre is basically articulated around a dialogue between the old convent and the new building. A building-corridor winds next to the old building and goes over it to end up inside the cloister. It is conceived [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architecture Award, Australia NewZealand, Events/News
This is about 2 weeks left for Think Brick Awards 2011 entries, have you submitted yours? The Think Brick Awards for 2011 is one of the richest design awards in Australia, it is not too late for architects and students to submit an innovative brick design for a chance to win the About Face Student [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Folding architecture, Iconic architecture, Italy, KUADRA, Random pattern, Religious architecture
As documents they recount the millennial history , ancient and modern, which is renewed in the modernity of the forms and the faith which is recalled though prayer. Enrico Tealdi As befits its central role in the community, this Church is a Landmark and point of congregation for all in the area of Piacenza. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Master Plan Tags: Italy, KUADRA, Museum
Area 8 – The Bella island To mark the bicentenary of the death of Giuseppe Piermarini, ( Foligno, 18th July 1734 – 18 February 1808), the architect of the Scala opera house in Milan, the Minister for Art and Culture and the “National Committee for the Celebration of the Bicentenary of the Death of Giuseppe [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Paratelier, Portugal, Timber
In Portugal, the recently completed Guest House by PARATELIER designed to integrate into the area of sand dunes near the Atlantic Ocean, it functions as a temporary house for guests, parking area and agricultural storage for agricultural activities. Location In the vast nature reserve of “pinhal da Comporta” recognized for its typical coastal habitat of [...]
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