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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Contemporary architecture, Courtyard architecture, Stair, Za Bor architects
«House of mister R.» is a clear manifestation of the ‘aesthetic of chaos’, which Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev are so fond of discussing with colleagues and journalists. But ‘chaos’ has a limited presence here. «The accidental rearrangement and (self) organization of form» (as the architects say about their method) turns out to be the [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Minimalism, PAR, Restaurant, USA architecture
A young American architectural studio Platform for Architecture + Research designed the Restaurant 659 located in one of LA’s boutique districts, spanning the ground floors of two adjacent retail buildings at 659 La Brea Boulevard, a new 4,800 square foot restaurant and lounge will occupy a currently vacant storefront. North of the juncture of Wilshire [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Industry, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Concrete, Exhibition, Germany, HHF architects, Random pattern, Skin, Stair, Waterfront architecture
The fashion center Labels Berlin 2 is a concentration of showrooms for international fashion brands in one building including public spaces such as an event hall, a restaurant and a lounge at the top floor. The design strategy is based on the adjacent warehouse building Labels 1. The interior spaces of this historical building are [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Green architecture, Plazibat + Jemmott
Queensland Courtyard House is a recent residential competition submission by Brisbane, Australia based architecture office Plazibat & Jemmott Architects. + Project description courtesy Plazibat + Jemmott architects Concept The intent of this project is to go beyond the pragmatics of the proposed program and investigate a new potential model for suburban housing. This model takes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Concrete, COR-TEN, ESD design, Foster + Partners, Landscape architecture, Nigel Young, Spain, Winery
Faustino Winery by world-renowned architect Foster + Partners recently opens in Spain. Bodegas Portia is our first winery, so we had no preconceptions about how it should work. It was an opportunity to start from first principles – to examine the different stages of wine production and to try to create the ideal conditions for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: BIG, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Waterfront architecture
8 House by Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been completed recently. Celebrating its third project with the same development team in the maturing neighborhood of Orestad, the construction of the 61,000 m2 8 House has come to an end, allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture, White, WRNS
In San Francisco, WRNS Studio has recently completed a dramatic multi-story parking structure in the heart of the city’s Mission Bay redevelopment zone. This new seven story elevated parking structure serves adjacent laboratories and offices with 1,420 spaces. The north and east façades, which border a public plaza, are clad in perforated aluminum panels whose [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Australia NewZealand, ESD design, Events/News, Green architecture
Future Proofing Property Conference, one of the Australia’s Top Green Building Event that will take place in Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre (Queensland, Australia) on 8th-9th November, 2010. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear from over 25 of the world’s leading domestic and international sustainability thinkers. Future Proofing Property is this year’s most [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, Foster + Partners, Luxembourg, Shopping complex
Foster + Partners has won an international competition to design Luxembourg Royal Hamilius, a mixed-use development in the heart of Luxembourg City developed by Codic International. We are delighted with this excellent result and look forward to further developing the scheme. Our proposal is based on a sequence of rich public spaces, inside and outside, [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Construction, Lattice screen, Sweden, Unit Arkitektur
The Aluminum House by Swedish architectural firm Unit Arkitektur is an extension for a Swedish house with a traditional gable roof. + Project description courtesy Unit Arkitektur Around the lake Gärdsken, in the southern parts of Alingsås, a residential area with villas mainly from the 20th century is situated. Originally, these were small wooden two [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Competition, GROUP A, Netherlands, Refurbishment / Extension
Architectural studio GROUP A and multi-disciplinary design agency Fabrique together have won the European tender for the renovation of the stations of Oostlijn of the Amsterdam Metro. According to the jury, the proposal by GROUP A / Fabrique not only ‘returns to the basics of the original design’, but is also ‘a vision for the [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Fluid form, Italy
The team of Maria Kadyrova + Sam Buckley + Martina Caddeo shared with us their work which was done in their Master degree program in Scuola Politecnica di Design (Milano). Alias Evolution was an organic response to the brutality and minimalism of the host buidling and the surrounding environment, combining a fluid aesthetic with a [...]
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