Danish architect 3XN has won the Landmark Project in Sweden, the construction is planned to begin 2011. + Press Release courtesy of 3XN architects The softly shaped building symbolizes the human values characterizing the revival of Vällingby Parkstad in Stockholm, Sweden 3XNs winning proposal for the new structure marking the entrance to Vällingby Parkstad creates [...]
What is WAF? WAF is the only annual international event to reward excellence in a fully interactive inclusive live format. Through its unique entry and judging process and its cutting edge seminar and exhibition content, it is simultaneously a celebration of great architecture and an intellectual challenge to a major world profession. No other event [...]
Cipai, the first inter-continental indoor architecture forum, will take place in Feria Valencia (Valencia, Spain), from 27 to 29 september coinciding with Feria Hábitat Valencia. The main aim of this congress is to set up a platform to analyse and reflect upon indoor architecture and habitat design, boosting professional networking and cultural exchange between Europe [...]
WE Architecture, in collaboration with Sophus Søbye Arkitekter, MASU Planning, Øllgaard Consulting Engineer, Spangenberg & Madsen Consulting Engineer and Hausenberg have won the first prize to design the Mariehøj Culturcenter in Holte, Denmark. + Project description courtesy WE Architecture The future “Mariehøj culturcenter” draw a clear profile in the landscape. With a new foyer, the [...]
Korea Electric Power Corporation Headquarters is a recent competition entry project designed by DRDS. The design is inspired by KEPCO’s logo , embodied by the eternity of an infinite loop and the illumination that provides hope. It is also metaphor for clean energy sources generated by the company utilizing nuclear fusion and fission. DRDS + [...]
The Sydney-based landscape design studio Mcgregor Coxall as the lead designers designed the Ballast Point Park sited on the Birchgrove Peninsula in the inner reaches of Sydney harbour, Australia. + Project description courtesy of Mcgregor Coxall Ballast Point Park This 2.8ha park is located on a contaminated former industrial lubricant production site on the Birchgrove [...]
Scandinave Les Bains Vieux-Montréal is a new spa house designed by Canada architectural practice Saucier + Perrotte architectes. The new spa center designed to provide a thermal therapy experience that engages each of the body’s senses. The formal part of the project is derived from the contact between hot and cold… … This duality is [...]
Villa Fornea by Arquitectos Anónimos is a project proposed on the existing Roman ruins in Belmonte – Portugal. The architectural design was intended to create an organic building that to challenge the rigid formal arrangement of the spaces. The building results from the accumulation of silhouettes that configure a multidirectional volume rather rigid conception of [...]
Spanish architecture firm A-cero recently has completed a house named House 4. + Project description courtesy of A-cero The initial idea of this project is to integrate the house in the natural environment of the residential area in which it is. In that way, the house looks to the fantastic views of lakes and green [...]
UK-based architectural studio D-form has designed the Argyll House & Atelier in Edinburgh. This is an dynamic annex designed to fit in the narrow site in between 2 existing buildings which is only 4.5m wide 30m long. + Project description courtesy of D-form Argyll House & Atelier project in Edinburgh tackles an architectural cliché – [...]
Brazil-based architectural firm MMEB architects has designed the house GB in Alphaville, Cuiabá/MT, Brasil. The project is the result of a reflection on the live. Searches redeem a little of the qualities of the old houses “cuiabanas”, as present in our imaginary, expressed through the patio, balcony, foot high duty of large openings, and natural [...]
The St-Hubert Library proposal by Saucier + Perrotte architectes was the competition finalist for City of St-Hubert in Canada. The building is beautifully sited in the wooden context and presented as a bold horizontal form in respect to its surrounding tree line, and finally punched through by a roof top feature where is reached via [...]
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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 [...]
