The Renova SP Contest, held by the City of São Paulo, Brazil, was a National Competition to select the best proposals for 22 different areas of the city to redevelop and urbanize slums and risky areas of the capital. Urban Design The development plan proposed for Jardim Japão I, a neighborhood of predominantly industrial use [...]
Peddle Thorp Architects undertook the interior store planning and fixture design of the 3 top floors in the newly refurbished flagship MYER store in Melbourne. This department store receives the “Store Design of the Year Award” at the 2011 Oracle World Retail Awards. Myer is Australia’s largest department store group and has been a market [...]
The Sports Park Stozice is a hybrid project. Its realization is the result of the publicprivate partnership between the city of Ljubljana and Grep Development Company. SADAR + VUGA, the architects responsible for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia in Ljubljana, have again designed a project whose influence reaches beyond the boundaries of [...]
BIG wins an invited competition to renovate and extend an existing 1960′s concrete warehouse situated in a Basel industrial district which is being transformed into an alternative Arts District. The stacking of two complimentary structures – one on top of the other – has generated a new take on the typology of the communal courtyard. [...]
We want to highlight the discarded lot from the urban framework by emphasizing its shape, building architecture similar to illusion. An illusion required by the town people. Reality that is similar to an illusion that one town has something to do with someone. EASTERN design office A castle where the boys and girls of the [...]
Japanese architectural practice EASTERN design office has recently completed the Keyhole House. The facade of this house has the shape of a keyhole. A key to open “my house”, which is standing along a narrow street of a crowded town, is designed as a key itself on the façade of this house. A house can [...]
Located in the desert-like landscape of New Mexico, Spaceport will be the first building of its kind in the world. Its design aims to articulate the thrill of space travel for the first space tourists while making a minimal impact on the environment. Viewed from space, the terminal evokes Virgin Galactic’s brand logo of the [...]
Curtain Window is a façade renovation of an historic building in Downtown Los Angeles. The original building, constructed in 1906, was designed in the Chicago School Beaux-Arts style, although this style is most apparent in the top five stories. The building previously rested on a style-less foot at the street and mezzanine levels that were [...]
Architects of Inbo in the final of the open ideas Competition for the Washington Monument Grounds in Washington D.C., USA. Jacques Prins, Kevin Battarbee and Egidijus Kasakaitis, architects of the Dutch multidisciplinary office Inbo, have proceeded to the third and final round with their proposal “Monument of Unity”. The task given to competitors by the [...]
Zaha Hadid, two times winner of the Stirling Prize, celebrates the launch of her third London project, the Roca London Gallery The design proposal from the Zaha Hadid Architects‘ studio successfully transforms what was once an ordinary space to an exciting new dimension in interiors. Zaha Hadid‘s inspiration was elemental water in all its forms [...]
The innovative features in this new library include a daylight-filled floor plan, a natural ventilation tower, and the use of insulated concrete panels to keep the interior cool in the warm summer months. The library sets a new standard for sustainability in a civic building, and meets Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold [...]
BM3 Architecture was recently placed for an International Competition for a new Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cyprus. The brief for this project was to produce a sustainable master plan the new University Building in Cyprus with opportunity for future expansion. This involved designing several buildings that include a Structural & Earthquake engineering [...]
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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 [...]
