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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Architecture Award, COBE, Competition, Pavilion, Public Architects
Danish Architects COBE, in collaboration with Public Architects, Grontmij Carlbro and Bartenbach LichtLabor, have won the international competition for the new Norreport Train Station in Copenhagen, Denmark. The design is conceived as series of floating roofs, covering the transparent glass pavilions, it creates the welcoming sense and is easily accessible and visible from all around. [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Morphosis
Among the 25 individuals/professions, Thom Mayne [founder of Morphosis Architects] has been appointed by President Obama to serve on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities on 2nd November 2009. Here is the full list of the 25 individuals. + Press release President Obama Appoints Thom Mayne to Serve on the President’s Committee on [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Bridge, formodesign, Glass, Minimalism, Poland, School
The Connector by formodesign, is an extension project for Architecture and Engineering buildings at Technical University of Lodz, Poland. The project is composed and stacked by 3 linear forms with the open views towards the park. The idea for our concept was not only to make a form that would connect the buildings but which [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: formodesign, Landscape architecture, Minimalism, Poland
Polish architectural firm formodesign has designed the house which is oriented North-South, and named “North House South“. Spatially the living zone and sleeping zone was organized in each contrast architectural form, and intersected each others. Build of clear contrast forms, modern yet partially covered with wooden shingles. This is a house designed to be through [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Belgium, Random pattern, School, Timber, VBM architecten
VBM architects has designed the BSBO School in Halmaalweg Sint-Truiden, Belgium. The school was built to take care of mentally handicapped and autistic children, this is the good attempt of the randomized openings on the elevation which is the result of the program to stimulate the visual sensitivity of the children. + Project description courtesy [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: Brininstool + Lynch, Courtyard architecture, USA architecture
Brininstool + Lynch has designed the Claremont House located in Chicago, Illinois. Due to its long lot site, the house was designed with the full width of window walls at both front and back sides of the house to maximize the penetration of the natural daylighting into the interior spaces, and also to create a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Brininstool + Lynch, Cottage, Landscape architecture, Lattice screen, Timber, USA architecture
Coffou Cottage in Michigan City, Indiana, USA, was designed by Chicago-based Brininstool + Lynch with a simple structural system, and was enhanced by a horizontal wood rain screen of Western Red Cedar to privatize the entry sequence on the North, and a wall of operable glass on the South. + Project description courtesy of Brininstool [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Iconic architecture, LAN Architecture, Lebanon, Random pattern
Paris practice LAN Architecture has designed a 142m high the Tower 486 Mina El Hosn, the ‘mirror-tower’ for Beirut, Lebanon. The exterior skin consists of sliding perforated sheet stainless steel panels with a mirror finish, ideally to reflect and symbolize the history and culture of the city within a heterogeneous context. The Cluster Houses materialize [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: BIG, Sweden
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with AKT, Tyréns and Transsolar are awarded first place in a design competition in Malmo, Sweden for a 100.000m2 first of its kind sports facility – The World Village of Women Sports. + Project description courtesy of BIG BIG wins competition for The World Village of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Exhibition, Fluid form, Korea, Peddle Thorp Architects, Waterfront architecture
Designed as the concept of Fluid – Amphibian Pavilion, is the submission project by Australia-based Peddle Thorp Architects for the international competition for the Thematic Pavilion of the world expo 2012 in Yeosu, Korea. The pavilion is resolved as a vessel – a floating exhibition space that can be sailed to other cities. It aims [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Color architecture, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Glass, Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini
Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini recently has completed the Ferrari Factory Store located in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy. The color, form, and graphical style has been carefully designed to transmit the architectural idea to identify the ‘Ferrari’ image. + Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Ferrari Factory Store of Serravalle Scrivia, entirely designed by Iosa [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: ESD design, Green architecture, Minimalism, Perforated, Refurbishment / Extension, Steel, Studio Comoglio Architetti
Italian architect Giorgio Comoglio recently has completed the renovation of the Ex Sellerie, which is located in the area of the ex military arsenal in Turin, Italy. The task of the project is to increase the original building’s floor area and height. The minimal form of perforated steel envelope has been introduced to integrate the existing [...]
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