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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Cladding, Kristin Jarmund Architects, Norway, Random pattern, School
Norwegian firm Kristin Jarmund Architects recently has completed the Gjerdrum Secondary School, which was the 1st prize project in the invited competition in 2007. + Project description courtesy of Kristin Jarmund Architects The project won 1st prize in an invited competition the autumn of 2007. With very few adjustments the competition project was realised. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Juan Carlos Doblado, Landscape architecture, Peru, Swimming pool
Peruvian architect Juan Carlos Doblado has designed a beautiful private house near Andes, Peru. The house is composed of 2 distinct concrete boxes, one box is set in the sloping ground and the other is raised and projecting towards the landscape. The house is set in the top of a sloping ground, enriching the relationship [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare Tags: C. F. Møller Architects, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Europen architecture, Glass
Gentofte Hospital Extension in Gentofte has been inaugurated in 22nd October 2009, it was a winning competition project designed by C. F. Møller Architects to extend the hospital by inserting a new, modern core in the original eight-shaped complex. By placing the new buildings as the logistical heart in the middle of the figure-eight layout, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: 3LHD, Croatia, Folding architecture
Croatia-based 3LHD Architects has designed the Zamet Centre located in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, Croatia. The building’s main architectural element are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction, functioning at the same time as an architectural design element of the object and as a zoning element which forms a public square and [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Landscape architecture, Peter Gluck & Partners, Timber, USA architecture
Bar House by New York based architectural firm Peter Gluck & Partners is located on a deep narrow valley, bounded by a river on one edge and a road on the other. The geometrical form designed to give a sense of floating across the valley, while providing the best view to the valley from the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: COR-TEN, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Poland
Poland-based OVO Grabczewscy Architekci has designed the Museum Yatenga located in Silesia, Poland. The museum is proposed to house the museum of cultures of the world, an unique idea of creating the biggest eco-architectural event in Europe. + Project description courtesy of OVO Grabczewscy Architekci Yatenga – Meeting of Cultures of the World is the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Concrete, Goczolowie Architekci, Landscape architecture, Museum, OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, Pavilion, Poland
Palaeontological Pavilion and the Educational Park by Polish architectural practice Goczolowie Architekci and OVO Grabczewscy Architekci, it was designed with the idea of protecting and exhibiting the unique fossils of Triassic reptiles and fossilized amphibians found in Krasiejów. Using different concrete textures on the retaining wall in the layer-structure presents the idea of layer- structure [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Concrete, Glass, Mexico, Pascal Arquitectos, South American architecture, Stair, Timber
Mexico city based architect Pascal Arquitectos has designed the Galileo Apartments Building located in Polanco, Mexico. The combination of materials are used to achieve the degree of privacy to the residential units, meanwhile creating the variation of pattern on the facade. it’s façade achieves transparency and at the same time privacy by combining different cristal, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Predock Frane, Random pattern, USA architecture
The Habitat 15 by Los Angeles-based Predock Frane architects is a four story apartment building which features the rhythmic openings on the elevation. The project is deceptively simple – the rectangular exterior forms reveal an interior of multi-story interlocking and spatially dynamic volumes. Predock Frane architects + Project description courtesy of Predock Frane Architects The [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Landscape Tags: A-cero, Landscape architecture, Spain
The spanish architecture firm A-cero has won the competition in Murcia, Spain. The centre is designed to be part of landscape, attempts to blur the boundary between the building and landscape. + Project description courtesy of A-cero The architecture Studio A-cero that directs Joaquín Torres has gained the project contest for the creation of a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Courtyard architecture, Predock Frane, USA architecture
Los Angeles-based Predock Frane architects has designed the Twin Houses located in the Palisades, a hilly region between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains. The project consists of two twin houses sited adjacent to each other on a steep slope above a seasonal watershed. In this project we were interested in exploring the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Installation Tags: Berlin, Concrete, Germany
Grabmal F.C. Gundlach by German architect Roland Poppensieker is a minimal concrete box of a tomb for Hamburgian photographer and art collector F.C. Gundlach. The tomb is composed of four precast concrete elements of the size of 3 by 3 by 3 meter. Dependent on the change of light and shadow and according to the [...]
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