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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: AH Asociados, Europen architecture, Kengo Kuma, Performing Arts Center, Spain
Spanish architecture studio AH Asociados in collaboration with Kengo Kuma & Associates have won the design competition of the Performing Arts Centre for Granada located in Spain. + Project description courtesy of AH Asociados Granatum – A building that evokes the structure of a symbolic fruit for Granada. A geometry inspired on the nature. The [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Berlin, Daniel Libeskind, Folding architecture, Germany, Zinc
Libeskind Villa designed by Daniel Libeskind will be unveiled to the public on September 29. The Libeskind Villa is a piece of art with its own unique atmosphere. For the first time, Daniel Libeskind has devised a home which can be erected anywhere in the world. + Press information courtesy of proportion A Libeskind for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Fluid form, New York, Pavilion, UNStudio, USA architecture
UNStudio‘s New Amsterdam Pavilion unveiled today in Battery Park, New York. The New Amsterdam Plein and Pavilion, commissioned by the Battery Conservancy, is a gift from the Netherlands to New York in honour of 400 years of friendship. + Press release courtesy of UNStudio September 9, 2009, NEW YORK, NY Today the official unveiling ceremony [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Argentina, Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos, Stone, Swimming pool
Argentina-based Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos has designed a house in Nordelta, Buenos Aires, Argentina. + Project description courtesy of Sternberg Kohen Arquitectos Far from the predesigned and homogeneous models, the architects decided to put the accent in the surroundings, joining the functionality of the house with its context, incorporating natural materials such as stone and wood, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Green architecture, Skyscrapers
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Japan, Japanese architecture, Miyahara Architect Office, Perforated, Stair
House Uc by Japan-based Miyahara Architect Office is a private house located in residential area of Tokyo standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape. House Uc was designed to imply the essence of the house within the urban context by bringing out the characteristics of the finishing material. Miyahara Architect Office + [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Japanese architecture, Miyahara Architect Office, Stair, Timber
Japan-based Miyahara Architect Office has designed the House TTN located in Tokyo , Japan. The house was designed to accommodate three families with independent kitchen unit, bathroom, and toilet. The main spaces are separated by outdoor common decks which also act as buffer zone between families. + Project description courtesy of Miyahara Architect Office, text [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Auditorium, Cladding, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Spain
Spain-based Rafael de La-Hoz Architects has designed the Rafael del Pino Auditorium Building next to Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana. The facade of the building stands out for its metallic arboreal structure that supports the structure of the building on both sides. “It is about transforming a garden into an inhabited garden” Rafael de La-Hoz [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Europen architecture, Glass, Rafael de La-Hoz Architects, Skin, Spain
Distrito C, Telefónica’s Headquarters is a largest European corporate project designed by Spanish practice Rafael de La-Hoz Architects. Distrito C also represents the first private open European space. The campus is open 24 hours a day, all year long, for anyone to visit… Conceptually, an environmental canopy or roof is laid out between these cubes, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Architecture Award, Brazil, CHN arquitetos, Cladding, Landscape architecture, Museum, Perforated, Skin, South American architecture
Bazil-based architectural firm CHN arquitetos has won the International Public Competition for the Architectural Project of the Exploratory Science Museum – Campinas, Brazil. The surface of the facade is created from the idea of infinity: a reference to the essence of its form, recognizable from its cosmological scale to its most minimal. CHN arquitetos + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: 3GATTI, Architecture Award, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Exhibition, Folding architecture, Museum
This is a project winner of the international invitation competition for the construction of the Automobile Museum in Nanjing, designed by Italy-based architecture studio 3GATTI to explore the relationship between car and museum. The competition was organized last year by the government of Nanjing and Jiangsu Head Investment Group. A building to be dedicated to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Norway, Reiulf Ramstad Architects, Timber
Inside out cabin by Norway-based firm Reiulf Ramstad Architects is located on top of the hill in Hvaler – Norway, overlooking the ocean and the horizon. The house was designed to harmonize with its surrounding, by the choice of the raw material and big glasses, it blurs the edge between inside and outside. + Project [...]
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