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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Green architecture, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
Brooks + Scarpa Architects has designed the Cherokee Mixed-Use Lofts in Los Angeles, California, USA. The building is inspired by the series of paintings by the British artist Patrick Hughes titled, “Perspectivity”, whose paintings appear to be ever changing and physically moving while being viewed. At Cherokee the main architectural feature of this project is [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Brooks + Scarpa, Color architecture, Courtyard architecture, ESD design, Green architecture, Lattice screen, LEED, Perforated, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
The several awards winning project Step Up on Fifth by Brooks + Scarpa Architects was designed to accommodate 46 studio apartments, ground level retail space and subterranean parking. The building is loaded with energy-saving and environmentally materials/devices with 71% recycling rate achievement. The front facade is designed with a series of water jet cut aluminum [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Balcony, Folding architecture, Italy, Tisselli studio architetti, White
VC1 is the latest completed residential project by Italian architectural practice Tisselli studio architetti. It is designed to accommodate 1 level of basement car park, 8 apartments in first 2 floors and a garret apartment. Beyond a mere functional description of the intervention, action focus is still the wish to reinstate the architectural quality to [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, OFIS, Slovenia, Timber
Slovenian architectural practice OFIS Arhitekti designed the contemporary yet affordable 3 bedroom housing development with private garden located in Podpec, Slovenia. The main proposal was a condensation of village cores with branching – a traditional and historical rural layout of condensed longitudinal buildings along a road with kept green area around it. OFIS Arhitekti + [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Concrete, L3P Architekten, Refurbishment / Extension, Stair, Switzerland, Timber
Switzerland-based architectural firm L3P Architekten recently has completed the renovation / extension, conversion of the former restaurant Metzger Hall, Dielsdorf apartment house with 3 newly constructed apartments, 5 renovated apartments, and 1 commercial area. From an architectural view the extension, with its form and materials, should be truly distinguishable from the main building. Through this, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: Iconic architecture, Korea, Mass Studies, Penthouse, Skyscrapers, White
In Seoul, Korea, S-Trenue: Bundle Matrix was developed from the L-shaped podium tower by Mass Studies. Externally the tower is expressed by three slim vertical forms, composed of the central core, and two sides of unit towers, it continues extended to the podium and forms an “L” that as one element. With the core tower [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Courtyard architecture, Glass, LEED, Random pattern, USA, USA architecture
In Portland, Oregon, the Cyan/PDX Building by THA Architecture and GBD Architects has recently opened its doors to offer urban residents a new mode of high density, sustainable living in the heart of downtown. As a LEED Gold-certified high rise, Cyan meets a growing demand for an environmentally conscious, affordable urban lifestyle. Through strategic detailing [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: Australia NewZealand, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Green architecture, Plazibat + Jemmott
Queensland Courtyard House is a recent residential competition submission by Brisbane, Australia based architecture office Plazibat & Jemmott Architects. + Project description courtesy Plazibat + Jemmott architects Concept The intent of this project is to go beyond the pragmatics of the proposed program and investigate a new potential model for suburban housing. This model takes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: BIG, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Waterfront architecture
8 House by Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been completed recently. Celebrating its third project with the same development team in the maturing neighborhood of Orestad, the construction of the 61,000 m2 8 House has come to an end, allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Residential Tags: Balcony, Competition, France, LAN Architecture, Random pattern
French architects LAN architecture won the competition organised by ICF Novedis to design the block 4.2 of the new Cardinet-Chalabre urban development zone in Paris, France. The major urban interest of ilot 4.2 lies in its position: it will act as a fulcrum between Boulevard Pereire and the new ZAC (Urban Development Zone), creating a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Mixed Use, Office, Residential Tags: Africa, Bridge, Swimming pool, Vivid architects, Waterfront architecture
Crystal Towers designed by Africa-based firm Vivid architects is conceived as a building that exudes a constant life, energy and glow. The site occupies a strategic position within context of Century City, Cape Town, and this development is seen to play a new pivotal role, an iconic landmark building that would integrate, influence and generate [...]
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Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: Egypt, Green architecture, Nabil Gholam, Random pattern
Nabil Gholam architects has designed the Cairo Eastown residential project located in the residential area of the Cairo Eastown development; bordered by a pedestrian green spine, the plots are structured around a central green space that is shared between the different clusters. The plots benefit from a strategic view towards a public green space. Project [...]
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