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Category: Architecture, Hotel, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, CiRCA Architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture, Waterfront architecture
Australian architectural firm CiRCA Architecture has designed the Saffire project located in this beautiful Great Oyster Bay in Tasmania, Australia. The resort is also organic in its relationship to the site. Its form evokes memories of coastal land forms, dunes, waves or sea creatures. The journey moves from the monumental to the more intimate personal [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Glass, Mexico, Migdal Arquitectos, Skyscrapers
Mexico city-based architectural firm Migdal Arquitectos has completed the Plaza Residences. The shape of the building gives richness and movement to the urban context. Plaza Residences becomes a sculpturesque object that acts as a showcase that defines the Monument to Columbus on one of the most sightly corners of Avenida Reforma. Migdal Arquitectos + Project [...]
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Category: Architecture, Healthcare, Office, Selected Tags: Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Germany, Glass, Pysall Ruge Architekten
German architectural firm Pysall Ruge Architekten has designed the office building and health centre – LTD 1 located in Lübeckertordamm, Hamburg, Germany. The office building’s configuration, composed of four boomerang-shaped elements laid over each other, creates a representative entrance situation, an interior courtyard, and a transitional space to the residential courtyard in the rear. As [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Concrete, Exhibition, Glass, Museum, Poland, Pysall Ruge Architekten, Stair
German architectural firm Pysall Ruge Architekten has completed the Polish Aviation Museum located in Cracow, Poland. The idea of flying, the spirit of the place, the structure of the historic airfield – the new building for the Museum of Aviation takes up these references intellectually and synthesises them into an expressive and emblematic structure. Justus [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Folding architecture, Landscape architecture, Norway, Timber, Tommie Wilhelmsen
Norway architectural practice Tommie Wilhelmsen architect has designed the 120 m2 Dalene Cabin situated at Østhusvik on the island Rennesøy, Norway. It was completed in 2009. It is placed overlooking the sea surrounding the island and opens up its facade towards south, to bring in as much light as possible. The interior and exterior is [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Canada, Landscape architecture, Todd Saunders, Waterfront architecture
Saunders Architecture has designed the six artist studios to be located in various locations on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada. Here are 3 selected studios – The Long Studio, The Tower Studio, The Bridge Studio designed for Shorefast Foundation & The Fogo Island Arts Corporation. The idea behind the forms of the various studios was to [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Norway, Timber, Todd Saunders, Tommie Wilhelmsen, View point
Designed by two architects Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, the 33-metre “diving board” shooting out from the road into thin air above the Aurland Fjord in Norway. This Aurland Lookout project is part of a national program on tourist routes commissioned by the Norwegian Highway Department. The landscape is so fantastic that it is difficult [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: France, Lattice screen, Random pattern, Timber, TVK
Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes (TVK) has designed the Boomerang House located in Sèvres, France. + Project description by Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes The Maison de Sèvres sits on a parcel of exceptional character. It is a square garden, 22 meters on each side, invisible from the street, but that one discovers with surprise at the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Cladding, Fluid form, France, Glass, School, TVK
In Arcueil (Paris Suburbs, France), due to its site condition that surrounded by residential blocks, Trévelo & Viger-Kohler architectes (TVK) has maximized the accessibility and visibility, while giving an strong identity to this Groupe Scolaire school project. Considering the diversity of the surrounding architecture and other elements, we propose a continuous, homogeneous and calm form. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected Tags: Balcony, Bar Lounge, Concrete, Counter-Design, Korea, Stair
In Seoul, Bikyoshoki is a 4 story mixe-used building designed by Jae K. Kim of Counter-Design (Architecture CODE) to accommodate a bar, café and apartment. The goal of this project is to make people to have a similar experience to climbing a small mountain through their movement in relation to architectural form and space. Jae [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: André Espinho, FG+SG, Portugal, School
Portuguese architectural firm André Espinho Arquitectura has designed the School Center Paredes – Alenquer. School Center Paredes is composed of a white volume resting on four black volumes, thus marking the separation between floors. The majority of the project works around the creation of three patios/playgrounds and the relationship of the building with the slope [...]
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Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Switzerland, TOPOTEK 1
German landscape architecture studio TOPOTEK 1 has designed the Sports Facility Heerenschürli, it is one of the largest sport facility in Zurich, Switzerland. + Project description by TOPOTEK 1 The Heerenschürli sports facility, one of the largest in Zurich, is located between a nature reserve, a highway crossing, residential housing and large-scale industrial buildings. It [...]
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