3 Dan Box by Japanese architectural studio CAPD, is the 3 stacked boxes designed to accommodate a hair saloon and a residence for the hairstylist in Japan. The formal strategy is effectively interacting with the natural sun-lighting, as a result to create a better and comfortable inner environment. The outer structure of each story is [...]
The Sail @ Marina Bay by NBBJ is the mixed-use building comprising apartment units, several restaurants, health clubs, recreation decks with pools and tennis courts, and parking. As the 10th largest residential high-rise in the world, and the largest high-rise in Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay has become Singapore’s newest city icon. It carves [...]
Mexican architectural office JSª has completed the Amsterdam 235 in Mexico. The project consists in the intervention in an old Art Deco house, catalogued by the National Institute of Beaux Arts. The new interpretation of the house was delivered by its formal arrangement, randomized window pattern with textures and colors, as well as clean detailing. [...]
Singapore-based Formwerkz Architects recently has completed the S House along Lorong Selangat, Singapore. The house is consisted of 4 levels with each unique formal characteristics in responding to different programmatic demands. We derived formal strategies that celebrate these vertically stratified spaces, making the transition from one level to the next an experience. Formwerkz Architects + [...]
If you still remember our previous featured article – Akerselva Atrium, designed by Peter Pran and Jonathan Ward of NBBJ. The project recently has been fully completed, here are some new floor plans and photographs courtesy of NBBJ. Photographers: Jiri Havran, Tim Griffith and Scott Wyatt Click here to full description of the project. + [...]
Poland-based Neostudio Architects recently has completed a contemporary and minimal house for a single family in Garby, Poland. The house is composed of two distinct volumes, one of volume contains habitat spaces, it features a traditional gable roof with the asymmetrical openings on two ends, they are well organized and proportioned with high and large [...]
Architect Daniel Libeskind recently has completed the Grand Canal Square Theatre and Commercial Development. It comprises two extensive office buildings and a stunning theatre with the dynamic formal expression. The project aims to enhance the new urban structure of Grand Canal Harbor in Dublin, serving as a focus point for its context. The architectural concept [...]
In Sweden, Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects‘s winning project aims to create a crystalline landmark for Helsingborg. By giving the new life to the existing city waterfront, the project consists of a 16,900 m2 congress and hotel facility and 17,100 m2 housing. It was inspired by the city’s block structure, skewed and developed from [...]
London-based architectural firm Foster + Partners recently unveiled the CircleBath located in Bath, UK. The three-storey building is set into the hills facing to the protected green belt, internally the function rooms are planned around a central light filled atrium, promoting a sense of orientation and intimacy. The building provides operating theatres, bedrooms, consultation, treatment and [...]
Milan-based architectural firm Park Associati and Zucchi & Partners have completed the renovation of Tiziano 32 Headquarters located in Milan, Italy. The project consist of a seven-floor block, an imposing metal canopy and a thin walled garden. The entrance was upgraded as a featured canopy which leaded to the basement level and accessed via a [...]
French architectural practice N+B architects has completed the new middle school – Morières les Avignon in France. Interplay between concrete and stone are the main feature for this project, it gives rhythmic effect to the facade as a contemporary appearance. The “VERS” stone establishes sides façades of folds in concrete. It offers a thermal slowness [...]
The RATP Bus Centre by Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) appears like a monolith with rounded edges, polished, and partially cut out to expose multi-colored glass skin. Characterized by a dense square plan (35m x 35m) developed on 2 levels, the skin Ductal ® extended from the road surface to the façades, [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
