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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Concert Hall, Concrete, Cultural center, Refurbishment / Extension, Skin, Tetrarc
On the “île de Nantes”, La Fabrique takes place on one side of the previous Dubigeon warehouse, near the Alstom warehouse ( the upcoming centre of the “Quartier de la Création”) and the old shipyard turned to great gardens. This context gave Tétrarc the opportunity to gather the recalls of a place abandoned by History [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Ake E.son Lindman, Auditorium, Cladding, Concert Hall, Concrete, Fluid form, Performing Arts Center, Random pattern, Sweden, Wingardh arkitektkontor
Spira has four different performing arts venues: a main concert hall that seats 910, a 450-seat theater, a 200-seat black box, and a 200-seat café stage. The building is situated on an artificial peninsula jutting out into Lake Munksjön, right in the center of downtown Jönköping. The layout follows from a foyer that opens to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Color architecture, Lattice screen, Refurbishment / Extension, Spark, Thailand, Workplace
Fai-Fah, which means “light energy”, is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme initiated in April 2010 by TMB Bank. The programme acts as a catalyst for change in Thai society through working with underprivileged children and teenagers in their community using the arts as a vehicle for self-development and creative thinking. In October 2010, Spark [...]
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Category: Architecture, Commercial, Selected Tags: Cladding, Folding architecture, Malaysia, Shopping complex, Spark
Starhill Gallery is perhaps Kuala Lumpur’s most iconic shopping mall, featuring an extraordinary array of luxury shops and fine dining restaurants. Spark’s design proposal dealt with the reinvention of the existing façade of Starhill Gallery facing Bukit Bintang. This reinvention of Starhill Gallery is designed by Stephen Pimbley, founding director of Spark and the architect [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Childcare center, Color architecture, illiz architektur, Kindergarten, MAGK, Random pattern, White
An influx and increasing birth rate in the community situated to the south of Vienna called for the creation of more, particularly state-of-the-art child care facilities. Therefore a competition tender submission for a new child care centre was issued in 2008. The existing 19th century ‘Gründerzeit’ school was to be extended by eight primary school [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Austria, Cladding, Franz Architekten, Random pattern, Reflective pool, School
one (school) for all Central and still removed from the heavy traffic of the federal highway one can find the most important public institutions of Deutsch-Wagram lined up along a footpath: city administration, kindergarten, primary and secondary schools. In order to enable school education up to university entrance qualification, the municipal council decided the erection [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Barreca & La Varra, Cladding, Glass, Italy, Milan, Random pattern
In the north-eastern outskirts of Milan, as part of the restructuring of the former industrial core that houses the RCS Mediagroup, the new office building B5 designed by Barreca & La Varra studio has just been completed. The building is an integral part of a master plan intended for research and intellectual work and contributes [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: ACXT, Color architecture, Random pattern, Spain, Stadium, Swimming pool
Bilbao, Miribilla neighborhood, built on ancient iron mines adyacent to the old part of town. A very hilly solar (46 m from one corner to another, just 200m) in which the building was caught in the neighborhood park. Limestone rocks sticking out between the banks and trees in the park gave us the key to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Civic, Selected Tags: 3XN, Folding architecture, Netherlands, Stair, White
From Growing Pains to Growing Commitment The new City Hall and cultural center in the Dutch city of Nieuwegein, is designed to create cohesion and the foundation for a stronger local community. A modern participatory democracy requires transparency and communication at eye level in the encounter between citizen and authority. These elements have been the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Glass, Hans van Heeswijk, Netherlands, Stair, Waterfront architecture
We all occasionally fantasize about our dream home, but few of us ever manage to make it a reality. And how does the architect himself live? In this case, the private home of architect Hans van Heeswijk led to a spacious and light-filled house full of special details. The client and architect Van Heeswijk was [...]
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![Winners of [AMSTERDAM] Iconic Pedestrian Bridge](http://plusmood.com/wp-content/themes/plusMOOD-el/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ac-ca.jpg&w=300&h=250&zc=1 "Winners of [AMSTERDAM] Iconic Pedestrian Bridge")
Category: Landscape, Selected Tags: AC-CA, Bridge, Competition, Events/News
Last year, we introduced the calling of [AMSTERDAM] Iconic Pedestrian Bridge Competition. Recently the result is announced, we’re here to publish the top 3 winners and 7 honorable mentions out of 324 proposals. + Judge’s report 1st Place _Nicolas Montesano _Victor Vila _Boris Hoppek Country: Spain Team Type: Architect Registration Number: 039578 The winning project [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Landscape architecture, Stone, Swimming pool
The private residence is situated in the outskirts of Monemvasia, Greece, in a high pitch ground with panoramic view to the sea. The functional units of the residence are distributed along a synthetically emphasized axis of movement creating two alternative open spaces allowing a maximum exploitation of the panoramic view and continuity between indoor and [...]
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