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Category: Architecture, Selected, Sport Tags: Color architecture, Concrete, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Multiplan, OFIS, Refurbishment / Extension, Slovenia, Stadium
OFIS Arhitekti, in collaboration with Multiplan Arhitekti has designed the extension of the football stadium in Maribor, Slovenia. + Project description by OFIS Arhitekti The plot that was used as a multi-functional sport field and is located in the centre of the city. In the sixties a small tribune was built along one side of [...]
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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, Education Tags: Biselli + Katchborian, Brazil, Color architecture, Concrete, Reflective pool
Brazil-based architectural studio Biselli + Katchborian architects completed the Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas in São Paulo, Brazil. + Architect’s statement by Biselli + Katchborian architects The Center of Arts and Education of Pimentas is located in Guarulhos, in Pimentas neighborhood, a place with few community equipment directed to education, leisure and sports. [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Atelier 11, China, China architecture, Concrete, Construction, Religious architecture
Designed by the Chinese architecture studio Atelier 11, this is a church located in Pan Long Gu, a national scenic area at Ji County in the city of Tianjing, China. As a religious facility built for a neighboring Spanish-style residential development, the design of the church takes the reference from the European architectural language and [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Alberto Campo Baeza, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Photography
Carlos Lozano shared with us his recent work of Rufo House which was designed by Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza. + Architect’s statement courtesy Alberto Campo Baeza The brief was to build a house on a hilltop outside of the city of Toledo. The hill faces southwest and offers interesting views of the distant horizon, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Car Park, Concrete, HHF architects, Switzerland
Switzerland-based architectural firm HHF architects, in collaboration with ARchos Architektur designed the Parking Sonvida Basel. The project is located on the outskirts of Basel and is part of a new housing project with different sized villas and small apartment buildings. The underground parking is designed as an underground street (approximately 150m long) which allows to access [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Industry, Selected Tags: Cladding, Color architecture, Concrete, Exhibition, Germany, HHF architects, Random pattern, Skin, Stair, Waterfront architecture
The fashion center Labels Berlin 2 is a concentration of showrooms for international fashion brands in one building including public spaces such as an event hall, a restaurant and a lounge at the top floor. The design strategy is based on the adjacent warehouse building Labels 1. The interior spaces of this historical building are [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Concrete, COR-TEN, ESD design, Foster + Partners, Landscape architecture, Nigel Young, Spain, Winery
Faustino Winery by world-renowned architect Foster + Partners recently opens in Spain. Bodegas Portia is our first winery, so we had no preconceptions about how it should work. It was an opportunity to start from first principles – to examine the different stages of wine production and to try to create the ideal conditions for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Concrete, Finland, Green architecture, Marco Casagrande, Refurbishment / Extension, Research, Taiwan
Finnish architect Marco Casagrande has successfully converted an abandoned apartment block into the Ruin Academy in Taipei, Taiwan. The Ruin Academy is operated in co-operation between Casagrande Laboratory / Finland and JUT Foundation for Arts & Architecture / Taiwan. It moves in-between architecture, sociology, environmental sciences (including urban design) and environmental art. The house used [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Concrete, Courtyard architecture, Landscape architecture, PIQUE, Timber, USA architecture
America-based architectural firm PIQUE designed the Kenneally Residence located in the Tetherow golf development in USA. It was most inspiring for us to see how this golf course is naturally nestled into the uniform topography, pine trees and lava flows of the high dessert. With this in mind, it became incredibly important for us to [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Australia NewZealand, Concrete, Hassell, Lattice screen, Timber, Zinc, Zoo
In Adelaide Australia, the multidisciplinary design practice, Hassell designed The Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct which comprises a series of interlinked forecourts that unfold over 2000 square metres to create a natural transition and physical connection between the roads, parklands and waterways. The Zoo boasts Australia’s first purpose-designed ‘green roof’ to support wildlife shelter and extensive [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior, Selected Tags: A-cero, Concrete, Landscape architecture, Spain
The architecture studio A-cero presents one of its last works about a big single-family house. It takes place in the outskirts of Madrid on a 5000m2 plot. It is a single storey building and it has a 1.600 m2 built surface. The first sensation that this house produces when people go into the plot is [...]
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