French designer Alexandre Moronnoz designed a dynamic and fluid bench named it as Muscle Bench. The bench offers the possibility of sitting or lying down in response to the surface’s relief. Muscle Bench As spectacular to gaze at as it is comfortable to rest on, Muscle is a counter proposal to traditional stiff and motionless [...]
High school Albert Einstein, Brassens site, in France, was recently restructured and extended by French firm N+B architects . The project took into account the notions of flexibility, educational project, and environmental use functionality and to enable the programmatic entities, to be linked together around exterior spaces. The ambition of this project is to offer [...]
French architectural practice N+B architects recently has completed a parking lot and an urban planning in Carros, France. The project took into account the notions of flexibility, and environmental use functionality and to enable the programmatic entities, to be linked together around exterior spaces. The intervention takes into account the program, but also, the architectural [...]
A group of greatest french designers have proposed their own interpretation of the material for innovative mirror design “Addiction” : Arik Levy, Agence [O;O], Noe Duchaufour-Lawrance, Jean Marie Massaud, Patrick Norguet, JC de Castelbajac, Christian Ghion … “Addiction” is a unique proposal in interior decoration. A brand new approach of contemporary decorative arts, leading to [...]
This year, «Between Shadow and Light» is the theme of Le 5th Festival des Architectures Vives 2010 in Montpellier. About eleven lively architectures dreamed and conceived by architects will take place in the courtyards of private mansion in the centre of Montpellier during 17th – 20th June. For more information about the Festival, please send [...]
Paris-based architectural firm Badia Berger architects has designed the 79 Logements PLUS located in Seine Left Bank Urban Development Zone Paris 13th Arrondissement, France. The facades overlooking the public space are calm, light and simple, in contrast to the domestic setting of the inside of the block, which is expressed by colours, external extensions, materials [...]
French architects Air have completed a raw yellow concrete extension to the Apprentice Formation Center in Saint Maur des Fossés, near Paris in France. The project comprises a new three-storey building containing a double volume hall, plumbers workshop, classrooms, and meeting rooms, as well as the refurbishment of an existing cafeteria, classrooms and offices. + [...]
LAN Architecture has won the competition for new residential area – 4 Collective Housing Units located in Bègles, France. The design for the ecological and social living space appears both modern and sculptural, it creates the diversity of architectural propositions in the urban context. + Project description courtesy of LAN Architecture A new, ecological and [...]
In Menton, France, N+B architects created a flexible and sustainable solution for the Paul Valéry High School. + Project description courtesy of N+B architects Paul Valery Highschool buildings in MENTON, France was recently restructured and extended by N+B architects. The project took into account the notions of flexibility, environmental use functionality and to enable the [...]
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 [...]
Paris-based architectural firm Emmanuel COMBAREL Dominique MARREC Architects (ECDM) has completed a social housing for students in a suburb of Paris called Epinay. The conception of our project is from a second reading of the landscape, particularly the road of Saint leu, by integrating its history and transformations to assert its manners and qualities and to [...]
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 [...]
