This pavilion at the rear of the large Edwardian house faces directly west, a striking colourful screen was devised to filter the heat load, views to neighbouring properties, provide privacy and to animate interior spaces with a lovely warm afternoon glow through the coloured glass louvres. The copper clad building was designed to graft onto [...]
As part of the Federal Government’s BER initiative, this small private school, in Sydney’s northern suburbs, identified the need for a multi-purpose hall to serve both primary and secondary students. The project had a very tight budget. However, the Client requested that the multi-purpose hall be designed in such a way as to create opportunities [...]
ASPECT Studios has just completed a transformation of the public domain of Darling Harbour. This public domain project, commissioned by SHFA and Lend Lease now known as Darling Quarter, is a major place-making project for Sydney with a world class children’s playground as its centre piece. At over 4000m2 it is the largest in the [...]
Research by Think Brick Australia in collaboration with The University of Newcastle’s faculty of engineering has shown that Brick is officially the most thermally efficient building material. + Press release The Research Data is in: Brick is officially the most thermally efficient building material New research undertaken by Think Brick Australia, in collaboration with The [...]
Melbourne-based architectural practice Lyons has brought together a panel of leading architects and designers to discuss the central theme of this year’s Melbourne Architecture Annual, What makes a home? The panel discussion, “Talking Homes“, will take place at Lyons’ Bourke Street office on 25 October and will feature; Jill Garner, Victoria’s Associate Government Architect; Dr [...]
The design work undertaken by ASPECT Studios on stage one of the revitalisation of Jack Evans Boat Harbour is now complete and the new recreational and aquatic playground is open to the public. The upgrade to the Jack Evans Boat Harbour enriches the existing park experience to become a unique civic place of waterfront leisure. [...]
Disaster strikes. How can architects help quickly, efficiently, sustainably and sensitively? LAVA‘s solution is an origami cave. It features in a new exhibition opening in Sydney tonight. LAVA‘s Digital Origami Emergency Shelter is a concept for an inhabited molecule. The design is based on a water-molecule, referencing the Japanese Metabolist movement`s idea of prefabricated capsules [...]
Narrabeen is a suburb with housing plots and street layouts characteristic of the ‘garden suburb’ ideals espoused by early 20th cen- tury Australian town planning. The Narrabeen House of 2009 sits in this historical context amongst the other two storey family homes with each dutifully addressing a quiet, tree-lined street. It is a safe and [...]
The design is inspired by the natural ‘sun trap’ edges that exist along many of Sydney’s beaches, landscape escarpments and the bow form of ships that traverse the waters of Port Botany. Choi Ropiha Fighera The Millstream Lookout is located at the western end of the foreshore beach park at Port Botany. The concept makes [...]
A ‘pop-up pirate radio tower’, designed by US artist and architect Adam Kalkin, has been installed at the Victorian College of the Arts’ Southbank campus. This project is ongoing until end October 2011. Renowned for elaborate designs utilising shipping containers, US artist and architect Adam Kalkin has created the “pop-up pirate radio tower” as a [...]
The silver Buckle pendant by Tina Leung looks magnificent in Sydney’s new Platinum Blow Dry Bar. This eye-catching 1.2m diameter sphere captures the light and plays with the reflected distortions. The Buckle pendant from Innermost is constructed out of laser cut stainless steel and finished in mirror polished and white powder coat The Buckle pendant [...]
Designed by Australian architectural firm Architects EAT, Linear House is situated on a slight hill, 500m away from the Portsea back beach. The site is a relatively large and newly subdivided lot of 2600m2, and the client wanted a holiday house that will eventually become their permanent family home. Architects EAT calls the underlying principle of [...]
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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 [...]
