The Whispering House by Czech architectural office mjölk architekti is one of the shortlisted design for the architectural competition “A Room for London” commissioned by Living Architecture. Visibility and exposure are major character traits of the location on the roof of Queen Elizabeth Hall. The feature to present oneself to other people to built by [...]
Kultivate has partnered with Crystal Stone on Dare to Design, a unique design project to be showcased at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show and The Artist Project NY in March. The Architectural Digest Home Design Show and The Artist Project NY have offered Crystal Stone and fellow stone company International Stone Collections the opportunity [...]
Dress Code is an elementary school designed for the community of Fréchy in SWITZERLAND. It is surrounded by farming areas and nearby hills. Under the idea that once the program and the function are defined, the architect’s job consists in dressing up architecture; Dress Code was conceived. It gives a major importance to the facades [...]
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti have won the competition to design Greenland‘s New National Gallery. The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and [...]
Durst Fetner Residential selects BIG to design 600-unit residential building on W57th Steet in Manhattan, New York. The building is conceived as a cross breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper. The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a [...]
Denmark-based architectural firm BIG, in collaboration with realities:united, AKT, Topotek 1 & Man Made Land have won the the international competition to design a new Waste-To-Energy Plant in Copenhagen, Denmark. The new plant is an example of what we at BIG call Hedonistic Sustainability – the idea that sustainability is not a burden, but that [...]
French studio of architecture TVK has won the international competition for the project of the new Place de la République in Paris, France. + Here are the videos to explain the concept of the project.
The winning proposal for Denmark‘s new state prison on the island of Falster: The prison is uniquely designed as a small village and integrates several landscape features, among other things animal husbandry, within the perimeter wall. C. F. Møller Architects has won the competition to build a new, closed state prison on the island of [...]
Brazil-based AUM arquitetos won the competition for the headquarters of the Regional Council of Administration of Santa Catarina. + Architect’s statement by AUM arquitetos The strategy of implementation of the Regional Council of Administration of Santa Catarina was based on the exploitation of the topography and its potential visual axes. The program is distributed in [...]
Austrian architect Atelier Thomas Pucher has won the international competition for the new seat of the world renowned Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra in Warsaw. The 20.000m2 cultural centre is housed on the site of a former Veterinary Institute with existing – yet asleep – buildings and a fairy tale park. The centre inhabits a 1.800 seat [...]
A CHAIR FOR MANY – Design for a better world Delivery Deadline: March 8th, 2011. Prizes: 1st place: € 1,500.00 2nd place: € 1,000.00 3rd place: € 500.00 This is an announcement of design competition ONLY FOR WOMEN, promoted by Area Declic and relating to its third edition. It is a competition exclusively open to [...]
Do you watch “Design Star” competition series cast by HGTV? I believe you do. But do you ever think it could happen to you? Design Star, is HGTV’s top-rated reality competition series. They are currently casting for the sixth season and they have a series of open casting calls coming up throughout the US. What [...]
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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 [...]
