Tag: Courtyard architecture

Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing | David Baker + Partners

Armstrong Place Family + Senior Housing | David Baker + Partners

Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: , , , ,
| July 16, 2011 | 1 Comment

This complex development fills a formerly industrial city block with an innovative housing mix: Affordable urban townhomes to keep growing families in the city and family housing adjacent to senior apartments to prevent seniors from living in isolation. Leading a trend of transit-oriented development along the district’s main business corridor, the development lies just a [...]

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Residence in Kishigawa | Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect & Associates

Residence in Kishigawa | Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect & Associates

Category: Architecture, House Tags: , , , ,
| July 13, 2011 | 0 Comments

Japanese architectural firm Mitsutomo Matsunami Architect & Associates have completed a residence in Kishigawa. The owner of the house is a Sushi chef from Wakayama. Dressed in coveralls most of his spare time, he is a big car lover and a mature man who enjoys both his work and hobby. With masculine clarity, his wishes [...]

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New Cultural Center in Ranica | DAP studio & Paola Giaconia

New Cultural Center in Ranica | DAP studio & Paola Giaconia

Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: , , , , ,
| June 12, 2011 | 2 Comments

The new Cultural Center in Ranica, medieval town near Bergamo in Northern Italy, contains a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten, and a school for dance and theater. With its 2.000 square meters, the Center is conceived as a new catalyst of urban life. Not only is the building a laboratory for education and information, [...]

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Student Residence in Paris | LAN Architecture

Student Residence in Paris | LAN Architecture

Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: , , , , ,
| June 7, 2011 | 2 Comments

French architects LAN (Local Architecture Network) recently has completed 5 buildings complex of student accommodation located in Paris, 18 Arrondissement. The driving idea guiding our project stems from the challenge of responding to the necessity for urban integration and creating optimum comfort for the residence’s occupants in a convivial and intimate environment. LAN The context [...]

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Ponzano Primary School | C+S Associati

Ponzano Primary School | C+S Associati

Category: Architecture, Education Tags: , , , , , ,
| June 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

In Ponzano Veneto, Italy, C+S Associati designed the Ponzano Primary School for 375 children aged from 6 to 10. It has 15 classrooms and special classrooms for art, music, computer, language and science, a gymnasium, a canteen and a library. Inside the sprawl of the Veneto Region, where Ponzano is settled, this Primary School constitutes a [...]

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Alam Family Residence | ID-EA

Alam Family Residence | ID-EA

Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: , , , , , ,
| June 1, 2011 | 2 Comments

Designed by ID-EA, the Alam Family Residence is a private residence fostering the heart of interactive family lifestyle. A residence to host two generations and three households in a single three-storey building. The different levels – one for the parents and two separate ones for the son’s family and the daughter – are designed to [...]

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Crystal Design Center Phase 2 | dwp (design worldwide partnership)

Crystal Design Center Phase 2 | dwp (design worldwide partnership)

Category: Architecture, Commercial, Culture, Office Tags: , ,
| May 31, 2011 | 1 Comment

Building on the success of the first phase of this landmark design centre, in Thailand’s capital, world-class architecture and interior firm dwp further developed the masterplan for a 32,000sqm extension. Comprising multiple two-storey units that house small- and medium-sized retail outlets, the design ties together 14 buildings through a series of walkways, bridges and integrated [...]

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Tassafaronga Village | David Baker + Partners

Tassafaronga Village | David Baker + Partners

Category: Architecture, Master Plan, Residential Tags: , , , ,
| May 27, 2011 | 0 Comments

This project works on every level, creating a haven for its occupants without forgetting to engage its communities. The team preserved embodied energy by artfully repurposing an existing building. Variety and articulation of different building and unit types are expressed both on the exterior facing the street, as well as the interiors facing the public [...]

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Coral City | GOMMAdesign + ITA Project

Coral City | GOMMAdesign + ITA Project

Category: Architecture, Master Plan Tags: , , , , ,
| May 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

CORAL CITY: GOMMAdesign takes inspiration from corals to design a self-sustaining and disaster-resistant eco-village in the Philippines Our proposal wants to prove that architecture and urban planning can design sustainable cities only if they start from different and more responsible values. A conscientious development is the main challenge of our generation, the only way to [...]

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Open House | Architects EAT

Open House | Architects EAT

Category: Architecture, House Tags: , , , , ,
| May 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

Open House is an Australian house designed by Architects EAT. The internal planning strategies are devoted to the layering of spaces, and orchestrating the sequences in a mise-en-scene liked methodology. Architects EAT have opened up the interior, got rid of the original rabbit warren internal walls, and starting from the dramatic suspended black raw steel [...]

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BIG Wins the Competition to Design a Major Cultural Center in Albania

BIG Wins the Competition to Design a Major Cultural Center in Albania

Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
| May 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold , Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania, consisting of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony. The capital Tirana [...]

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Casa 2xS | OOIIO Architecture

Casa 2xS | OOIIO Architecture

Category: Architecture, House Tags: , , , ,
| April 26, 2011 | 0 Comments

OOIIO Architecture recently has dsigned a villa project “Casa 2xS“. The “Casa 2xS” is a house placed on the urban limit of Mora, an olive-producing town in the centre of Spain. This particular condition of the site, the border between the urban and the nearby countryside landscape, defines the starting point for the project. In the [...]

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