Croatia-based 3LHD Architects has won a competition for a business center in Zagreb, Croatia. + Project description courtesy of 3LHD Architects The competition program is placed on a crossing of two streets, Miramarska and Bednjanska. It is a point of colliding two urban city concepts: north part with classical city blocks of the Zagreb’s lower [...]
DEX Showroom in Osmannoro, Firenze, designed by Italy-based firm Studio 63 architecture and design. The showroom is given identity by the facade design that appears like a pixelized picture of the trees, filtering the natural and indoor lighting between inside and outside, creating a dramatic screen along the street. + Project description below courtesy of Studio [...]
Korea-based dmp Architects has proposed an iconic building for Seoul Performing Arts Center located in Nodul Island, Seoul, Korea. The goal of the project is to bring a new life to Han River and Nodul Island which has been forgotten by people of Seoul nowaday. A very good design approach of creating a dramatic roof [...]
Flowing Gardens, designed by London-based Plasma Studio for the International Horticultural Fair in Xi’an, China. Circulation is the key idea to develop the whole scheme, the circulation flow begins as a single stream, and then broadens, branching out to form the borders of garden spaces. The gate building is placed at the junction of those [...]
Spain-based architect S-M.A.O. Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office has designed a winery located in Picon, Ciudad Real, Spain. The design approach of the winery is to harmonize with the surrounding of low environmental impact, therefore the south facing symbolic façade attempted to be risen from the ground and allowing a dialogue with the wineyard. + Project description [...]
© The Art Institute of Chicago, Ph. Campbell © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects © Renzo Piano Building Workshop – Ph. Charles G. Young, Interactive design architects The Modern Wing at Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the [...]
Clara, South Yarra is specially approved and allowed by architect Elenberg Fraser‘s client R.Corporation to be featured on +MOOD. The project’s vision is to incorporate the landscape from the new park in South Yarra throughout the whole development. Irregular horizontal fins and balconies created an impressive and rhythmic effect to the building facade. Besides, please [...]
This golden structure is a temporary pavilion designed by Germany practice architect modulorbeat, use of striking color for perforated skin has successfully drawn our attention, while creating a new street images to the city. + Project description below provided by architect, modulorbeat switch+, a golden pavilion for sculpture projects muenster 07 The switch+ information centre, [...]
Italian architect Damilano Studio Architects has designed a factory for door manufacturer Iridium Doors located in Cuneo, Italy. The important administrative and creative work places are shaped by dynamic surface set inside a rigid prefabricated box, the interplay between dynamics and static is enhanced by a reflective pool next to the entrance plaza. + Project [...]
The Yas Hotel Abu Dhabi is targeting an opening in this coming October, 2009, designed by New York-based practice architect Asymptote Architecture. This is really an beautiful iconic building located in the site of Formula 1 on Yas Island, comprised of two towers linked by a bridge spaned over the Formular 1 track. The Yas [...]
Singaporean architect firm Wallflower Architecture + Design recently has completed a multi-courtyard house located at Six Ramsgate Road, Singapore. Due to its deep site, two big courtyards have been inserted in between the major spaces. A strong axis leads from the entrance foyer, swimming pool, formal living area, internal garden court and formal dining areas, [...]
Los Angeles practice architect Morphosis (led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne) has designed the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, located in Pasadena, California. The Cahill Center conceptually acts as an astronomical instrument, pierced by a vertical volume, tilted its lense to maximize the penetration of natural daylight [...]
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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 [...]
