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 also [...]

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, a temporary structure [...]

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. + [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Germany-based architecture and planning firm Behnisch Architekten has designed a very large public aquarium in the German city of Stralsund – Ozeaneum German Oceanographic Museum. The new museum is an open structure flooded from all sides by light, similar to the way stones in the sea near the water’s edge are flooded by the surrounding [...]

Copenhagen architects BIG and Mexico practice Michel Rojkind architect have won cultural competition in Mexico. The New Tamayo Museum will sit on steep hillside with large cross-shaped roof-top platform overlooking Mexico city. + Project description provided by architect, BIG New Tamayo Museum overlooking Mexico City – BIG and Michel Rojkind win cultural competition in Mexico. Set upon a [...]

A beautiful house for Draeger Family, designed by Swiss architect Philippe Stuebi Architekten. The house was designed to sit on a square ruin over looking the sea, architect has created a large roof terrace that having a great sea view from the living space. Under the terrace is a guest room which is connected by [...]

Los Angeles based architect Studio 0.10 Architects has designed a house - Mush Residence for a small family in Los Angeles. Vertical spatial organization in relation to circulation is the key feature for Mush Residence. + Project description provided by architect, Studio 0.10 Architects A single-family residence designed for a couple and set in a postwar subdivision, [...]

Nemo House, by Polish practice Mobius Architekci. The house was designed to integrate with the sloping site, from the higher side, it seems to be emerged from the water. + Project description provided by architect, Mobius Architekci Building is placed on a beautiful plot inclined in a lake direction. The plan of the Nemo house is shaped [...]

New Church in Foligno – San Paolo Parish Complex, designed by Italy practice Fuksas architects, which was successfully presented by Architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas on 24th-26th April 2009, in the event “In the sacred architecture – Three days with the architecture of Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas “. This project features the use of  pure [...]

UK practice architect Foster + Partners has designed a new five-star hotel close to Heathrow Airport – Riva Hotel which to accommodate 577 hotel rooms. The Riva hotel features a distinctive layered glass shell, which floods the public spaces with daylight and contributes to a highly efficient energy strategy. The glass envelope is to act [...]

A-House is a single-family house located on a mews lane, in a Victorian suburb of Dublin, designed by Ireland based FKL architects. The house is an exploration of diagonal space within an orthogonal form and the possibilities of integrating environmental concerns at a fundamental level. [...]