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Category: Architecture, Industry Tags: Color architecture, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Glass, Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini
Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini recently has completed the Ferrari Factory Store located in Serravalle Scrivia, Italy. The color, form, and graphical style has been carefully designed to transmit the architectural idea to identify the ‘Ferrari’ image. + Project description courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Ferrari Factory Store of Serravalle Scrivia, entirely designed by Iosa [...]
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Category: Architecture, Sport Tags: 3LHD, Croatia, Folding architecture
Croatia-based 3LHD Architects has designed the Zamet Centre located in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, Croatia. The building’s main architectural element are ribbon-like linear stripes stretching over the site in a north-south direction, functioning at the same time as an architectural design element of the object and as a zoning element which forms a public square and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: Folding architecture, Laboratory, Morphosis, New York, School, Skin, Steel
41 Cooper Square is the Advancement of Science and Art building for the Cooper Union designed by Morphosis Architects. The project has won the Best Green Design of 2009 Awards from the New York Construction. Built with sustainability goals, 41 Cooper Square is the first LEED certified academic laboratory building in New York City. For [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Berlin, Daniel Libeskind, Folding architecture, Germany, Zinc
Libeskind Villa designed by Daniel Libeskind will be unveiled to the public on September 29. The Libeskind Villa is a piece of art with its own unique atmosphere. For the first time, Daniel Libeskind has devised a home which can be erected anywhere in the world. + Press information courtesy of proportion A Libeskind for [...]
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Category: Architecture, Office, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, China architecture, ESD design, Fluid form, Folding architecture, Green architecture, Skyscrapers
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar have won the first prize to design sustainable skyscraper – Shenzhen International Energy Mansion in Shenzhen, China. The façade is conceived as a folded skin that shades the office complex from direct sunlight and integrates solar thermal panels, reducing the overall energy [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: 3GATTI, Architecture Award, China architecture, Courtyard architecture, Exhibition, Folding architecture, Museum
This is a project winner of the international invitation competition for the construction of the Automobile Museum in Nanjing, designed by Italy-based architecture studio 3GATTI to explore the relationship between car and museum. The competition was organized last year by the government of Nanjing and Jiangsu Head Investment Group. A building to be dedicated to [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture, Industrial, Selected Tags: ESD design, Folding architecture, Italy, Massimo Iosa Ghini, Modular design, Shelter
Italian designer Massimo Iosa Ghini has designed a South Face installation in Milan, the installation creates spectacular aesthetic effects, making sustainability both beautiful and feasible. + Design statement courtesy of Massimo Iosa Ghini Sustainable but beautiful: this is the goal I have pursued in all of my projects for years. South Face is the outcome [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Residential Tags: Cyprus, ESD design, Folding architecture, Massimo Iosa Ghini
A conceptual house design ONE 4 UNITS Residences for Full Circle, by Italian architect Massimo Iosa Ghini. This is a four units housing development in one organism, each unit’s identity is created and defined by its organic and fluid forms. + Project description below provided by architect, Massimo Iosa Ghini The project started with the [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Architects Collective, Folding architecture, Mexico, Penthouse, Stair, Wolfgang Thaler
A penthouse design by Austrian architect Architects Collective in collaboration with Mexican at.103. The house appears like a new roof floating above the top of existing building. + Project description provided by architect, Architects Collective Origami in Mexico City In the heart of Mexico City lies the Condesa district created around what was once a [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Interior Tags: A-cero, Concrete, Contemporary architecture, Europen architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres, has built a new house in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its international expansion, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture, Selected Tags: Convention center, Features, Folding architecture, India architecture, Yazdani Studio
An International Convention Centre proposal by Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design in Bangalore, India. The feature of this project is how the architect transformed India’s traditional industry – silk weaving into architecture and created a series of spatial sequences in this project.
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Australia NewZealand, Contemporary architecture, Features, Folding architecture, Timber, Wood
Australian Letterbox House, designed by McBride Charles Ryan. The reason why this building named “letter box” is the building begins as the letterbox and unfurls to become an irregular open verandah. + Project description below provided by architect – McBride Charles Ryan It’s like a half space, half enclosed, half open. Neither in nor out [...]
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