A young family with three children wants a house that will fulfill their dreams: a paradox of a house that is simple yet surprising, open yet specific, minimal yet luxurious. Powerhouse Company, responsible for the design, resolved these paradoxes with a design for a house based on a radical differentiation of spatial experiences on three [...]
kidrobot is a premier creator of limited edition art toys, signature apparel and pop culture accessories. Its exclusive toys are extremely rare and collectible, with thirteen of their iconic pieces are included among the regarded MoMA museum collection. The kidrobot brand defines popular culture among a consumer base, which is drawn together by the insider language and their appreciation [...]
Poland-based Minimalstudio Architects has designed Modular Kindergarten. Kindergarten was designed as a modular building with a flat roof. Footprint area is 830 sqm. As the main construction material used three types of steel containers. The building was adapted for easy construction and remodeling. The basic guidelines was mobility and flexibility in the creation of the building and [...]
Architect Juan Carlos Menacho designed the Toy Store “De La Cuna A La Luna“. Regardless of the age of the customer, when they walk in this toy store in Santa Cruz-Bolivia, they will be presented with a different world. The premises for this project were “coloring, animation, and imagination without limits, wild and indomitable, naturally [...]
Elliott + Associates Architects recently has completed a headquarters office for an oil company (Kirkpatrick Oil Hennessey) in Oklahoma City, USA. Site History: The Kirkpatrick family began oil exploration in the 1920’s when John Kirkpatrick’s father-in-law, M.B. Blake, drilled their first well. John then founded Kirkpatrick Oil in 1950. Kirkpatrick Oil has been active in the Hennessey [...]
Serge Schoemaker Architects has transformed and extended the attic of this charming Dutch house of the twenties in a radical way. The upper part of the roof construction was completely dismantled and the original rafters were replaced by laminated wood portal frames. The result is a bright, high and spacious attic. Dating from the early [...]
h2o architectes shared with us their recent project of Hypernuit Offices. The project takes place on the ground floor of a building of flats, behind a large window looking out onto the Clignancourt street. The office space to create has a single orientation; it is a well-lit, plainly treated volume with a simple geometry. The [...]
This intervention was made in an apartment located in a rooftop penthouse, with 18 years old, with a dark and heavy interior. It was asked to do the best intervention possible spending a small budget, previously defined. Two decades ago, the initial design did not anticipate the need for a toilet placed in the social [...]
Alexander Brenner Architekten has completed a house named HOUSE AM OBEREN BERG in Stuttgart, Germany. When approaching the building via the access road an in-depth layered picture is discernible. The northeast side of the house is an addition/a combination of white cubes. Each of them is recognizable as an individual structure when viewed from close up, [...]
Joao Morgado shared with us one of his architectural photography. Designed by Paulo Merlini, the project is a Dental Clinic located in Oporto, Portugal. The uncommon form, narrowness, vertical amplitude of the space and the two big glass façades placed on the main and back façade defined mainly the organization of the spaces. The reception [...]
Space Group is nominated for ‘best hotels and resorts’ in Architizer A+ awards for their hotel Clarion Hotel and Congress Trondheim – opened April 2012. + Architect’s statement by Space Group THE CHOICE OF THE STARS Space Group is an internationally architecture office with offices in Oslo and Sao Paulo. Our favourite assignments are complex and challenging [...]
Joao Morgado shared with us one of his latest architectural photography. Designed by 2L Atelier Arquitectos, the project is a banking branch located in Leiria, Portugal. With the purpose in requalifying an old building belonging to a derelict industrial area, this project proposes a new concept for a banking branch by presenting an innovative attendance [...]
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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 [...]
