White House Strand: Norwegian Property
Situated in a quite dense suburban setting, the house twists dynamically between sheltering for privacy and opening up for angles of vistas.
Situated in a quite dense suburban setting, the house twists dynamically between sheltering for privacy and opening up for angles of vistas.
The house is organised on two floors. Living spaces are on the top floor, oriented towards south and the view, with a culmination in a covered terrace among the trees to the west.
This Norwegian education building is located in Bekkestua, Norway. The institution has a current enrollment of approximately 600 students from 3 to 19 years of age (pre-school to IB Diploma).
This house is situated with views towards the sea between the branches of the surrounding pine-forest. The permitted aerial building lines define the plan and even the heights of the roofline.
The 140 m2 house is located on a small plot in IJburg; a recently developed suburb of the city of Amsterdam. The house is designed as a vertical garden giving space to flora and fauna to grow in a densely urbanised area
The two Amsterdam animal refuges have been amalgamated – the new-built is the largest pound in the Netherlands. The plot is in the city fringe, an apparently impossible wedge of cake
The Ahmanson Founders Room is a 2,500 ft2 addition buried in the first level of subterranean parking at The Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Milan Fair: Santa Giulia masterplan + housing, Italy – design by Foster + Partners, architects – Milan Santa Giulia: contemporary Milanese buildings
Asahikawa Garage, Hokkaido building, Kamikawa architecture – design by Jun Igarashi Architects – contemporary Japanese garage: Hokkaido architecture
The Tubaloon is a membrane structure designed by the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta to serve as the main stage at Scandinavia’s reputable Kongsberg Jazz Festival.
The SOS community center combines services for foster care families and neighborhood families in one building. SOS is an international not-for-profit agency committed to training foster parents and reuniting siblings
For Norwegian Public Roads Administration, Location: E10 tourist route project, Design Competition winner design by Snøhetta Architects
With a magnificent view as the main feature of this retreat located on the hill of a small village some 150km from mexico city, one-half-house aims to live landscape under a canopy with as few interior elements as possible.
The projects involved designing a new 1350 sqm museum building, a landscape plan for the surrounding site, parking facilities and a service building.
The site offered an opportunity to energize an urban area that had long been unappealing. It demanded a transformative vision of invigorating its decrepit urban presence.
Ave Fénix Ciudad de México: the program includes, in addition to the Firemen station itself, a space of consultation and training center open to the public, both activities must be executed separately and never the presence of the visitor should interfere in the work of the firemen.
The lot is situated in a typical suburban housing development in Japan, among an array of terraced modest sites. The majority of the houses in the development are of prefabricated, two-story construction, seemingly disconnected from their surroundings.