Casa 89 Barcelona: Ametlla del Vallès house

Casa 89 Barcelona: Ametlla del Vallès house

The setting is a not particularly pleasant housing complex in the Prelittoral Hills. The slope of the terrain and the overwhelming presence of the side of the neighbour’s house, a wall built without planning permission

Royal Arthur Park, Corsham Building, Wiltshire

Royal Arthur Park, Architect, English Project, Property, Proposal, News, UK Royal Arthur Park Building : Corsham Retirement Community English Building at Corsham, Wiltshire, southwest England – design by ORMS 9 Jan 2009 Royal Arthur Park Trail Blazing Retirement Development Given Go Ahead by Planners Design: ORMS, Architects Architects ORMS have just achieved planning permission for … Read more

Student design competition, caring for older people

RIBA Design Contest – Caring for Older People Student Design Competition. DWA Architects has launched a design competition for architectural students worldwide with support from one of the UK’s largest care home operators, Bupa Care Services. The competition will be managed by the RIBA Competitions Office.

Project X Almere House: Rene van Zuuk

Project X Almere House: Rene van Zuuk Architekten

Behind the somewhat mysterious name ‘Project X’, hides the design of René van Zuuk and his family’s own residence. The villa with a small office space is located right next to the architect’s former residence Psyche in Almere’s The Fantasy district, an area for experimental housing.

Zilverparkkade Lelystad, Rene van Zuuk Building

Zilverparkkade, Lelystad, Holland, Architect, Dutch Project, Images, Design Zilverparkkade Lelystad Lelystad building, The Netherlands – design by Rene van Zuuk rchitekten 5 Jan 2009 Zilverparkkade Design: René van Zuuk Architekten b.v. Text by Maarten Willems The project derives its romantic name (Silver Park Quay) from its location: the office cluster on the Zilverparkkade in Lelystad. … Read more

Spikvoorde II, Deventer Building: De Vijfhoek

Spikvoorde II, Deventer Building, De Vijfhoek, René van Zuuk Design Spikvoorde II Deventer : Architecture in The Netherlands Contemporary Development in Salland, Overijssel, Holland – design by René van Zuuk Architekten 5 Jan 2009 Spikvoorde II Design: René van Zuuk Architekten bv English text (scroll down for Dutch text) Spikvoorde is a part of “De … Read more

Block 16 Almere Apartments Building: Flats

The block is sited on a basement car park (design OMA) serving as a pedestal. The elevated deck level is half occupied by the common entrance and the storerooms. The other part is a gym which continues on the parking level below where it ends in the fitness-café, an autonomous pavilion.

Sydney BMW Showroom in Parramatta

Sydney BMW Showroom in Parramatta

The showroom is a showcase enhancing the vehicles displayed. It reflects a ‘lifestyle’; showrooms must do more than display vehicles, they must reflect the qualities conveyed in the cars; fun, movement, technology, dynamics, luxury.

Info Centre Korona, Finland: Viikki Building

The large Science Library forms a major part of the building and it houses the departmental libraries of the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, which were formerly independent, as well as the Pihlajamäki branch of the Helsinki City Library.

Norwich Union Flood Design Competition, UK

Flood Design Competition, Shortlist, Building, RIBA, Architects, Designer, Info Norwich Union Flood Design Competition Housing Design competition winners, England: Images 19 Dec 2008 Flood Design Competition Result UK Flood Design Competition Winners Floating homes, sunken pontoons and timber drawbridges were just some of the innovations presented by architects across the world in a bid to … Read more

Rotterdam Stadionpark Building Design

Stadionpark Rotterdam Design

Rotterdam Stadiumpark will be developed into a sport campus in the period 2009-28. Within this the Kuip is redeveloped and a new Kuip gains a place on the river Maas alongside a new public transport node which ensures high level accessibility.

Villa ad Alzate, Como house, Italy: Como property

Natural wood for the windows and doors that can be opened and fixed with laminated glass and air chamber. The finishes are completed by the Iragna stone for the floors of the external porches and pedestrian paths and external stairs.