Dubai Building News 2016: UAE Developments
Dubai building news 22016 – Concrete Dubai by OMA: Alserkal Avenue to inaugurate UAE’s first OMA-designed space with exhibition of modern and contemporary Syrian art.
Endless Space for Casa Foa in Santiago
With Endless Space 57STUDIO wanted to provoke something beyond the products exhibited, which in fact were very few as we seek to highlight them much better through the white backdrop and lighting.
The Pavilions Monte Carlo, Monaco luxury stores
Design: architect Richard Martinet of Affine Design. Five buildings house 21 luxury boutiques in the city centre: eschewing classical rationality the curvaceous geometry of the architecture is no stranger in the site context.
134 Spencer Street Melbourne
Architects Elenberg Fraser claim the building design is inspired by the music video of ‘Ghost’ by Beyoncé. The twisting architecture is created entirely by parametric modelling, its spiralling curves recall the “twists and turns of a woman dancing in black cloth”.
Block House on Pearl Beach
Design: Porebski Architects. Located on the shore of Pearl Beach, an area where the bush meets the coast, the Block House is a secluded escape designed to exist in harmony with its surroundings.
Cottage on Vega Island, Norway Property
Design: Kolman Boye Architects. House on the island of Vega in the Norwegian archipelago not far from the polar circle. The site is distinctive for its grand and harsh northern landscape with wide panoramas of the Norwegian Sea and the jagged mountains rising from it.
03 Clarke Shack in Dunsborough
Architects: Mishack. Lovingly called GD27 this weekend house, is where the client would rather be. This contemporary house is poised on an elevated lot overlooking an enviable strand of woodland with nearby bubbling brook.
Nordelta Tigre Yacht Club House Buenos Aires
Design: Estudio Ramos, architects. The building was designed on two levels: the upper, with the best views for the social rooms and restaurant, whilst the secondary program such as storage, locker rooms and the gym are placed at the ground floor.
Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal, Québec
Inaugurated in 1912, this is the only great luxury hotel in Montreal to have survived to the present day without changing vocation. Famous for its façades and its elegant Adam-style interiors, the building is one of the gems of Montreal architecture.
15 Degrees House in Arkansas
Design: Matthias J Pearson Architect, Bella Vista residence on a rural wooded hilltop: two 20’ x 84’ volumes are set perpendicular to each other and rotated an additional 15 degrees in response to site attributes and to create a dynamic interrelationship
Alvaro Siza Vintage book, architecture design
Limited edition collector’s box, architecture book contains 3 different, innovative and contemporary views on work of architect Álvaro Siza Vieira through photography, text and illustration
Floating Hotel with Catamaran-apartments
Design: Salt & Water. Each apartment is a catamaran that can be easily separated from the dock and navigated, allowing guests to choose the perfect location for their vacation by themselves.
Cascadia Remodel in Seattle Property
Design: Balance Associates Architects. Project focused on a 1940’s house in Seattle: the kitchen, garage and basement were all that remained standing after demolition. The basic layout remained but spaces were opened up to the view and to each other.
Gyomin Syokudo Restaurant in Okinawa
Design: Yamazaki Kentaro Design. Located in Itoman, Okinawa, the aim of this project is to support and promote local tradition and culture through its cuisine. The restaurant is covered in Ryukyu limestone and constructed via a “masonry workshop” organized by the project collaborators.
Ninot Market in Barcelona
Design: Mateo Arquitectura
The architects conserved and repaired the beautiful structure that supports that roof. Beneath they dug into the site to introduce new services that complement sales activity: logistics, parking, installations.
Qingdao Innovation Park: Six Office Towers
Design: RTA-Office, architects
Six office towers: two tall buildings of 160 m, two of 100 m and two adjacent buildings of 70 m each. The architecture design was made under rigorous volumetric constraints that included a symmetrical configuration.
Proposal for Museum of Ethnography
Design: Graeme Massie Architects
The new building design stems from both an understanding of its role as a civic building in a historic European capital city and its need to respond to the requirements of a twenty-first century museum.