Design: Mackay + Partners, architects. The new Motel One building in the historic Minories neighbourhood of the City of London features a ground-breaking illuminated façade made from DuPont Corian high-tech surface.
Warsaw is a city under a considerable pressure for change. Stark political system change and enormous economic uplift have left several public spaces and relevant buildings to the will of speculative developers.
Design: Alexander Brenner Architekten. A home for life, behind sheltering walls and with great vastness towards the neighboring scenery – a generation villa „from which one never needs to move out again“, as the residents put it.
Design: Sane Architecture
Cities, configurations and architectural structures have been considered fixed systems, in equilibrium in which the different parts were meant to be coordinated in linking macrostructures – or frameworks according to the rational classical model.
Design: AMA, Architects. Fucina Restaurant features a unique, mind blowing curvacious brick ceiling, entirely handmade and taking its inspiration from the interiors of traditional Italian pizza ovens.
Design: TADA. This house sits in a corner of a vast lot in the heart of Bridgehampton, New York. Evocative of an old farmhouse with it’s elementary shape and repeated openings, also shares it’s DNA and it’s open space plan with that of a New York attic.
Design: Mauro Lacio Arquitetura. This house is located in São Paulo, Brazil. The challenges to its design were connected to a 3 meters ground depression between the extremes of the lot. This enabled the communication among the house and the horizon.
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects: The 1,500 sqm library building provides the Highlands’ community with a distinctive landmark which underlines that this new creative centre for learning is open and accessible
Design: Bureau Architecture Méditerranée. Architecture integrated into its surroundings – respecting urban fabric and existing historic buildings. The building has a discreet character through use of the same type of stone, preservation of existing buildings and respect for alignments.
Design: MIMA Housing. A sharp white volume set in Alentejo’s beautiful landscape. This 36 sqm summer house represents one of the multiple schemes possible to be built from the baseMIMA house, an aggregation of 3.5 of the base units.
Design: BVN, Architects. The building is designed to provide a flexible space that facilitates connectivity and collaboration amongst the research community. The design reflects the idea of “seeing the science”, whereby the form of the building reflects the inner workings and functions.
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects. This all-year cabin for a family of five is designed to accommodate changes in family composition in coming years. The cabin building is gently placed on the slight slope of the site, where the volume creates small microclimate zones with beneficial sun conditions for outdoor activities and easy access from the interior.
Design by Holly & Smith Architects – A 1,250 sqft, net zero energy retreat located on a 15.5 acre site in Southeast Louisiana. The three-story house structure sits over the edge of a pond and overlooks a peninsula of ten oak trees.
Design: RYRA Studio, architects. Shemshak is the second largest ski area in Iran, about 55 minutes drive from Tehran. This project on a mountain was a demonstration one to investigate the interface between nature and architecture.
The Cineroleum London, pop-up building in Clerkenwell, England, UK, using DuPont AirGuard, advanced metallised membrane: cinema project in London
Design: Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
Housed in a brick and timber loft in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, Medical Dermatology Associates is a 5500sf medical clinic for a newly formed practice.
Design: [i]da arquitectos. Located on the Alentejo Coast, the Monte Novo da Cruz is a rural property with about 10 ha strongly characterized by a gently undulating land with slopes sometimes relevant.