Design: Herbst Architects. New photos of this building designed for occupation in the summer months. Boundaries between the built form and nature are challenged to heighten the experience of immersion in nature. The architects reference the nostalgia surrounding the “Kiwi bach”.
Design: LSA Architects. A residence with light-filled and spacious internal spaces, which maintain strong connections to the exterior of the building and the home’s multiple courtyards.
Design: Zotov&Co, architects. The main advantage is the separate exit door. Because the freedom is above everything. Сourtyard garden is an additional space for conference room as well as a place for rest. The architects were searching an office for rent, but everywhere interiors were decorated with laminate, wallpaper, plastic, trendy “peach” color. This space was not “spoiled” yet.
Design: Joseph Grima/Space Caviar. Arcipelago di Ocno, a new aquatic installation on the Italian Capital of Culture 2016 waterfront by this Genoa-based architectural studio. The outline evokes the lotus.
Design: BIG architects
BIG has stacked 9 container units in a circle, and created 15 studio residences framing a centralized winter garden; this is used as a common meeting place for students.
The Blumenhaus building design by Wiel Arets Architects (WAA) is an integral component of a larger effort by the city of Zürich to upgrade its Escher-Wyss district through a metamorphosis of new developments.
Architect: Ministry of Design. Responding to the global appetite for unique hospitality experiences, the progressive Majestic Hotel boldly defies simplistic definitions of style. Rather, it is a collection of veritable encounters where design is given full license to surprise, thrill and even confound.
Design: Maciej Grelewicz Architects
1st Prize in the ‘Design a Beautiful House’ competition for a luxurious residence located near London: ‘A classic and well-judged representation of Architectural Beauty’.
Design: Foster + Partners architects. New photos of the first new visible building on the estate since the Château and the existing cellars were completed 200 years ago: a large new winery building, a new Vinothèque, and the refurbishment of existing buildings and the historic Orangery.
Design: A + A R C H I T E C T U R E – new images of this building at the angle of two narrow streets. It shares its site with a nursing home: a rich intergenerational relationship in the middle of a beautiful garden and of chestnuts
Design: MVRDV with Mole Architects. The Barn is 30 m long, with a 15 m cantilever over a slope, plunging the house headlong into nature. Living Architecture – devoted to the experience of modern architecture – commissioned MVRDV in 2008. The Barn is now available for holiday rentals.
Design: Edge Design, architects. A high-rise, 46 storey luxurious tower building. The building canopy is designed as a metaphor for crashing waves on the beach, reflecting the rhythm of the Gulf and emphasises the height of the tower.
Design: Architecture Patrick Mauger. This major renovation transforms a 1980’s block into a Very High Energy Performance building of 15,900 sqm area. The buildings are opened out through the creation of a new shared garden.
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects with SJ Arkitekter. This dynamic winning design aims to create a new benchmark for a sustainable and creative work environment. It includes a new 101m-high tower containing 18,000 sqm of highly flexible space for offices, restaurants, exhibitions and conferences. Ground and top floors will open to the public.
The new Zalando Headquarters building design by HENN groups two new buildings in the corporate campus in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The seven-storey buildings provide 42,000 sqm of office space for the largest European online supplier of shoes and fashion goods.
Design: Strom Architects. A house in the New Forest, designed as a two-storey replacement for a 1930s bungalow. The site sits amongst fields and woodland just outside the National Park, with a heavily-treed and well-established garden.
Design: Henri Cleinge, architect. Located in a bank building on rue St-Jacques, the design includes 12,000 sqft office area, a café and space for freelance workers and the public. Two distinct design challenges were forming boundaries between program functions and the context of a heritage building.