Open Architecture Collaborative: OAC

Open Architecture Collaborative

International offshoots of the organization known as the “Chapters” were preserved by volunteers in over 30 cities around the world and have formed the Open Architecture Collaborative (OAC) to bring humanitarian design back to the mainstream.

Concrete House in Even Yehuda, Israel Property

Concrete House

Design: Studio Ron Shenkin. The Concrete House building consists of two rectangles placed perpendicularly on top of each other. The two rectangles connected by a bare concrete strip with a wooden like texture, formed by the formwork from where it was produced, this concert strip act as a ribbon, wrapping the rectangles together.

Villa 4.0 Hilversum, Netherlands Residence

Villa 4.0

Villa 4.0., Hilversum, The Netherlands. Dutch studio Mecanoo has completed the last of a series of renovations on a 1967 home in Hilversum, The Netherlands, called Villa 4.0., reports designboom. The original building completed in 2011 was designed by dick van gameren in collaboration with iding interior design and michael van gessel landscape.

Dublin Building Designs: Architecture

Spencer Dock Bridge Dublin

Dublin building designs, new architecture in Ireland: architectural news, contemporary Irish built environment updates & architectural links – key Dublin construction design info + property images

Arizona Center for Law and Society Phoenix

Arizona Center for Law and Society

Design: Tomas Rossant of Ennead Architects, with Jones Studio. With the state of the country’s legal education a hot topic of current debate, Arizona State University is poised to reinvent the law school experience—both in program and design—with its new Arizona Center for Law and Society.

Regents Place: Triton Square, London

Regents Place London building

Regents Place – architecture info + photos. Key buildings at Triton Square, off Euston Road in North London, designers include Sheppard Robson Architects ; Wilkinson Eyre Architects; Munkenbeck and Marshall Architects; Farrells

Bayside development in Toronto Lakeshore region

Bayside development in Toronto Lakeshore region

Design: ODA. The practice of orienting a home to the path of the sun is as old as civilization itself, and in nature, significantly predates it. Just as plants and flowers orient themselves to the sun through phototaxis, the newest building designed by ODA New York, appears to be doing the same.

Pyramid Viewpoint, Inveruglas, Loch Lomond

Pyramid Viewpoint Inveruglas

Design: BTE Architecture. Located on a peninsula overlooking the UK’s largest stretch of inland water, Loch Lomond: the viewpoint takes the shape of a triangular platform and is positioned at the end of a long curved path stretching form the car park to the highest point of the peninsula.

Vineyard House in Montijo Property

Vineyard House

Design: blaanc, architects. Implanted on a large agricultural estate, the house is built in the middle of the property’s vineyard on an almost flat terrain adjacent to a cork oak forest. The one storey building slips easily into the calm and serenity of the surroundings.

Flinders University Redevelopment in Adelaide

Flinders University

Design: Mott MacDonald: the AU$63 million redevelopment of Flinders University’s Plaza and Student Hub has been completed in Adelaide, Australia. Mott MacDonald provided project management, environmental and independent technical review services during the redevelopment.

Shelters by the Sea on Fyn, Denmark

Shelters by the Sea

Design: LUMO Architects. Enjoy nature and the great outdoors from a series of designed shelter constructions and camp sites: 19 locations along the coasts of the South Fyn Archipelago.

Skyfarm Building: Tower Design by RSHP

Skyfarm by RSHP

Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners with Arup. Skyfarm was initiated as a research project in response to the 2015 Milan Expo theme ‘feed the world’. It is said that by the year 2050 nearly 80 per cent of the earth’s population will reside in urban centres.

Piccadilly Circus London Building Development

Piccadilly Circus proposal by Fletcher Priest

Fletcher Priest Architects wins planning permission for a scheme to revive one of London’s most idiosyncratic and popular locations, the urban quarter that is home to the Piccadilly Lights and the historic Rainbow Corner.

Villa M1 in Hyères les Palmiers

Villa M1

Design: Frédérique Pyra Legon architecte

Purchasers of this small villa of 80 sqm modern style about 1960 are a couple with two young children ages, living in Paris and who want a second home by the sea.