The design team from Zaha Hadid Architects proposed a very dynamic architecture that strikes up a dialogue with the Oosterweel road link, with the Lange Wapper bridge1 forming a backdrop to the New Port House.
SAOTA designed La Lucia. The beach house perfectly balances luxury and comfort with its uncomplicated spaces. Located on the Kwazulu Natal North Coast just south of Umhlanga, the house is gently nestled between protected milkwood trees and enjoys beautiful ocean views
The brief AM Architecture received was mostly pragmatic. More space for a large family, better zoning, and importantly to create a better connection to the outdoors but not lose the stunning views of the neighbouring parkland.
LAVA Architects designed this youth hostels – innovative, integrative and international – and has recently opened in Bayreuth, Germany. The fluid structure is integrated into the landscape, with contemporary materials and holistic sustainability – a place for active people of all abilities.
The Etch House in Lewisham by Fraher Architects – with a dynamic staircase cutting across the building, removing a dark corridor and landing spaces, thus liberating the plan.
Construction of The Eleventh, designed by Danish architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, has started. The two High Line towers of 25 & 34 floors are located between 17th & 18th Streets and Tenth & Eleventh Avenues, and joined by glass skybridges.
The nails salon is designed, by ARCHSTUDIO, to achieve a kind of natural sense in artificial environment, and to attract customers by creating an amusing experience of being in the hill. The rectangular space of 60 sqm is embedded a hill that is gradually rising from outside to inside.
Design: UNStudio, architects. “It all takes place within a singular building, triangular in plan and dominated by curving frames, each containing a portion of three or two storeys.
New renderings of the taller Obama Presidential Center building in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side by architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and InterActive Design Architects, with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Site Design Group and Living Habitats.
The orientation of Gardner Architects’ additions is north/south, allowing a special opportunity to design the door, window, skylight and translucent wall systems to reflect light throughout the lower and upper reaches of the space, with minimal reliance on light fixtures for daytime lighting.
Written by Karl Kropf and conceived as a practical manual of morphological analysis, The Handbook of Urban Morphology brings together in one place the core concepts and principles of the discipline.
The Getty Center Los Angeles, CA, USA – designed by Richard Meier architect – The Getty Center building in the Brentwood neighborhood, celebrated Californian architecture: design information and pictures.
After a detailed site analysis it became clear for AM Architecture that this small, but uniquely positioned site offered the opportunity to sustain two high amenity apartments.
Architect Prineas designed House Pranayama – economical in its footprint, the addition’s internal floor area measures 44 sqm, with one room occupying each of the three levels – a rumpus room below ground, a library at ground level and a study on the level above.