Design: Parque Humano. Contemporary residence in Mexico: living, dining, kitchen and multipurpose room, 3 bedrooms, gazebo and swimming pool. This house is an exploration on the trace of a variety of formal and architectural lineages in the ongoing transformation of the modern dwelling that ranges from Neutra’s Kaufmann House to the Case Study Housing Program.
Brooklyn Navy Yard to stage “Making It in NYC” exhibit at BLDG 92 ‘Making It in NYC: the Era of New Manufacturing’ From 19th Century warships to 21st Century high-tech military gear, lifesaving drug discoveries to life-changing technologies, world-renowned furniture to world-class fashion, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and greater New York City have long been fertile ground for entrepreneurial manufacturers and makers.
Design: P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S. This is a 2,000 sqft single-family house located in the outskirts of Rosario. The building is a spatial and physical attempt to challenge the planar stability and homogeneity of the Pampa’s landscape in a domestic setting
Winners of the Montréal Space for Life architecture competition, inspired by the Space for Life mission: designs for 3 major projects: the Insectarium Metamorphosis, the Biodôme Renewal and a new Glass Pavilion at the Botanical Garden.
The two-stage architecture competition – open to multidisciplinary teams of architects, Living Building Challenge and LEED certification experts, scenic designers, landscape architects and engineers – was designed to source creative architectural solutions.
Design: SAOTA – Stefan Antoni Olmesdahl Truen Architects. “The clients, a couple from New York wanted a holiday home in the Southern hemisphere for summer vacations. Aware of contemporary architectural trends, they requested a sculptured building with clean horizontal lines, large areas of glass and screens creating a space that is ‘open as well as private’.
Their brief was a 2-bedroomed home with indoor / outdoor living spaces and a studio to be used in their photographic and film related occupations,” says Project Partner, Stefan Antoni.
Design: Fahlander Arkitekter AB. The summerhouse is located between two fjords on the Swedish northern west coast. The site is surrounded by a national park and nature characterised by rounded granite rocks and windswept trees.
For many generations, members of a large family have spent their summers here. There are no visible plot boundaries, living standards are simple, the sea and the surrounding nature are the main attractions.
Architect: (se)arch architekten bda. In some ways, the architect duo of Stefanie and Stephan Eberding have followed the tradition of avant-garde flexibility projects of Classic Moderne with their experimental living House G12 at Überlingen on the lake Constance.
This new design was also based on the idea of extending the available space and experience of space by making the inner space configuration flexible.
Design: Benoy. DreamCenter has been released as the leading element of the ‘West Bund Media Port’ project; one of the largest cultural investment projects currently undertaken in China. Located along the Huangpu River in Shanghai’s Xuhui District, the integrated development is the result of a dynamic collaboration between Lan Kwai Fong Group, DreamWorks Animation and CMC Capital Partners.
Design: Urban Salon. This store building is located in Spinningfields, central Manchester, off the main high end retail street, Deansgate. The ground floor debuts a new store design for the luxury shoe brand, which is being rolled out across its store portfolio.
The glazed façade is mullion-free in order to achieve views deep into the store interior. The façade is the first of its kind. Horizontal steel rods act as wind bracing between the glazing and the building superstructure.
Design: Herrmanns Architekten. Due to the fact that in Koblenz, Germany, a synagogue is lacking Herrmanns Architekten (Prof. Henner Herrmanns and Hung Nguyen) have proposed as a feasibility study
Archi5 studio based in Paris and Warsaw: founded in 2003 as result of its founders’ common studio experience and approach they share towards architecture. A context-based approach to projects is key: the site, the programme, the social and cultural challenges are all examined, analysed, compared and transformed into questions
Design: McClean Design. Designed for a family with three small girls this house needed to respond to the busy street it is located on. We came up with a sequence of entry which uses several devices to separate the occupants from the noise beyond.
The drive court is screened from the street by high gates and tall landscaped elements. This area connects to an inner courtyard through a curving glass screen designed to allow the light to pass through but shield from the cars and noise.
Architects 3XN win international architecture competition for a residential development in the heart of Vienna. With a design that gently fits into the neighborhood, but also with its own expression and identity, the proposal was chosen as the winner by a unanimous jury.
The building is located in Vienna’s sensitive and historic city center thus the design required a considerate adaptation to the adjacent historical buildings.
Design: Broadway Malyan
Broadway Malyan raises the bar with new National Gymnastics Arena in Azerbaijan
The iconic 9,000-seat National Gymnastics Arena in Baku, Azerbaijan, designed by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan, has completed. The £120 m building is one of only a handful of bespoke gymnastics venues in the world.
This novel building design by GAD is a modern interpretation of Odunpazari’s vernacular architecture and existing historical texture, protecting existing trees’ positions to minimise the damage. The building complex includes a spa and wellness centre in the middle, and accommodation units on the perimeter.
Design: SPARK
Fuzhou Wusibei Thaihot Plaza’s central location at WuSi Bei Dajie, Jinan District makes it Fuzhou’s most successful retail mall. Its design enhanced Thaihot’s brand as a forward thinking innovative retail developer.
Design: Cartwright Pickard Architects. Doncaster Council’s new Civic Offices assist the Council to rationalise their estate, bringing many departments together under one roof in a purpose-built, low energy building.
Cartwright Pickard Architects worked alongside Muse Developments and Wates Construction to deliver this new BREEAM Excellent workplace for up to 1,600 staff.