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San Vicente House, California Property

October 29, 2020May 1, 2014 by David McManus

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.

Renngasse Housing in Vienna by 3XN

May 28, 2020May 1, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

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.

National Gymnastics Arena, Azerbaijan

August 31, 2024May 1, 2014 by David McManus

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.

Eskisehir Spa & Thermal Hotel in Turkey

September 14, 2020April 30, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

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.

Thaihot Fuzhou Mall in China

February 19, 2020April 30, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

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.

Doncaster Civic Office, England

July 30, 2019April 30, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

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.

La Caracola seashore house, Pacific Ocean

November 28, 2020April 30, 2014 by David McManus

Design: PAUL CREMOUX studio. Located at Tres Vidas Golf Course seashore of the Pacific Ocean, this house is integrated by a set of boxes that are displayed in order to enjoy a variety of different views.

The heart of the house remains as an open central space which gathers the ground level deck and the swimming pool area. These four boxes integrate indoors and outdoors, relating private areas with the public ones. Designed to produce large overhangs, concrete boxes act as grate shaders ideal for this tropical climate.

Luminous Tokyo Tower Building

May 27, 2020April 30, 2014 by Adrian Welch

Nine storey commercial building design by Jun Sakaguchi Architect – reminiscent of a spine, a vertebral column formed from concrete, each floor as a vertebra. Crowned with a penthouse rising above the 31m height limit but within the set-back line, the building glows like finely cut jewellery.

The Library House, Bangalore Property

March 22, 2020April 29, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

Design: Khosla Associates. The brief for this house was a well-articulated document that delved into the nuances of how this family of 3 wanted to live. The family, comprising an entrepreneur-industrialist, married to a bohemian writer and with a teenage daughter, wanted the house to reflect the diverse range of their lives.
The clients required privacy from staff and casual visitors. They needed a peaceful oasis from the stresses of life.

St Paulo Church, Foligno Building

March 29, 2024April 29, 2014 by Adrian Welch

Design: Studio FUKSAS, Architects. “Suspending a volume inside another. Seeing the sky through the concrete from the outside, into the inside, toward the outside”. Massimiliano Fuksas

58ha Factory Transformation in Moscow

October 9, 2019April 29, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

MVRDV win 58ha Serp & Molot factory transformation in Moscow. Built in 1884, the Serp & Molot steel factory in Moscow was a stronghold during the Russian revolution.In the past decades it fell into disrepair – unused and overgrown with plants.

Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre, London

February 19, 2020April 29, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

Design: Urban Salon

Urban Salon’s first project for the NHS, the Burrell Street Sexual Health Centre came out of a design competition that engaged designers & architects from outside the healthcare specialism.

Chaoyang Park Plaza Beijing buildings, China

May 12, 2024April 29, 2014 by Adrian Welch

Architect: MAD. As a recent realization of the concept Shanshui City, Chaoyang Park Plaza has begun construction. It marks another milestone in one of the practices of MAD’s design theory. This project pushes the boundary of the urbanization process in modern cosmopolitan life by creating a dialogue between artificial scenery and natural landscapes.

Fortnum Mason Concept Store, St Pancras

December 19, 2019April 29, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

Design: Speirs + Major

Fortnum & Mason Concept Store, St Pancras Lighting by Speirs + Major

In designing the store, Universal Design Studio worked to capture the quintessentially British spirit of the brand, while making it relevant to the modern customer.

Residence Ödberg, Klosterneugurg

April 17, 2022April 28, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

Design: project A01 architects. The idea to build a residence with a central courtyard, following the well-known case study houses, was the initial approach for the project

Casa Guaiume in São Paulo

February 19, 2020April 28, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

Design: 24.7 Arquitetura Design

The site is located in Sousas, one of four districts from the city of Campinas-São Paulo, a place that keeps very peculiar characteristics, with provincial air, protected from Campinas high degree of industrialization even though being situated only 10 km from the busy downtown.
The building sits over the highest part of condo and overlooks Serra das Cabras southwest portion, the highest point of Campinas.

Pavilion for the Opera House in Copenhagen

February 19, 2020April 28, 2014 by Isabelle Lomholt

Design: C. F. Møller Architects

With a new pavilion, the guests for the Opera House in Copenhagen and other visitors to Holmen will have a place of shelter while waiting by the water bus quay.

The Opera Pavilion is located at the quay just outside the Opera House in Copenhagen. The floating pavilion can accommodate 200 waiting persons, and the pavilion can be touched at by two water busses at the same time.