Atelier Kempe Thill Architects, Netherlands
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Belsize Park Property – North London House
Design: Andy Martin Architects
A contemporary residential project designed by Andy Martin Architects: an ambitious redevelopment of an existing mechanics garage.
Mews 02 is a single residence set in Belsize Park; the owners, a musician and his designer wife, wanted this existing mechanics garage to be converted to a 4 level family home, with the emphasis on the entertaining areas and with the ability to create private compartments over for sleeping.
InterContinental Davos Hotel, Switzerland
Design: OIKIOS GmbH. With its oval form and a metal façade that almost seems to be flowing, the main building of the InterContinental Davos Hotel has become an unmistakable new landmark. The undulating envelope wraps itself tightly around the structure, leading to an interplay between open and closed surfaces which appears different from every angle.
Villa N Arezzo, Italian House Design
Design: Architettura Matassoni. Project for a single-family residential building, currently under construction in the hills of Arezzo. The house is built around a patio on which are opened the most important environments of the living area; the transparency of the walls allows the visual perception as an extension of interior space.
Emporia Malmö Mixed Development
Design: Wingårdhs. Emporia is first and foremost an urban planning project in which offices, housing, and retail come together in a mixed-use development in Malmö. The main idea of the winning competition entry was to hide inward-looking retail behind a wreath of residential and commercial buildings.
Joel Solkoff’s Column, Vol.II, Number 3
Where will I live? Plus…Writing on architects plus their role in the imminent global Baby Boom housing crisis, I have purchased two houses in my lifetime. The first was on Capitol Hill, in Downtown, Washington, D.C. which had a landmark plaque posted on the entrance. It was a beautiful house 100 years old where my former wife and I raised two children.
Urban Villa Florence, Italy House Design
Design: Architettura Matassoni. The project was created with the intention of transforming the strong physical limitations, in a series of architectural cues; the available surface is in fact quite limited in size and characterized from a trapezoidal shape and has a possibility of building relatively limited; the building area is inserted in an urban environment characterized by a low quality and from a certain density of the buildings.
Yellowtail Office Toronto Thornhill, Ontario
Design: Reza Aliabadi [rzlbd]. The space is divided into three equal zones, which similar to a yellowtail fish, connects the head, body and the tail with a yellow strip. The yellow corridor on one side connects the rooms and minimizes the circulation space within the office.
5 Broadgate Development, UBS London
Design: make architects. The new 5 Broadgate development, currently under construction for Swiss Bank UBS, has officially ‘topped-out’. The building, which forms part of the Broadgate Estate, was designed by international architectural practice Make, and will provide 700,000 sqft of Grade ‘A’ office space over twelve floors. The new building will allow UBS to consolidate its London trading operations into one building.
Kooyong Residence – Melbourne House
Design: Matt Gibson Architecture + Design. The brief for the renovation of this boom style double fronted Victorian home in Armadale originally called for full demolition (surprisingly – not being within a heritage overlay).
6352 Colgate – Los Angeles Residence
Earth, Fire, Water and Comfort – experience them all in this one of a kind ‘Diamond in the Nest.” Enter this dream-house designed by Award Winning architectural designer Amit Apel of Apel Design, Inc., through a stream fed stepping stone walkway
Urban Residence – São Paulo House
Design: Marcelo Sodré
In this design, contemporary style, the architect Marcelo Sodré, created a townhome with integrated around a central landscaped courtyard environment, providing privacy and keeping the modernity of the work over the years.
355 Mansfield, Los Angeles House
Design: Amit Apel Design: on entering, enjoy the welcome of bold colors and contrasting materials inviting you to cleanse your mind’s eye and explore the artful display of lines, shapes and mass integrated into a warm and liveable abode.
Main Street House – Seattle Residence
Main Street House in SLeschi neighborhood, by SHED Architecture & Design, takes its name from the unimproved right of way and pedestrian path that bounds its site to the north. The single family house was built for a husband and wife, both geologists, nearing retirement but actively working from home.
Tomorrow’s Train Design Today Competition
New ideas competition which asks competitors to propose new design solutions to improve passenger rolling stock across the GB rail network.
The FutureRailway team and the Department for Transport (DfT) in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are inviting architects, engineers and designers worldwide to consider two design challenges – 4C’s train challenge – longer-term horizon designs for rolling stock that push the envelope of what can be delivered and Next-Gen Train interiors – medium-term horizon designs for rolling stock interiors that focus on flexibility and adaptability to meet different service requirements.
Lac Trung Software City, Ho Chi Minh
Design: Tony Owen NDM Architects
This project is for a high tech office development in district 12 of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam for the VECL group. The 12 story building will contain 25,000m2 of office space., the ground floor contains gardens and a restaurant. There is also a business club, conference centre, gym and pool on the top floor.
Kiev Hospital – Ukraine Health Building
Following a competition win at the end of 2007 against a strong field of seven competitors from Germany, Holland, Italy, UK, Ukraine, and USA, bdpgroupe6 is now appointed to design a 250 bed children’s hospital in Kiev, Ukraine.