The briefing was to build a three-bedroom house on top of a warehouse built in the 80’s, where part of the roof was made with a flat slab and a small balcony, precisely with that idea of later building the house.
The goal, a new two-level home that could score as high as reasonable in the “GreenPoint Rated System”. The owners de-constructed their existing home when they realized that any single-story design would completely eliminate their back yard.
The C10 highrise at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, built in the mid-1960s, required architectural and technical refurbishment in order to reinforce its iconic status as sole highrise in the area announcing the campus throughout the city.
In the “Memory of Evangelical Bavaria”, the Church is archiving – amongst many other original documents – letters by Martin Luther and documents by popes and emperors, as well as numerous historically important books and paintings. The State Church archive has been designed to include passive air conditioning of the archives.
Listed Buildings in UK, British Architecture, Architects, DCMS News Listed Buildings in England – British Architecture Buildings in Great Britain – DCMS Updates 20 Sep 2013 Listed Buildings in UK UK Listed Architecture News Four constructions built between the 1950s and 1980s have been given Grade II or II* status on Friday by the government, … Read more
A new office tower is set to transform Toronto’s downtown east side. The 500,000-square-foot Globe and Mail Centre will be the new home of Canada’s national newspaper and will anchor the emerging St. Lawrence neighbourhood as a hub of urban activity and corporate offices.
Danish Switchgear Stations, Energinet Building, Denmark Infrastructure Architecture Energinet Switchgear Stations Ny 400 kilovolt station Building, Vejen, Jutland, Denmark – design by C. F. Møller, architects 20 Sep 2013 Danish Switchgear Station Buildings Design: C. F. Møller Energinet Switchgear Stations in Vejen, Denmark C. F. Møller has created a new design concept for switchgear stations … Read more
Revitalisation of the Crucifix Bastion, Prague building, Czech Republic design by MCA atelier architekti – Crucifix Bastion Prague landscape
The clients wanted a modern house without levels, open, but with intimate corners for the family. It was important for the couple to stay at the same neighborhood, but to build a house according to their new needs.
TEX-FAB Events: We’ve been busy over the summer working on the next series of funded research projects, publications and upcoming events. Stay tuned for forthcoming updates including our new website and a future TEX-FAB event in Austin with a full symposium and more parametric design and digital fabrication workshops
Campus Hoogvliet is a new educational and cultural area located on the southern edge of Rotterdam composed of six buildings encompassing two vocational schools, an art studio, sports building, lyceum, restaurant, retail, and housing facilities.
This house is located in a residential area site close to the Paranoa Lake in Brasília. Searching the maximum integration for the social areas of the house we decided to put all the program under one big roof
The new 5.000 m2 Danish Maritime Museum is located at the UNESCO World Heritage site in Helsingør, just north of Copenhagen in a unique historical context adjacent to one of Denmark’s most important buildings, the Kronborg Castle – also known from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
In 2013 the city of Amsterdam celebrates the 400th anniversary of the famous canal district, an area that was enlisted on the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2010
The Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning opened today at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, bringing under one roof 2000 researchers, trainees and staff previously dispersed throughout six buildings.
This is a diaphanous building utilising textured patterned facades which are becomign increasingly common acrossd the world as technology advances and architects tire of the dull all glass facades of the 80s and 90s.
The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the 2014 International Fellowships of the RIBA. They reward the particular contributions non-UK architects have made to architecture