Design: OMA. How does one make a project from ingredients one is usually keen to avoid? What repertoire should be invoked when (modern) architecture’s most instant reflexes: asymmetry, prismatic volumes and smooth exteriors instantly prove impossible?
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Dubai building news 22016 – Concrete Dubai by OMA: Alserkal Avenue to inaugurate UAE’s first OMA-designed space with exhibition of modern and contemporary Syrian art.
With Endless Space 57STUDIO wanted to provoke something beyond the products exhibited, which in fact were very few as we seek to highlight them much better through the white backdrop and lighting.
Design: architect Richard Martinet of Affine Design. Five buildings house 21 luxury boutiques in the city centre: eschewing classical rationality the curvaceous geometry of the architecture is no stranger in the site context.
Architects Elenberg Fraser claim the building design is inspired by the music video of ‘Ghost’ by Beyoncé. The twisting architecture is created entirely by parametric modelling, its spiralling curves recall the “twists and turns of a woman dancing in black cloth”.
Design: Porebski Architects. Located on the shore of Pearl Beach, an area where the bush meets the coast, the Block House is a secluded escape designed to exist in harmony with its surroundings.
Design: Kolman Boye Architects. House on the island of Vega in the Norwegian archipelago not far from the polar circle. The site is distinctive for its grand and harsh northern landscape with wide panoramas of the Norwegian Sea and the jagged mountains rising from it.
Architects: Mishack. Lovingly called GD27 this weekend house, is where the client would rather be. This contemporary house is poised on an elevated lot overlooking an enviable strand of woodland with nearby bubbling brook.
Design: Estudio Ramos, architects. The building was designed on two levels: the upper, with the best views for the social rooms and restaurant, whilst the secondary program such as storage, locker rooms and the gym are placed at the ground floor.
Inaugurated in 1912, this is the only great luxury hotel in Montreal to have survived to the present day without changing vocation. Famous for its façades and its elegant Adam-style interiors, the building is one of the gems of Montreal architecture.
Design: Matthias J Pearson Architect, Bella Vista residence on a rural wooded hilltop: two 20’ x 84’ volumes are set perpendicular to each other and rotated an additional 15 degrees in response to site attributes and to create a dynamic interrelationship
Limited edition collector’s box, architecture book contains 3 different, innovative and contemporary views on work of architect Álvaro Siza Vieira through photography, text and illustration