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
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Design: Salt & Water. Each apartment is a catamaran that can be easily separated from the dock and navigated, allowing guests to choose the perfect location for their vacation by themselves.
Design: Balance Associates Architects. Project focused on a 1940’s house in Seattle: the kitchen, garage and basement were all that remained standing after demolition. The basic layout remained but spaces were opened up to the view and to each other.
Design: Yamazaki Kentaro Design. Located in Itoman, Okinawa, the aim of this project is to support and promote local tradition and culture through its cuisine. The restaurant is covered in Ryukyu limestone and constructed via a “masonry workshop” organized by the project collaborators.
Design: Mateo Arquitectura
The architects conserved and repaired the beautiful structure that supports that roof. Beneath they dug into the site to introduce new services that complement sales activity: logistics, parking, installations.
Design: RTA-Office, architects
Six office towers: two tall buildings of 160 m, two of 100 m and two adjacent buildings of 70 m each. The architecture design was made under rigorous volumetric constraints that included a symmetrical configuration.