Design: P+0 architecture. We find Narigua House in “El Jonuco” a beautiful place where we enjoy from 360º of spectacular views. This mountain-enclosed neighborhood reminds us of numerous Mexican towns where tall mountains limit the valley where its inhabitants settle.
Design: Park Associati. The architectural design is based on an analytical approach to the articulated system of access to the Milanofiori Nord area, the pedestrian walkways and roads, climatic factors relating to the context and the goal of properly integrating the building into the overall masterplan.
The building has been designed in such a way as to create a visual continuity between the natural landscape of the wood at the north and the designed landscape of the site itself.
Christopher W. Mount Gallery Architecture Exhibitions. Specializing exclusively in architecture and design material, the newly established Christopher W. Mount Gallery, with locations in Los Angeles and New York, opens to the public on May 23, 2014.
Uniquely positioned among traditional American galleries, Mount Gallery presents drawings, sketches, models, photographs, prints, and art experiments by prominent figures engaged in the design arts.
Architect: Ana Paula Barros
This building honors Brazilian architecture where you can find elements of the Bauhaus combined with the Brazilian modernism of Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa.
Inspired by the famous Farnsworth House by Mies Van der Rohe, the project explores four of the five points of modern architecture: open plan, pilotis, free facade and ribbon windows.
Design: Vitor Vilhena Architecture. The Block Rehabilitation is located in the historical center of Lagos. It adjoins four streets, with fronts built in all the above the streets, forming a quarter
The existing buildings, were very degraded, without possibility of adaptation. The complete demolition of existing buildings was authorized by Governmental Departments and the building was totally reconstructed.
Architects: C. F. Møller. Architecture competition-winning design for extension and refurbishment of the Vendsyssel Hospital: the building seeks to enhance the overarching architectonic identity of the hospital and to inte-grate buildings and landscapes in various ways, including a rooftop children’s oasis.
schmidt hammer lassen architects completed design for new cultural home for the city Labour Union in Ningbo, China. The 100,000 sqm project, known as the Home of Staff, was won by the architects in an international competition. With an eclectic mix of functions, split across two separate buildings, the project is linked by a landscape park stretching over half a kilometre.
New city apartment in the Italian capital design by LAD – Laboratorio di Architettura e Design. This interior design work is located in a building that was once a social housing unit and is now fronting one of the most elegant streets in Rome.
Design: Eduardo Hernandez Ch. Located in Valle de Bravo lake in Mexico, this bold building is located on a steep slope, and with boundaries irregular in its geometry. Bordered by a brook of clear water and by the lake itself, at one very narrow end there is a bridge that provides the only access to the site.
Architect: Enrique Browne. Contemporary Summer House in Chile. The site of this holiday house is long and very inclined. It falls from the North to the South. On its upper edge it sits on a road that unites different seaside towns
‘Foster + Partners: the Art of Architecture’
“The Art of Architecture” will be staged at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from 4th April to 29th June 2014, with Permasteelisa being a major partner of the exhibition.
Following the success in China and Malaysia last year, the exhibition celebrating the historic and most representative projects of Norman Foster’s architecture practice is now open in Bangkok.
20th Century home in New Hampshire, USA. An unusual Frank Lloyd Wright House from 1950. The architectural style is ‘Prairie School’.
The Zimmerman House is a house located in the north end of Manchester, New Hampshire. It is a Usonian house designed in 1950 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Dr. Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman.
Design: Pierre-Stephane Dumas. This frameless, virtually roofless Bubble is inflated by a special turbine which keeps it in shape, renews the air and eliminates pollen, humidity and condensation problems.
Inside, the air is fresh and filtered, there are no mosquitoes and the acoustics are particularly soothing. You can set up your Bubble in next to no time, to make a cosy nest wherever you like, whenever you like.
Architect: Amyas Connell. Famous Modernist English house. The head of the British School in Rome seems an unlikely person to commission the first Modern house in England. But it was the archaeologist, Professor Bernard Ashmole who, in 1928, asked one of his students, a young New Zealander called Amyas Connell to design his family home. The building design evolved as a Y-shaped plan to optimise views and sun.