We planned the location and orientation of ten mixed long and tall houses to capture the sunpath and minimise overshadowing. Roof elevations face south and southwest, bathing all living rooms, balconies and principal bedrooms in natural light.
The village of Paspels is a scatter settlement with solitary buildings, strewn loosely in the landscape and rarely positioned directly by the roadside. The new schoolhouse fits in with this type of settlement.
This house, unoccupied for twenty years, became popularly known as ‘the yellow house’ when it was refinished and painted yellow prior to its renovation.
Atelier Bardill, Scharans, Switzerland – contemporary Swiss building design by Valerio Olgiati Architects, a private atelier – one working space for client Linard Bardill, a musician + poet
This structure would be constructed from the same basic components used in the design of the M-house, but different numbers of those components would be used and they would be arranged in different ways onto a different size and shaped support frame.
Constructed as a weekend retreat and future home to retire for the owners, Salt House carries forward the Modernist tradition of the experimental ‘beach house’ as a vehicle to explore new architectural possibilities- site specific yet containing the potential for wider application
New Kings Road Offices: Fulham commercial development, London design by ORMS Architects – office building Fulham, new property
The Sheffield Festival Centre – design by Jason King Associate – is a media centre and creative work space facility and urban gateway building, a landmark at the entrance to the city and a national icon for cinema and the media industries: architecture.
“Museum Plaza will be one of the world’s most unique new skyscrapers — a structure that integrates art at every level,” Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson said.
The Spanish architecture studio A-CERO, headed by J. Torres and R. Llamazares, has won the restricted international competition of ideas for the design of a new exclusive residential zone in the Madinat Al Arab district, in Dubai’s coast.
The Oriental Arts Centre project is a first rank public cultural building, encompassing mainly three venues : a 1,979 seats Philharmonic Orchestra Hall, a 1,054 seats lyric Theatre, a 330 seats chamber Music Hall.
During the day, at the end of Century Avenue, opposite Town Hall, it is a building made of curves out of a pearl gray, shiny material. It resembles no other building in the city.
The main difficulty of the project is to create an overall unity between the different buildings in a large space separated by a road. Winner of an architecture competition in April 2004.
The architecture design by architects Michael McKenna / Morgan McKenna emphasises the building’s prominence in the small burgeoning campus. Adopting a ‘play tall’ strategy the design provides a symbolic and civic value
The new Timothy Taylor Gallery in Carlos Place, Mayfair, opens its door this week with a show by the renowned post-war American painter, Alex Katz. Eric Parry has created an ingeniously light and elegant gallery within the shell of a former bank building located just off Grosvenor Square in the Mayfair Conservation Area
Comano, set at 5 km north from Lugano (Ticino), is a little village at the foot of a hill. The plot is set as a kind of boundary between the hill and the new urbanized area on a flatter surface.
Carabbia is a little village of approx 600 inhabitants. It rises on the western side of Mount San Salvatore slope in a beautiful bowl. Ticino Architecture design by Davide Macullo Architects