The ancient Waitomo caves were formed from the limestone transported by water over thousands of years. The architecture of the new visitor’s center emphasises the connection with the Waitomo stream and the flows of water running through the caves.
NZIA Awards, 2010, New Zealand Architecture Awards – info re buildings, architects, photos + winners : contemporary New Zealand Architecture: NZIA prize
Nestled within the undulated roofline of one of Fitzroy’s famed MacRobertson warehouses, sits a roof terrace with a difference – complete with canopy and turf.
This waterfront property unfolds in a sequence of views, both revealed and concealed, a kind of Kabuki shadow play that starts at the driveway and snakes down the entire length of the five-acre lot.
3deluxe are currently planning a superlative private residence: The two-storey luxury bungalow with an effective area of roughly 650sqm is defined by a coherent design concept, individualised down to the last detail.
Working with firm Braun & Steidl Architects, GSAA has designed a refreshingly contemporary structure that gives a new sense of place to the university–and reconnects the university to the city of Cleveland.
AirBaltic Terminal Riga, Latvia architecture competition. Building design is exciting opportunity to look critically at the prevailing airport typologies, especially as they relate to a new smaller, single airline terminal of the future
1. prize for Pohl Architekten Stadtplaner/Jena with SteinmetzDeMeyer architectes urbanistes/ Luxembourg, Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering/Stuttgart, New York and Hausladen Ingenieure/Munich.
Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Awards – 2010 Winners : architects, buildings, images, news, designs – Australian Architecture Awards, AIA Prize
The Lyon Housemuseum speculates on the conjunction of art and living, challenges conventional notions of ‘public’ and ‘private’ and explores new relationships between art and architecture through a new hybridised architectural type – a ‘housemuseum’.
Brisac Gonzalez completed design proposals for the new premises of the Københavns Museum within the confines of the historically significant Christian IV Bryghus in the heart of Copenhagen
Positioned at a point of interchange between the disciplines of architecture and anthropology, this book is the first to identify and to critique key terms, techniques, methodologies and habits comprising our understanding of fieldwork in architecture.
This Lake Como vacation home is in the town of Menaggio, Italy. The owners are a young Russian couple, the husband a well-known Moscow media mogul.
Blasted buildings and bombs, tsunamis, tornadoes and typhoons highlight ‘cities in trauma’ in our daily news. Urban spaces bear the bruises and scars of these disasters. How are the reverberations of trauma to be understood in urban terms?