Brutalism is the term coined to describe the raw architecture often made with concrete during the 1950s and 1960s (with a later resurgence). I’m an architectural photographer and my fascination with these concrete buildings has led to me document a number of them across the UK (an on-going project).
The A-House is a former industrial building dating from 1960. In recent years the building has undergone extensive refurbishment.
Traditional wooden temples in Japan are constructed by using natural materials that and allow easy disassembly. By extending their life through periodic repair, wooden temples produce low environmental loads.
Located in Uaymitun, Yucatán, Mexico, The “lookout tower house” is the first house within a set of summer villas in a lot that is placed between the sea and the “ciénega” (swamp).
This direct commission called for the development of a new hybrid concept between a design-museum typology and a commercial and services exchange centre, entirely dedicated to domestic interior design.
This building is located next to a 1950s turbine factory on the outskirts of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Housing the largest super computer in the region, it enters surrounding space as a herald of new era of paradigms – a new centre of very large extent of data, connected to people and events all around the planet.
Winning 1st Prize in the architecture design competition for the new Jeonbuk region Korea Land Housing (LH) corporation headquarters in Jeonju, Korea, DA Group has been commissioned to execute the design of this new office complex, and completed the project in 2010.
One Shelley Street vision was to reframe the requirements and performance of the 21st Century office. On behalf of the Macquarie Group, Clive Wilkinson Architects, as design architect and Woods Bagot as executive architect.
Garak Wholesale Market plans to transform itself from a neglected place that draws many criticism and cynicism due to its ever-present traffic congestion, smell of leftover vegetables and inefficient logistics system designed a quarter century ago.
The building is designed in a simple gesture. The star shaped roof is a lifted landscape creating a series of panoramic rooms looking on into the forest.
Projects that range from a church in England to a prison in Norway, will go head to head at the Festival, which is designed to celebrate the aspirations and concerns of the international architectural community.
When designing we always work with our manifesto which puts focus on people, needs and context. In special projects we write several short stories describing what could take place in the building.
The building, made up of 5 blocks housing the museum functions and grouped according to usage affinities and public traffic, rises from a ground floor crossed by an internal passageway connecting Atlântica Avenue to Aires Saldanha Street.
The thirty metres high tower has an aerodynamic design that becomes a landmark, an element that wrapping as the bodywork of a car around the bearing structure of the engine.