This new residential development, for a motorcycle enthusiast, adjacent to No.10 Grangegorman Villas, Grangegorman, Dublin 7 is an alternative reaction to the more traditional city centre infill residential projects.
The location is unusual – the Dutch town of Almere is not a place that has grown naturally but rather was planned on a drawing board, originating after the war as polder land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer Lake. The Masterplan for the new town centre was developed by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
Alkmaar architecture – best new province of North Holland buildings, architects & images in the Netherlands – info on contemporary Dutch buildings, Holland architecture developments
Side by Side: located on the border between the city centre and Weerwater lake, two residential towers strike a key note in the urban landscape of Almere centre. To bolster their landdmark character the facades have a deliberately abstract rendering in industrial glass.
The Urban Entertainment Centre in Almere comprises of 16,000sqm of new buildings containing shopping, pop concert hall, disco, hotel, bicycle park and associated leisure, cafe and restaurant facilities.
The Mountain has been selected as a winner of an Urban Land Institute (ULI) 2009 Award for Excellence: Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) competition
Located in a rural nature preserve near Hangzhou, the Xixi Wetland Art Museum will be a destination for both nature and art. The design respects the surroundings, yet is an innovatively modern expression of humanity and art.
This building houses the internationally rated Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation as well as student and staff catering for the campus, and general purpose teaching spaces
MoMA Tower Alternative New York, Architect, Image, Design, Project, News MoMA New York Architecture MoMA Tower Proposal by Axis Mundi, Manhattan, USA Aug 4, 2009 MoMA Tower Design Axis Mundi unveils Conceptual Alternative Design for MoMA Tower at 53 West 53rd Street A Vision Thing : The Uninvited Vertical Hood for MoMA An interview with John … Read more
Axis Mundi proposes a conceptual alternative to business-as-usual, choosing the site of the proposed 53W53rd, among the city’s largest skyscraper proposals in one of the most overbuilt parts of Midtown to test their ideas
This project demonstrates that the careful choice of low cost materials combined with the innovatory use of new products can create domestic architecture of real quality at very low cost
Robert D. Henry Architects New York – building photos, American architecture practice – Manhattan design studio led by Bob Henry news
Design Museum Jan Kaplicky Exhibition, Building, Architecture, London, Images Design Museum Jan Kaplicky Exhibition London Architecture Show, England, UK 3 Aug 2009 Future Systems Exhibition The exhibition “Remembering Jan Kaplický – Architect of the Future” at the Design Museum in London Remembering Jan kaplický – architect of the future Jan kaplický Portrait photograph froom Design … Read more
Renovation of the Generali building, Milan, close to the city’s historic trade fair area and dating back to the late 1950s, this office block was one of a number of service buildings designed by some of the most important architects of the day that were erected in a middle-class residential district which had developed on uniform lots after the Second World War.