Between the two rivers, Rhone and Saône, the renovation of the docks is starting a new story: the bank for arts. New programs dedicated to the culture, to relax and to walk keeping the link and the imaginary with the industrial history of the site.
After winning the first price in an invited competition in 2003, the architects where challenged to create a high quality residential accommodation that would be expressive, joyful and respect the qualities of the location.
In the larger context of the presentation of the new Almere Port area, Dutch housing association Stadgenoot and the city of Almere presented the MVRDV project for Olympiakwartier, introducing an ambitious new urban density and variety into the fast growing city near Amsterdam.
The rebuilding of Wexford Opera House, is one of Ireland’s most important cultural projects of recent times, and has been completed on schedule for the 2008 autumn opera festival.
The architecture of Andrea Palladio represents the built manifestation of Palladio’s utopia of synthesizing all humanistic values by establishing the exact role and relation of each part of his architectural compositions – from the organism as a perfect whole to each single room.
To be completed by OMA’s New York office, 23 East 22nd Street is located just off Madison Square Park in the ‘Flatiron district’. The building will include 18 residences within 24 residential floors
There are no balustrades in the Roof House. The kindergarten directors said that it would be good if this kindergarten building also had no balustrades.
Groleger Arhitekti create a building, a “diptych”, a merging tower based on two independent volumes – profound analysis of the urbanistic, cultural and social factors of the City of Sarajevo
The Lady Bird Lake Hike and Bike Trail is a linear park of scenic trails and landscaping that winds its way along the banks of the Colorado River in downtown Austin.
Adamstown Central, the new town centre development vision led by UK architects Metropolitan Workshop, has secured planning. It is part of the larger Adamstown development, 16 kilometres west of Dublin, billed as Ireland’s first 21st Century New Town.
The name Red Square does not originate from the pigment of the surrounding bricks (which were whitewashed at certain times in history) nor from the link between the color red and communism.
São Paulo Home in Brazil by Andrade Morettin: the structure of the glass volume was conceived in such way that it seems to float above the garden
Kakogawa City Office, Hyogo prefecture, Japan – design by Akira Sakamoto Architects: commercial building with meeting room and also a space for rent
Starting on site this month is the transformation of two (1930’s and 70’s) back-to-back low-rise office buildings on a busy London thoroughfare into tranquil residential accommodation overlooking a secluded courtyard.