The architecture and urban design firm A-cero, led by Joaquin Torres, has undertaken the project of a hotel and luxury residential complex covering an area of 1,400 hectares in the coastal district of Cumayasa in the Dominican Republic.
Can we create ‘faith-neutral’ spaces with a design aesthetic that is universally embraced as a sanctuary and retreat for all; while also creating innovative elements that allow all faith groups to adapt spaces quickly to suit their particular needs?
One Window House was designed and occupied by the married couple behind Touraine Richmond Architects. It is built on a small lot and has a kinship with the well known house by Frank Gehry which used mundane material slike corrugated metal on the facades.
Sawaya & Moroni Bowl: fluid form of curvilinear geometry, this silver bowl is a continuation of the morphological design language Zaha Hadid has explored and developed over the past three decades.
Milan Furniture Fair, Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Italy – designs by Zaha Hadid – Milan designs + products: contemporary products in Lombardy
The research for Palladio Feedback started with participation in a contest for a house. The theme of the contest was ‘elementary’ building. Elementary building can be looked at from different angles.
The design is especially interesting for visitors in that it combines the Aquarium and the Aviary into one interconnected walkway of ramps and terraces.
Icona Stratford, Telford Homes development: tower in east London – design by Stock Woolstencroft – Icona Stratford tower, London apartments
The architecture of the building expresses its functions as well as its symbolic role within Gdansk and polish society in general. It certainly will become the heart of Solidarity heritage and its visual image.
The Corps de Maréchaussée was created by King William I to replace the French Gendarmerie on October 26, 1814. The word gendarmerie had gained a negative connotation, so William called the new force “marechaussée” (he forgot the first acute accent in the document).
The starting point for the planning of the house was the goal of coupling the residential quality and the topography of the idyllic orchard lawn with the living rooms of the house.
Nordlyset (Northern Lights) is a sculptural residential block with an expressive facade, located in the new urban quarter around Amerika Plads in Copenhagen.
The schemes most pronounced feature is a large translucent membrane that stretches between the sports and culture centre arena, and the four characteristic end walls of the neighbouring public housing scheme.
chimney pot park demonstrates an innovative response to the regeneration of an area of existing terraced housing previously earmarked for demolition. this collection of reconfigured victorian properties rethink the terraced house to address the needs of modern living.