Five teams selected as finalists in CHART ARCHITECTURE Competition 2017. Designs address this year’s theme THE LIVING CITY and contribute to the global discussion on sustainable urbanisation, renewable resources and the urgent need for experimentation with upcycling and the reuse of materials.
Fort near Hoofddorp by Serge Schoemaker Architects. Dutch architect Serge Schoemaker has revealed his design for the redevelopment of Fort near Hoofddorp (1907) in the Netherlands.
Celebrating 20 years at the forefront of architecture in India, morphogenesis becomes the first Indian architects practice to feature in the Images’ Publication Master Architect Series. This innovative architectural studio is a world-leader in net zero energy and sustainable design.
Architect: Jean-Pierre Lott. Vitrolles grew too quickly. A victim of the urbanization of the 1960s, it went from the status of little Provençal village with about a thousand inhabitants, to a bedroom community comprised of soulless apartment buildings.
Design: KW Architects – Within a stone’s throw from the historic and quaint Kennebunkport, is a quiet neighborhood which is close enough to walk to the highly desirable downtown, but yet hidden away from the copious amounts of tourists.
Design: Uri Cohen Architects. Architectural competition winner, located by a historical monumental farm. This scheme is based on the ambiguity of the location; on one hand it is a sequence of large objects on the edge of the neighborhood and on the other hand it is a part of the neighborhood of one family house.
Design: AAVP ARCHITECTURE. It has been difficult for the neighborhood to bid farewell to this last little piece of the country in Paris, and the densification of an open space explains the group lawsuit brought against the project by 180 neighbors recorded during the waiting period for the building permit.
Design: David Jameson Architects: “Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The design inspiration for Aesop’s first Washington, DC environment is rooted in the DNA of the historic U Street and Shaw neighborhoods’ music.
Architects: X+Living. Background of a busy city is always the randomly standing neon lights. Hurried pe-destrians cross the street from one side to the other, from one block to another block by passing through the street.
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Architect: Jon Danielsen Aarhus, Cabin Ustaoset, remotely positioned at the foot of Hardangervidda, Europe’s greatest mountain plateau and Norway’s largest National Park – provides guests with unprecedented views of the surrounding scenery.
Design: Form4 Architecture, architects. The objective was to design a public library and fine arts museum to distinguish itself as a city with arts and culture at its core.
The most internationalized and influential design award in China aims to celebrate thoughtful and influential space design, plus discover and praise the best designers around the world.
Architects: ELÍAS RIZO ARQUITECTOS. On an emblematic avenue in Guadalajara, a short distance from a city landmark in the heart of a cosmopolitan area, this building rises in an attempt to become a reference in Guadalajara’s cityscape.
Architects: Co-Direction Interior Design. Tao Yuan-Ming’s idyllic life with freedom and no worries is the client’s original intention to establish this hotel. The client wants to create an inn where they can talk and drink with the guests from different places.
Design: Irons McDuff Architecture. An affordable housing solution for a final land release in the coastal town of Barwon Heads. Situated only 100 metres from the Barwon River, Riverwalk house is a simple series of gabled forms, creating a spacious home while making the most of a central garden and open space for active boys.
Design: 2020 Architects. The house is constructed on a small, square but stepped site, the entrance is on the Northern boundary, the step runs parallel to the northern boundary in the middle of the site.