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Marine building designs
Marine buildings designs and architects
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The website features a selection of the best new maritime property designs around the world, by respected designers.
Watchet Foundry in Somerset, England
Design: Invisible Studio, Architects. A cultural regeneration project for a small coastal town in Southwest England. “The main new building is conceived as a piece of occupied landscape, which can be walked on.”
Faena Forum Miami Beach Building, Florida
Design: OMA. A cultural center building to bring enlightenment to a new development in this famous Florida resort city, for Argentinian hotelier and developer Alan Faena.
Temporary UK Parliament on River Thames
Design: Gensler, architects. A new film released of the radical concept for a new temporary Houses of Parliament located on the River Thames, a solution for the long overdue refurbishment of the historic Palace of Westminster building.
Fresnel Hydrofoil Trimaran Sailboat
Design: Dr Margot Krasojevic architect. The design for a solar-powered, perpetual motion, hydrofoil Trimaran yacht, commissioned by HoldenManz wine estate, Cape Town. The trimaran has a folding wingsail for a better lift to drag ratio, the sail’s frame is constructed from carbon fibre.
Metamorphous Seawall on the BC coastline
Design: Paul Sangha Landscape Architecture. The abstracted shape of the corten, in conjunction with strategic boulder placement along the foreshore played an integral role in dissipating wave energy and ultimately, facilitating the deposition of sand to enhance foreshore and create habitat for flora and fauna.
Mirage Villa on Tinos, Greece: Cyclades property design
Design: Kois Associated Architects
On the roof of the villa is a rimless infinity pool, blending with the seascape and the sky, giving an illusion inspired by the optical phenomenon of “mirage”.
Hydroelectric Tidal House Cape Town
Design: Dr Margot Krasojevic, architect. The building harnesses tidal wave power to generate electricity. The structure is made up of two shells: the outer one anchors the house to the beach whilst the inner shell rises with the tide.
Currie Park Waterfront West Palm Beach
Design: Carlo Ratti Associati, architects. Water-carved architecture in Florida: pioneering use of submarine technologies to design floating plaza as part of West Palm Beach’ new Currie Park waterfront.
Hotel Relux on Ios Island, Greece
Design: A31 Architecture. The landscape design takes advantage of site specific features such as microclimatic and topographical conditions as well as the existing vegetation to blend the hotel exterior seamlessly into the surrounding natural setting.
ARCTIC Hundested Harbour Cultural Attraction
Design: CEBRA Architects. An ambitious cultural project in Northern Sjælland in Denmark: a 3,000 sqm cultural building located on an island in Hundested harbour.
Spitbank Fort Building Conversion
Design: PLC Architects. Set in the Solent, a historically important strait separating the Isle of Wight from the Great Britain mainland, Spitbank Fort is a Victorian sea fort built on a circular base 50m in diameter
Botel in Amsterdam: Accommodation
Design: MMX architecten with Jord den Hollander. A bold, zany architectural project – improving the look of a Dutch hotelboat to make it fit in with the dynamics and creativity of the wharf
Palm Beach Oceanfront House, Florida
Design: Affiniti Architects & Marc Thee. Sometimes in architecture, an all-star team comes together to create something that absolutely stands above the rest. Affiniti Architects & Marc Thee hold nothing back with their latest creation, “Courtyard Contemporary”.