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The website features a selection of the best new maritime building designs around the world, by respected designers.
Design: ROBERT KERR architecture design. This Californian beach house responds to extraordinary site conditions as a progressive revealing of a sculpted interior. Cantilevering on 3 sides, the top level is sculpted to express openings and exaggerate its weight.
Design: BAREA + PARTNERS, architects. A radical modification at the top of an apartment tower of the Levante coast creates a new space that turns to the sea: it immerses the flat in the aura of tranquility of the coast.
Design: Orange Architects. Ten luxurious apartments, on top of a double-height commercial plinth – ultimately suitable for a nice club or restaurant – on the shore line of Limassol, Cyprus. Closed competition winner, commissioned by Masharii & The Land.
Design by Chad Oppenhiem Architect, USA. Also known as the Ark, this three-level, single-family residence is located on the Atlantic Ocean. The property features 9,000 sqft of interior space with 3,000 sqft of ocean-view terraces, a lap pool, pool cabana, a two-car garage and an elevator.
Design: HASSELL + Populous, Architects. The project involves the transformation of this key Sydney precinct through the design of three major public buildings and the unifying public realm.
State funding vetoed for the beleaguered Guggenheim Museum in Helsinki building. This follows calls to re-run the design competition on another site.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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