Seljord Watchtower – Norway Structure
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Seljord Watchtower Telemark: the myth about a sea serpent in the lake of Seljord has become an integral part of how the local people of Telemark conceive their majestic landscape.
Knoll Ridge Café is located at Whakapapa Ski Field on Mt. Ruapehu, Tongariro National Park. Situated on the side of a mountain the commercial ski field is also sited on what is New Zealand’s largest active volcano.
At the request of Isabelle de Beaufort, we have created a stage set for her “Neige de Culture” project on the Serre-Chevalier ski slopes.
This project has evolved the building type, the small weekender, by answering a simple question – how does one go into a forest and use the forms of the ecology to build a house?
A Photographer’s Studio Over a Boathouse on Stony Lake is a re-imagination of the archetypal glass house in a landscape in the Canadian Shield.
As a “portal” to San Diego Bay’s ecologically unique Sweetwater Marsh, the new Administrative Headquarters for the US Fish and Wildlife Service provides a collaborative facility where in-house wildlife biologists and environmental education specialists perform work and analysis within the habitat.
Yucca Crater, HDTS Building, Mojave Desert design, Joshua Tree National Park, by Ball Nogues Studio: High Desert Test Sites structure project
A series of unheated and unserviced timber structures sit astride a raw concrete barrier that provides some form of flood defence and creates two very different habitats: a fresh water lagoon and salt water marsh. This is a most unusual hide for bird-watching
This piece, whose name refers to its grid reference, takes a worthy place among the architectural and art treasures of Kielder Forest, several of which have already won RIBA Awards.
This project involved the re-erection of Pod No 4 from the BBC’s Castaway 2000 Project, produced by Lion Television Scotland. The Pods were designed in 1999 by Andrew McAvoy of Blast Architects in direct response to the BBC Castaway survival brief and the landscape of Taransay.
Fogo Island lies outside of Newfoundland, Canada and is home to a gentle, independent people who have lived for centuries between wind and waves in pursuit of fish. Fogo Islanders live in the untamed landscape of the North Atlantic.
The Oostvaarders Award: this project by Drost + van Veen Architecten is nominated for an architecture award called Architectuurprijs Almere 2010.
The Project ”Trollstigen – National Tourist Route” is on display, as part of travelling exhibition ”Detour: Architecture and Design along 18 tourist Routes in Norway”
After six years on the drawing board – two of which as a student project design – and a construction phase spanning two summers, the New Monte Rosa Hut above Zermatt finally opened for business in Sep 2009.
At the edge of a wooded ravine, beneath the imposing wooden house of the Catholic Community of Sisters, the small tower building rises from the steep hillside
In the process of modernization and urbanization, various regions in China, especially those around megacities, are undergoing drastic transformation.
The starting point is to create a shelter up in the trees; a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, 4x4x4 meters boxes clad in mirrored glass. Northern Swedish architecture: Harads building design by Tham & Videgård Arkitekter, Sweden.
Corrour Lodge evokes the tradition of great Scottish houses and weaves together remnants of the original Victorian-era great house on the site, destroyed by fire in 1940.