São Paulo Street Design: Brazil Competition

Sao Paulo Street Design: Brazil Competition

A-cero architecture studio, managed by Mr. Joaquin Torres, has achieved the third place in an international competition. The contest’s object was the rehabilitation of a 2.300 km street in São Paulo (Brazil).

Public Spaces Creation: Built Environment

COOP house Denmark Public Spaces Creation

The duality of positive-negative spaces, following the terminology of the Gestalt, is inevitably linked to the projection of buildings in any environment that is more transcendent than its aligned location in a road subject to rigid bylaws

Connected Buildings, Architecture: Guido Maclellan

Connected Buildings, Architecture: Guido Maclellan

Modern life seems to dictate a pace of living that is fast with instantaneous needs and responses and with little time for stepping off the treadmill and making more meaningful connections with who we are and our relationship with nature

Icon Building: Designer Architecture

Icon Building Clare Smith

An icon is the snapshot of the Eiffel tower that pops in your head when someone mentions Paris. Or is the graphic on your desktop that is instantly recognizable and needs no words. It is what symbolizes ideas and beliefs.

Designboard, stilwerk Berlin: J. MAYER H.

Designboard, stilwerk Berlin: J. MAYER H.

With the new design board by J. MAYER H. Architects stilwerk defines a new topic in display design. The mobile and transformable plattform is positioned as a combinatorial element in the atrium of stilwerk Berlin.

Sizing Identities: Sergio López-Piñeiro

Trysil Ski Resort Sizing Identities

Based on the design strategies exhibited by two of last week’s projects, this editorial is a reflection on an ever present architectural problem in master plan design: how do designers balance out requirements for homogeneous sizing with ambitions for clearly defined urban identities?

Performance Architecture, Buffalo: Brian Carter

Vacarisses CTRV Building Performance Architecture

Performance is increasingly a focus of architecture. Prompted by genuine curiosity and an increasing urgency to know how the design of buildings can help to improve environmental conditions it is an interest that is also being fuelled by new technologies that enable spaces and systems to be monitored more effectively

Conegliano Square, Caserma San Marco

The underground parking and temporary square occupy the space of the old military square of Caserma San Marco. The main aim of the project was that of mantaining the void space both above and below.

The Cenotaph, War Memorial London

Designed by Edwin Lutyens, the permanent structure was built from Portland stone between 1919 and 1920 by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, replacing Lutyens’ earlier wood-and-plaster cenotaph in the same location.

Metropol Parasol Building, Seville Plaza

Metropol Parasol Building, Seville Plaza

The project becomes the new icon for Sevilla, – a place of identification and to articulate Sevillas role as one of Spains most fascinating cultural destinations. “Metropol Parasol”.

Dam Square Amsterdam, Netherlands

Dam Square Amsterdam National Monument

This famous Dutch square lies in the historical center of Amsterdam, approximately 750 meters south of the main transportation hub, Centraal Station, at the original location of the dam in the river Amstel

Maritime Youth House Copenhagen by PLOT

Maritime Youth House Copenhagen building ramps stairs

The concept of the project is that instead of using 1/4 of the project’s budget, originally allocated by the client to cleaning the polluted soil of the site, we discovered that the pollution was heavy metals and therefore stable

Kongens Nytorv Copenhagen Buildings

Kongens Nytorv – Kings New Square: Grand square at the east end of The Strøget, containing the Royal Danish Theatre – Det Kongelige Teater – to the south and Hotel D’Angleterre to the west.

Jarmers Plads: Realkredit Danmark, København

Jarmers Place Landscape copenhagen, Denmark – 20th Century Danish landscaping works to south of original building, Date built: 1996-97, Architect: Erik Brandt Dam – Brandt Hell Hansted Holscher Arkitekter.