Villa Charles / QARTA Architektura
Architects: QARTA Architektura Location: Prague, Czech Republic Design Team: David Wittassek, Jiří Řezák, Jan Havel, Jakub Wyderka Area: 2,157 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Marek Novotný The site is...
View ArticleBoltshauser Architekten Wins Competition To Design Basel Aquarium
Swiss architecture practice, Boltshauser Architekten, recently won an international competition to design a new aquarium in the center of Basel, Switzerland. Their concept, titled ‘Seacliff’, was...
View ArticleProton / Constantinos Kalisperas Architectural Studio
Architects: Constantinos Kalisperas Architectural Studio Location: Engomi, Egkomi, Cyprus Architect In Charge: Constantinos Kalisperas Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of CKAS Situated in the urban...
View ArticlePencil Box / Paolo Didoné
Architects: Paolo Didonè Location: Venice, Italy Architects: Paolo Didonè, Sergio de Gioia, Fabrizio Michielon Year: 2012 Photographs: Claudia Nalesso School building made in 50 days for the...
View ArticleC.E.I.P Multiuse Room / Raúl del Valle
Architects: Raúl del Valle Location: Madrid, Spain Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Miguel de Guzmán, María José Fraile Monte Project Area: 474 sqm Collaborators : Javier Gómez Mateo, Artemio Fochs...
View ArticleHelsinki Central Library Competition Entry / Plan 01
In the virtualized information era, Plan 01 believes the design for the Helsinki Central Library should be more than ever a “physical space”. The project should be a place for sensory experience, a...
View ArticleGymnasium Régis Racine / Atelier d’Architecture Alexandre Dreyssé
Architects: Atelier d’Architecture Alexandre Dreyssé Location: Drancy, France Project Director: Alexandre Dreyssé Architectural Assistant: Sébastien Muller Area: 1,581 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs:...
View ArticleMeteorite Housing / NKS Architects
Architects: NKS Architects Location: Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Japan Architect In Charge: Noriko + Kaoru Suehiro Structure: RC+S, 3 stories Area: 248.22 sqm Year: 2008 Photographs: Courtesy of NKS Architects...
View ArticleYad Lebanim Competition Entry / Moshe Fluhr, Lee Davidson Lehrer, Yinnon Lehrer
The proposal for the ‘Yad Lebanim’ (Fallen Sons’ Commemoration) memorial homes are designed as programmatic hybrids, teaming a military memorial hall with a civic community center. Designed by...
View Article47% House / Kochi Architect’s Studio
Architects: Kochi Architect’s Studio Location: Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan Architect In Charge: Kazuyasu Kochi Constractor: Nakano Koumuten Site Area: 172.1 sqm Area: 97.7 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs:...
View ArticleSustainable Market Square Competition Entry / Joan Alomar
The proposal by Joan Alomar, of Estudio Lunar, presents a building that completes the urban block and blends in to the neighborhood of Casablanca. This concept leads the architecture that mimics the...
View ArticleMoleskine Debate: Wiel Arets, Peter Wilson and Cino Zucchi
The Sketch, Script, Score. Figures of Architectural Thinking event is a conversation between Wiel Arets, Peter Wilson and Cino Zucchi presenting the “Inspiration and Process in Architecture” Moleskine...
View ArticleVideo: Ross Lovegrove & Mariko Mori, In Conversation
Welsh industrial designer Ross Lovegrove interviews Japanese artist Mariko Mori ahead of her first exhibition in London in 14 years. The exhibition, at the Royal Academy of Arts, will showcase...
View ArticleRotherham Central Station / Aedas
Architects: Aedas Location: Rotherham, South Yorkshire, UK Structural Engineer: Arup, Leeds Funding Contributors: Yorkshire forward, Network Rail (Access for all Scheme) Client: South Yorkshire...
View ArticleTime Running Out for Melnikov House
The Melnikov House, the unusual, cylindrical classic of Constructivism which was Konstantin Melnikov’s residence and studio, is on the brink of collapse. The Independent reports that nearby...
View ArticleSOM Wins Bid to Design Los Angeles Federal Courthouse
The GSA has announced that Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill have been selected as the architects of the new Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, which will house the U.S. District Court, Central District of...
View ArticleLow Energy Timber House / AST 77 Architecten
Architects: AST 77 Architecten Location: Tielt-Winge, Belgium Surface Area: 650 sqm Area: 180 sqm Year: 2008 Photographs: Marcel Van Coile, Jan Liegeois Concept And Vision Peter Van Impe, the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Skidome Denmark – The World’s Biggest Skidome
Click here to view the embedded video. As we shared with you earlier last month, Danish architectural firm, CEBRA, in partnership with Ski Travel Agency Danski, is working on a new project of epic...
View ArticleOffice in Forest / SUGAWARADAISUKE
Architects: SUGAWARADAISUKE Location: Matsuzaka, Tozawa, Mogami District, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan Construction: KITAMURAGUMI Corporation Floor Area: 348.01 sqm Site Area: 1,193.30 sqm Area: 356,44...
View ArticleApartments BUSO / dmvA Architecten
Architects: dmvA Architecten Location: Mechelen, Belgium Design Team: David Driesen, Tom Verschueren, Astrid Geens, Christine Loos, Michaël De Roeck General Contractor: Brebuild Constructional...
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