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All Design & Images by DIERENDONCKBLANCKE-LUST ARCHITECTEN

This work is a competition entry from DIERENDONCKBLANCKE-LUST ARCHITECTEN : Alexander Dierendonck – Hans Lust, architects. The site for this new swimming pool is situated on the beach of Oostduinkerke, a small Belgian coast town. The design aimed to create a cross over between the beach and the city centre, extending the dike. Read the rest of this entry »

Architectural Design | 3LHD Architects
Photo | ©Damir Fabijanic

“Inspiration for structure has been found in the small traditional stone hut – kažun, a small multifunctional building used as a shelter for shepherds that provide a cool environment in hot weather and insulating against the cold in the winter.”

Sports/City Hall Bale is the winner both invited design competition and the WAF World Architecture Festival, Barcelona 2008 on “Sport” category. I guess what made this project success are to designing an architecture that respect to the site, cultural and context. Read the rest of this entry »

Design | Blank Studio
Photography | Timmerman Photography

Yoga Deva (deva is a Sanskrit word, meaning deity) creates an internal sequence of spaces whose primary impulse is to remove the visitor from the exterior visual environmental conditions in every way. Sited within a commercial condominium complex, the building is surrounded by asphalt parking, minimal planted islands of non-native decorative vegetation, and other buildings that are nearly indistinguishable from one to the next. This new internal environment offers an architectural and sequential chiaroscuro to the external strip-mall type reality and prepares the visitor for practice of inward meditation and contemplation. Read the rest of this entry »

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CALLISON SELECTED TO DESIGN MIXED-USE COMPLEX FOR NEW URBAN COMMUNITY IN CHENGDU, CHINA

Callison has been selected by major developer China Resources Land Limited (CRLL) to design phase one of 24 City, a new urban community that will house more than 60,000 new residents in the city of Chengdu. The 3.3 million square foot mixed-use project includes an indoor/outdoor retail center and a 38-story office tower. Read the rest of this entry »

Architectural Design | Marlon Blackwell Architect
Photographer| © Tim Hursley

If you are an architect who really don’t know much about golf but client said “it’s not just about golf, it’s about people and space!” . This is what John, the owner, told the architect “Marlon Blackwell Architect”. Awesome!

The hills and valleys, and the moments where the two merge, define the Ozarks for us. This juncture is where we chose to build the simple, bar-shape clubhouse—from a north-facing slope over an Osage Indian archaeological zone to an artificial hill. This bridging of two land-forms created an entry portal, a breezeway to the main entry of the clubhouse, that frames the eighteenth green, acts as a threshold to the golf course beyond, and is an event space for golf tournaments. Aligned with its counterpoint, the Razorback Golf Center to the north, the clubhouse has evolved from its initial strategy to become more of a stand-alone structure set at the base of the hill—with its footprint minimally contacting the land, it is, in effect, a covered bridge. Read the rest of this entry »

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Foster + Partners with Aston Martin win joint first prize in competition to design a new bus for London

Routemaster red bus has been one of the transportation icons of London,though it has been out of service since 2005 except for historical route. This competition winning design from Foster + Partners and Aston Martin give us a nice perspective and expectation when riding a nice, eye catchy and hi-tech bus next visit to London. Here’s from the designers;

The joint submission by Foster + Partners and Aston Martin has won first prize, alongside Capoco Design, in Transport for London’s competition to design a new bus for the capital. The two iconic British brands worked together to challenge preconceptions of bus design with a vehicle that is environmentally sensitive, accessible, convivial and reinvents a much-loved symbol of London for the modern era. Read the rest of this entry »

Architectural Design | FAREstudio

This work is the winner of World Architecture Festival 2008 in “Health” Category. Designed by FAREstudio, Italian architects : Riccardo Vannucci and Giuseppina Forte. Its interesting architectural form, color finishes and texture as well as eco-friendly & sustainable design, the working and understanding with local are the key this project receive the award.

The CBF [Centre pour le Bien-être des Femmes] Women’s Health Centre in Burkina Faso was created between 2005 and 2007 by AIDOS, an Italian NGO fighting for Women’s Rights in Developing Countries.
The AIDOS project, financed by the Democratici di Sinistra Political Party and with a contribution from the European Commission, is just one of the group’s international programs focused on contrasting the diffusion of Female Genital Mutilation [FGM]. Read the rest of this entry »

Architectural Design | Blank Studio
Photographers | timmerman photography

Designed by Blank Studio, this slim -two stories house with mezzanine intrigued me by its form, meterials selection and interesting space arrangement. They blend the architecture with its surrounding physically and functionally as well as aesthetically. Here is from the architect;

The Xeros project is sited within a late 1950’s era neighborhood where the urban grid of Phoenix, Arizona is overtaken by the organic land forms of the north phoenix mountain preserve. Located at the end of two dead-end streets, the Xeros residence is positioned upon the upward slope of a 50’x 250’ double lot facing the mountain preserve to the north and the city center to the south. Read the rest of this entry »

Architectural Design | Konigsberger & Vannucchi

I have seen this work the “Top Towers” from Brazilian Architects Konigsberger & Vannucchi first in Dezeen . So, I contact them and get the permission to publish this (via ArchThai.com). I know it’s been a while but i admire this work that they can achieve the implication of interesting idea out from (I guess) constraint budget, and a challenging programme. Here’s from the Architects; Read the rest of this entry »

Architectural Designed | Gonzalo Mardones Viviani & Asociados Arquitectos

This work is the first post of the interesting architecture from South America, Chile. The architect’s office name Gonzalo Mardones Viviani & Asociados Arquitectos. They designed a nice, clean yet eye catching fire station.

The 18th Fire Station of Vitacura is located strategically between two main avenues in the borough, which makes it easy to reach different points in the city of Santiago. Read the rest of this entry »