Architectural Designed | XTEN ARCHITECTURE
Photographers | ©Art gray Photography
Openhouse from XTEN ARCHITECTURE who shows us simplicity and minimal design can create an interesting built environment. Here is from the architect;
The Openhouse is embedded into a narrow and sharply sloping property in the Hollywood Hills, a challenging site that led to the creation of a house that is both integrated into the landscape and open to the city below. Retaining walls are configured to extend the first floor living level into the hillside and to create a garden terrace for the second level. Steel beams set into the retaining walls perpendicular to the hillside are cantilevered off structural shear walls at the front of the site. Lateral steel clear spans fifty feet between these beams creating a double cantilever at the leading edge of the house and allowing for uninterrupted views over Los Angeles. Front, side and rear elevations of the house slide open to erase all boundaries between indoors and out and connect the spaces to gardens on both levels. Read the rest of this entry »
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
The University of Economics & Business, Vienna will build a new campus, (masterplan: BUSarchitecture) with the Library and Learning Center (LLC) in the centre of the campus. Zaha Hadid Architects has won the two phase competition for the Library and Learning Center, announced on November 2008. Here are the details of competition and the winning design; Read the rest of this entry »
Architectural Design & Photo | wHY ARCHITECTURE
Casa Wakasa | wHY ARCHITECTURE, home to a young family of four is located in the suburbs of Osaka, Japan. The house attempts to be both a reflection into contemporary Japan’s family life (sense of family vs. privacy) as well as a solution to balance individual freedom and space with collective activities and time.
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Architectural Designed, Images from UNStudio MOMEMA is situated on Art Island part of Culture Village, on the banks of Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek) the museum has a striking design by world renowned architects, UNStudio, which brings together elements of the sea and Dubai’s tradition of seafaring. Here is from Ben van Berkel about the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art Read the rest of this entry »
Architect: Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
Fifty years after the opening of Vällingby, Sweden’s world famous New Town from 1954, works began with its resurrection. After the glorious days when children and their mothers filled the community in the outskirts of Stockholm with life, other developments gradually drained the neighbourhood unit. Less people made life difficult for the little cinema, as well as for the shops. Vällingby was in need of new blood, and the pièce de résistance of the renewal would be a new department store. Read the rest of this entry »
Studio Twist’s Unconventional Showcase Strategy for Shanghai Design Centre
Annie Chung, director of Studio Twist, has completed the interior master-planning and design for a 3,000 sqm furniture showroom and museum in Shanghai comprising high-end European furniture brands Cassina, Flos, Zanotta, Cecotti, Acerbis, Extremis, Danese, Brand van Egmond, Limited Edition and Santambrogio. The design challenges the convention of linear segregated spaces for furniture showrooms by introducing vertical spatial variations, creating a fluid and interconnected showcase space within an existing unused concrete factory building. Read the rest of this entry »
Architectural Design | Vector Architects 直向建筑
The project is a “temporary” Green Technology Showroom of 3-year use for one of CR Land’s (华润置地) residential projects in Beijing. The idea is to develop the concept of “Temporary” from a meaningful perspective, to design a piece of floating “installation” in the garden, which could be built, demolished, and recycled through an easy and straightforward way with the least impact to the planned site. Read the rest of this entry »
Architect | C. F. Møller Architects, who won the commission via an international competition in 2000.
Photographer| Torben Eskerod
Norway’s new super-hospital opens
Akershus University Hospital sets new standards in hospital buildings, with an architecture that is informed by the firm determination to place the patient in the centre and secure plenty of daylight, massive operational savings and hi-tech logistics solutions. The hospital, which was designed by C. F. Møller Architects, opened officially 1 October.
“For nine years, right from the competition proposal to the final realisation, this project has filled our working days. It feels almost like when a child moves away from home. You feel proud and sad at the same time,” says Klavs Hyttel, partner in C. F. Møller Architects and the architect who has led the project. Read the rest of this entry »
schmidt hammer lassen architects scoop LEAF Awards Grand Prix
Leading Scandinavian practice schmidt hammer lassen architects has won the prestigious Emirates Glass LEAF Awards Grand Prix for its Performers House project, a modern version of a Danish folk high school, situated in the heart of Silkeborg, Denmark.
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