photos©Max Nirnberger
Interesting interior designed by xarchitekten from Austria, they create a shop for jewelry shop that simulate the feeling of exploring the treasure chests.
The most interesting trends in the design of shops are concerned with the coherence of the products and their environment – thus the space in which they are presented. Furthermore do we understand shop design as a part of corporate identity, as an instrument of communication for contents and aims. The concept bases on the intention to define space as a sensually perceptive phenomenon and connect it closely to the jewellers manifacts. Read the rest of this entry »
Project Title: Six Ramsgate
Location: 6 Ramsgate Road, Singapore
Site Area: 1200 sqm
Built-In Area: 855 sqm
Architecture firm: Wallflower Architecture + Design
Website: www.wallflower.com.sg
Architect: Robin Tan
Design Team: Robin Tan, Cecil Chee & Sean Zheng
Photographer: Albert Lim
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photo ©Sófocles Hernández
Designed by Pascal Arquitectos This lounge bar, located in Acapulco, is an entertainment place dedicated to the senses. Expressed through the architecture, the people, the music and the images an alternative and virtual atmosphere is created.
Access to the premises is by a foyer that simulates the interior of a ship lined with wood, where five high definition screens framed as oval windows that may show either a clouded sky travelling at high speed or bottom of the sea images transforming it into a submarine. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo©John Edward Linden
Step Up on 5th, designed by Pugh + Scarpa, is a bright new spot in downtown Santa Monica. The new building provides a home, support services and rehabilitation for the homeless and mentally disabled population. The new structure provides 46 studio apartments of permanent affordable housing. The project also includes ground level commercial/retail space and subterranean parking. Read the rest of this entry »
All photo & drawings courtesy Alricgalindez Arquitectos
After years of work, we decided to face the construction of our own office.Sited on a corner defined by Catamarca and Caracas streets, in Martinez, Buenos Aires. A zone that is actually transforming and developing, from being an area of horse keeping studs, to become a commercial spot, surrounded by offices and modern restaurants, right in the heart of San Isidro.
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All images courtesy Philippe Stuebi Architecten GMBH
Simplicity still rules and still rocks, I mean real rocks. This nice architecture Draeger House Corsica designed by Philippe Stuebi Architekten GMBH from Zurich. Here is the architect statement;
The holiday house sits as walkable sculptural building in the strong landscape with a square ruin, old retaining walls, large rocks as well as olive groves and oak tree forests. In the south the house has a spectacular terrace with a great view on the sea and with a low, broad parapet (40/70cm). Read the rest of this entry »
All Photographs ©fotoworks – Benny Chan; Studio 0.10
A single-family residence designed for a couple and set in a postwar subdivision, a few blocks away from the ‘hip’ strip of Sawtelle Blvd. in Los Angeles. Considered a last bastion of the “traditional values” of home ownership, the neighborhood’s properties of mostly single level cottage typology have been predominately occupied by their original owners since their creation.
However, with the aging of many of the original owners and with still reasonable real estate pricing, a new generation of home seekers is buying in. Armed with favorable zoning regulations, many of the recent buyers have sought new opportunities for an architectural reconsideration of their property. Though still early in the neighborhood’s transformation, there is an emergence of a new aesthetic and potentially new synergy for a design enclave in the patchwork urbanism that is Los Angeles. Read the rest of this entry »
All images courtesy to HHF architects
HHF architects have finished an invited project study for an 1200 sq.m. industrial building in Olten, Switzerland. It is a teaching and information center for “Nussbaum AG” , the swiss sanitary supplier . Read the rest of this entry »
All images & Diagrams Courtesy GRAFT
Bird Island from GRAFT. It’s interesting that they introduce a zero-energy house for an cosmopolitan client. Here is a from GRAFT.
We have applied an integrated strategy of developing a zero-energy house that seamlessly dovetails the economic and environmental advantages of environmentally friendly living with the needs of a demanding and cosmopolitan clientele. The environmental and economic features of this way of living do not conflict with our client’s lifestyle; rather it furthers their ability to comfortably enjoy their time at home.
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Photograph ©Gabe Hanson
WEBER THOMPSON awarded AIA/COTE Top Ten Green Project
The Terry Thomas was designed by to provide a healthy and creative work environment that would illustrate the possibilities of sustainable design and was chosen as an AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Project for 2009. The project was driven by a future tenant who needed a new office space to accommodate a rapidly expanding architectural practice. The firm wanted to remain in the same neighborhood where it had operated for seventeen years, yet in a building that would exemplify commitment to sustainable design. Read the rest of this entry »
