Designed by Piuarch, The new headquarters of D&G in Milan house the showrooms for the fashion collections, the offices, a restaurant and a number of spaces for events, with a total surface of 5.000 square meters. The project reflects a rigorous architectural scheme, using natural materials such as white namibic stone, glass and crude steel sheets. Two bodies, of the 1920’s and the 1960’s respectively, face three streets, covering 5 floors and 2 basements. The first floor overlooks a garden of white cobblestone. Read the rest of this entry »
I browsed through the architect blog and have seen this interested architecture, so I’d like to share with you the Da Vinci Residential Tower designed by Pascal Arquitectos.
This condominium tower includes 38 apartments. The service areas include a multi-purpose room, paddle tennis court, open swimming pool at the roof garden, lounge, SPA with a two lane lap-pool, jacuzzi, restrooms, dressing room, and a balcony with a fantastic view to the gardens.
Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa, designed by Peter Rich Architects of Johannesburg, has won global architecture’s most coveted accolade of World Building of the Year at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF Awards) 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
Have seen this in the net and think this is worth to share, from architect Andrew Berman Architect . It is a library and studio for a writer. This is a short film about New York architect Andrew Berman’s dream project. Read the rest of this entry »
Slovenian architecture firm OFIS have received third prize in the competition to design the new ljubljana administration centre. The brief proposed several departments to move to the same site but occupy different buildings. Located along the river on the edge of the city the building is surrounded by some protected buildings. Read the rest of this entry »
Here is Ipekyol Textile Factory, designed by emre arolat architects. It features with two courtyards in production area led the natural light & garden in the factory. This must makes workers happy. I love this idea. Followings are from architects; Read the rest of this entry »
The new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas, one of the new performance art venues of AT&T’s Performing Art center (ATTPAC). Estimated 45,000 people across Dallas have joined the opening on 19th October. The Opera house auditorium designed with horseshoe plan seating 2,200 audiences by trying to take theatre to the audience. What I like is the public sunshade area that is connected the theatre to other buildings, squares and activities featured in the ATTPAC.
Let’s shuffle to post an interior refurbishment work, this is the from GROUP A : The Netherlands-based firm. The Aramco Overseas Company head office has recently moved into their new accommodation in The Hague. The new office, housed in an existing building from the eighties, needed to be fully refurbished. Following a selection in March 2009, GROUP A was chosen to carry out this refurbishment. Read the rest of this entry »
Winner of The World Architecture Festival 2009- House Category, Klein Bottle house designed by McBride Charles Ryan. They applied the Topology Mathematic thoery & CAD technology combined with Joyfulness concept of vacation retreat. Here’s their statement; Read the rest of this entry »
Mirror Tower is a key interested feature of this 35,000 sq.m. 486 MINA EL HOSN project in Beirut Lebanon, Designed by French Architects Firm LAN Architecture, followings are the architect statement
The city that wouldn’t disappear
As we well know, every city is singular. Yet clearly some are more so than others. Beirut is a unique urban phenomenon, literally inhabited by its history, and with each successive war or occupation finding the strength to combat its disappearance. Read the rest of this entry »
