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Photo©Scagliola/Brakkee

This private residence, completed in June 2009, is situated in a lush, leafy neighbourhood in Bussum, a small town near Amsterdam. The neighbourhood is known for its 19th century villas, designed in a vast array of revivalist styles. Read the rest of this entry »

Image©Eriksen Skajaa Architects

Project: Shuffle – Europan 10 competition
Location: Oslo, Norway
Year: 2009
Type: Competition
Category: Urban plan and buildings
Status: 1st prize
Size: 15000 m²
Architect: Eriksen Skajaa Architects
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Wood Block Residence

Architect : Chadbourne + Doss Architects
Mercer Island, WA
3,000 s.f. single family residence
Photography by Benjamin Benschneider – http://www.benschneiderphoto.com/ Read the rest of this entry »

© ISOCHROM.com, Vienna

Designed by Australian Architects Coop Himmelb(l)au, the construction of the new premises of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, to start in spring 2010

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) informed today during a press conference about the positive outcome of the Europe-wide public tendering procedure and announced that therefore construction of the main construction works for its new premises will start in spring 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo©Ken’ichi Suzuki

Project Details:
Project: PLUS house
Architects: Masahiro Harada, Mao Harada / MOUNT FUJI ARCHITECTS STUDIO
Principal use:weekend house
Site area 988.58m2
Building area :232.77m2
Total floor area :279.92m2
Number of stories :2 story + 1 basement
Structure :reinforced concrete structure
Design: 2007.5 – 2008.4
Construction: 2008.5 – 2009.7

Project Description:

“The site is located on mountainside of Izu-san, where Pacific Ocean can be looked down on the south. The untouched wilderness, covered with deciduous broad-leaved trees such as cherry trees and Japanese oaks, gives little level ground.But we saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge.The architecture would be used as villa for weekends. I didn’t want to just form the undulating landscape dotted with great trees as normal, nor design an elaborate architecture bowing down to the complex topography. Read the rest of this entry »

photo©Iwan Baan

We still continue on the work form Design Vangard 2009 issued on Architectural Record December 2009 issue. Here we are today with DnA from China with one of their key projects, Songzhuang Artist Residence ;

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Photo©Åke E’son Lindman

Though the completion of this project is dated back to last year, I am reminded by reading publication of Architectural Record that Tham & Videgård Arkitekter has been announcing Design Vangard 2009. Thus, I would like to feature their project here which it is Kalmar Museum of Art. The followings are their statement;

The new Kalmar Museum of Art is the result of a winning proposal in the open international competition in 2004 and will be inaugurated in 2007. Situated in the City Park of the renaissance town of Kalmar, it will be added to a restaurant pavilion dating from the 1930s by Swedish modernist architect Sven-Ivar Lind. Read the rest of this entry »

The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park
Herzog & de Meuron
Park view
© Herzog & de Meuron, visualization by Artefactorylab

NEW AND EXPANDED MIAMI ART MUSEUM
WILL OPEN IN 2013

Completed Herzog & de Meuron Design Unveiled Read the rest of this entry »

Photo courtesy of Architectkidd

Lightmos showroom, the renovation project from Architectkidd from Bangkok. It is a magnificent interior lighting “spill” effect from the gimmick of perforated facade. Their recycle idea with facade circular plate to be a furniture part is pretty interesting. Read the rest of this entry »

Image ©Provast

The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb and city councilor Hamit Karakus have officially started the construction of the new Rotterdam Market Hall. The arched building located in the centre of Rotterdam, developed by Provast and designed by MVRDV is a hybrid of public market and apartment building. Completion is set for 2014. Total investment is 175 million Euro with a total surface of 100.000 m2. Read the rest of this entry »