Architects:Alan Chu & Cristiano Kato
Photographs©Djan Chu
It is a small construction with an equally simple program: A caretaker’s house of a property on an island on the North coast of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The site, at 100 meters above sea level, next to two enormous rocks, already had the old caretaker’s house, one-story house with stone walls and clay roof tiles.The new building has 2 floors, a white suspended box, where the bedroom is and it is possible to see the continent and the São Sebastião Channel. Under it, at street level, are the living room, kitchen and bathroom. Read the rest of this entry »
image courtesy Herreros Arquitectos
Spanish firm herreros arquitectos won first prize forin the international architectural competition for the munch museum in Oslo, Norway. Following is the jury verdict;
Lambda ( Herreros Arquitectos) creates a generous invitation both to the museum and to the public access of the area in general. the location of the museum on paulsenkaia leaves the area south of the opera open to a public park and recreational landmark in the middle of the bay overlooking the fjord, in close contact both with the opera and the museum. the project strengthens the river mouth, opens the landscape and gives public access to both sides of the river all the way out to the fjord. Read the rest of this entry »
All perspective & diagram from 3GATTI Architecture Studio
“Car Experience” is a project for a building to be dedicated to the automobile: the car as an object of desire, a world to explore, a technology to study, an article to display and a means to travel around the building.
Here the world of the automobile intersects with the human and organic world creating a new tectonic structure with methods differing from the usual flat open spaces, squares… all on a human scale. Here everything is geared to the automobile – the car is the point of reference.
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Architectural Design | Andrew Maynard Architects
All Photos in this post ©Peter Bennetts
Emerging from behind its high boundary wall, the distorted roof form of Vader House interrupts the symmetrical roof line typical of Fitzroy, and breathes new life into this Victorian Terrace.The extension is a framed steel skeleton which envelopes the unusually high masonry boundary wall built prior to height restrictions, reclaiming it into the interior. The roof then responds to site setbacks which result in a distorted and subverted answer to regulations. This produces high folded internal planes, allowing double height ceilings, a mezzanine level and spacious interior. Read the rest of this entry »
Architectural Design | Renzo Zecchetto Architects
Image ©Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center
The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage Theater The new state-of-the-art 540 seat theater for the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center provides a unique venue on the Westside of Los Angeles for opera, music, dance, lectures, film screenings, and an assorted mix of academic and community events. A central aim of the 30,000 sf theater is to provide an intimate experience within an architecturally grand setting. The small seating capacity allows the most distant audience member to make eye contact with the actor within a space capable of supporting the most demanding and ambitious productions of national and international significance. Read the rest of this entry »
Architectural Design & Photo ©LAN Architecture
PROGRAMME: Design and construction of a company
headquarters
CLIENT: Marchesini France
LOCATION: rue Royale, Saint Mesmes, France
NET PLAN AREA: 1250 m²
COMPLETION: 2008
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Architectural Design | Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Solà-Morales
Photographs: © Santiago Garcés
This house has been finished for a while and been in mainstream media. It’s an honor for a little weblog like architect buzz!! to publish this work because I love this especially its space. Here is form an architect Eduardo Cadaval & Clara Solà-Morales:
Where are the limits of materials? Are they in their apparently implicit properties or in our capacity to expand them? 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 »
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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