Mar 3, 2010 0
Photo©Ryota Atarashi
Architects: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Site area: 177.27 sqm
Building area: 106.33 sqm
Total floor area: 259.72 sqm
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Jan 20, 2010 0
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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 »
Nov 29, 2009 0
Photos courtesy of Piuarch
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 »
Nov 16, 2009 0
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.
Nov 12, 2009 1
Photo©John Gollings
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 »
Oct 31, 2009 0
Photo courtesy of Axelrod Design
eHouse by Axelrod Design is a single family house that was inhabited in 2008 and borrows from two traditions in architecture – a Mediterranean aesthetic of sun and light and a minimalist discipline of line and plane. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 28, 2009 0
Redefining the traditional theater—from top to bottom
DALLAS, OCT. 15, 2009 — During the AT&T Performing Arts Center’s Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre’s grand opening this week, audiences are discovering a 575-seat, “multi-form” theater that gives one of the country’s most innovative performing arts companies an unprecedented reconfiguration of both house and stage. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 26, 2009 0
Photo©Jeff Goldberg/ESTO
Polshek Partnership’s new $23 million, 40,000-square-foot Vukovich Center at Allegheny College provides a state-of-the-art theater and communication arts teaching facility Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 24, 2009 0
Photo©3LHD Architects
Architecture from 3LHD has just been realized. It is Zamet Centre housing mixed use of function with the ribbon design connecting to site topography. Here is from 3LHD;
Situated in Rijeka’s quarter Zamet, the new Zamet Centre in complete size of 16830 m2 hosts various facilities: sports hall with max 2380 seats, local community offices, library, 13 retail and service spaces and a garage with 250 parking spaces. Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 23, 2009 0
Photo©Dietmar Tollerian
Hole 19 is a golf course’s clubhouse designed Xarchitekten from Austria. The golf course as an integrated design landscape and topography nestles up to the soft downs of the Mühlviertel. The club house merges with the landscape and integrates consistently into the natural surroundings, almost being completely absorbed by it. Read the rest of this entry »
