Corten steel

The 1.8-hectare site is a natural formed terrace snuggled into the gentle north sloping base of Queenstown Hill in the South Island of New Zealand, overlooking the untamed Shotover River which disappears around the bend below. Simon Wilson The clients are staunch locals having spent most of their life in a modest cottage on the same road. They have owned the site for twenty years: planting and tending to the now mature grapes on the back terraces. They sought a permanent home here: a rural home for their mature years where they would be happily making wine and tinkering on old cars. Simon Wilson Simon Wilson The home consists of four robust rectilinear pavilions laid informally along the terrace. The materials include off t... En savoir plus

Dhaka Stock Exchange, located in Nikunja, Dhaka is one of the major stock exchanges in Bangladesh. The Dhaka Stock Exchange tower is located beside the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway. That building had a huge mass with no green on site. Nowadays, almost all corporate houses are designed in a very specific way in Bangladesh where the landscape is ignored. Dhaka Stock Exchange Tower is the next head office of the stock exchange. Sometimes, designers and stakeholders almost forget to put a small green on the premises. There are so many stockholders, companies, broker houses, etc. These premises were surveyed and found almost zero green on site. MSH Atelier was hired by the Dhaka Stock exchange authority to redevelop the building profile and landscap... En savoir plus

The biggest challenge of the project was the static solution for the cantilever platform. The old vantage point was on a heavily indented mass of rock resting on an inclined plane. For this reason, the static approach of the new vantage point is based on a foundation plate that is stuck in the rock massif as a counterweight. As a result, the less stable rock area is not stressed. Fundación Patrimonio Natural de Castilla y León Due to its length of 12.8m and the location on the steep slope, the platform offers completely new perspectives. At its end there is an opening covered with a steel grating that allows a vertical view over the steep slope and its massive rocks . The railing serves as a lateral bridge for the two b... En savoir plus

The Raft Sloboda is located in Belgrade, at the delta of the Sava and the Danube rivers. As there was no particular location at the beginninig of the process (we just knew the raft would be on the river), it seemed to us that old and rusrty industry boats, that pervade whole coastal area, suited best to tihs strand. Caption We decided that the raft should be made of rasty steel and unpretentiously take a posture of an old timer and, thanks to its charm, offer warm athmosphere to its future visitors. Naturally, its design is subordinated to modern architecture and modern users'needs. One of the input data was the purpose of the facility. It was intended for the Disco Raft Sloboda to change the athmospheres throughout the day - from af... En savoir plus

Reinvigorating Reuse in Walnut Creek, California by Form4 Architecture Programme: San Francisco-based studio Form4 Architecture was responsible for the architectural renovation and interiors of a 24,000 sqft 2-floor community building that is part of a 50-year-old commercial office complex in Walnut Creek, California.  Within the community building, Form4 designed a café, five new conference rooms, a reception lounge/collaboration area, bike lockers/public restroom, and a shower/locker facility on the ground floor.  John Sutton Design:Form4 Architecture’s mission to modernise and reinvigorate a 50-year-old commercial office building in Walnut Creek, California, was to maximise the building’s potentia... En savoir plus

The 25-meter-high Marsk Tower – translated as “Marsh Tower” due to its location in the marshlands of Denmark’s popular National Park, Wadden Sea – offers expansive views of the natural environment. Appearing as a sculptural art object rising out of the landscape, Marsk Tower will function as an observation lookout that facilitates community as a key tourist landmark. A wheelchair-accessible tower, an elevator located in the core of the tower provides access via the ground level ramp. The tower’s simple design, defined by Corten steel materiality, exudes a natural aesthetic that blends with the surrounding environment while simultaneously becoming a new, visible destination in Denmark. Rasmus Hjortshoj... En savoir plus

With a privileged view of the ponds and woods of Fazenda Boa Vista, in Porto Feliz, Sao Paulo, in Brazil, the Boa Vista RC house was designed to see the sun all day long in the leisure area. In the 950 m² of constructed area, the authorial design of architects Caio Bandeira and Tiago Martins, from Architects+Co, stands out. Fernando Guerra The façade reveals the Arc+Co wood panel, an element that allies aesthetics, allows ventilation and natural light in the environments, while guaranteeing privacy to the interiors. With organic paging that takes advantage of the wood scraps cut during the manufacturing process, it is also an ecological panel, since it reduces, with design, the waste of material. Fernando Guerra The... En savoir plus

L'idée de la maison va au-delà de sa forme physique et se construit de l'intérieur vers l'extérieur sur le principe de la connexion spatiale avec l'environnement dont elle est issue et qu'elle surplombe. Le concept est basé sur la relation entre la maison et la ville, la maison et le jardin, et le jardin et la ville. Ce schéma relationnel se répète à l'intérieur de la maison. La partie commune intérieure qui traverse toute la maison se prolonge vers l'extérieur et toutes les parties privées séparées ont leurs propres relations extraverties. L'apparence visuelle de la maison est définie par sa nature intérieure et la perm&ea... En savoir plus

Janet Rosenberg & Studio recently redesigned James Canning Gardens in Toronto and commissioned me to photograph it this summer. The gardens feature a canopy of existing trees, a playground, custom corten steel archways and beautiful urban furniture. Michael Muraz It was important to capture the park in use, so we made sure to include as many people as possible in the images. During daytime, the trees shield the park from the heat, and at night, the lights from the lampposts and the archways provide soft lighting to enjoy the space. Michael Muraz Michael Muraz Michael Muraz I had the fantastic opportunity to go back in the winter during a snowstorm to capture a very different perspective of this beautiful park. M... En savoir plus