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Project • By Architects of Invention • Apartments
SBERCITY
The proposed site is located within the newly designed masterplan of Rublyevo-Archangelskoe, a territory which occupies 461ha to the west of Moscow. It is a large-scale LEED ND certified project, with aspirations becoming a sustainable, high-tech and harmonious live-work city for business and families. Located on the greenbelt, adjacent to the Moskva river, it is an attractive location less than hour away from the city of Moscow.
The 640 residential unit building complex is comprised of a singular universal block, interconnected on two levels. It thereby suggests a permeable, notional, perimeter block. Each block is connected to the other as a bridge, which also produces a roof terrace on the free, upper surface of the block... More
Project • By Architects of Invention • Apartments
Lisi Garden House
Abstract
The 7-storey building is notionally modular, with all elements, but not all modules, being constructed offsite. This represents a radical innovation for Georgian architecture, where offsite construction is still in its infancy.
Architects of Invention
Inspired by both American architect James Wines’ collage “Highrise of Homes”, with its greenhouse style living spaces, and by architects Brodsky & Utkin’s “Columbarium Habitable”, the concept for this scheme is houses with gardens stacked on top of each other to form a single residential block. The modular living rooms are configured as alternating oval and rectangular forms that create a rhythmical vertical pattern within the... More
Project • By D. Champsas architectural office • Apartments
LINE-PLANE-PRISM | Loft addition to a penthouse
The progress achieved by systematic research will give birth to a dictionary of elements that, developed further, will lead to a “grammar”.W. Kandinsky, 1924, “Point and Line to Plane” A. ANALYSIS1. A groundbreaking architectural vocabularyDefining the POINT and the LINE, W. Kandinsky and P. Klee have identified rich symbolic and conceptual content to these archetypal engravings. With their theoretical and painting work, the modern masters of abstraction laid the principles for a methodical composition on canvas, based on these primary Elements.What would the content of this radical vocabulary be if, reductively in some way, it was to be extended to the "3D canvas"?Extruded to the third dimension, the POINT, the LINE and the... More
Project • By STENI AS • Apartments
Modern flats Aleca in Temse
In Temse – by the sea – we find this modern block of flats clad with STENI Colour façade panels.The building was designed by Conix RDBM Architects. You can actually see that the artist’s idea and expression and the real building are virtually identical.White STENI façade panels of various sizes, together with glass balconies, provide a unique expression – and a particularly inviting living environment. More
Sohosquare
The architecture of this flat complex combines modern, streamlined design with very few industrial factors. The building coils like a snake around three bright inner courtyards and embodies the “indoor / outdoor” lifestyle in Los Angeles with its openness. The use of organic and recyclable materials as well as ecological construction techniques has created compact, sustainable flats with modern comfort levels.
The bathrooms have elegant GROHE Allure fittings with GROHE SilkMove® technology, high quality GROHE Essence shower fittings and ergonomically shaped, comfortable to handle GROHE Relexa shower heads and a perfect flow of water for a particular type of natural enjoyment of water. As is also the case for the GROHE Minta kitchen fitti... More