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Project • By Onice Architetti • Apartments
Palazzo Lanza
This apartment is located in a beautiful historic complex in the center of Turin made of 4 different buildings and a superb internal courtyard adorned with statues. The entire complex has been refurbished and we have designed the complete renovation of one of these apartments located on the third floor. The project has been totally custom- designed for the client, a swiss sixty-years-old gentleman with a very special and intense life, who wanted to create his own ‘buen retiro’ in a tailor-made space full of the intense memories of his life. We have started from the design of a new layout of the apartment, and then we have done all the technical drawings for the construction company and for the client as well. We have decided all the details... More
Project • By Garrido Lizarraga Arquitectos & Asociados • Private Houses
House O+I
This house is a very special project for our firm, because due to the tight time we had to design and build the house, the project synthesizes the concepts that our firm considers essential for good architecture.The main idea was to take advantage of the long side of the land (20m x 50m) since our construction was 165m² and the lot 1,000m². For this, the different spaces of the house are arranged one after the other, forming a kind of elongated gallery, giving the feeling of a house much larger than 165m².We wanted to design a house that had what Le Corbusier called the architectural Promenade, which is in other words to create an experience as walking through the different spaces of the house.It is for this reason that the house does not h... More
Project • By Gioia Sawaya • Research Facilities
GM WORLD
While some consider the empty or the unfinished parts of a building as disturbing, others feel they make an area even more interesting than the perfect picture. The notion of emptiness is a stimulus for the mind. It raises questions. Whether questions of an abandoned past or questions of a possible future, still, it does raise questions. Resting in its incompletion, the skeleton of the building sits today as an ever-present ghost in the contemporary city of Amchit, Lebanon. Suspended in time, it gives the idea of “waiting”, suggesting potential change and movement. Due to the financial and economic crisis that has left a strong impact on investments in Lebanon, the building, monolithic and robust in structure, is left unfinished. Ho... More
Project • By Archohm • Offices
Studio Archohm c - 28 c
How should the architecture of an office that produces more architecture be?c 28 c, is the design studio archohm's head office in India. Often labelled as a design fort on account of its monumental scale, the design of the studio reflects the 'mad and fun' design attitude of archomites as much as the architecture it believes in. It fits itself snugly on a triangular plot in the thick of a dense urban jungle taking a somewhat diplomatic stance towards its challenging and enigmatic context. Flanked by the 'Jami mosque' on one side, industrial factories including a tobacco manufacturing unit on the other and a large slum development on the third, it responds individually to each side, remaining in tandem with the cardinal directions and its pa... More
Project • By Sean Godsell Architects • Farms
House in the Hills
The site was excised from a working sheep farm. It consists of 25 hectares of cleared and underworked paddocks. It slopes from its mid length highpoint to the north and south - both slopes having spectacular views. An established wind break of cyprus pines flanks the west boundary and provides a degree of protection from the prevailing south westerly winds which pummel the south slope, making it a less desirable location for a new house. In this part of Australia the southerly winds are cold . In fact the wind fundamentally dictated the design of this building. The north (sun) facing living pavilion and adjacent courtyard are protected in part by the re-shaped landscape immediately to their south and in part by a 30m x 30m operable louvred... More
Project • By paola bagna • Hotels
Villa Lepic Boutique Hotel
The former governor of Abidjan’s residence was remodelled by architect Paola Bagna as 4* boutique hotel. The design takes its cue from the Ivory Coast villa’s mid century style and tropical surroundings to charm guests with understated yet luxurious materials and forms. Nestled between palm trees and tropical plants, this Le Corbusier inspired diamond in the rough had retained it’s appeal despite waterproofing and conservation problems. Over three years, Paola Bagna directed a renovation of the home, transforming it into a boutique hotel of 17 rooms including reception area, restaurant, meeting rooms / event space, bar, wellness area, indoor and outdoor lounges and a swimming pool. The hotel concept, developed with creative director Anette... More
Project • By KZ Architecture • Private Houses
Woodcrest Residence
The program called for a home for a family of five in a corner infill lot in a South Florida Island residential community. The site is flanked by single family homes and is located across the street from the neighborhood school. The design challenge involved the development of an extensive program of indoor and outdoor spaces in a limited site. In addition, the living spaces had to be set at a flood elevation six feet above the existing grade. Some of the goals set forth in the initial stages of design included: Minimizing the building footprint and creating a private outdoor courtyard that would be integrated with the indoor spaces despite the change in elevation. Orienting the main living spaces towards this private courtyard and/or towar... More
Project • By JYCArchitect + DCDAssociates • Churches
M.Y. Village Baptist Church
M.Y. Village Baptist Church has a small congregation located right next to Shuinan redevelopment zone. First floor houses the auxiliary space, second and third floor being the main auditorium and its mezzanine seating area. The fourth floor is the pastor's residence. "A light for the Gentiles" serves as the concept beyond the spatial design of the church. The site is at the intersection with west and south facing that exposes to plenty of sun lights. The west facade is mainly solid with punched windows and slanted walls to bring in indirect lights through colored glass on each opening. Thus, the main auditorium is immersed in an aura similar to that of the chapel in Ronchamp by Le Corbusier. Behind the south facade is the main stairs l... More
Project • By Selektiv Studio • Bars
Bar Herzog
The „new Maxburg“, a post-war modernist building located in the heart of Munich, was built by revered architects Sep Ruf and Theo Papst in 1957 to replace the castle once belonging to Bavarian duke Wilhelm V, built in the late 16th century and devastated in the second world war. It now belongs to the very small assortment of heritage listed modernist buildings of Munich. This space truly adopts the periodical virtues and ideologies, where clear and functional forms were revived in turn opposing the former and more abundant decorative gestures applied previously and now protected throughout Munich. Materials such as Brass and textured concrete reinterpret the terrazzo floors and further strengthen the material imprint of the public bui... More
Project • By Fake Industries Architectural Agonism • Residential Landscape
OE House
The OE House is a montage. The clients wanted a double house, so they could move from one half to the other, according to their state of mind. They did not like to spend their holidays traveling; they preferred to move downstairs, and do it for real, closing the quarters above. We provided them with two well-known domestic environments—the open frame of the case study houses for the hedonistic pleasure of the warm season, topped with the interiorized existentialism of Le Corbusier’s Maison Jaoul for the windy months in la Sierra de la Mussara. We did it literally. The resulting exquisite corpse—wrapped by the most Spanish architectural prop of all: the persiana—ensures the schizophrenic differentiation of modes of habitation as much as it n... More
Project • By Minggu Design • Restaurants
Hong Mansion – The Charm in Nanjing
Qinhuai River, one of the fascinating historical landscapes in Nanjing city, has witnessed the rise and fall of six dynasties in ancient China. In the west around 100 meters to the Confucius Temple, up the steps in the northwest, #17 Gongyuan Street was the Grand Ballroom in the period of the Republic of China. Today, the yesterday's glory has been welcoming guests to its refurbishment, a restaurant called Hong Mansion - The Charm. ‘Book as it were, as it was painting.’ For the architect, the work as the one. Jaco Pan, the principal architect of Minggu Design, got nurtured under the background of the local traditions and humanities, understanding aesthetics and philosophies of space on account of the exquisite lifestyle of men of liter... More
Project • By I.HOUSE Architecture and Construction • Private Houses
B House
The house is located not too deep in a rather quiet lane on the outskirts of Saigon. Like many houses in Vietnam, it has constantly exposed to the bustling surroundings as dust, heat, noise etc. Because of these factors, the house owner (also active in designing industry) pretty much sharing with us in a decision to make the more active space would be inward - "introverted" to build the core with buffer spaces of green trees. In other words, the open space is the highest priority in the designing process for the family's generations to interact with each other. The specific criteria for the house are laid out as:1. Open space but "introverted"; simple, rustic but delicate. 2. Give priority to natural lighting and ventilation. Reduce the dep... More
Project • By Project Eleven • Pavilions
Temporary pavilion at picnic «Afisha»
This pavilion is a part of a project “Open-Air Flat” organized by PIK Group – a leading real estate developer in Russia – for Picnic “Afisha”music festival.Pop-up structures that symbolized the rooms of an abstract flat were situated in different areas of Kolomenskoye park where the festival has been taking place since 2007. The object is a reinterpretation ofa living room which is a common space for communication and activity in any flat. Not by chance it was situated in one of the most crowded areas of the festival just between food court and main music stage.This specific location implied the pavilion to be an art object as well as having a clearpractical purpose.With its semi-transparent walls constructed out of rainbow-colored plastic... More
APARAT Headquarters
The initial concept of APARAT Headquarters (known as the YouTube of Iran), was established by two fundamental questions. First, we analyzed how we can re-define and create an open Space that fosters a conductive collaboration between employees within an existing building. Second, we explored creating Subspaces for independently operating offices which can take advantage of potential interactions through a series of interconnected common areas within the office environment.Conceptual Gap The idea of constructing a building within a building is explored by expanding the gap between corridors and offices. Similar to how the coastline connects land and sea, a gap between corridor and office is where Qastic’s design... More
Project • By Anna & Eugeni Bach, architects • Pavilions
Mies Missing Materiality
Dressing the Mies van derRohe Pavilion to strip it of its materiality.This simple act turns the Pavilion into a representation of itself that opens the door to multiple interpretations about aspects like the value of the original, the role of the white surface as an image of modernity and the importance of materiality in the perception of space.The Pavilion in Barcelona upon which we act is a reconstruction, a replica so faithful to the original that it is often difficult to remember its true nature. A building that should have been temporary was immortalised first by the written account of the modern movement and later by its own reconstruction.Turning the Pavilion into the image of itself, with all the surfaces restricted to the same mate... More