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Project • By MVSA Architects • Shops

Shoebaloo Amsterdam

SHOEBALOO, a designer footwear boutique in the Netherlands, has three shoe shops in Amsterdam and is as popular for its shoes as for its cutting-edge interiors. One of the shops is situated in the ultra chic P.C. Hooftstraat. Despite being only 100 square meters, the shop’s high-end shoe collection speaks in measures, including Gucci, Prada, Fendi and miu miu. The shop in the P.C. Hooftstraat started up 12 years ago and the first interior was designed by Borek Sipek. Looking for something new, something special, offering a completely new shopping experience the client commissioned Meyer en Van Schooten Architecten to remodel the interior. The exterior as well as the interior of the remodelled shop are in many ways contrary to the o... More

Sergio Pirrone

Project • By OBJEKTⒸInternational • Private Houses

Celluloid Jam House

“I once read that to build architecture does not merely mean to put something on the ground. Rather, the idea is to bring the ground and the structure together appropriately.” These words come to life when you take a look at Japanese architect Norisada Maeda's masterpiece, the 'Celluloid Jam' house. At first glance, this house, with its unique, futuristic form, quite simply looks like it’s dropped off another planet. But as you take a closer look at the contours of Celluloid Jam, you discover that what the architect has attempted to do here is to create a world where architecture and nature have fused, according to the principle of the Möbius strip, to form one coherent whole. At first glance, this house,with its unique, futuristic form,... More

Project • By Subarquitectura • Laboratories

Laboratories Near to a Lemon Orchard

The building is located inside the Campus de los Desamparados in Orihuela, next to a lemon orchard. There, the conditions of light, lack of rain and heat are really extreme, exceeding 40º C during the summer months. Laboratories and departments are grouped by a structure of interspersed rings, which contain a system of semi-outdoor courtyards connected with each other at different levels. These rings are composed of three white plastic strips: the bottom one, in contact with the ground, is semi-transparent and porous, and lets you view the outside when you are sitting; the middle strip, very opaque and technical, leads the large volume of required facilities inside; and the last one, very diffuse, regulates the atmosphere and creates shad... More

Project • By Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur • Fire stations

Firestation Houten

The fire station is situated on the edge of Houten, in allotments along the De Kruisboog road, an area where the architecture of the allotments served as inspiration for Jeanne Dekkers Architectuur. Wood and transparent materials from the architecture of greenhouses were, with an emphasis on detail, translated into the building in a contemporary manner. The reference to the name Houten (wooden in Dutch) is not entirely coincidental. By using transparent materials, the work of the fire station is made visible. Despite the fragile nature of the cladding material, the building is nevertheless robust, which expresses the ruggedness of the fire brigade. The station has a simple program that eventually resulted in a clear design fully based on t... More

Project • By Supermachine studio • Universities

BUCC Bangkok University Creative Center

BUCC is a project that critiques, challenges and questions today’s identities and activities of the youngsters as well as new policy in Thai society. For the past few years, Bangkok university has one of the most active organization to echo Thai government’s campaign of transforming the country from a agricultural and industrial based economy into the one that relies more on “creative economy.” A small division called BUCC (Bangkok University Creative Center) has been set up to experiment and implement new activities with the students. The facility occupies 1st and 2nd floor of the university brand new building, BU landmark. The most important program for the division is workshop where students from different faculties can participate in... More

Hans-Georg Esch

Project • By gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects • Museums

Maritime Museum

Two light roof shells, facing each other and overlapping, that in the broadest sense evoke in the observer the idea of a maritime shape and an analogy to a sail, create the identity-forming landmark of the Museum that is so decisive for the overall character of the complex. The large, hall-like space below this roof construction is intended for the exhibition of large, ancient ships that have been assessed as being valuable to cultural history. Here they will be made accessible to the general public. The entwined "sails" stand freely on a pedestal in which all the functions of the Museum are accommodated. Spacious open staircases are inviting places to linger and bear an immediate relation to the landscaped open spaces. For the marit... More