Rainbow coloured buildings
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about rainbow coloured buildings
Project • By Studio Aisslinger • Exhibitions
Home of the future
The future doesn't lie in the invention of something new but rather in the reinvention of the old. This up-cycling and tuning is the focus of product designer Werner Aisslinger. Under the curation of Katja Blomberg, the museum “Haus am Waldsee” will exhibit Aisslinger’s ideas for the “Home of the Future” from April 21st to June 9th, 2013. Freed from the commercial restraints of industry, the designer can within this artistic context give free rein to his visions of utopia. He transforms the floors of the museum into two sections. On the ground floor, he shows new installations created specifically for the house. In five different living situations, the installations display how one can utilize the latest technical materials to achieve the g... More
Project • By T2.a Architects • Apartments
Simplon A
Located in the south western part of the Hungarian capital of Budapest, Simplon_A was built as the residential part of a mixed-use development and has quickly become a colourful new piece of the neighbouring urban landscape.
The building was rounded at the corner by a gesture that evokes the architecture of the early modernism, such a rhythm of the facade boxes appears in many modern apartments of the surroundings that were built in the 1960th. One of the main design concepts was to create a continuously changing building facade that is highly responsive to the everyday use. All apartments have large, open facades and all have a well-utilizable, covered terrace - loggia. The large openings of the facade are shaded by adjustable aluminium... More
Project • By Juana Canet Arquitectos • Primary Schools
Chromatic play
The project responds to the idea of extending the school with a multipurpose room in an adjacent plot which should be connected internally and have an independent entrance from the street.
The plot is rectangular in a 4:1 proportion and the aim is to have a whole 7 meter span open space with natural light and crossed ventilation. In order to achieve that the façade will have to provide as much light as possible and skylights will need to be incorporated in the roofing and on top of the internal staircase. The multipurpose room will be connected in two different levels with the school, at ground level through an ascendant staircase and at roofing level through a descending ramp.
The floor plan of the new mulipurpose room is going to b... More
Project • By Homes of the Rich • Private Houses
Colorful Contemporary Beach House
This colorful Contemporary style beach house is located at 8250 Sanderling Road in Sarasota, FL. It was built in 2000 and boasts 7,642 square feet of living space with 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, swimming pool, lush landscaping, 4-car garage and more. It is listed at $14,500,000.
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Architectural Award-winning Beach House. This dramatic sculptural residence is situated in the very private and gated Sanderling Club on Siesta Key. The home turns abstract art into concrete reality. After a four year collaboration, the homeowners and their architect, Guy Peterson, agree that they achieved exactly the modern masterpiece they envisioned. Peterson organized living spaces in color coded “cubes”. The cubes reflect a p... More
Project • By Favela Painting • Art Galleries
Santa Marta
Using a flexible concept of colourful rays which can easily be expanded, we made a design for the houses around the square and part of the street, including the local Sambaschool. A group of local inhabitants where instructed by trainers from TintasCoral as part of the project "Tudo de Cor para Santa Marta." They where taught everything from different types of paint to safety measures about working on scaffolding. As every wall, every house needs another solution, the painters learn to work with all kinds of material. During the hard month of work they received an education as well as a paycheck. The inside of the sambaschool was painted in their traditional colors.The final result was a huge artwork spanning over 34 houses .About 7000 squa... More
Project • By Abin Design Studio • Factories
IMI Kolkata
Nature in its various forms has always been a constant source of inspiration to man. The sky with its various states and ever changing colors is one of the most dynamic elements of nature and is what has inspired the built form façade. The colored laminate with Vanceva PVB glass on the façade follows no repetitive pattern and is symbolic of the unpredictable nature of the sky. It also represents the vibrancy of today’s youth.
The client brief required a management institute of international standards. Provisions for state of the art facilities and smart classrooms have been made for. The latest technological provisions in the institute allow for worldwide exchange of knowledge, through conventions and seminars. The architectural language... More
Project • By Bonnard Woeffray Architectes FAS / SIA • Nurseries
Kindergarten Monthey
Monthey's new kindergarten is located in the town's Cinquantoux Park and replaces the former villa that had become obsolete. Conceived as a large house for children, the venue assumes an almost organic shape that merges with the wooded park and offers a range of interior spaces. Following the same logic is its composition of volumes topped by a roof composed of gently slanting sections.
The building can accommodate 180 or so children. It offers two floors arranged as six separate units. Each unit is divided into two spaces for activity and rest, with a washroom and toilets in between. Each unit has a distinct character reflecting its position in the building; all benefit from different views of the park, and are bathed in sunlight in the... More
Project • By KOZ ARCHITECTES • Playgrounds
Sports and Leisure Centre
NONCONFORMIST AND BOLD
This building is not lacking in selfconfidence. As proof, you only have to take the second left along the Avenue de Longchamps from the Les Côteaux tramway Station in Saint-Cloud. No sooner have you left behind a quiet row of smart private houses in the traditional millstone grit Parisian style with front steps and plane trees than you come face to face with an odd-looking building, imposing but also childishly simple, more cubist than cube-shaped, decidedly “flashy”, evoking happy memories of a child’s toy.
An appealing, totemic building that you sense is designed for festive celebrations and young people, and that you might expect to find in Rotterdam rather than the uber bourgeaois St Cloud neighbourhoods. Even... More
Project • By Mi5 Arquitectos • Cultural Centres
New Youth Centre in Rivas Vacia Madrid
From the beginning, the project was conceived as the possibility of making the “underground” visible, a construction devised as a radical manifestation of Madrid’s outskirts youthful spirit in general, and of Rivas´ youth groups in particular.
The project aspires to become an explicit “teen” communication vehicle by appropriating their language and their voices as the ingredients of the project. In this way, the project’s team embraces all Rivas’s youth groups by means of an open participation process, in which the future users of the centre, combined with technicians and politicians, will contribute their decisions, their concerns, their fantasies and their aesthetics to create a contemporary “social monument”.
The end result of th... More
Project • By b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos • Offices
Refurbishment of the MN19 Offices
The project consists of transforming an administrative building between party walls, which had significant structural problems, into an office building. The work presents two basic concepts: on one side, the training of obtaining, from a very determining pre-existence, the flexibility and services level that this typology demands. On the other side, a new façade had to allow its identification as a contemporary corporative building. We decided to use colour as an integration tool in a consolidated environment of upper class apartment buildings.
The treatment given to both façades puts them in opposite sides in terms of the public image of the building. The budget assigned by the owner to every façade was completely contrasting.
On the... More
Project • By Allford Hall Monaghan Morris • Bars
Barking Central
Barking Central is one of the most successful regeneration projects in the UK. It has revitalized Barking town centre with a large mixed-use scheme of 7 new buildings including a new Learning Centre, over 500 residential apartments, a 66 bed hotel, a bicycle shed for 250 bikes, 9 retail units, a café, a new town square and an arboretum. Delivered in two phases over 9 years, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) masterplanned and designed the buildings overcoming many challenges to create a scheme that symbolizes the regeneration of this Thames Gateway town.
“The credit that the architects deserve is in delivering this extraordinarily fraught project at all. . . many in Barking credit(ing AHMM) with driving the project through when others... More