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Project • By AUM Pierre Minassian • Private Houses
MAISON AU BORD DU LAC
The house on the lake is a projet designed by the french architecture studio AUM for a couple with two children in 2012. It is located on a narrow plot whose natural slope reaches the shores of Lake. Pierre Minassian, the architect of the project, followed this operation with his team of architects for 3 years. The house is entirely made of raw concrete and its structure is exceptional because of its apparent simplicity and its truthful sophistication.The dwelling consists of two main levels. On the ground floor are situated the largely open reception rooms, such as the living room, the kitchen and the dining room, as well as a guest room and an office. Upstairs is the sleeping area with three bedrooms and their bathrooms as well as a child... More
Project • By Pascal Grasso • Private Houses
Maison Le Cap
They are simple sky-reflecting concrete and glass cubes framed, or rather camouflaged by vegetation. Pascal Grasso conceived a spacious vacation home that reinvents outdoors living in perfect harmony with the environment – a contextual architecture designed as an adapted response to the surrounding geography, landscape, climate and light.
Context
A wooded plot of land on the waterfront of one of the most beautiful sites along the Southern Var coast (France). All around, a typical Mediterranean landscape of steep rocks, thin strips of sand, few coves, water…
All bathed in light.
His initial observations convinced Pascal Grasso to exploit the curve offered by the land, to play with terraces on various levels, to extend the existing dr... More
Project • By NOOR • Sports Centres
BurnGym Ludhiana
Introduction
Located in the largest city of Punjab state, Ludhiana, on the prime Ferozepur road, the 6000 sqft floor plate is housed on the top floor of the bustling Omaxe Plaza mall. The cult of gymming being a folk phenomenon that has all the accoutrements of a religion, the architects took upon themselves to create a balanced breathing space in an urban metropolis where the clients could breathe free and get in touch with themselves. This desire to synchronize harmoniously the noise and squalor of the city with fitter realms in body and spirit is reflected in the choice of the elements they used like raw concrete floors, exposed metal work and reclaimed wooden tertiary material that many might have thoughtlessly discarded.
Design In... More
Project • By HD Wahl GmbH • Offices
Bikini Berlin’s comeback
The production of women’s outerwear was one of the leading industries in the Berlin of the postwar years. Fashion clothing was once manufactured in the Bikinihaus as well. But the name can also be traced back to the building’s structure. An open-sided storey between the first and third floor divided the elongated building horizontally into two parts. This floor was closed in the late 70s. The extensive renovation of the building makes the break in the façade perceptible again.
The Bikinihaus is the centrepiece and namesake of the revitalisation of the listed building complex between the Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church) and Berlin Zoo undertaken by the company Bayerische Hausbau. The Munich-based developers commissioned Hild und K archi... More
Project • By Parc architectes • Cultural Centres
Auditorium of Bondy and Radio France Choral Singing Conservatory
This auditorium is a new symbol in the suburban city of Bondy. Suburbs have built an empire of shopping malls, individual houses and parking lots. Located on the outskirts of Paris, Bondy has a loose and low-density urban fabric. The architecture of the building plays with the aesthetics of the hangar : a very simple square plan and an undulated metal skin. Unlike a traditional hangar, it opens to its context through a series of arches, letting in natural light and views. Inside, every space has a specific acoustics related to its function and its ambiance.
Project’s strategy
This building is designed as a simple and robust tool for the radio France choristers. It is open to appropriation and malleable to use. The box geometry and the u... More
Project • By L3P Architekten AG FH SIA • Sports Centres
Sport Hall Annex Landheim Brüttisellen
Thirty-two socially challenged youths live in the occupational training home in Brüttisellen where they also must spend their leisure time. The range of leisure time activities has been increased through the development of the 5/10/5 metre sport hall annex and the two adjoining fitness studios. Through the double use of existing adjoining rooms, the volume of the new building has been coupled with the main building.
As a flat building with the main body sunk 3 metres into the ground, the extension closes the central garden courtyard off into an access road. The contemporary design stands as a symbol for the development, respectively for the accomplishment of the buildings development between 2006 and 2011. The newly developed ensemble wi... More
Project • By G architects studio • Private Houses
Tokyo Loft
Concept:
This unique apartment is located in the very heart of Tokyo, inside a low-rise apartment complex, one block from a major highway.
The client had been searching for a convenient location in central Tokyo and found this thirty-seven year old apartment located in the attic of the building complete with long, sloping ceilings and a raw interior.
The sloped ceilings have been converted into a skylight allowing in natural sunlight with a wonderful unobstructed view of the city. Since this apartment is to be used for accommodation purposes, we took the unique character of the apartment and added a hotel-like atmosphere.
Design:
In order to achieve harmony between the industrial attic interior and a welcoming hotel-like atmosp... More
Project • By Felipe Rodrigues arquiteto • Apartments
Pirapitingui apartment - remodelation
The apartment is located at a Botti Rubinʼs building. With brutalist architecture, the construction is a typical example of the paulista architectural school production from mid 1960ʼs. The main concepts of the intervention in this 300 sqm residence were: the wide use of raw concrete, restituting this essential element of the architecture of the building; and the spatial rearrangement in order to make use of the open floor space from the original project.
Thus, new exposed concrete pieces, like partition, tabletops and sinks, were inserted and the previous concrete of the slabs and beams, which have been coated, were recovered. In addition, by reconfiguring the partition walls, a fluid circulation was created, which allowed to define cle... More
Project • By KOLENIK Design • Restaurants
Publique Restaurant
PUBLIQUE – bistro 2.0 is designer Robert Kolenik’s contemporary vision of a tried and tested concept
In October, the Publique Restaurant opened its doors on one of the most exciting squares in The Hague’s vibrant city centre. The brothers Casper and Sjoerd Smits and their cousin Maurits Jonkman, all experienced restaurateurs, asked Robert Kolenik to design a stylish but accessible version of that much-loved French classic, the bistro.
The warm copper colour in the stained glass windows was chosen as the guiding principle for the design.
It forms the basis for the colour palette applied throughout the building and interior. This creates a feeling of tranquillity and unity in the design, as well as contributing to the sense that the c... More
OFFICE 05
After a succesfull collaboration between i29 interior architects and VMX Architects for social workplace Combiwerk, this is another project where both offices joined forces to seamlessly integrate architecture and interior design. For media agency MediaXplain an industrial building with a compliant bold interior is realised in de Houthavens, at the old Port of Amsterdam.
At present the area is rapidly transforming into a residential and working area. This interface between the old and new city and the harbour is reflected in the design for the building. VMX Architects took full advantage of this location’s strong point – the view of the water and docks – with a completely open facade. To achieve this, large glass windows in the facade h... More
Project • By adn architectures • Private Houses
Loft FOR
Let's get straight to the point: an imposed decorum, four walls and a few windows, functional needs to sleep, eat read and wash.
Two internal bodies that embrace the envelope without touching it, opaque, translucent, airy, abstract.
A place :
An unfinished surface of 96 square meters: walls made of terracotta blocks, raw concrete ceiling, windows on two of the four walls and two technical ducts.
A program :
Design it for a couple who want a loft conversion type of interior design with efficient use of space.
An answer :
Seek purity of form and functional simplicity.
Means :
Creation of a minimum of two new volumes and use of a very limited set of materials.
Organisation :
Two volumes are built and three pieces of furni... More
Project • By C + S Architects • Housing
SHN. Student Housing Novoli
The student housing in the former Fiat area in Novoli, Florence, was designed to adapt to the constraints of the brief - the perimeter of the lot, the fixed alignment, the building height - and to use them as a springboard for original compositional and typological solutions that have produced an articulated, light-filled interior landscape inside severe walls.
Despite the double-courtyard layout, the building is far from inward-looking and imposes order on the wider context: the passageway that cuts crosswise through it is seen as a "city gate", a way through the block and a focus for communal activities, as well as access to the students' lodgings. The twin themes of "urban silence" and "constructed mass”, borrowed from historical ci... More
Humanitarium
Historic and location
Within the sphere of the international institutions, the Humanitanium counts’ as the fifth building created by the office group8 and completes the works for the ICRC and the FIPOI, along with the creation of the Logistics hall for the ICRC and the transformation of the WTO Headquarters – William Rappard Center.
The common approach behind each mandate is to identify the specificities that characterize it and to extract its own single identity. These features are defined by environmental, functional or social aspects. Creating discrete buildings, with a clear architectural style, places of exchange, interactions within the existing elements, here are some key notions of the process adopted by group8.
A new visitor... More
Project • By Rolf Ockert. Architect. • Private Houses
Clovelly House
Having seen some of our earlier work the owners of this extraordinary oceanfront site invited us to submit ideas about what a new house there could look like. They had lived in a ramshackle cottage on the site for several years before and therefore had an intimate familiarity with the advantages and disadvantages of living in this spectacular but exposed spot.
The design process, complex due to several defining key issues inherent to the site, ended up taking us through some radically different sketch options before settling on the one that was finally realised.
Caption
The most magnificent quality of the site, the amazing ocean view, lies to the South while the sun still of course circles around the North. To focus on its unique loc... More
Product • By CORTILE GmbH | X STONE GROUP • CORTILE CONCRETE TILES
CORTILE CONCRETE TILES
One of the major trends in the design of interiors currently has the uncompromising modern look of raw concrete surfaces. Concrete surfaces can be produced subsequently also with the wall and floor tiles from Cortile. The material has the feel and appearance of the original concrete surface. Cortile mineral surfaces are handmade in Germany from a two-component polymer-mineral powder system applied to different backings for strength and flexibility. Recreate the appearance and tactile sensation of the original materials with these innovative veneers. Concrete is available in four textures–Wild, Smooth, concrete armoring and Boardform–and in a variety of colors. Special request can also be handled upon demand. More