We´ve seen tons of pictures of both the exterior and the inner court of Herzog & de Meuron’s bird nest in Beijing during the Olympics. But what we haven’t seen is the intermediate space inside the nest fibers, a space which looked amazing on the early renderings. But thanks to Edgar Gonzalez, we can see the colorful inners of the Bird’s Nest through Manuel Ocaña’s Flickr. Pictures after the break.
rchitects: FOA Foreign Office Architects, Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo Location: Istambul, Turkey Collaborators: Friedrich Ludewig, Kenichi Matzusawa, Chris Yoo; Schemes, Detail Design: Friedrich Ludewig, Christian Wittmeir, Samina Azhar, Andrei Gheorghe, Emory Smith, Ebru Simsek, Eduarda Lima Client: Metro Group AG Constrution year: 2007 Constructed Area: 55.000 sqm Budget: 34 M EU..
[ UNSUI ・Location Yamato Kanagawa ・Site area 165.07ｍ2 ・Total floor area 116.24m2 ・Function Private residence ・Structural system Timber 2F ・Finish of construction March 2008 ・Major materials exterior : plasterer finish / interior : tile finish
Prisma Engineering Headquarter location: Graz, Styria, Austria client: Prisma Engineering architecture: SPLITTERWERK projektteam: Irene Berto, Mark Blaschitz, Erika Brunnermayer, Marius Ellwanger, Hannes Freiszmuth, Johann Grabner, Edith Hemmrich, Ute Himmelberg, Bernhard Kargl, Benjamin Nejedly, Josef Roschitz, Maik Rost, Ingrid Somitsch project management: Ingenos Ziviltechniker GmbH, Rudolf E..
Right now JR is in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil where the context of favelas has encouraged him to meet women for whom crime, violent loss of loved ones and arbitrary repression are part of everyday life. Favela da Providencia was chosen to host the project for its strong historical relevance ? it was the first favela of Rio de Janeiro and carries the title of the most dangerous one of all. It also ha..
Architects: Boyd Cody Architects - Sinead Bourke, Dermot Boyd, Peter Cody, James Corbett, Ryan Kennihan Location: Rathmines, Dublin 6, Ireland Programme: Residential House Engineer: John Casey Site Area: 121.5 sqm Constructued Area: 110 sqm Budget: 250,000 EURO (US $394,900) Design & Construction: 2004-2005 External Materials: Brick, Satin Anodised Aluminium Windows Interior Materials: White Oak..
StairCASE This is one of my favourite projects, which realised in 8 weeks, from assigned theme to an almost finished and working prototype. The initial keywords: space, storage, future. In the future space becomes more desireable because big apartment buildings are taking over normal 1, 2 or 3 level houses. Building vertically is more efficient because less ground square meters are needed to hou..
Location: Lazaro Cardenas, Jalisco, Mexico Architects: AD 11 Grupo de Arquitectura y Diseno / Salvador Macias, Francisco Gutierrez Collaborators: Israel Melo (arq), Belen Aldapa (arq), Margarita Peredo (arq), Alejandra Fernandez (arq), Almendra Magana (arq), Manuel Rivera (ing), Javier Ruiz (arq), Lou Peresandi (dis), Alfredo Barb (dis). Client: KP Alazraki Built area: 2280 sqm Photos: Mito Cova..
Name: Nazca, Peruvian Restaurant Architects: Giancarlo Mazzanti and Paula Galarza Collaborators: Sergio Garzón, Alberto Aranda, Diana Vásquez Contractor: Jaime Pizarro Design: 2003 Construction: 2004 section AA The project is located on the new T zone in Bogota, Colombia. The program is divided in two zone: snacks, bar and VIP on the 2nd floor, dining and kitchen on the first floor. The project ..
Rip Curl Canyon, Rice University Art Gallery, 2006 Rice Gallery commissioned this installation in collaboration with The Museum Fine Arts in Houston exhibition, The Modern West: American Landscape, 1890-1950. When the Gallery director mentioned a Modern West tie-in before we had settled on an approach to the project we realized that the notion of landscape and geological phenomena dovetailed wit..
