We recently shared Albert McDonald’s winning entry for the COD competition, and now SO Architecture just shared their proposal with us. The proposal entitled “Free Plan (T)” incorporates the free plan of Le Corbusier in an effort to leave the inner organization undisturbed. Yet, the free plans also means “no walls shall disturb one to live among nature”. Taking inspiration from Raymond’s work an..
Architect: Aboday Architects (Indonesia) Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Project Architect: PT. Parama Loka Cipta Developer: PT. Asiana Lintas Cipta Management Construction: PT. Arkonin Structure Consultant: PT. Agoes Kurnia M & E Consultant: PT. Policipta Multidesain Quantity Surveyor: PT. Korra Antarbuana Lighting Consultant: PT. Litac Consultant Photographs: Happy Lim This 16 storey apartment pr..
if you're going to build a castle, make it sturdy enough to survive attacks; or, so decided the 16th century japanese. they started building castles, like himeji castle, with stone rather than wood. then again, at the time japan was in the midst of civil war and the arrival of the cannon forced a change in architecture. today the owners of himeji observatory house may just fear the dissolution o..
name: n house place: warsaw design: 2008 construction: 2009 status: design designers: jakub majewski, lukasz pastuszka collaborator: tomasz bierzanowski, katarzyna kazimierczyk investors: private usable floor area: 265㎡ from moomoo
Another project by recent Dezeen regulars Suppose Design Office: this time a house in Matsuyama, Japan, designed to offer a view of the surrounding scenery from every room. Walls integral to the structure of the building have been scattered across the floor-plan, opening various clear views through the structure while maintaining the building’s required earthquake resistance. The toilet can be h..
Architect: Prax Architects Location: Auch, France Project year: 2006-2007 Project Area: 180 sqm Photographs: Arnaud Saint-Germès This house project is founded on the concept of Louis Kahn: a company of space: the project consisted in organizing spaces with different uses related to the individual, around the space of family, gathered in a coherent space unit. This project is based on the followi..
Location: Gojo, Kyoto, Japan Type of Project: Single family residence/ craft studio Project Architects: EASTERN design office /// Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno Construction area: 140.2 m² Total floor area: 259.8 m² Year of Construction: 2007 House with Crest is located in the city of Gojo in Kyoto, Japan, where architects Anna Nakamura and Taiyo Jinno of EASTERN design office reveal their talent..
FORMER ALFA ROMEO FACTORY 2B-2C AREA URBAN PLAN NUOVO PORTELLO The project creates a new city part in coherence with the larger process of transformation affecting the area.The anomalous scale of the existing industrial Alfa Romeo precinct is opened to collective use by tracing a new series of pathways connecting it with the surrounding urban net. A new square along via Traiano generates a new d..
PARKRAND BUILDING Buurt 9 (neighborhood number nine) is a characteristic piece of the Amsterdam Western Garden Cities, a big housing development of the 1950s and 1960s built with the aim to house as many people as quickly as possible. But the design of the Garden Cities has enormous spatial qualities: sequences of spacious parks surround the neighborhoods and give the development its name. Recen..
Architects: 57 STUDIO - Maurizio Angelini / Benjamín Oportot Location: Colina, Chile Collaborators: Felipe Zamora / Carla Uribe Project year: 2006-2007 Construction year: 2007-2008 Structural Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa Contractor: CYBCO Materials: Concrete / Steel / Stone Photographs: 57 STUDIO The assignment is a single unit house in a residential park in northern Santiago. The sites - about 50..
