Just a few minutes ago, Bustler posted the news of Italian architect Alberto Catalano of Teknoarch winning the international competition to design the new House of Arts and Culture in Beirut, Lebanon. Here’s another very exciting entry for this international competition by Portuguese studio Kaputt! that was awarded an Honorable Mention. Kaputt! was founded in Lisbon in 2004 by eight young archit..
This house in the mountains, designed by the architect Joan Anguita, brings all the glamour of Los Angeles to Barcelona, Spain. Partially suspended above the terrain, it is the dream home of a young businessman who loves collecting cars and organizing gatherings for his friends. The four-storey structure blends into its environment by means of a transparent glass façade that provides spectacular..
Casa Monte na Comporta in Grândola, Portugal is a house that sits in its surroundings as if it had always been there yet it also manages to look completely fresh, cool, new and spectacular. The house’s undulating shape echoes the gently sloping sand dunes, and its hard and angular surface planes contrast beautifully with the rounded shapes of the surrounding trees. It has a bunker-like feel but ..
location ：Aichi Prefecture,Japan program ：concert hall、restaurant、residence site area ：831.96㎡ total area ：4076.3㎡ Norihiko Dan — born in 1956 in the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan — is the designer of the beautiful Munetsugu Hall, completed in 2007 in Naka Ward, Nagoya, Japan. It is a privately-funded concert hall that continues the age-old but almost-dead tradition of wealthy arts patrons initia..
Casa no Gerês, designed by Porto-based Correia/Ragazzi Aquitectos, has received its fair share of international awards and exposure, but we cannot help but show it off one more time. This is the first project by Graça Correia and her new Italian partner, Roberto Ragazzi. It is a bold statement that hides nothing. This is also a house that is easy to love from certain perspectives and from others..
Our friends from RSVP shared with ous a project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where a successful advertising agency wants to expand its current facilities on their present site in San Juan’s Roosevelt Avenue, where surrounding buildings have also undergone a process of urban densification. The existing building is a two story modernist box from the sixties occupying the central part of the lot and l..
authors: Boris Redčenkov, Prokop Tomášek, Jaroslav Wertig cooperation: Tomáš Amtmann investor: Johana a Tomáš Růžičkovi photographer: Ester Havlová The purpose of the project was the construction of a self-contained dwelling unit in the garden of the recently reconstructed house. It was necessary to deal with the dominance of the opposite panel house facade, avoid confrontation with the architec..
Architects: Sadar Vuga Architects Location: Portorož, Slovenia Project Team: Jurij Sadar, Boštjan Vuga, Anamarija Volk, Corina Trunz, Goran Golubič Structural Engineer: Elea IC Landscape: GLG projektiranje Client: Lesnina Inženiring, d.d. Project year: 2009 Site Area: 626 sqm Constructed Area: 398 sqm Photographs: Sadar Vuga Villa Beli križ stands on the incline of the hill above Portorož. The m..
Architects: F451 Arquitectura Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China F451 Team: Santi Ibarra, Toni Montes, Lluis Ortega, Xavier Osarte & Esther Segura Engineering Consultant: AKT Landscape: Jeronimo Hagerman Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm aprox Our propos..
La Capital, a restaurant designed by architects Dellekamp, opened in Mexico City this week. The tall, narrow building has a glass facade at street level, below a patterned screen and opaque concrete facade concealing the entertainment venue above. Photographs by Iwan Baan. Here’s some text from Dellekamp: – La Capital 2008 La Capital has infused a modern twist on the cantina while evoking its sp..
