Japanese architects ARTechnic have completed Shell, a holiday villa in Karuizawa, Japan. The two-storey, concrete house comprises two tubes with oval sections, arranged around a fir tree. The floor is raised 1.4 metres from the ground; the architects intended to minimise time spent on maintaining the property by separating the house from its natural surroundings. “Being in sync with nature isn’t..
Residential buildings have always been an issue among architects. From on side, you have a developer who wants the best out of his money, usually leaving behind what we think matters - which sometimes does, but most of the times doesn´t… out of several -complex- variables which at the end have to make a project feasible. It´s not that i´m a pesimist. Actually, there are great residential buildin..
Owner: Mark Raab and Hemant Chowdhry of SOWA Restaurant Group, LLC Architect: Office dA, Inc. Personnel in architect's firm who should receive special credit: Project Design: Nader Tehrani, Monica Ponce de Leon Principal in Charge: Nader Tehrani Project Architect: Dan Gallagher (registered) Project Coordinators: Catie Newell, Brandon Clifford Project Team: Harry Lowd, Richard Lee, Lisa Huang, Re..
Architect of record: Hagy Belzberg, A.I.A. Interior designer: Elizabeth Paige Smith Engineer(s): Structural Dan Echeto Consultant(s) Landscape: Bill Nicholas of Nicholas Budd Dutton Architects Other: Furniture Elizabeth Paige Smith Special Fabrication Spectrum Oak General contractor: Belzberg Architects Photographer Benny Chan (Fotoworks) According to Hagy Belzberg, AIA, principal of Los Angeles..
Light tubes Light tubes Undercroft Undercroft Front façade Kiosk on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin Kiosks on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin with Parliament House in background Canberra is distinctive in international terms as a planned city and seat of government. At the centre of the planning geometry sits the Parliament House, the foreground of which consists of a range of buildings containi..
Here’s another student project, this time a pavilion designed by Alan Lu at the University of California. The conceptual pavilion was designed for a fictional perfume brand and would be situated at the Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan. The information below is from Alan Lu: – I am a forth year (last year) architecture student at University of California, Berkeley in the U.S. The work was done as ..
University of Innsbruck graduate Andreas Hoerl has sent us these images of his thesis project called Flotsam - swimming architecture. The project is a conceptual design for a floating gallery where students and architects can exhibit their designs. Here’s some text from Hoerl: – flo tSA_M - swimming architecture (function: architecture gallery) The idea is to create a stage for architects/studen..
This villa is located in plot #80 of the ORDOS project. Architects: Rocker-Lange Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Project leaders: Ingeborg M. Rocker & Christian J. Lange Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm The project called “Inside Out|Outside In” is part o..
Austrian designer Christian Precht has designed a compact living environment called OrganiCube. The conceptual nine square metre apartment is made of Corian and comprises facilities for living, sleeping, working and bathing. Here’s some more information from Precht:–OrganiCube explores the creative potential of the material world on the one hand and a study of living in a limited space on the ot..