Manchester architects Arca have completed a beach café on the promenade in Morecambe, UK. A band of stainless-steel cladding wraps around the sides and roof of the cafe, and overhangs the two glazed facades that face the promenade and the bay. In front of the cafe there is a south-facing outdoor seating area on two levels. Photography by Timothy Soar. Below is some more information from Arca: – ..
Paris architects ECDM have completed this 63-unit social housing development in Paris. It is located between existing buildings, at the intersection of two streets. A courtyard, hidden from the street, separates the building into two volumes connected by a basement car park. The front facade is composed of coloured glass in different shades of green. The text below is from the architects: – Coll..
Architects: Skylab Architecture Location: Portland, USA Project Year: 2007 Site Area: 929 sqm Client: NORTH Advertising Photographs: Skylab Architecture from archdaily
Dezeen podcasts: in this episode of our series of podcasts for the Design Museum in London, fashion designer Hussein Chalayan talks to Josephine Chanter at an exhibition of his work, on show at the museum. The exhibition is a comprehensive presentation of Chalayan’s projects in the UK, spanning fifteen years. It continues until 17 May. Top image: Hussein Chalayan, INERTIA Spring,Summer 2009. Abo..
A team of Italian architects comprising Modostudio, CCDP and Studio Cattinari have won first prize in a competition to regenerate a former industrial area in Modena, Italy, into a mixed-use public space. Called Ex Fonderie Riunite, the project focuses around the conversion of a former metal-smelting complex into the new site for DAST, the centre for design, art, science and technology in the cit..
After a two-phase international competition (with offices such as Morphosis, Abalos+Sentkiewicz, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid), OMA has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the new Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The project, led by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, is based on 3 theaters (1 x 1,500 seats - the round one, 2 x 800 seats - cubes) which are plugged into a central cub..
London designers Ab Rogers Design have designed the interior of a Little Chef restaurant in Popham, UK, for chef Heston Blumenthal. Inspired by “influences from the history of roadside eating,” the interior comprises red vinyl upholstery, and white ceramic tiles with cooking tips and illustrations printed on them. In collaboration with graphic design studio Praline, ARD also created the graphic ..
Split & Rotate, a holiday home designed by architect Nicos Kalogirou, has been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. Located at the foot of East Vermion mountain inNaoussa Greece, the single-family house consists of two volumes linked by a glass passageway. The main residence has a metal structure and is clad in shipping plywood. The second volume consists of a children’s pavilion with..
Architects: Markus Wespi Jérôme de Meuron architects Location: Brione sopra Minusio, TI, Switzerland Construction Supervision: Guscetti Arch. Dipl., 6648 Minusio Engineer: Anastasi SA, 6604 Locarno Building Physics: IFEC Consulenze SA, 6802 Rivera Contractor: Merlini + Ferrari SA, 6648 Minusio Carpenter: Erich Keller AG, 8583 Sulgen Project year: 2004-2005 Photographs: Hannes Henz The new buildi..
Architects: debartolo architects ltd. Location: Gilbert, Arizona, USA Project team: Jack DeBartolo Jr FAIA, Jack DeBartolo 3 AIA, J. Eric Huffman Civil Engineer: integra engineering Structural Engineer: rudow + berry Mechanical engineer: kunka engineering Electrical Engineer: woodward engineering Contractor: the construction zone Landscape: GBtwo Constructed Area: 1,672 sqm Design year: 2005-200..