Architects: Vaillo + Irigaray / Antonio Vaillo + Juan Luis Irigaray Location: Huarte, Navarra, Spain Project manager: David Eguinoa, architect Riggers: SIAT Structure: Tadeo Errea - DASEIN Contractor: OBENASA Project year: 2003 Finished year: 2004 Photographs: José Manuel Cutillas The genesis of the project starts from a basic minimum cell, which as the minimal optimal space can be multiplied, a..
Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko, Peter Zaitsev Location: Moscow, Russia Principal Use: Residence Engineer: za bor architects Structure material: Concrete Constructed Area: 270 sqm Project year: 2005-2006 Photographs: Peter Zaitsev The site is located not far from Moscow, on a steep hillside. The inclinated terrain has been minimally transformed - in fact, a building built-in to..
Architect: Luca Selva Architects Location: Lupsingen near Basel, Switzerland Client: Private Project year: 2004-2005 Project architect: Christoph Rothenhöfer Civil engineer: Bitterli + Partner Ingenieure AG, Gelterkinden, Switzerland Building physicist: reber.physics, Riehen, Switzerland Photographs: Ruedi Walti, Menga von Sprecher The village of Lupsingen consists of a small old center and a mu..
From sheer boredom of contemporary architecture, Francois Blanciak, compiles a book of 1001 illustrations of building forms disregarding site, program and scale. Even gravity. Instead of the conventional sequence of "program + site = form" he presents the direct opposite illustrating the infinite potential of the playful approach to architecture and design. For many the book will appear as a sha..
Architects: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture Location: São Paulo, Brazil Partners in Charge: Thiago Bernardes and Paulo Jacobsen Project leaders: Fabiana Porto e Marina Nogaró Collaborators: Andrez Galvez e Gabriel Bocchile Interior Design: Bernardes Jacobsen Architecture (Eza Viegas e Veridiana Ruzzante) Lighting Design: Iluz Studio de Iluminação Structure: Leão e Associados Eng. Estruturas Cons..
Architects: Rodrigo Duque Motta / Rafael Hevia García-Huidobro Location: Talca, Chile Client: Gran Casino y Hotel de Talca Collaborators: Cristóbal Martínez / Catalina Ventura Structural Engineer: Eduardo Valenzuela Interior Design: Francisca Varela Lighting Design: Ramón López / Matías López Technical Inspection: José Tomás Vargas Contractor: Inarco Constructed Area: 15.000 sqm Project year: 20..
Who cares what the neighbors think? Let's build a house that looks like a snail shell! That's just what a Mexico City couple did, with the help of the astonishing imagination of those wild and wooly architects at Senosiain Arquitectos. Unlike that House of the Future we showed you yesterday, this abode is built now and the couple is already living in it with their two small children. It's more o..
Architects: EM2N Location: Greifensee, Switzerland Programme: new building: 3 childrens’ rooms, 1 bathroom, 2 patios, 1 home cinema/hobby room Client: Private Engineers: Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH, Zürich Design year: 2003-2008 Constructed Area: new building: 67 sqm, conversion ground floor: 127 sqm Photographs: Hannes Henz In fact, all the clients originally wanted was a larger living room win..
Architects: LOHA Architects Location: West Hollywood, California, USA Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy Project Team: Kevin Southerland, Tracy Smith, Franka Diehnelt Contractor: Archetype, Inc. Client: Habitat Group Los Angeles, LLC Project year: 2006 Photographs: Lawrence Anderson As a model of courtyard housing development, Gardner 1050 utilizes a variety of design strategies to elevate it..
Architects: Yazdani Studio Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China Design year: 2008 Construction year: 2009-2010 Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China Located in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia, in Ordos City, the Kaokaoshina New District is an emerging art and cultural district organized by Ai Wei Wei. Kaokaoshina is positioned to be a thriving tourist destination, in anticipation, the dev..