Architect: Enota Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Team: Dean Lah, Milan Tomac, Jernej Živic, Polona Ruparčič, Matjaž Drinovec, Eva Matjašič, Nataša Mrkonjič, Maruša Zupančič Landscape Architect: Bruto Size: 4,620 m2 Budget: 3,800,000 EUR Client: LIZ Inženiring Type: Invited competition, First prize Year: 2004 Status: completed 2007 Photo: Miran Kambič A residential building with 47 dwelling units l..
Last year, BIG completed Mountain Dwellings (winner of the Building of the Year 2009 Award under the Housing category), showing us new approaches to a complex typology. Along this line of innovation in housing, we now present you a sneak peek of the soon to be completed 8 House a 62,000sqm project located in Copenhagen with an interesting approach to mixed use. Over 540 units for different confi..
Architects: C+C04STUDIO Location: Cagliari, Italy Collaborators: Ing. S.Pusceddu, Ing G.Meloni Contractor: Edilizia Bandini snc Budget: € 400,000 Project Year: 2005 Photographs: Pierluigi Dessì / Confinivisivi The building is located in the hinterland of Cagliari, in one of the smaller towns developed in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century and lacking in the quality of construction and form..
Broadcasting Place is a mixed use development close to Leeds city centre. Conceived as a public/private partnership for property group Downing and Leeds Metropolitan University, it provides approximately 110,000 square feet of new offices and teaching spaces together with 240 student residences in a landmark building rising to 23 storeys. A new Baptist Church completes the scheme on its northern..
As part of a waterfront development for Oslo called Bjørvika Barcode, Norwegian architects a-lab have designed an office and residential building with a covered garden punched through the middle. The project is one of three buildings to form the new headquarters of a Norwegian bank, with the other two designed by Dutch architects MVRDV and Norwegian studio Dark. a-lab’s building will feature eig..
For Forrest Fulton Architecture’s competition proposal, the Alabama-based firm designed a 900,000 sqf biomorphic spatial surface that connects the adjacent city and the landscape. The architecture focuses on creating an urbanistic landscape that morphs the common urban element of Yerevan, the superblock, to the site, a truncated hill along the natural amphitheater of the Yerevan. This new model ..
A proposal by the young Danish Architects MASU PLANNING and CORNELIUS + VÖGE together with engineers Grontmij / Carl Bro, has been appointed as winner of the ambitious competition "City Island" at the port of Odense in Denmark. The postindustrial area will be a cultural island for the entire city. A place that gathers people in the city and the entire region with activities of sports, living, le..
BLALYS is an apartment block designed by Japanese architects Suga Architects Office in Toyonaka city, Osaka, Japan. The building comprises 34 apartments.
program 750 Apartments, Commercial, Hotel, Cinemateque, Kindergarten, underground parking client Modern Hongyun Real Estate Development Co. LTD. Beijing, China size 210,000 sm status Design Development Filmic urban space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, are the central aims of this Hybrid Building complex sited adjacent to the center of Beijing. The aspiration of the develo..
A few months ago we featured an amazing skyscraper by Herzog & de Meuron, that will have a great impact in the skyline of New York. I’m very intrigued by the final result of this project, as it develops a pixelated unit composition that many have propossed, but no one has built. Now, a friend sent me this amazing video to market the building, done by Tronic Studios. The video reveals some portio..