© Ryota Atarashi

Architects: Mount Fuji Architects Studio
Location: Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Site area: 177.27 sqm
Building area: 106.33 sqm
Total floor area: 259.72 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Ryota Atarashi & Satoshi Asakawa

This is a house to be built in Tokyo, for a movie producer couple.

This architecture is consisted by combining L-shaped blocks of reinforced concrete and sequential frames of box-shaped engineer-wood. We put bedrooms, film archive and galley in solid concrete part for security, and living room in engineer-wood part for openness. As material that consist an open space that is 6m in height, 5.5m in ... (Read more...)

© David Gonçalves Monteiro, Joana Ferreira, Tiago Ferreirinho

Architects: David Gonçalves Monteiro, Joana Ferreira, Tiago Ferreirinho
Location: Parque da Cidade, Porto, Portugal
Client: Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Porto (AEFAUP)
Project area: 9 sqm
Project year: 2011
Photographs: David Gonçalves Monteiro, Joana Ferreira, Tiago Ferreirinho

© David Gonçalves Monteiro, Joana Ferreira, Tiago Ferreirinho

The idea for the Architecture’s faculty temporary bar for the Oporto academic week 2011 rises from a small concept: to use a material that was translucent and combined texture and colour. A material that works like a skin upon a pre existent ... (Read more...)

© Rocco Design Architects, Vidal y Asociados arquitectos

Architects: Rocco, Vidal + arquitetos
Location: Brasilia, Brazil
Project area: 744 sqm
Landscape design: Renata Tilli Paisagismo
Lighting design: Foco
Structure: Domo Engenharia, FCK Engenharia
Plumbing/ Eletric: LR engenharia
HVAC: Super Ar Condicionado
Photographs: Courtesy of Rocco, Vidal + arquitetos

plan

The bold, contemporary building stands out for the originality of the implementation of volume, which accompanies the shape and slope of the land of almost 11,000 square meters.

© Rocco Design Architects, Vidal y Asociados arquitectos

Designed to serve as sales stand of Alphaville, which is a gated community ... (Read more...)

© Tamás Szentirmai

Architects: Tamás Szentirmai + János Vági
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Project area: 140 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Tamás Szentirmai

© Tamás Szentirmai

The Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Budapest is situated in the historical central building of the campus. A reconstruction process started few years ago to gather all the parts of the faculty onto the same floor. The primary rooms were freed and the faculty started using it during this process. The new hall is tending to fulfill various functions among others it provides space for lectures, exhibitions, conferences, workshops.

© Tamás Szentirmai

During ... (Read more...)

© Åke E:son Lindman

Architects: Elding Oscarson
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Client: No Picnic AB
Project area: 1,100 sqm
Project year: 2010 – 2011
Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman

© Åke E:son Lindman

No Picnic is one of the world’s largest design consultants, covering industrial design, product design, and packaging design; as well as art direction, consumer insight, and architecture. We could hardly imagine a better oriented client, and expected nothing less than an ambitious, demanding, and fun project. They wanted large, open office spaces, a prototype workshop, a prototype showroom, several project rooms, and a striking customer area, distinctly separated ... (Read more...)

© Susan Wides

Architects: Steven Holl Architects
Location: Dutchess County, NY, USA
Design Architect: Steven Holl
Project Advisor: Chris McVoy
Project Architect: Garrick Ambrose
Project Team: Jackie Luk, Lautaro Pereyra, Jeanne Wellinger
Structural Engineering: Silman Associates, PC.
Fabricator: JLP Home Improvement
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Susan Wides

model

On a four acre site in Dutchess County, New York, a new wooden ”T” space sits near a stone “U” house from 1952, which has a steel “L” addition from 2001.

© Susan Wides

The new gallery floats over the natural landscape. It has nine steel columns and nine elevations, all integrated ... (Read more...)

© Courtesy of Bham Design Studio

Architects: Bham Design Studio
Location: Steenokkerzeel, Belgium
Exterior Renovation & Structural Work: MUNA
Project Area: 450 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Jasmine Van Hevel, Mauro Brigham and Olivier Papegnies

The History

In a small terrain of 16m width by 20m long in the middle of a flat Belgian landscape, raises a 30m high water tower built between 1938 and 1941 for and by the village of Steenokkerzeel. It has been in service until the beginning of the nineties and was used by the Nazis during the 2nd world war as a “tour de guete”.

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© Courtesy of Bham Design Studio

Architects: Bham Design Studio
Location: Steenokkerzeel, Belgium
Exterior Renovation & Structural Work: MUNA
Project Area: 450 sqm
Project Year: 2007-2008
Photographs: Jasmine Van Hevel, Mauro Brigham and Olivier Papegnies

The History

In a small terrain of 16m width by 20m long in the middle of a flat Belgian landscape, raises a 30m high water tower built between 1938 and 1941 for and by the village of Steenokkerzeel. It has been in service until the beginning of the nineties and was used by the Nazis during the 2nd world war as a “tour de guete”.

... (Read more...)

© Courtesy of Studio Kuadra

Architects: Studio Kuadra
Location: Borgo San Dalmazzo, CN, Italy
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kuadra

© Courtesy of Studio Kuadra

Historical Background

Between September 1943 and February 1944 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, a concentration camp was established in the ex-barracks of the Alpini, to detain the Jews that had been taken prisoner near Cuneo. The majority of them were foreigners. (Polish, Austrian, Turkish, Romanian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Croatian, German, Greek and French).

They had fled from all over Europe into the Alpine Valleys where they found refuge until they were captured by the ... (Read more...)

© Courtesy of Studio Kuadra

Architects: Studio Kuadra
Location: Borgo San Dalmazzo, CN, Italy
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Courtesy of Studio Kuadra

© Courtesy of Studio Kuadra

Historical Background

Between September 1943 and February 1944 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, a concentration camp was established in the ex-barracks of the Alpini, to detain the Jews that had been taken prisoner near Cuneo. The majority of them were foreigners. (Polish, Austrian, Turkish, Romanian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Croatian, German, Greek and French).

They had fled from all over Europe into the Alpine Valleys where they found refuge until they were captured by the ... (Read more...)