After working under names such as Renzo Piano and Dominique Perrault for almost a decade, French architect, Cyril-Emmanuel Issanchou, recently opened her own practice. For her ‘Maison Ecorce’, translated to mean the Bark House, Issanchou challenged the preconceptions of traditional timber constructed residences to design a contemporary house with strong emphasis on design. Continue Reading →
Metous Studio, a young mock firm of 10 undergraduate architecture students from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo working under the guidance of the head partners David Lee and Anthony Stahl, have designed a fresh and dynamic housing tower for Mexio City. Continue Reading →
Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. Called ‘Hanse Colani Rotor House’ it was designed for young professionals who need minimal space while they focus on career. The compact living space includes four rooms in one 36 square meter house. Continue Reading →
Our friends from CEBRA shared their recently awarded Sports Center design with us.
The 3.5 m2 extension will incorporate handicap friendly solutions within a sports facility, as almost 50 % of the students attending Egmont High School experience some form of disability whether it be that they are blind, mentally challenged or an amputee. Entitled Kolden, the Danish world for ‘the globe’, the project reflects the fact the everyone is welcomed in the facility. Continue Reading →
‘Living Architecture‘ is a new not-for-profit organisation set up to revolutionise both architecture and the UK holiday rental business.
Five holiday homes by architects Peter Zumthor, MVRDV, NORD Architecture, Hopkins Architects and Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects are nearing completion in England as part of the project initiated by writer Alain de Botton.
Designed to shake up both house-building and the holiday rentals industry in the UK, ‘Living Architecture’ plans to build one house per year after the completion of the first five buildings. Continue Reading →
100 villas designed by 100 international architects selected by Herzog & de Meuron and curated by Ai Weiwei.
This villa designed by PRODUCTORA is located in plot #02 of the project called ORDOS 100 (Inner Mongolia, China).
From PRODUCTORA:
“As a starting point for our design a solid brick volume was cut up diagonally into different slices, creating a series of autonomous volumes with different sizes and characteristics. On the ground floor these strips are interconnected through wide passages, generating a complex multidirectional space in which all the day activities take place. Above this level the night activities are organized. Continue Reading →
‘The Massar Children’s Discovery Centre’ designed by Henning Larsen Architects will be the heart of a Syrian educational programme – Massar. The centre will through science-based, hands-on experiences offer activities to empower young Syrians to contribute actively in building their future.
The discovery centre has a unique location in the heart of Damascus. The building comprises exhibition, library, education and administration space. The centre will be an integrated main attraction within a new 170,000m² public realm on the site. Continue Reading →
Swedish architecture firm visiondivision‘s latest project is ‘The Peak Series’ of pre-fabricated summer houses which are available in two sizes: 45 m2 and 90 m2.
Pyramidal in shape, each house fashions a wood façade with a gap between the boards, allowing one to climb its exterior. Divided into three floors, the middle level is the sleeping mezzanine, where a large number of guests can be accommodated. Continue Reading →
‘Ole Scheeren of OMA introduces a new residential typology to Singapore with ‘The Interlace’, a large-scale complex of interconnected apartment buildings stacked in an innovative hexagonal arrangement, developed by CapitaLand and Hotel Properties Limited. Continue Reading →
Stockholm architects Wilhelmson Arkitekter have designed a housing project with windows that look like gilded picture frames.
Developed for HSB Nordvästra Skåne, the project is to be built overlooking the sea in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Pictures are by Peter Thuvander and Danyal Taylan. Continue Reading →
