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 →
GRAFT is an architecture and urban planning company founded in Los Angeles, USA, in 1998. ‘Loft Hamburg’ is one of the projects they recently completed.
‘Loft Hamburg’ is a beautiful modern loft in Hamburg, Germany which is meant as a private residence for client Vanessa Kullmann. Continue Reading →
The ‘VitraHaus’ is a showroom for the furniture factory Vitra, in Weil am Rhein, Germany. The building designed by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron is now open to public.
Earlier this year we featured Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus during its construction phase. Now, we share with you this amazing video by Pedro Kok, a brazilian architectural photographer.
Over the years the Vitra Campus has become an architecture museum, featuring works by the most renowned architects: Frank Ghery, Zaha Hadid, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Jean Pruvé, Nicholas Grimshaw, Buckminster Fuller and SANAA (under construction).
The ‘VitraHaus’, built by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron, is the home of the Vitra Home Collection. Discover furniture arrangements here in different style genres – inspirational ideas for your home and your own taste in design. Continue Reading →
The proposal created by German duo Felix Yaparsidi + Valentin Ott was awarded first by the cultural department of the Federation of German Industry. Entitled ‘Instant Kiez’, the idea is an instant neighborhood that would create a kind of ’sociocultural social’ to support the new urban base. Continue Reading →
‘Roll It‘, a stunning experimental house, resulted from the collaboration among different institutes within the University of Karlsruhe. This cyclindrical design is a modular prototype that provides flexible space within a minimum housing unit. Three different sections are dedicated to different functional needs: there’s a bed and table in section, an exercise cylinder, and a kitchen with a sink. Continue Reading →
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched an international urban planning and architectural design competition for its new premises. The ECB will be constructing its new headquarters up until 2014 on the site of the Grossmarkthalle (former wholesale market hall) in Frankfurt. The building is based on the plans designed by the Viennese architecture office Coop Himmelb(l)au, which won the architectural design competition in 2004.
The site of the Grossmarkthalle, an area of 120,000 m² on the river in the eastern part of Frankfurt am Main which the ECB purchased from the City of Frankfurt in March 2002. The site will be developed to accommodate 2,500 workplaces, with office space and special areas covering a main usable area of approximately 100,000 m² plus all the necessary parking areas and technical facilities. Continue Reading →
The Jewish Museum Berlin held a press conference today on to reveal the design by Daniel Libeskind for the Jewish Museum Berlin Academy. Mr. Libeskind designed both the Jewish Museum Berlin (completed 2001) and the Glass Courtyard (completed 2007) which is an extension to the original building. Continue Reading →
The German architectural firm J. Mayer H. have completed the ‘Steckelhörn 11′ building in Hamburg, Germany. Continue Reading →
Construction work is due to start in September on ‘VitraHaus’, a new showroom at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany.
Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron, it will be the latest architectural addition at the furniture brand’s extensive HQ complex, which already features buildings by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando and more. Continue Reading →
