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Bar La Boheme / AVA Architects
Feb 17th
© José Campos Architects: AVA – Atelier Veloso Architects – Carlos Jorge Coelho Veloso, Rui Filipe Coelho Veloso Location: Rua Galeria de Paris, Porto , Portugal Client: Alberto Nuno Oliveira da Fonseca Completion: 2011 General Contractor: ConstruPóvoas (Sr. Manuel Póvoas e Sr. Tiago Póvoas) Constructed Surface: 165 sqm Photographs: José Campos © José Campos The Bar “La Bohème” (entre amis) is located in the “Galeria de Paris” street, amidst the downtown area of Porto
Campaigners petition to save design and technology in UK schools
Nov 11th
Dezeen Wire: the Design and Technology Association is urging people to complete an online petition to retain design and technology as a compulsory part of the UK’s National Curriculum. Design and technology is one of the subjects that could become optional in schools following the government’s announcement in January that it intends to slim down the curriculum.
BOFFO Building Fashion
Oct 28th
A kickstarter campaign to raise funds ensuring the continuation of the BOFFO Building Fashion venture is underway. BOFFO Building Fashion celebrates cutting edge design through a series of temporary retail installations showcasing the work of an architect paired with a fashion designer. Each of five projects receives a $20,000 stipend for all construction, three of which have been completed already with the two remaining projects waiting for funding
Roundalls by H2 Architecture
Sep 2nd
Continuing our special feature about swimming pools , here’s a timber pool house with limestone walls beside a farmhouse in Surrey, England. (more…)
MediaCityUK Exterior Spaces / Gillespies
Jul 17th
© Gillespies Architects: Gillespies Location: Salford, England Design team leader: Jim Gibson, Partner, Gillespies Public Realm & Landscape Designer: Gillespies Buildings Architects: Wilkinson Eyre, Chapman Taylor, Fairhurst Design Group, Sheppard Robson Masterplan: Benoy Architects Main Contractor: Bovis Lend Lease Structural and Civil Engineer: Jacobs UK M&E Engineers: AECOM Quantity Surveyor: Gleeds Landscape Contractor: English Landscapes Lighting Consultant: Pinniger & Partners Project year: 2011 Photographs: Gillespies © Gillespies Creative companies and TV channels moving to MediaCityUK will be inspired by its fresh new public spaces and waterside landscape, designed by Gillespies. MediaCityUK has been developed by The Peel Group and creates a globally significant digital media hub. It is one of the UK’s largest construction projects and has regenerated a former industrial dock site. © Gillespies Paralleling the development of the buildings has been the construction of high quality external spaces designed to integrate the new architecture and create a fresh and creative public realm, with heart and human scale. The external spaces enhance the appeal and function of each building individually, and ground them collectively into a holistic visual language.
SkyCourt / KÖZTI Zrt – Tima Stúdió
Jul 4th
© Tamás Bujnovszky Architects: KÖZTI Zrt - Tima Stúdió – Tamás Németh, Tibor Molnár Location: Budapest, Hungary Project year: 2005 – 2011 Text: Brigitta Bugya Photographs: Tamás Bujnovszky © Tamás Bujnovszky The existing structures of Terminal 2 were constructed in line with a modular arrangement concept typical in the Seventies. Under this concept, the building of 3 independently operated terminals was planned diagonally arranged around a common centre. © Tamás Bujnovszky Terminal 2A built in 1984 shows well the clear design philosophy of the complex organized by a diagonal centre-line
Gjerdrum High School / Østengen & Bergo AS
Apr 29th
© Rolf Estensen The landscape for this school was designed by Østengen & Bergo AS . The school is located in a gently sloping terrain towards the south west, with traces of past ravines. The building is located with its “back” to the north and opens against the sports facilities and the hills far away to the south. The schoolyard is developed around a central zone south of the building
