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Seaside House / A2 Architects
Jan 28th
Courtesy of A2 Architetcs Architect: A2 Architects Location: East Coast of Ireland Project Area: 150 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Courtesy of A2 Architetcs Courtesy of A2 Architetcs A new seaside holiday house occupies the former site of a longstanding summer chalet with existing private access to a beach. Resonating with the scale and placement of neighbouring mobile homes, two untreated douglas fir timber enclosures rest on a cast concrete podium over a drift geology. Shelter unfolds between parallel wall planes to embrace views east over the Irish Sea and west over potato fields
Stacking Green / Vo Trong Nghia
Jan 20th
© Hiroyuki Oki Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Location: Saigon , Vietnam Project team: Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa Photographers: Hiroyuki Oki © Hiroyuki Oki Whoever wanders around Saigon, a chaotic city with the highest density of population in the world, can easily find flower-pots crampped and displayed here and there all around the streets. This interesting custom has formed the amused character of Saigon over a long period of time and Saigonese love their life with a large variety of tropical plants and flowers in their balconies, courtyards and streets. © Hiroyuki Oki The house, designed for a thirty-years-old couple and their mother, is a typical tube house constructed on the plot 4m wide and 20m deep.
Hybrid Collection by CTRLZAK studio for Seletti
Jan 4th
Art and design studio CTRLZAK have launched a collection of tableware where half of each piece resembles traditional Chinese porcelain and the other side features a European design. (more…)
Sami Ofer Heart / Sharon Architects
Dec 20th
© Rona Vatash Architects: Sharon Architects – Arad Sharon, Sharon Gur-Ze’ev & RZA- Ranni Ziss Architects Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel Sharon office team: Architect Erez Tal, Architect Ranit Kosht-Kriger, Architect Daphna Braverman-Gantman, Architect Aviel Tochterman Ziss office team: Architect Nirit Philosoph, Architect Aviad Fanio, Architect Osnat Golan, Architect Alex Harpaz, Architect Yifat Adraee Client: Sourasky Tel-Aviv (Ichilov) Medical Center Photographs: Rona Vatash © Rona Vatash The new Sami Ofer building is a revolutionary breakthrough in the architectural design of medical institutions, as it places the patient, his visitors and the medical staff and their needs at the center of the activity. The new 55,000 sqm, 69 meter-high building has 17 floors, four underground parking floors to serve as a 650-bed emergency hospital, topped by another 13 medical floors. © Rona Vatash The Samy Ofer Building was designed as a simple white monolithic cube built next to the historic Ichilov hospital building, designed in the 1960s by Arieh Sharon
Busan Opera House Proposal / Eirini Androutsopoulou & Dimitra Maniaki
Sep 11th
Courtesy of Eirini Androutsopoulou & Dimitra Maniaki This proposal, by architects Eirini Androutsopoulou & Dimitra Maniaki , defines a new icon and a strong identity for the city of Busan and drives a direct link between Korea’s past and Korea’s future image. In order to do so, the proposed scheme describes the idea of the Korean garden within the building’s shell and the new Opera House within the Korean garden. More images and architects’ description after the break
Beton Hala Waterfront Center proposal / Djordje Alfirevic
Jun 18th
Courtesy of Djordje Alfirevic Architect Djordje Alfirevic shared with us his proposal for the Beton Hala Waterfront Center in Belgrade, Serbia which promotes an idea of visual and functional merging of the newly designed part with the existing Beton Hala building. In addition, this design aims to create a unique center for exhibition and commercial use in the city which also communicates, in a mimetic way, with the Kalemegdan fortress and Sava river’s waterfront.
Garden of 10,000 Bridges by West 8
May 7th
This park in Xi’an, China, by international architects West 8 recently opened to the public and contains red bridges offering vantage points.
Video: Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors Pavilion
May 5th
Melvin and Bren Simon Director and CEO Maxwell Anderson holds a conversation with 100 Acres Project Manager Dave Hunt and Architect Marlon Blackwell about the Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors Pavilion. This Director’s Journal from Art Babble discusses the structure, site, geothermal, and the program of the pavilion. Video: Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors Pavilion originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 05 May 2011
