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Cocoon / Mochen Architects & Engineers
May 15th
© Yao Li Architects: Mochen Architects & Engineers Location: Tianjin, China Completion: 2011 Project Area: 1,245 sqm Client: Tianjin Eco-City Wantuo Properties Limited Photographs: Yao Li Project Introduction: The aim of the project is to achieve zero-energy building, by significantly reducing energy consumption through design, as well as utilizing clean energy – wind, solar and geothermal in replace of conventional sources such as fossil fuels, to meet the needs of the building. To reach its ideal state, the building does not require municipal utilities to supply its heat and electricity. This is a comprehensive effort to design low energy architecture
World Architecture Festival 2012: Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects
May 15th
World Architecture Festival 2012: in our second movie celebrating this year’s World Architecture Festival in Singapore from 3-5 October, WAF programme director Paul Finch explains why the super-jury headed by architect Robert Stern selected the Universita Luigi Bocconi by Grafton Architects as World Building of the Year 2008 in the festival’s inaugural year. (more…)
Competition: five copies of Narrative Architecture by Nigel Coates to be won
May 15th
Competition: we’ve teamed up with Architectural Design (AD) to give away five copies of Narrative Architecture by Nigel Coates , the latest title from the AD Primers series. (more…)
Movie: The Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
May 15th
Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano . (more…)
Movie: The Shard by Renzo Piano Building Workshop
May 15th
Movie: this timelapse movie by architectural photographer Paul Raftery and director Dan Lowe shows the final stages of construction for London skyscraper The Shard, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano . (more…)
Slideshow feature: London 2012 architecture
May 15th
Slideshow feature: this week marks the completion of the gigantic red ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture at the London 2012 Olympic park.
Summer House In Southern Burgenland / Judith Benzer Architektur
May 15th
© Martin Weiß Architects: Judith Benzer Architektur Location: A-7535, Deutsch Tschantschendorf 130, Oberbergen , Austria Photographs: Martin Weiß © Martin Weiß Project Information Summer House In Southern Burgenland. The project Summer House in Southern Burgenland (Austria) describes a sharp-edged cubature which fits into its surroundings through its simplicity and homogeneous appearance. In being used as a summer house, and by virtue of the installation of a wine cellar with production surfaces at a later date, the building’s design is oriented by the cubature of the Kellerstöckel(wine house) typical of the Southern Burgenland region. © Martin Weiß The cellar contains rooms for wine storage and production; the aboveground rooms are for residential use.
Europa City / Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
May 15th
© Luxigon Parisian architect, Manuelle Gautrand , has shared her massive cultural, recreational and retail center for Triangle de Gonesse, France with us. The competition proposal intends to showcase a variety of European countries’ features – with regard to retail, leisure and cultural amenities – by organizing specific areas for designated countries. More about the proposal after the break.
House and Design Studio in Kortrijk / Devolder Architecten
May 15th
© Deneve Foto Kortrijk Architects: Devolder Architecten Location: Kortrijk , Belgium Project Architect: Geert Devolder Floor Space: 432 sqm Completion: November 2010 Photographs: Yannick Milpas , Deneve Foto Kortrijk © Deneve Foto Kortrijk The building site contains about 25 large existing trees along a brook.
