View House / Johnston MarkLee & Diego Arraigada Arquitecto
26
Sep 2009
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The View House is designed under conditions generated by both the potential and limitations of large suburban developments. Situated near Rosario on the vast landscape of the Argentine plains, the 3200 sq foot house occupies a 22,750 sq foot parcel. The design is driven by...
Aucklanders can visit an exhibition of all of the designs that have been submitted as part of the Queens Wharf 'Opening the Red Gates' Design Competition.
Showing at the Union Fish Co. building on Quay Street, the exhibition provides the opportunity for Aucklanders to see the ideas...
New Residential Project by Amsterdam architects Rocha Tombal.
14
Sep 2009
From a basic form, defined by the municipal urban plan, sculptural "eyes" emerge with direct views to the varied countryside landscape.
The form and orientation of the building avoid visual contact with the adjacent houses: at the ground floor the angled ceiling of the kitchen...
Hong Kong architects Cheungvogl have designed two identical houses to be built side by side in Tokyo, Japan.
Each house will have a long, thin courtyard planted with a single tree.
Made of rough concrete and aged timber, both buildings have smaller structures with pitched...
London designer Gitta Gschwendtner has completed a wall that incorporates 1,000 nest boxes for birds and bats in Cardiff Bay, UK.
The 50 metre long wall separates a residential development of 1,00o new apartments from the adjacent riverside path.
It includes four types of...
The 2010 MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards are now open for entries!
With a strong focus on creativity, these awards are your chance to showcase innovative incomplete projects still on the drawing board.
Now in their ninth year, the awards take place at MIPIM, the...
MUSEUM OF IMAGE & SOUND by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
18
Aug 2009
New York architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro have won a competition to design the Museum of Image and Sound in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound takes Copacabana Beach as its inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound building wall, its...
Project Description:
"The WISA Wooden Design Hotel is a temporary building that will remain in place in Valkosaari until the end of September 2009. The building can provide overnight accommodation for a few people, but it is not designed for general hotel use."
"The...
The influential TED prize grants its recipient one wish to change the world. When Architecture for Humanity won this prize in 2006, their wish was to create "opportunities for architects to help communities in crises" and the product of this is the Open Architecture Network. This...
