Apartment Building in Luxembourg by Metaform Architects
Luxembourg City-based studio Metaform designed a contemporary 4,000 square foot apartment building in Luxembourg.
The sculptural project stands out and contrasts the surrounding neighborhood buildings. The architects developed a 4-storey apartment block combining elements of dynamic and vibrant art with discrete and geometrical architecture.
Apartment Building in Prague by Znamení Čtyř
Znamení Čtyř sent us the photos of their latest construction of apartment building based in Prague city quarter.
The apartment house consists of simple and traditional mass following the street line, set back from neighboring building. The concept is based on cutting out of volume from basic block – characterized by dark brick facing. Two volumes with residential stories are situated above one story underground area, which is partially below grade and containing parking places. Each of residential volumes has its own vertical circulation. The total number of flats is 17. The typical size of flats is about 100m2. On the ground floor flats are placed just on the park side with their private gardens.
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Beekman Tower, 8 Spruce Street in New York by Frank Gehry
8 Spruce Street, originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry, is a 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry in the New York City borough of Manhattan at 8 Spruce Street, just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Gehry has accomplished: the finest skyscraper to rise in New York since Eero Saarinen’s CBS building went up 46 years ago. At 870 feet tall, New York by Gehry is the tallest residential tower in the Western Hemisphere and a singular addition to the iconic Manhattan skyline. For his first residential commission in New York City, master architect Frank Gehry has reinterpreted the design language of the classic Manhattan high-rise with undulating waves of stainless steel that reflect the changing light, transforming the appearance of the building throughout the day.
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Mario Cucinella’s One Airport Square in Ghana
On September 8th, Mario Cucinella Architects will break ground on his One Airport Square project in Accra, Ghana’s capital city. Accra, capital of Ghana is swiftly becoming one of the strongest economic hubs in West Africa. The Italian design studio Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA) has been commissioned to envision a 17,000 sq m mixed use complex to be situated in the heart of the city.
Actis Boston & laurus development partners commissioned a 21,000 sqm mix used development with retail facilities and an office bock. According to the particular topography of the site, the project is organized in order to create a public square towards the north east side of the area, concentrating the building mass on the opposite side. Read More…
AME-LOT Wooden Pallet Building by Malka Architecture
AME-LOT is a project created by Malka Architecture who wanted the whole process to be nature friendly.
He aimed at minimizing excess materials and utilizing them more efficiently to reduce carbon footprint. The project is destined for rue Amelot in Paris.
The skin consists of an existing module: the wooden pallet. Held using horizontal hinges, the pallets contract towards the top, allowing privacy or large openings. The modularity of the various palettes creates varied geometries, which are based on use and constantly regenerated. The reappropriation of materials recycles the existing without additional processing, which would cost energy in terms of production and create byproduct pollution. Read More…
Portrait Building Project in Melbourne, Autralia by ARM Architecture
Grocon, construction group has unveiled the design for its latest project for Melbourne: a 32-storey residential tower designed by local architects Ashton Raggatt McDougall. The project is scheduled to be completed by 2014.
The façade is a symbol of Victoria’s indigenous heritage, a homage to the first Australians. The building’s façades have two distinct sides, and two distinct stories. The visage of William Barak (Beruk) the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder) of the Wurundjeri-willam Clan is transposed on to the building, representing the deep history and presence of Aboriginal nations in this land. Read More…
Tena Tower Project at Tena Lakes, Burkina Faso by Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
Tena Tower Project by architect Manuelle Gautrand is mainly up-market residential, and proposes to mix different type of housings with a hotel, offices and a lot of equipments like a swimming pool, some restaurants, a SPA-fitness place, a conference center, sports facilities (Golf and tennis club).
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Placebo Pharmacy, Athens, Greece by KLab Architecture
KLab Architecture has recently completed this amazing project called Placebo Pharmacy.The design process for this large (600m2) supra-local pharmacy forced us to shift our viewpoint and come up with a virtual building—a placebo pharmacy.
The octagonal shape of the existing structure was re-formed into a cylinder in order to create a spiral which seeks to converse with the rapid motion on Vouliagmenis Avenue, the urban artery on which the building stands. Read More…
Bali Net Zero Hotel|Spa by Christine Hadiningrat & Sauter Carbon Offset Design
Christine Hadiningrat in collaboration with Sauter Carbon Offset Design present the Bali Net Zero Hotel Resort & Spa; The first Zero Carbon 5 Star Hotel in the world that’s also a Solar Power Generating Plant for the local community. Acting as a power station during the day, the surplus energy that is generated by the Hotel’s solar panels which collect more than double the required amount to run the hotel, is sold to neighbors. By generating and selling this surplus electricity by day, the Hotel is able to offset the electricity they will consume from the grid by night. In this way, there is no need for an expensive storage system where returning power to the grid is not an option.
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New Airport Building in Mestia by J. Mayer H. Architects
The Berlin based architectural practice Jürgen Mayer H. have completed this airport building in the medieval mountain town of Mestia, Georgia. this new airport building in the city of Mestia in Georgia. The small city, located 1500 m above sea level in the Caucasus Mountains, is part of the UNESCO world culture heritage for its beautiful medieval town with its stone defensive towers. The new built airport is part of Georgia’s ambitious plans to establish tourism in this region. The building was designed and constructed within only 3 months.
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Atlantic Sea Hawk by Sauter Carbon Offset Design & Atlantic Motor Yacht
Sauter Carbon Offset Design and Atlantic Motor Yachts present the Atlantic Sea Hawk, a Hi-performance Zero Carbon 18 meter Cabin Cruiser with a top speed of 50 knots.
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Tianjin Eco-City by Surbana Urban Planning Group
Designed by Surbana Urban Planning Group, Tianjin Eco-City is 30 square kilometer development designed to showcase the hottest new green technologies and to serve as a model for future developing Chinese cities.
A conscious effort was made not to create a generic city devoid of humanizing features or cognitive characteristics, one that is replicated ad infinitum in cities of rapidly developing economies. Read More…
Kolonihavehus, Outdoor Sculpture by Tom Fruin
Tom Fruin, a New York-based installation artist, recently traveled to Copenhagen where he built this stunning outdoor pavilion in plaza outside of the Royal Danish Library. Constructed out of hand welded angle iron and about a thousand scraps of reclaimed Plexiglas.
The house is fully constructed from hand-cut and hand-welded steel picture frames which have been arranged to hold a single piece of found Plexiglas ranging in size from 2×2 inches to 24×363 inches. the frames are welded into 35 individual panels which can be bolted together to wrap around the metal structure. a pivot mounted door and several operable windows complete the 14th feet house.
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Herzog & de Meuron’s Car park in Miami’s Lincoln Road
The skyline about 1111 Lincoln Road, designed by Herzog and de Meuron incorporates 300 parking spaces.
It’s not a building, it’s more like a performance piece,” says the property developer in his corner office, the palm-strewn townscape of Miami Beach visible behind his elbow as it heads towards the ocean. Given that he’s talking about a multistorey car park, this might seem pretentious, but bear with him. He’s trying to make a parking garage go where none has gone before.
Shift Housing, Sergnano Italy by AquiliAlberg
With a play of perspectives, the “Shift Housing” designed by AquiliAlberg Atchitects challenges the constraints given by a very small and narrow site and by the local area regulations.
Playing with two opposite rotations of 4°, the two floors are shifted. Rotating the ground floor front facade – elevated from the ground 1.2m – anticlockwise and rotating the first floor front facade clockwise, the results are two volumes with an x direction visible on the front side.
Created also for structural needs, the gap between the two volumes is a strong mark which emphasize the perspectives. The effect, with the open cantilevered loggias is a strong dialogue and a seductive exchange between fullness and emptiness, lightness and dynamism. The view towards the natural park, a protected area, has determined the orientation of the building. Designed also for structural reasons, the gap between the two volumes is a strong sign that emphasizes the perspectives. The view towards the natural park, a protected area, has determined the orientation of the building.
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Lou Ruvo Center, Cleveland Clinic by Frank Gehry
The riotously sculptural $100-million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, the story is about the depths — and ultimately the limits — of the human mind.
While the signature steel forms of the Lou Ruvo Center may at first suggest the building is just another Gehry project, think again. What distinguishes this Gehry design from the rest is that it is the only one for hire, not to mention that the building has received critical praise from the Los Angeles Times architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, as having the most impressive Gehry-designed interior space since the architect’s Disney Concert Hall in 2003.
The complex comprises two wings connected by an open courtyard: a dedicated research center, located at the northern end of the building, and a ‘for-hire’ event space, dubbed the Life Activity Center, located at the southern end. Architecturally, the two spaces are dramatically different and yet together they form a cohesive whole. The four-storey clinic, which houses medical offices, patient rooms and research space, is rational.
UE House, Japan by Geneto
The UE house by Geneto architects has a deceptively boring appearance from outside and a quite a chic interior and a dynamic floor plan inside. They’ve tried to change the relation with the city landscape by keeping the outside design and getting the potential out of inside space and the house structure at a maximum. This house is made with some rectangular units and built by combining them.
Park51 Community Center, New Rendering by Soma Architects
Park51 and SOMA Architects released their first renderings of what will be Park 51, the controversial Muslim community center and prayer space in lower Manhattan. The drawings reveal a dramatic 13-story building with a facade of interconnected webbing and a bright white, day-lit interior. Park51 will be a $100 million mixed-use cultural and community center and is slated for LEED certification. The elaborate, yet undeniably futuristic feel of this structure injects just the right amount of personality into its Manhattan neighborhood.
An ice-white latticework effect scatters across the facade, with allusions to both traditional Islamic architecture and iconic symbols from other faiths, such as the Jewish Star of David. This intricate detail can also be noted from the interior renderings, as light rushes to enter the building during the day and floods out as night falls.
