Tides Restaurant by LTL Architects
Based in New York this restaurant called Tides created by LTL Architects, explores different configurations of bamboo. The ceiling is formed by over 110,000 bamboo skewers embedded into a bach-lit acoustical ceiling. The skewers are composed to produce a topographical effect, evoking sea grass.
Mallat House by MCK Architects
Mallat House designed by MCK Architects is constructed in brick, concrete and timber. The two-storey, multi-level house centres on an open plan kitchen and living areas. Featuring five metre-high ceilings and overlooking a swimming pool, there’s a distinct Mediterranean sensibility to MCK Architects’ design.
Fudomae Apartment by ISSHO Architects
This urban living space was designed by ISSHO Architects in apartment’s design. Each 18 sqm unit fits a living room, kitchen, bathroom and storage. The tight arrangement is transformed into a design expression, particularly through the location and shape of the window, which designates the placement of the bed and other furniture. The window’s angle and height corresponds to both the interior of the room and the scenery outside, linking the Japanese single lifestyle and the natural environment.
Wohlfahrt-Laymann Residence by Meixner Schlüter Wendt
Wohlfahrt-Laymann Residence is created by Deutsch architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt.The original cottage within is the site for a series of excavations and interventions that link it to the new exterior skin.The interior court for the front facade twists the ownership of the exterior and claims the yard for the double house.
The Terrace by Riches Hawley Mikhael Architects
‘The Terrace’ redesigned by Riches Hawley Mikhael Architects was originally the library of the house next door.
Originally the long and narrow arrangement of the dwelling was exacerbated by tortuous connection to the garden. The simple move to addressing the sectional arrangement by raising the basement up at the rear, whist lowering the garden but imbued the interior with remarkable three dimensional sophistication and transparency.
New Museum of Modern Arab Art by Rafael Viñoly Architects
This new museum is designed by New York based architects Rafael Viñoly for the Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar, will be completed by 2011. It encompasses approximately 33,000 square meters of gallery space, library, public areas, maintenance, dining, storage and support areas.
This building is one of only a few in the world designed using a canvas-like material. This project presented many engineering challenges, including the design of an air conditioning system that can maintain proper temperature and humidity to preserve sensitive artwork and manuscripts.
Next Generation House by Sou Fujimoto Architects
Next Generation House created by Sou Fujimoto Architects is a small housing module for weekend use, located on the edge of a forest overlooking the River Kuma at Kumakura, opposite the temple of Shibatatehime.
Garden Apartment by Gianni Botsford Architects
This Garden Apartment was created by Gianni Botsford Architects combining the top two floors of a wide-fronted Victorian villa in Notting Hill.
How to create a garden/outside space where planning constraints would not allow a roof terrace or balcony, was the dilemma. The answer came in the form of a central, enclosed garden of three levels that sits within the building, surrounded by the living spaces.
Designed as an atrium, with a giant opening skylight, the 7 m by 2.5 m space is planted on the lowest “living” level; it includes a swing above; before breaking out onto a roof terrace. The space brings the outside in – a garden ascending through the house.
Classroom of the Future by Gollifer Langston Architects
Gollifer Langston Architects, winner of the RIBA Awards 2007, is an architectural studio for commercial, education, arts, media, residential and public design. The proposal for the Classroom of the Future was to create a prototype highly ICT resourced demountable “clip-on” classroom for use throughout Camden to optimize investment and availability to a wide group of school children.
It is now a fully transportable space that provides music and film making facilities to secondary children in Camden. The classroom arrives onsite as an enclosed box. Computer control systems activate hydraulic legs that position the container onto the ground, and allow sections of the wall and roof to expand and open.
Amalia House by GRID Architects
Amilia is the first artificial grass camouflage building in Austria, designed by GRID Architects.The material was chosen to pay homage to the surrounding green hills of the Austrian countryside.
Its organized in 2 levels, one of these opens up & lets the landscape float in and maximize the interchange between inside and outside, the house is completely covered with artificial grass -with only the windows left out.
Casa Kike by Gianni Botsford Architects
Casa Kike located in Cahuita, Costa Rica (30 miles south of Puerto Limon) is designed by Gianni Botsford for his father, the writer Keith Botsford. A simple parallelogram was developed, relative to the sun’s path, ensuring complete shading throughout the day, yet open on the front and rear to allow sea breezes to naturally cool the house.
Styx Valley Project Protest Shelter by Andrew Mynard Architects
The Styx Valley Protest Structure is a project by Andrew Maynard to attempt to save the Styx Valley Forest , a unique ecosystem in south western Tasmania. It is home to the tallest hardwood trees in the world averaging over 80 meters. Many of the trees are over 400 years old. In 1996 only around 13% of these trees remain. A large area of south western Tasmania’s pristine wilderness is world heritage and is therefore protected. Unfortunately the Styx Valley falls just outside the South West National Park and it is now under attack from logging companies.
The logging companies clear fell such areas in Tasmania and burn any remnant vegetation once they have removed any timber considered of value. The high quality timbers that are then removed are reduced to nothing more than wood chips that are then exported mainly to Japan.
From this rape and pillage of Tasmania’s previously untouched, pristine landscape, Tasmania receives only AUD$10 per ton of woodchips.
Stage House by Takei Nabeshima Architects
Takei-Nabeshima-Architects (TNA architects) have designed Stage House, a week end house in karuizawa, nagano. The relationship between inside and out is important to create seamless indoor-outdoor living. This hudge wall of glass allow you to look straight into the forest, so the whole house appears to dissolve into the forest.
290 Mulberry by SHoP Architects
At 290 mulberry, the award-winning SHoP Architects has created an expression of contemporary living for the historically rich and vibrant downtown neighborhood of Nolita.
Salt House by Alison Brooks Architects
Alison Brooks Architects wins the RIBA Manser Medal with the “Salt House” for The Salt House in Essex.
The Salt House is a beach house at the end of a row of timber-boarded fishermen’s houses overlooking the sea. Constructed as a weekend retreat and future home to retire for the owners, Salt House carries forward the Modernist tradition of the experimental ‘beach house’ as a vehicle to explore new architectural possibilities- site specific yet containing the potential for wider application.
Tattoo House by Andrew Maynard Architects
Andrew Maynard Architects created a box extension to a house called the Tattoo House, in Melbourne that makes the most of the space, but the curb appeal is further enhanced by the use of UV stable stickers to provide the opacity required.
Hariri Pontarini Architects
The greater unifier of the spaces of this prefab house is the house’s exterior, a formidable assembly of teak window framing, copper detailing, and deliriously long, Algonquin limestone blocks: all enable the house to appear delicate and fortresslike at the same time. Living spaces anchor the center point from which the building’s two wings protrect. Yet what might otherwise be a bulky transition between zones is smoothed and unified by the use of gentle angles and curves: the roof slopes gradually upward over the gallery spaces and a corkscrew staircase connects the first and second levels.
