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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Voussoir Cloud by IwamotoScott Architecture at SCI-Arc Exhibition

The SCI-Arc Gallery present Voussoir Cloud, a site-specific installation by San Francisco based architecture and design practice IwamotoScott in collaboration with Buro Happold. Voussoir Cloud’s design explores the coupling of potentially conflicting constructional logics – the pure compression of a vault with an ultra-light sheet material.

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Munetsugu Hall by Norihiko Dan

At the end of March, Munetsugu Hall by  Norihiko Dan was established in Naka Ward, Nagoya. It is located in a residential area, so particular attention was paid to sound insulation. The ceiling of the hall is nearly six meters high, while the flooring is made of 200-year-old Japanese red pine that had been used as beams in an old house.

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Pixel Tower by James Law Cyberculture International

Designed by Hong based design house, James Law Cyberculture International, Pixel Tower’s design was inspired by moving bubbles in a Champagne glass. The 18-floor Dubai waterfront residential building overlooking the Arabian Sea, is an imaginative and unique design that engulfs the facets of a trendy & technologically centered living with futuristic aesthetics.

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Louis Vuitton in Nagoya by Nagaishi Architecture

Japan, is praise the facade, a design by Nagaishi Architecture. Made of twisted, powder-coated aluminum bars arranged vertically between glass walls, this shimmering envelope shifts optically during daylight hours as well as after dark, when it’s illuminated by metal halides.

Carlson says he saw the building’s exterior as a reference to the Japanese art of gift wrapping, with Vuitton’s contemporary yet classic leather goods, shoes, and men’s and women’s ready-to-wear as the gifts “inside this precious box.”

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Pavilion & Garden in Montjuïc, Barcelona by Fondarius Architecture

Pavilion & Garden in Montjuïc, Barcelona is build by Fondarius Architecture. The design connects with the styling of other modern bars and restaurants in the area: eclectic and informally elegant. The detailing, though, was inspired by an older ‘modern’ building and another major Montjuic attraction: Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona pavilion.

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Deform House by Thom Faulders

Deform House build by Thom Faulders was brought on to consult on an efficient method for production and to then process and fabricate the individually pieced ceiling patterns.

The variegated ceiling and rear wall lining is composed of a series of milled patterns that modulates throughout the space, wrapping, bulging and aligning in continuously unique ways depending on the viewers position.

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Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong by Daniel Libeskind

The Architect Daniel Libeskind is currently working on this 25,000sq m public building for the City University of Hong Kong. The distinctive crystalline design will serve as an architectural icon for the departments and create an extraordinary range of spaces rich in form, light, and material that, together, will create an inspiring environment for research and creativity.

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Kumiko Inui’s Pavillon

Create by Kumiko Inui to celebrate the new bullet-train station in front of which it stands, this pavilion in Kumamoto Prefecture serves as a waiting area for travelers. From a distance, the pavilion recalls a typical house as drawn by a child. But as visitors get closer, the building seems to dematerialize, thanks to a blizzard of openings cut into the glass-reinforced concrete walls and roof.

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Houses in Cyprus by Iosa Ghini Associati

Italian architect, Iosa Ghini Associati, has designed fluid-form residential in Cyprus. These family houses, to be built by developer Full Circle, incorporate solar panels and rainwater recycling.

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N House by Jun Aoki

N is the latest from Tokyo architect Jun Aoki, this two-story block adorned with a pitched roof, brick chimney and mullioned windows greets the street amiably. But the heart of the house is a cavernous, underground box completely sequestered from view. While the iconographic upstairs contains just bedrooms, the buried inner sanctum downstairs holds the combined kitchen, dining and living room.

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Nora House by Than & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter

Nora House is designed by Than & Videgard Hansson Arkitekter, this building envelope was defined by the full width, the maximum area and height fitting into the building regulations.

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Ann Demeulemeester Shop by Mass Studies

The Ann Demeulemeester Shop created by Mass Studies Architects is located on the first floor, with a restaurant above and a Multi-Shop in the basement.

This proposal is an attempt to incorporate as much nature as possible into the building within the constraints of a low-elevation, high-density urban environment of limited space (378). The building defines its relationship between natural/artificial and interior/exterior as an amalgamation, rather than a confrontation. Diverse interior spaces designated for its three main programs were made to be perceived and utilized as a part of the outdoors in a variety of ways. This building is not meant to be just another ‘object’ to be experienced externally, but rather as a synthetic organism of nature and artifice.

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The Rucksack House by Stefan Eberstadt

Rucksack House created by Stefan Eberstadt is a great new way to expand your living space perched between art and architecture, form and function. A hovering illuminated space that looks like a cross between temporary scaffolding and minimal sculpture. As mobile as a rucksack, this mini-house is intended to be an additional room that can be suspended from the façade of any residential building.

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