architectuur
Kona Residence
21/03/11
Nestled between cooled lava flows, the Kona residence situates its axis not with the linearity of the property, but rather with the axiality of predominant views available to the site.
Within the dichotomy of natural elements and a geometric hardscape, the residence integrates both the surrounding views of volcanic mountain ranges to the east and ocean horizons westward.
Read more on architizer
Meera house
07/03/11
click image for more views
A residence titled "Meera House " has an impressive garden on its roof. A fine example of sustainable architecture located near Singapore. A design from Guz Architects.
A residence titled "Meera House " has an impressive garden on its roof. A fine example of sustainable architecture located near Singapore. A design from Guz Architects.
Downland Gridshell
04/02/11
ECA (Edward Cullinan Architects) collaborated with structural engineers, Buro Happold, and the Green Oak Carpentry Company to develop this innovative, low energy structure. The gridshell was formed from a flat lattice of green oak that was lowered into a three-dimensional shape with the use of gravity.
Meer foto’s
Meer foto’s
Wally Hermes Yacht
29/09/09
WHY Wally-Hermès Yachts is the new company created by french luxury brand
Hermès and monaco based yacht maker Wally, dedicated to a new lifestyle of living
on the sea.
designing a boat with a new concept is not an utopia.
at every turn the yacht offers maximum space, durability and cutting-edge technologies.
the exchange with Wally and Hermès was rooted deeply in terms of know how and sharing
the same philosophy of this new concept.
Hermès was involved in every step of the process from concept to realization, considering
both the outside and inside were just one of the many things. as always just like with all
their designs they paid special attention to detail, developing the overall architecture
of the vessel evaluating issues of speed and spaciousness.
More info at designboom.com
Programmatic Furniture
30/06/09
OS00 characterises itself materially by the use of industrial flexible tubes, formally by its fluid and organic forms and conceptually by a variable design and production process. Using the principles of “programmation” , the system offers a huge range of applications in term of typology, function and scale.
Designer: Sebastien Wierinck
LINK
Treehouses
17/03/09
URL : baumraum - home
meer boomhuizen :
URL : Amazon Treehouses
URL : LA CABANE PERCHEE
URL : The Custom Tree House from the Treehouse Company
Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Rome
03/03/09
Restaurant Open Colonna
Via Milano 9a Rome Italie
http://english.palazzoesposizioni.it
Form & Forest cabins
24/02/09
COWBOY
It’s 5 o’clock Friday, another week of papers, meetings, and phone calls have been put out to pasture. The wide open range of a long weekend spreads out before you, three days of boots up contemplation for you and your partner beckon.
There's only one place to do it and that place is The Cowboy. Outfitted with a massive deck, interior courtyard, master bedroom and a bathtub with a view to the stars the Cowboy is perfect for a couple or small family.
Hello quiet contemplation.
Cowboy 635 Square feet.
Go to Form & Forest
7 Amazing Adaptive Reuse Architecture Projects
24/02/09
Who would have thought you could make so much with simple structures from trailer parks? And that’s just the beginning.
For ecological reasons, for eccentric clients and simply for fun, more and more architects and designers are figuring out clever approaches to adaptively reuse old structures in novel ways.
From pigsty and water tower houses to a beautiful chapel bookstore and a gigantic shipping container museum, here are seven more ingenious reuses of otherwise wasted architecture into amazing recycled designs.
National Grand Theater, Beijing
24/02/09
Located near Tiananmen Square, the 490,485-square-foot glass-and-titanium National Grand Theater, scheduled to open in 2008, seems to float above a man-made lake. Intended to stand out amid the Chinese capital's bustling streets and ancient buildings, the structure has garnered criticism among Bejing's citizens for clashing with classic landmarks like the Monument to the People's Heroes (dedicated to revolutionary martyrs), the vast home of the National People's Congress, or Tiananmen Gate itself (the Gate of Heavenly Peace).
French architect Paul Andreu is no stranger to controversy -- or to innovative forms. A generation ago, in 1974, his untraditional design for Terminal 1 of Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport was criticized for its unusual curves, yet Andreu's groundbreaking, futuristic building later was seen to distinguish de Gaulle from more generic European and international air hubs. (The same airport's Terminal 2E, also designed by Andreu, gained attention in 2004 when it collapsed, tragically killing four people.)
Beijing's daring National Grand Theater is as much a spectacle as the productions that will be staged inside in the 2,416-seat opera house, the 2,017-seat concert hall, and the 1,040-seat theater. At night, the semi-transparent skin will give passersby a glimpse at the performance inside one of three auditoriums, a feature that highlights the building's public nature.
The National Art Center, Tokyo
24/02/09
Established in January 2007, the National Art Center, Tokyo, has a total of 14,000 square meters of exhibition space, the largest in Japan.
Instead of maintaining a permanent collection, it focuses on serving as a venue for various art exhibitions and is the first of its kind in the world. In addition to holding more than 10 exhibitions at a time, the Center also promotes educational activities, as well as collects and disseminates information and data about art.
This unique and innovative art exhibition facility was designed by Kisho Kurokawa, who also designed the new Kuala Lumpur Airport and the Exhibition Wing of the Van Gogh Museum.
Revolutionair Porschemuseum
07/02/09
Op 31 januari ging het nieuwe Porschemuseum nabij de hoofdzetel van het prestigieuze automerk in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen open.
Hoogstandje
Het nieuwe museumgebouw is een ontwerp van het Weense architectenbureau Delugan Meissl en geldt ongetwijfeld als een architectonisch hoogstandje. De bezoekers ontdekken er een exporuimte van maar liefst 5.600 vierkante meter. Het geheel oogt revolutionair.
Zo'n tachtig wagens en kleinere voorwerpen worden er op unieke wijze tentoongesteld. Voorts krijg je in het museum ook een historisch overzicht van het Duitse wagenmerk. Je verneemt er tal van interessante weetjes over Porsche. (Katrijn Serneels)
http://www.porsche.com/germany/aboutporsche/porschemuseum/
Hoogstandje
Het nieuwe museumgebouw is een ontwerp van het Weense architectenbureau Delugan Meissl en geldt ongetwijfeld als een architectonisch hoogstandje. De bezoekers ontdekken er een exporuimte van maar liefst 5.600 vierkante meter. Het geheel oogt revolutionair.
Zo'n tachtig wagens en kleinere voorwerpen worden er op unieke wijze tentoongesteld. Voorts krijg je in het museum ook een historisch overzicht van het Duitse wagenmerk. Je verneemt er tal van interessante weetjes over Porsche. (Katrijn Serneels)
http://www.porsche.com/germany/aboutporsche/porschemuseum/
Eco-hotel in a quarry
11/11/08
The Songjiang district, near the Chinese city Shangai, is a popular zone for recreation. Firm Atkins, famous for their grandiose projects, proposed a set of hotels called Songjiang. The key factor of the design is the water, that is all around the building. The hotel is created in the deep quarry and this point reflexes on a simple look. The building has also underwater parts. The roof is grassy and whole complex will use geothermal energy for an electrical supply and heating, so the interference with the nature will be smaller.
The endearment from Sao Paolo
11/11/08
French-Brazilian architecture company Triptyque designed building for Loducca, a São Paulo advertising agency. It´s quite simple 3 floors office and is situated in suburb area. The most interesting think on whole project is front facade. It´s made from horizontal wood plank, which flows around the building. This organic mass is broken only in one spot. It is cut by concrete cube, which is used as entry.
CCTV tower
11/11/08
The new CCTV headquarters, at a height of 230 meter and a floor area of about 400,000 square meters, combines administration with news, broadcasting, studios and program production - the entire process of TV making - in a sequence of interconnected activities. Although the building is 230 meter tall it is not a traditional tower, but a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections that establish an urban site rather than point to the sky. The irregular grid on the building's facades is an expression of the forces traveling throughout its structure.
Designer dreams big with uber-green Twirling Tower
19/10/08
While the architectural playground that is Dubai isn't running low on innovative buildings, David Fisher is hoping to add yet another skyscraper to the mix with his self-sufficient and energy generating Twirling Tower.
The 68-story "combination hotel, apartment, and office" would sport floors that each rotate 360-degrees in the span of about 90 minutes, creating a "constantly changing architectural form."
His claims begin to elicit suspicion, however, when a promotional video (seen after the break) for the building claims that it can snag enough wind to not only power the building itself, but to energize ten other similar buildings just like it. Of course, we aren't taking that too seriously considering that he actually mentions that supplying electricity to the floors would be "similar to how a moving train captures power by staying in constant contact with a power source, like an overheard wire or third rail."
Nevertheless, Mr. Fisher sure seems determined to get this thing up in the sky, but as with most big dreams in Dubai, moving beyond the drawing board is where things get tough.
Lees verder
1,000-foot glass funnel could save London's Battersea Power Station
19/10/08
The Battersea Power Station in London has been defunct since 1983, and urban developers have been scratching their heads to come up with a way to preserve the largest brick structure in all of Europe. Some wily Irish developers have come up with a way to turn the empty building into what they're calling a "solar driven natural ventilation system" attached to shopping malls, 3,000 homes, and a boutique hotel. The 1,000-foot glass tower would use a funnel structure to force heat out of the complex using convection all the while providing a striking addition to the London skyline. All in all, developers say this would make the complex carbon neutral. If the plan goes through, the structure could be completed as soon as 2019.
lees verder
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica
12/05/08
110 jaar na de Belgica-expeditie biedt het Internationaal Pooljaar 2007-2008 een unieke gelegenheid aan aan de mensheid. Opnieuw heeft België zichzelf hoge streefdoelen vooropgesteld. De Belgische federale overheid gaf de International Polar Foundation (IPF), opgericht door Alain Hubert en de professoren André Berger (UCL) en Hugo Decleir (VUB), opdracht de bouw van een nieuw wetenschappelijke basis, het "Princess Elisabeth" station, dat zal plaatsvinden tijdens de zuidelijke zomer van 2007-2008, te realiseren.
http://www.antarcticstation.org
Guggenheim Bilbao
16/09/06
At Ground Zero, Towers for Forgetting
15/09/06
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF / The New York Times
The designs unveiled last week for three sleek glass towers at ground zero rise above the mediocrity we have come to expect from a planning process driven by political opportunism, backdoor deal-making and commercial greed. But for those who cling to the idea that the site’s haunting history demands a leap of imagination, the towers illustrate how low our expectations have sunk since the city first resolved to rebuild there in a surge of determination just weeks after 9/11.
Architecture Now! 4
25/08/06
Voor wie houd van moderne en gedurfde architectuur is dit een aanrader.
Vorige edities :
Meer info via www.taschen.com