as the name suggests, the house is designed for a rural location, with grass covering parts of the walls and roof structure, seamlessly blending into the countryside context. the conceptual project also makes reference to deconstructivism, much like ‘pentahouse‘ – the previous work from wamhouse studio.greenhouse is designed by wamhouse studio with a total usable area of...
BG Studio founder Francesca Bucci designed the Celebrity Flora project for Celebrity Cruises. It is the first-ever cruise ship custom-built for the Galápagos Islands. Since nothing could be directly sourced from the protected island chain, the team referenced textures and silhouettes of diverse fauna, colours of the endemic flora, and the unique volcanic geology. "...
Sleepbox has 16 bookable nap rooms that are available for hire for a minimum of one hour, to offers travellers a place to rest in privacy. The 1,200-square-foot (111-square-metre) space in Washington Dulles International Airport, located post-security in the international concourse A, is filled with two rows of the bookable Sleepbox nap rooms.The box-like units were o...
In recent years, young professionals, artists, and students have started to rediscover Oak Park as an affordable community close to downtown Sacramento, with new art galleries, independent coffee shops, and small businesses in tow filling abandoned storefronts throughout the area.Oak Park Housing is one of the neighborhood’s first new residential developments since the i...
a conglomerate comprising foster + partners, FR-EE (fernando romero enterprise), and NACO (netherlands airport consultants) won the international architectural competition in 2014. the trio have designed what could become one of the world’s largest airports with up to six runways and a 560,000-square-meter terminal (read more). AMLO, who the election by a landslide o...
Designed to serve the municipality of Eystur, the town hall is located in the small town of Nordragota on the eastern coast of the Faroe Islands – a self governing archipelago in the North Atlantic that is part of Denmark. This administrative area was formed by the merging of Leirvík and Gøta in 2009. The building stands across the mouth of the river that divided the ...
The pool has transparent sides that go directly to the sides of the building. The pool bottom is also transparent, providing those underneath a view from below.But, looking at the images leaves you wondering how you’re supposed to get into the pool with no stairs or ladders anywhere in sight. Swimming pool designer and technical director Alex Kemsley explained, “We faced...
This would allow variation in elevation, profile, and structural performance. The overall form is inspired by a continuous shell structure to create uniformity in its mass and morphing. The podium levels are bases that have been articulated by varied curvatures to create multiplicity and unique spaces for exhibition and retail. The form fluctuates to create cavities...
The large operable doors, dubbed “guillotine doors,” are located on the north and east elevations of the structure. When lifted, they allow the central performance space, or the McCourt, to effectively function as an open-air pavilion. The structural steel for the doors was fabricated with predrilled mounting for the glass facade and was assembled on site with kinetic...
Survivors of such events often find themselves without some of the most basic necessities of daily life, including access to supplies. Which is why engineers at Hiroshima University in Japan developed a portable bridge that can be used to traverse rugged terrain or rivers, and then folded up like origami when it’s done. Dr. Ichiro Ario and his team created the Mobile ...
Designers have abandoned the traditional design approach of relying on finished entertainment facilities, and rebuilt a perfect consumer experience which fully considers and meets the psychological needs of diverse target groups. The MELAND Club has become not only a large parent-child indoor playground, but also a dreamland that breaks through the imagination boundary b...
Commissioned for the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney 200th Bicentenary celebrations, The Calyx, a new world-class center for horticulture, science and education, houses the largest living interior green wall in the Southern Hemisphere. Constructed by TPR GROUP, a distributor of GSky Plant Systems Inc, the largest green wall developer in North America, the GSky Versa Wall™...
designed to reside within the exposed concrete walls of the renovated building – which was previously an abandoned public bath facility – the concept behind the project aims to create the appearance of a piece of fabric blowing in the wind.shaped between the exposed concrete walls of the museum, the metal sheeting creates an intriguing visual contrast against the bare st...
unless we rethink the nature of our built environment, urban areas will continue to become increasingly unsustainable. with this in mind, SPACE10, IKEA’s global research and design lab, and EFFEKT architects present ‘the urban village project’ — a vision for the design, build and habitation of future homes, neighborhoods and cities. presented at the 2019 democratic desig...
the sculptural project expresses a rhythmic dynamism within its profile that transforms when viewed from different directions throughout the city. designed as a formal duality of aesthetic beauty and geometric logic, the concept allows inhabitable spaces to be attached to the whole of the tower’s core. while the endeavor requires advanced engineering techniques both in t...
MAD's design for Harbin Airport Terminal Three would increase the capacity of the airport serving the capital of Heilongjiang, China's most northern province. The airport terminal is designed to serve 43 million passengers on 320,000 outgoing flights per year.MAD chose the five-fingered fractal shape as a nod to the airport's setting in snowy Harbin, where its winters...
Karle Town Centre (KTC), which will be built alongside the Manyata Tech Park, is designed to be an attractive place for workers and their families to live in Bangalore, dubbed the Silicon Valley of India. Buildings with distinctive rounded edges will be painted with white paint developed by UNStudio and Monopol Colors, which has been developed to reflect heat. Call...
STGK designed landscape, furniture, artwork and signs for this condominium project.
Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, in collaboration with the landscape architects at OLIN, is set to transform a California shopping mall into a mixed-use project that will boast the world’s largest green roof. Called “The Hills at Vallco”, the development will overhaul the existing Vallco Shopping Mall, which is located in Cupertino, California, near the new Apple 2 cam...
Once upon a time, water fountains were a central gathering space for entire communities. Socially (and physiologically) speaking, water fountains represented a source of life. For many communities, this is still the case. Fountain House is the modern interpretation of an age-old idea. Fountain House is not located in an idyllic country location but rather in a busy ur...
Understanding, symbolizing the landscape, restoring its architectural and town-planning integrity in subordination to existing cultural heritage sites, based on historical research and modern approaches in creating a comfortable urban environment is the basis and frame for the transformation of the territory of the center of Kursk. The complex, majestic layering of epoch...
The project is located in alhajib village, madabea, Jordan. This project is developed from the need for local people to attract the tourism for their region because The area contains all the natural aesthetic elements to carry out the adventures and many visitors do not work, so the preparation of visitors is low. Most of the adventurous visitors to the area are make the...
The three-story reinforced-concrete building is located on a formerly empty corner site along Orchard Road, the city’s major shopping boulevard. Because the building required adaptable areas for pop-ups and incubator spaces, the architects had to make the design flexible. But while the future of the building and its program are uncertain, “the one thing we were quite sur...
The design mimics the natural process known as “inosculation,” in which two trees merge together as they grow. Covered in cedar shingles and shaded by the trees, with bird houses built into their roofs to avoid displacing urban wildlife, the pods collect their own rainwater and use a bio-digester to handle waste. These urban treehouses would be built around the tree trun...
The design challenge involved reconsidering the 1970s-era sunken plaza which, in its existing configuration, created a disconnect between city and public space. By elevating the entire park to street level and applying a “shared street approach” between Miller Park and the adjacent Miller Plaza, the team strived to create a unified civic space and encourage pedestrian tr...
Rising to 720 feet high, the 68-story building has cemented the title as the tallest building in Brooklyn. Construction is progressing on schedule at Brooklyn Point and first closings are slated to commence in early 2020. The tower offers a new level of luxury living in the borough and an unmatched 25-year tax abatement. It is the first and only for-sale building at City...
Spearheaded by the site’s new owner, Atomic Entertainment, the plan involves building a series of lofts, co-working spaces, a boutique hotel, retail, restaurants, and an outdoor concert venue to attract startups and other creatives to the east Atlanta site. A new set of renderings of the Pullman Yard masterplan was recently unveiled, featuring designs by Brooklyn-based s...
Geometric line art, cages, architectural models, and section drawings all break down the evolution of “Reversible Destiny,” the concept that the built environment is able to influence human physiology. Architecture was the starting point and inspiration for a body of work that included traditional art as well as sculpture and poetry. The duo would later go on to form the...
Of course, this map was utterly useless. This meditation on mapping and empire seems increasingly prescient today, as every last plot of the Earth becomes represented and possessed in cartography, in satellite imagery, in Google Street View, and through intricate digital models. Enter Cityzenith, the Chicago-based startup where the CEO’s reported mission, according to th...
Luxury rodeos and casino joints start cropping just east of Osceola County, where I’m greeted by the spectacular sight of Yeehaw Junction—a chaotic trucker spot just off the Florida Turnpike that looks exactly like it sounds. 18-wheelers piled high with citrus barrels cross the intersection, horns blaring, loose oranges falling akimbo. As the miles keep coming, Florida c...
Studio ORD is a partnership between Studio Gang, Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), Corgan, Milhouse Engineering and Construction, and STL Architects. Part of an $8.5 billion expansion, the largest in the airport’s history, Studio ORD’s design will redevelop the existing Terminal 2 into a brand-new facility that will for the first time integrate international and domestic op...
The East Tower, known as No. X stands 300 feet tall and topped out this month, the West Tower, known as No. I stands 400 feet tall and topped out last fall. Featuring architecture designed by the world renowned Bjarke Ingels, The XI is a mixed-use residential and commercial development which offers 236 luxury condominium residences, as well as the first US destination by...
Conceived by BIAL to be a terminal within a garden, and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the project’s first phase of construction is scheduled to be completed by March 2021 and is anticipated to serve 25 million passengers per year. Every passageway throughout Terminal 2, which will reach about 255,000 square meters upon the completion of the first p...
In this dense urban context, the city’s policies focus on the quality of public life and innovative green design. The Hengli Group Headquarters will host the world’s largest weaving enterprise in a Shenzhen Bay landmark, displaying the company’s culture in line with the new ambitious urban policies. Mecanoo’s design is a composition of two volumes with a commercial plint...
Dubai-based Holding Company, Meraas, is committed to enrich Dubai’s tourism industry by rejuvenating Dubai Creek into a new tourism destination – Al Seef. 10 DESIGN is the Design Architect for the Contemporary District of Al Seef, leading the project from concept design all the way through to construction supervision. The contemporary area spans around 670m of the Dub...
GeTui, who has graduated from the “Unicorn”, is a professional data intelligent service provider that uses data technology as an engine to provide big data solutions for various industries. It is committed to building a new ecosystem of data intelligence. Based on the technical concept of massive data accumulation and innovation in the field of mobile internet, GeTui is...
