The Museum Castle Freudenstein, designed by AFF Architekten, is the result of the conversion of an ancient castle located in the town of Freiberg, Germany. The castle itself partly dates back to the time of the Romanesque style. It was later fully extended to a four-wing-ensemble, including a large tower. During the Seven Years War from 1756 to […]
Villa Peet was designed by Studio Klink as a sequence of contrasting spatial experiences. These contrasts create a feeling of entering new worlds behind a series of rabbit holes. The absence of traditional interior doors gives the ground floor a sence of continuity, although the different space are well defined. On the ground floor a glimpse of the stairs and a small balcony […]
King Kong Architects was extremely excited to accept the assignment and create the Seeko’o Hotel in the city of Bordeaux, France. Seekoo means iceberg in the Inuit language. The name suggests both the building’s clean lines and the immaculate appearance of its skin. It evokes the changing look of the hotel according to the time of day or night. Slight inclines […]
Giorgio Borruso Design projected a surrealistic ambience of amoeboid shapes for the italian shop of Fornarina in Las Vegas. To fight the barnlike 218 square meter rectangular space with 9 meter high ceilings, Borruso designed a series of viscerally organic shapes dominated by four large, hooded, tentaclelike objects hanging from the ceiling. Each one harbors a steel spine carrying LED […]
Karim Rashid continues his philosophy of creating a digipop digital nature and a seamless world that excites all the senses with Majik Cafe, a new restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia. The dynamic patterned glass bar changes color and mood throughout the customer’s stay. The restaurant is brought into the 21st technocentury with a scrolling LED message board above […]
The Funeral Chapel is located Leon, Spain, in front of a large green area and close to a residential neighborhood. To integrate the building into the natural environment, BAAS Arquitectes decided to bury it under a pond of water. The waiting room opens to a large slope of ivy and birch, and is characterized with varnished wood, carpets and large indirect lighting to […]
Ronald Hernandez, Marcelo Valdes & Osvaldo Veliz, all three architects students in the University of Talca, Chile, projected and builded seven wooden modules placed in an old rural route. The seven modules are used as information points and, specially, as places to rest. Originally Posted On Coolboom
The new office of Gonzalo Mardones Viviani Arquitectos is located in the Office Building Vanguardia located in Santiago, Chile, that was designed by them. The entire building is made with a single material, steel painted in white. You can find it inside and outside of the building, even in the hall access, a six heights space with interior […]
David Chipperfield designed this luxury housing development located in a small valley, bordered by a dense bamboo forest, near the Qiang Tang River in Hangzhou, China. Twelve individual volumes are arranged in a chessboard pattern to create the maximum amount of open space for each building. The buildings adapt to the topography, creating a flowing landscape through a slight turning of […]
To avoid producing boring cubicles, FARMWORK decided to return to the uncertainty and excitement of the classroom laboratory for this PR and advertising agency. The office is designed like a lab. Staff work at rows of lab benches, and the pantry and entrance gallery are designed like gas extract chambers, only here, these are painted a mesmerizing blue. The ceiling […]
