To create the new agency for TBWA/Hakuhodo, Klein Dytham Architecture transformed an old bowling alley in a large 8 story amusement complex in downtown Tokyo. A central park runs through the middle of the space and a series of shelters for meeting rooms, project rooms and director’s offices generate a small townscape in the space, […]
Nominated for the Detail Prize 2009, the Prayer and Meditation Pavilion designed by TAMarchitettura is known for its platonic exterior and dramatic interior space. The pavilion is basically two cubes, tangent to each other on one face and shifted from each other about the distance of the half of one side. Slots and peeling away […]
Bak Gordon Arquitectos designed this two level house located in Pousos, Portugal. The house, constructed on an inclined terrain facing the city, welcomes the visitors with only four volumes welded together with a full straight lower level. This operation allows to diminish the impact of the 700 square meter constructed area, and contributes to the […]
GH+A designed a building clad in wood and glass for olive oil manufacturers Olisur, located 200 km south of Santiago, Chile. The simple forms of the closed principal volume are complemented by a smaller volume made of wood and glass which houses the offices and services. The building employs sustainable technologies such as geothermic energy, […]
Jessica Helgerson remodeled a once run-down split-level ranch house into a mid-century modern house. The project involved removing the existing kitchen entirely to create a bright, airy great room. The existing master bath was removed as well and relocated to the back of the house where it now opens on to a lovely garden. The […]
The Hof house designed by Studio Granda is located less than 100 km from the Artic Circle. Externally the house rises from the tufted site as a series of sheer cedar and concrete walls that will weather according to the vagaries of the elements. The displaced grass of the fields is reinstated on the roof […]
The Selfridges & Co store in London asked Matthew Plummer Fernandez to create a window installation. The name Apifera is a botanical term given to flowers that are specialized in attracting bees. With this in mind he adopted design traits from flowers to make the window as dynamic and “alive” as possible. Originally Posted On […]
Located in Asse, Belgium, the Greenhouse, designed by Verdickt & Verdickt Architecten, stands out because of its affordability and heat trapping ability. The structure is framed by a ready-made steel structure and encased in an alternating series of super-insulating transparent glass and translucent polycarbonate plates. Extra insulation is also added at the back of the […]
Quim Larrea & Katherine Bedwell designed a house inspired in those Californian homes designed by Richard Neutra. The house is located nearby a natural park 3 kilometers of Barcelona, Spain. Surrounded by pine trees, oaks and holm oaks, the house with a V-shape plan, levitates on the site in order to simulate weightlessness. The materials […]
This unusual, yet beautiful chapel designed by Sancho-Madridejos Architecture Office is located on top of a small hill in an arid and isolated place of Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Spain. Sharp triangular surfaces, that are like sculptural projections on the horizon, trick the eye into seeing single surfaces. Inside there is no artificial light and only […]
