The aquatic complex Les Bains des Docks, desigend by architect Jean Nouvel, has just opened in the historical Port of Le Havre, France. The 5.000 square meter complex offers an beautiful atmosphere of tranquility with the fantastic play of natural light soothing the eyes, the masterful acoustic pleasing the ears, and the pools and treatments areas taking care of the […]
Smolenicky & Partner designed two new buildings for the Sempachersee Golf Club, the largest golf club in Switzerland located 15 km from Lucerne. The new buildings, in connection with the enlargement of the course, include the club house and restaurant building and the new maintenance building. The club house is situated on the topographical crest where the vista opens out into a view over […]
Cristiano Cora Studio is a hairdressing salon in New York, designed by architect Avi Oster, who created a new essence of salon environment that captures the balance between modern architecture and the needs of the hair dressing industry. On the second floor of a sleek sexy building, that is part of the current renaissance in New York architecture, the organic, modernist design of the studio […]
The next generation house, designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, is a small housing module for weekend use located on the edge of a forest overlooking the River Kuma at Kumakura, Japan. The small pavilion, a 4×4 meters cube, is made by assembling solid japanese cedar blocks kept in place by their own weight and connecting metal cables running […]
The Ilhavo City Library, designed by ARX, preserve and integrate the proportion and elegance of the old masonry. From the building, located on the periphery of the town, only the main facade, oriented southeast, and the chapel, both in ruins, were left. The limits of the manor and the line of the old facade were chosen as an anchorage point, where […]
Located on the 73rd floor of a Manhattan building, the apartment is a pied-a-terre overlooking Central Park designed by E Benqué. The interior design is primarily structured by different relations to the view and the urban landscape. The furniture elements can be moved around on the window frames and allow to sit right against the […]
The other day I found this amazing conversion at desire to inspire that I had to share with all of you. From the outside you just see a church, beautiful church, but inside is like a minimal three floor house. The only thing that reminds you that you are actually inside the church are the […]
OSA office for subversive architecture designed in 2006 a temporary structure for the roof of The Blade Factory, a 700 square meter space that is part of the new art center complex. The architecture office created an interesting, playful structure that inhabits the roof and one vertical side of The Blade Factory. The installation is […]
The city of Breda, Netherlands, decided to bring in the EEA Architects firm to design a small adjacent theatre to an existing building. The old brick building from the late 19th century now has a restaurant and cafe on its ground floor, and offices and meeting spaces on the upper floors. The popstage emerges from the earth. It appears to visitors […]
The brazilian firm una arquitectos projected this beautiful house integrated in the landscape following the slope exalting the virtues and protecting it from the nearby buildings. The building is like a continuum line that folds structuring the house and forming three courtyards which create a relationship between the different areas of the house. From the street you only see a white tower that […]
