The architect was Hector Fernandez-Elorza collaborated with Raúl García Cuevas. (Technical Architect and Student of Architecture). The project needed 2004-2005. It was built in 2008-2009. The Client was Alcalá University, UAH. It was located in Campus of the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares. The Services were ARTECTURA, María concepción Pérez Gutiérrez. The engineering was [...]
WORKSHOP KYMENLAAKSO UAS, KOUVOLA Architect’s short description (by Teemu Tuomi) A part of Kymenlaakso UAS campus, was workshop building. Placing relatively large workshop spaces at the campus area consisting of old army barracks without disturbing the hierarchy of the built environment was the task. The building design was designed for students studying design and restoration. [...]
The name of Viura was taken since it was the most widely planted white grape variety in Rioja. Rioja Alavesa is a wine region in Spain, where the Hotel Viura located. The Hotel Viura which was designed by the Spanish design firm Designhouses is a mix of the old world charms of Spanish wineries and [...]
Golf’s Tower – Apartments San Isidro, Lima, Peru “Panorama Apartments” which embraced the view over the Lima Golf Club was provided. The users were allowed to individual configure the inside-out relations by the graded rooms and the multiple ways. Transforming an enclosed sequence of spaces at the south side to an open plan towards the [...]
This building is a small apartment building in Liebefeld, Switzerland on a boat-shaped ground plan. The Gebhartstrasse Apartment Building is the first Minergie-P-Eco multifamily home in Switzerland which is noticed from some standard codes. The codes those are applied: minimal thermal bridges, large windows to the southwest, sufficient thermal mass, good daylight utilization and consistent [...]
This project is intended to be the main attraction of the newly renovated Dublin riverfront in Dublin, Ireland. The Grand Canal Square was designed by Martha Schwartz Partners. Specifically, the Grand Canal Square purposed to be functioned as the connective tissue between the theatre and adjacent new construction, and as the new cultural and commercial [...]
This public building is the contemporary approach to libraries as meeting spaces, rather than just book storage. Actually this two floors building consists of two boxes connecting with a box with wide openings. The compact mass of the building has a façade details that is unique. Incoming search terms for the article:lego tornado hong kong building PSI [...]
This building is unique. The Psi Tower, what is the building called, was designed by British Hong Kong based designer Michael Young who has lived in Hong Kong for several years. The tower has faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions. Incoming search terms for the article:lego tornado hong kong building PSI tower [...]
– October 5, 2010
This building is a small apartment building in Liebefeld, Switzerland on a boat-shaped ground plan. The Gebhartstrasse Apartment Building is the first Minergie-P-Eco multifamily home in Switzerland which is noticed from some standard codes. The codes those are applied: minimal thermal bridges, large windows to the southwest, sufficient thermal mass, good daylight utilization and consistent [...]
– August 12, 2010
This building is a new eleven-unit housing project in West Hollywood, California. Dubbed as Formosa 1140, this residential unit was designed by Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) . There is a buffer between public and private realms provided by the external circulation. The circulation is shaded by metal panels in beautiful articulation and red clad. The [...]
– July 23, 2010
The Mexican studio Rojkind Arquitectos has deisgned the R432 skyscraper building which is about to commence construction in Mexico City. This high rise building unites 12 plots of land and will extend 52 floors into the air. The restaurants and shops are placed on the first three floors, while the residential apartments are housed above [...]
– July 23, 2010
This stone towers building was designed by famous woman architect, Zaha Hadid for the client Rooya Group. The building comprises 525,000sqm office and retail complex which will be built in the stone park district of Cairo, Egypt. The stone tower will also completed with a five-star business hotel with serviced apartments, retail with food and [...]
– May 6, 2010
The Carver Apartment stands on a challenging site next to the 10 freeway at Hope and 17th street in Los Angeles. The building design boasts not only the good of green design but its good in social networking sustainability. This beautiful social housing complex harnesses good design to create a sheltering citadel that offers solace [...]
– April 22, 2010
The Naha is a building in Okinawa, Japan which is purposed as a city gallery and apartment house. This building was designed by 1100 Architect and Juergen Riehm as the principal architect. The building includes a gallery, retail space, partially submerged parking lot, and three rental apartments that each occupies an entire floor. The permeable [...]
– April 9, 2010
The apartment building located in the heart of the city, close to the main square of Tallinn, Vabaduse square. This building was designed by JVR Arhitektuuribüroo. Actually, this building concists of two block masses. The commercial function is accommodated on the building’s ground floor. The apartments units are placed on the upper floors. To prevent [...]
– April 1, 2010
This is one of the nominees of the 2010 eVolo skyscraper competition. This project which was designed by 4th year student , got a special mention in the eVolo sky scraper competition. The concept design from the duo of Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak (H3AR) is comprised of a system of gutters to catch as [...]
– March 15, 2010
The rapid China’s growth population needs the availability of economically housing. This under construction project is one of architectural innovative solution. The Fake Hill is a residential apartment building which is located on a waterfront site in Beihai, China. The building will provide residential, office and hotel facilities in 492,369sqm building area on 109,203sqm site [...]
– March 6, 2010
Pascal Arquitectos is Mexico city based architect who has designed the Galileo Apartments Building located in Polanco, Mexico. The design of this residential building is intended to achieve the degree of privacy to the residential units, meanwhile creating the variation of pattern on the façade by applying the combination of materials. The materials like crystal, [...]
– March 4, 2010
Located in Seine Left Bank Urban Development Zone Paris 13th Arrondissement, France, this high rise building is named as 79 Logements PLUS. The facede of the building performs decorative coating Terrastyl polychrome, raw concrete finish, and Ultra high performance concrete. The outside flooring uses Serpentino Verde stone while the inside flooring uses Polished Serpentino stone [...]
– March 3, 2010
This apartment complex building was designed by LAN Architecture planned for the Terres Neuves District of Begles, France. The design was influenced by the design of Unite d’Habitation by Le Corbusier. We did a research towards a hybrid typology combining the house and the apartment because we want to exploit their urban potential and intrinsic [...]
– January 31, 2010
Named as Villa Saitan, this building has unique façade as the name. The name Saitan is from the words Sai and Tan. Sai can be described as variety of wonderful colors that make something more attractive. The word Tan is from the color of the shrine gates, vermilion. It is also the color of pale [...]
– January 30, 2010
A.Asadov Studio from Russia has submitted the design proposal for the Winter Olympic which will be held in the City of Sochi in 2014. The design comprised the buildings including apartments, hotels, hanging gardens, yacht berth in the lower level raised above the water on supports and connected with the shore by a pier. This [...]
– January 11, 2010
The Interlace consists of thirty-one apartment blocks. Each block has six floors and the length is identical. These blocks are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement around eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. This contemporary residential building is located on an eight-hectare site in the verdant Southern Ridges. The site area is 81,000 m2 for these [...]
– January 7, 2010
This high rise building design features three interconnected mixed-use towers. De Rotterdam has complex programs in 160.000m2 gross floor area. This mixed-use building accommodates Offices 72,000m2, 220 apartments 35,000m2, hotel (280 rooms / conference center / restaurant) 19,000m2, parking 25,000m2 (approximately 650 parking places), retail / public program 6,000m2, fitness 2,000m2, central lobby 700m2, loading [...]
– January 6, 2010
Sustainable design is encouraged in this 1900 First Avenue Hotel and Apartments. A diverse set of sustainable solutions are utilized in this mixed-use building including green roofs, PV panels, rainwater harvesting, day-lighting and natural ventilation as well as minimizing energy usage. Exactly, this high rise building located at First Avenue and Stewart Street in downtown [...]
– December 31, 2009
Aqua Tower is a mixed-use high rise building sited in Chicago’s urban environments that must negotiate small view corridors between existing buildings. This high rise building designed to catch particular views as the responds to the urban environments. Aqua Tower has 82-storys that include a hotel, apartments, condominiums, parking and offices in over 1.9 million [...]
– November 29, 2009
This high rise building is two apartment blocks with 2x 8.600m2 floor area. De Brink Apartments sited in intersection of two canals near historic center. This building is designed by OMA architects and the development completed in 1988. This building consists of 80 apartments; split into two thin slabs gives a greater transparency in the [...]
– October 8, 2009
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has designed a 36-story high-rise building for residential. This OMA’s first architectural project in Singapore is for Far East Organization, Singapore’s largest private development company. The building will be sited at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road. Orchard Road is known as [...]
– October 7, 2009
The Building design of Kona Residence by Belzberg Architects
Modern Minimalist Mountain House
The Building Design of Hotel Caldor in Austria
Rafael Viñoly Architects : Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate in Boston 
The Stadium Design of Soccer City in Johannesburg by Boogertman Urban Edge + Partners and Populous