The design by Zaha Hadid is woven into the city’s fabric with an architectural arrangement based on the idea of an urban campus. In the MAXXI, the idea of a “closed” building gives way to a broader dimension, creating both indoor and outdoor spaces that become part of the surrounding city. The two museums – MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture – are located around a large...
A great work of designer Roeland Otten, based in Rotterdam, which has designed this collection “ABC Chairs” declined in the form of the alphabet. Nearly 26 seats have been designed uniquely for each letter. More pictures and examples in the sequel.
The Happy Street is the answer on the question Better City Better Life. I think that origins in a GOOD street. with mix functions, different forms of buildings . A street mixed with different types of buildings like a house, a shop, a factory, an office, a farm, a petrol station, a sportfield , a garage, forms the condition for a social life. The people can just gaze at it, it is a wunderfull steel...
The main entrance is designed from the western side, combining with the existing building entrance to create a large entry platform with benches. The entry platform serves to functionally and perceptively combine two dislocated entries into a unified whole. The connection to the existing building is also obvious at the level of facade design, as it resumes the composition scheme of the existing building....
The Hill House is composed of a 20’ wide x 115’ long stepped platform, a shelter formed by the roof and east wall, and several gabion stone walls. It is sited on a long, narrow, rocky hillside, sloping gently to the south and steeply to the east and west. The building reads and lives like a habitable landscape, adapting to the changing seasons and needs of its occupants. In short, this is a modest,...
Benjamin Garcia Saxe used the inspiration of the forest to design his ‘Bamboo House’ in Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The house inverts the role of the forest by bringing it inside the house. An internal patio provides space for functions to rotate about. The house is divided into two living modules, one private bedroom and one public kitchen/living area.
At a place that at the time of the competition had no urban characteristics, Igor Franić of studio za arhitekturu (SZA) took into consideration the strongly stressed orthogonal matrix of Novi Zagreb, from where he continued to develop the project. For Franić, the context is the entire Novi Zagreb, both in the sense of the heritage of modern city-planning culture and the area with specific ambiance...
The workshop is designed as a building which opens up towards the yard and the farmhouse. The external geometry of the workshop strongly references the old farmhouse but is lower in height, thereby allowing the farmhouse to remain recognised as the lead building of the ensemble. The new building retreats to the background and appears as an open shell with the interior connecting to the yard. The facade...
This first building (the second is to be built later this year) is part of a newly built neighbourhood where we designed a number of individual dwellings earlier. The design for the apartment buildings departs from a reinterpretation of typical commercial warehouses. Fully clad in aluminium, both buildings distinguish themselves by their vivid colour and specific treatment of the facades.
The Italian Pavilion for Shanghai is the representation of this “spatial circumstance which still produces and give the birth to the excellence; It is a prototipe that espresses the stratification of the social and urban italian soul and gives the idea of historical continuity. The interior exposition spaces are influenced by this spatial scan and are organized between the planes as different themes...
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