The 2000 seat Grand Canal Theatre is a landmark that creates a focus for its urban context, specifically Grand Canal Square, the new urban piazza at the waterfront of Grand Canal Harbour. The architectural concept of the Theatre is based on stages: the stage of the Theatre itself, the stage of the piazza, and the stage of the multiple level Theatre lobby above the piazza. The Theatre becomes the main...
In an area of new housing development Blok Kats van Veen realised this triangular shaped villa in big contrast to the traditional housing around it. This private house is located along the edge of the Homeruskwartier neighbourhood and is facing the Almere forest stroke. The triangular shape of the plot was leading for the design. The triangle opens itself towards the garden at the south west with a...
This auditorium – one of the largest in the world – was awarded to Studio Nicoletti as the result of an International restricted competition. Founded in the heart of the steppes only four years after the Independence of the Country, Astana is now a decade old new capital of Kazakhstan. Astana’s central nucleus occupies a rectangular area whose organizational axis is based upon a system...
Until recently, the first thing visitors noticed upon arriving at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein was the Vitra Design Museum, a building designed by Frank Gehry. Now a new building, which has been erected next to the museum, is destined to attract just as much attention: the VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron. In close proximity to the Swiss border and the furniture manufacture’s Basel headquarters,...
During the four years of working with the project, the program has changed several times, however it has remained a cultural facility that is dedicated to visitor comfort and orientation. The current design, which has now completed the contract document stage, is scheduled for completion in 2011. The design for the building embodies a careful reaction to the horizontal character of the memorial design...
The new Ames Hotel in Boston by the Morgans Hotel Group opens for business this coming autumn in one of the most coveted areas of downtown Boston. Designed by New York-based architect and designer David Rockwell of Rockwell Group in collaboration with the Morgans design team, the hotel is a 19th century historic building that has been imaginatively reworked by Rockwell Group to blend and contrast the...
It is a project that responds to change, to new materials and shapes, for breaking canons established and contextual removal from the zone. It is simply a house that is viewed from a different angle. The form responds to the organization of two rectangular volumes that are intercepted by a bridge. This conceptualization symbolizes the breaking of the house unity or as a unique entity trying to establish...
NBBJ, in collaboration and partnership with CCDI, have designed the Hangzhou Sports Park: A vibrant, pedestrian-centric sports and recreation development located in the midst of Hangzhou’s new urban environment. Situated on the Qian Tang riverfront opposite of the new Central Business District, and encompassing a site of approximately 400,000 square meters, the sports park is seen as an opportunity...
Samy Aïtali and Fernando Nunes have designed the 2010 collection of seating made of Altuglas Acrylic PMMA for the French manufacturer Aïtali.
Located in Shinbashi,Tokyo this recently completed small office building has been designed by Dasic Architects. The perimeter of the office has been pulled away from the street creating an open public space for visitors while providing room for occasional parking and repairs of the office workers cars. The building is clad in white painted cut steel panels, creating the image of a structural skin....
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