The Beautiful Sparks Modular Lighting System by Daniel Becker

Sparks attempts to freeze a fleeting moment and record it emotionally. The light appearance of a split second is compressed and duplicated volumetrically. Technically, it is a modular lighting system which consists of three different modules made of aluminium tubes. They can be arranged with a simple plug-in system in various configurations to form a three-dimensional structure. Every module can be rotated freely in 360° which makes the whole system... 

Designers of International Garden Will be Selected in Festival 2011

The International Garden Festival, Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens, Quebec, Canada recently announced the names of the designers selected by the jury for the 2011 edition of the Festival. The theme for the 2011 competition was “Secret Gardens”. The three projects chosen for the 2011 edition are: The ALGAE Garden; The ALGAE Garden celebrates the beauty and the potential source of energy of the algae through a design that underlines its diversity... 

Solar City Tower for Rio Olympics 2016

The aim of Solar City Tower for Rio 2016 Olympic Games project is to ask how the classic concept of a landmark can be reconsidered. It is less about an expressive, iconic architectural form; rather, it is a return to content and actual, real challenges for the imminent post-oil-era. This project represents a message of a society facing the future; thus, it is the representation of an inner attitude. Our project, standing in the tradition of “a building/city... 

SISKA Shopping Centre by ATP Architects and Engineers

The amorphous design of the building allows it to nestle comfortably into its urban context. Its edges are soft and enriched by a series of smaller public spaces. As visitors sweep across the large square and into the building the flowing threshold means that they are hardly aware of the main entrance as they pass through it. One moves through the entire complex in a similar fashion – with the secondary entrance to the supermarket being conceived... 

Blue Rock House Austerlitz by Anmahian Winton Architects

A new house, guesthouse, and garage form a community of buildings on a rural hilltop site, evoking a rural homestead. The buildings define a formal courtyard that opens to specific views of the Berkshire and Catskill Mountains. Copper, wood, and bluestone are the primary materials, deployed to affect a minimal and sculptural vocabulary. The buildings are embedded to varying degree within the rocky topography, and bluestone walls weave between architecture... 

English Residence by ZeroEnergy Design

ZED designed this LEED Gold certified residence to replace the original building and remained true to the family traditions that have developed since the land was purchased in 1958. Back then, as a botanist and a world class statistician, the client’s parents each followed the academic calendar enabling them to spend summers on the cape in rental home. Being conservation oriented, they planned to tread lightly on the property – imagining self... 

1850′s Capitol Hill Carbon Neutral Home Makeover

The modest existing wood stick home dates back to the early 19th century. Although it has been vacant for several years in disrepair, the property is a wonderful opportunity to showcase “DC’s first Carbon Neutral Home.” With strict historical standards, well informed neighbors, tight building conditions, tough existing structural conditions and all the other challenges adaptive reuse projects have, it’s a serious challenge –that proven successful,... 

360º kiosks by studio SKLIM

Designers Studio SKLIM lead by Beijing architect Kevin Lim had to fill up a narrow strip of land measuring approximately 35 m long and ranging in width from 7 to 13 metres. Six tensile membrane canopy structures at varying heights were already present. The challenge was to provide kiosks and to optimise the use of space without obstructing pedestrian circulation. Studio SKLIM reused existing canopy structures without sacrificing their structural integrity....