The National Museum of Qatar building will provide 86,000 square feet of permanent gallery space, 21,500 square feet of temporary gallery space, a 220-seat auditorium, a 70-seat food forum / TV studio, two cafés, a restaurant and a museum shop. Separate facilities are provided for school groups and special guests. Staff facilities include a heritage research center, restoration laboratories, staff offices and collection processing and storage areas....
French-Brazilian architects Triptyque were asked to create an innovative hybrid space to house a small company. It had to be versatile and allow spontaneous changes in layout and use. The building is located in a neighbourhood on the west side of Sao Paulo, Brasil where artistic life and creativity increasingly shape the streetscape. The site is distinguished by the climate of a tropical country with massive rain showers and very high temperatures,...
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 two different dialogues, the duality between...
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 for creating picturesque and sustainable public...
To save the plateau, the building was pushed towards the eastern perimeter of the site, suspended above the slope on slender steel columns. The entrance stair rises along the slope through the house up to the plateau. This strategy avoids costly blasting, hiding the technical connections in the stair. It saves at the same time the existing characteristics of the site, creating a dramatic interplay between volume and site. The entrance condition and...
A large exhibition area, facing students, occupies a shed built in the early twentieth century that housed a textile mill. The factory had built railway lines and platforms 140 meters associated with buildings, for input and output supplies. The set, which is under consideration for tipping bodies of historical, still houses one seconds parallel shed that serves as the center of activities to people with special needs. Between the two brick buildings...
SAMOO Architecture PC, the New York studio of SAMOO Architects and Engineers based in Seoul, Korea, announced that it has won an international competition for the design of The New York Korea Center, a new home for the Korean Cultural Service in New York. The eight-story, 33,000 square foot facility will offer spaces for exhibitions, performances, lectures, and administration. Korea House will be located on East 32nd Street, extending the vibrancy...
The proposal “The Modern Castle” by Danish practice DEVE Architects has won the EUROPAN 10 contest for Augustenborg, Denmark in the category Urban Plan and Buildings. The jury praised DEVE’s proposal for finding a way to continue developing the town with an updated, yet recognizably local typology without reaching out too far from the established nature of Augustenborg. From the jury’s report: “One of the first things that caught...
Janus Chairs was created as one of six sculptural shelters at Kielder Water & Forest Park, northern Europe’s largest man made lake and England’s largest forest. The three one piece chairs (H2.3mxW1.2mxL2.3m, H2.7mxW1.8mxL3.1m, H3.3mx W2.4mxL3.8m) can be rotated toward a favourite view, into the sun, away from the wind or toward each other to form a family group. They are made from laminated Douglas fir from the Scottish borders with polished...
Ball-Nogues Studio winning entry for a public art competition sponsored by the City of Santa Monica; the sculpture is situated on the exterior wall of an existing parking structure at Santa Monica Place – originally designed by Frank Gehry. Near the beach and the Third Street Promenade, the site is heavily trafficked by tourists on foot and in automobiles. An aggregation of mirror polished stainless steel spheres, the sculpture operates structurally...
Attractive Olympic View House by BC and J Architecture
The house for public must need special design that combines the concept of privacy and comfort....
Amazing Dry Creek House Design by Brian Dillard
This house looks so cute and beautiful from outside since it has amazing design. This house...
Fascinating Le Portelet House by MOOARC
Enjoying the view side the river will be interesting with the special house. This house is...
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