On March 23rd 2010, La Llotja theatre and congress centre will celebrate its grand opening to an audience of citizens, press, the Mayor Ros of Lleida and other dignitaries. La Llotja de Lleida designed by Francine Houben of Mecanoo architecten & LABB arquitectura is one of the most prestigious project in Catalunya, transforming Lleida into a cultural destination and providing a venue for opera, plays and congresses. Situated between the Seu Vella...
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 construction, made by a very good structural designer...
In 2009, this concept for an apartment complex was the winning entry by Slovenian OFIS Arhitekti in an invited competition. The main request was to develop 100 quality housing units with terraces surrounded by green. The concept proposes three enclosed islands starting from layout of typical house with garden in the area. Apartment village is formed from individual houses with gardens and furthermore imposed on top of each other. In this way, green...
The purpose of the newly-founded chain, nat. fine bio food, is to make fast food healthy, to offer delicious organic food in a timely manner – and this in a contemporary environment. nat. brings together Organic and Lifestyle, and with this follows the increasingly-important LOHAS-Trend (Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability). The main contradiction of a “natural” restaurant in an artificial urban environment becomes the core of the design....
On a very small site of 33 square meters of frontage 3.3m / 10m deep, I planned a building of frontage 2.7m / about 9m deep. I draw the biggest curve on there with width and depth of a building, I distributed a place of a roof and a place of a sky with the curve. And I planned the stairs which went up from the first floor to the second floor with this curve. The main space of the building which these created, it is it with the space that it “is...
The North Slope Ski Hotel is a conceptual design proposal (in search of a client) for an eco-friendly ninety five-room luxury hotel, which is powered primarily by the wind and by the sun. Eight large vertical axis wind turbines are mounted on the top of the hotel, and a very large array of flexible photovoltaic cells cover the lower south facing curved portion of the structure. These wind turbines and solar cells are used to supply most of the hotels...
Urban Aqualoop is public space created from infrastructure and natural cycles, creating spaces for lounging, eating, playing and physical relaxation in combination with a living, working hydroponic fish farm. Urban Aqualoop celebrates the cycles of organically feeding, growing and eating fish through an exchange of nutrients with plant life – all within a sinuous loop of a soft that bends around itself to create different spaces for lying upon,...
The design, led by WORKac partners Amale Andraos and Dan Wood and Zhubo Chief Architect Feng Guochuan, was chosen from twelve submissions by internationally renowned firms. Xu Chong Guang, the Vice Chairman of the Shenzhen Planning Bureau, commented that “Shenzhen is a new city, and very experienced in creating new districts. However, we have not yet had the opportunity to renew existing districts. WORKac’s very important project is the first...
This four-bedroom rental apartment renovation was commissioned by a contemporary art and furniture collector. The more-public areas are organized around the collection. Vinyl flooring in several colors was created with large white circles to “spotlight” particular pieces. The entrance is monochrome with a custom designed wallpaper. The Living room, dominated by a large Bourellec Brother “cabana” is red. The dining room is in yellow and lined...
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...
East Village Studio by Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture
Economy, functionality and privacy were the primary drivers in the design of this sixth floor...
Datong Sports Park by Populous
The win for Populous, which has its Asian base in Queensland, comes as its first sports park...
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