Ames Hotel Boston by Rockwell Group

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 old and the new in 113 modern-style rooms and dramatic... 

The Smithsonian Kogod Courtyard by Gustafson Guthrie Nichol

The award-winning Courtyard was designed by landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, within an architectural renovation by Foster + Partners architects. The Donald W. Reynolds Center home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery is a National Historic Landmark Building in Washington, D.C. The interior courtyard has been enclosed by a glass canopy designed by Foster + Partners, creating one of the largest public event... 

Brazilian Cafe Design by Una Arquitetos

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... 

Regent’s Place Pavilion in London by Carmody Groarke

The pavilion’s design has been the product of a architectural / engineering collaboration between Arup and Carmody Groarke. Holding the 3mm plate stainless steel canopy aloft 8m, extremely slender vertical elements stand without any cross-bracing, joined only at the top with a decorative structural lattice. Extensive testing of prototypes was undertaken on full size mock-ups at the Building Research Establishment as part of the design development... 

The North Slope Ski Hotel by Michael Jantzen

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... 

PLUS Residence by Mount Fuji Architects Studio

The project was assigned to Mount Fuji Architects Studio in 2007; the architects where to asked to design a weekend house in a site which was rather untouched by the human hand. The intact wilderness of the land on mount Izu-san was covered with deciduous broad-leaved trees such as cherry trees and Japanese oaks. The architects “saw faint glimmer of architectural possibility along the ridge” of the mountain. They didn’t want to create elaborate...