The design by Zaha Hadid is woven into the city’s fabric with an architectural arrangement based on the idea of an urban campus. In the MAXXI, the idea of a “closed” building gives way to a broader dimension, creating both indoor and outdoor spaces that become part of the surrounding city. The two museums – MAXXI Art and MAXXI Architecture – are located around a large full height space which gives access to the galleries...
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...
The Hill House is composed of a 20’ wide x 115’ long stepped platform, a shelter formed by the roof and east wall, and several gabion stone walls. It is sited on a long, narrow, rocky hillside, sloping gently to the south and steeply to the east and west. The building reads and lives like a habitable landscape, adapting to the changing seasons and needs of its occupants. In short, this is a modest, sustainable building with a big presence in a...
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....
The initial momentum for Zaha Hadid Architect’s Design is generated by developing a landscape carpet picking up these loose ends of the urban fabric and interweaving them with the different movement directions across and along the site. This landscape layout develops from an urban end at the western side of the plot. From this Western end, where the plot of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is neighboured by the large Berkey Hall, the new square...
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. The roof of the building is constructed of louvered...
GAD (Global Architectural Development) in collaboration with Dara Kirmizitoprak have completed the Castle Rock residential development in Bodrum, Turkey. CastleRock is a 3800m2 residential development located on a 12,000m2 site in Bodrum, a city on the southern coast of Turkey. Bodrum is nestled against the sea, and is characterized largely by its Mediterranean climate. The site is located near the center of Bodrum, perched on a hillside overlooking...
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...
The new Swiss Hugo Boss Industries building in Coldrerio is landscaped in the greenery of Canton Ticino, where, since 2006, three-hundred people have been accommodated under one single roof enveloped in a “basket”. And if it were a basket it would be a three-point shot. The first point is structural: a transparent volume made of glass, steel and concrete, composed of prefabricated elements to allow more control over building costs and times, is...
ROBERT unveils for its clientele an expansive view of Columbus Circle, Central Park, Broadway and Central Park West, hidden for decades since the closure of Huntington Hartford’s museum. Celebratory, sexy and romantic, designed to allow for conversation, patrons may dine sitting on sofas in the central lounge area, or be seated at the windows to enjoy the views. Lighting is designed by San Francisco based architect Johanna Grawunder. Grawunder’s...
MAXXI, The National Museum of the XXI Century Arts by Zaha Hadid Architects
The design by Zaha Hadid is woven into the city’s fabric with an architectural arrangement...
ABC Chairs by Roeland Otten
A great work of designer Roeland Otten, based in Rotterdam, which has designed this collection...
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