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Red Rock / Rolf Ockert
Architects: Rolf Ockert Location: Sydney NSW, Australia Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of Rolf Ockert From the architect. In 2011 we were approached by a client we had built a house for to design...
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Waanders In de Broeren / BK. Architecten
Architects: BK. Architecten Location: Achter de Broeren 1, Zwolle, The Netherlands Area: 1,000 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Joop van Putten, Hans Westerink Contractor: Trebbe bouw Installations: Unica...
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Budapest Music Center / Art1st Design Studio
Architects: Art1st Design Studio Location: 1093 Budapest, Mátyás Street 8, Hungary Architect In Charge: Daniel, Taraczky, Dorottya, Gőz, Abdel Rahim, Chehadé Structural Engineer: Ödenburger Építészeti...
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House N18 / DRTAN LM Architect
Architects: DRTAN LM Architect Location: Petaling Jaya, Malaysia Structural, Mechanical & Electrical Engineers: Sunway Construction Sdn. Bhd. Contractor: Sunway Construction Sdn. Bhd. Photographs:...
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Green Lighthouse / Christensen & Co Architects
Architects: Christensen & Co Architects Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Area: 970 sqm Year: 2009 Photographs: Adam Mørk From the architect. Green Lighthouse is Denmark’s first CO2 neutral public...
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Ecorium of the National Ecological Institute / Samoo Architects & Engineers +...
Architects: Samoo Architects & Engineers, Grimshaw Architects Location: Seocheon-gun, Korea Area: 33090.0 sqm Photographs: Young Chae Park From the architect. Located in Seocheon, Republic of...
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Winning Proposals Suggest Alternatives for San Francisco’s 280 Freeway
The Center for Architecture + Design and the Seed Fund announced the winners of the Reimagine. Reconnect. Restore What if 280 came down?, a competition that explored the idea of removing San...
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China Now, from Nowness
In the latest video from Nowness, director Thomas Rhazi documents the complicated architectural scene in China – focusing on how the country holds onto its identity despite the “frenetic” pace of its...
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Tokyo to host the 2020 Olympics!
UPDATE: Minutes ago Tokyo was announced as the host of the 2020 Olympics. Zaha Hadid’s design to become the Olympic stadium. Today the International Olympic Comitee (IOC) will choose the city that...
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What is Architecture? Steven Holl Describes It In Four words
“While artists work from the real to the abstract, architects must work from the abstract to the real.“ Taking on no easy task, Steven Holl has set out to define Architecture, with a capital “A” – in...
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San Antonio Hacienda / Dionne Arquitectos + Posada Arquitectos
Architects: Dionne Arquitectos + Posada Arquitectos Location: Cholula de Rivadavia (San Pedro Cholula), Puebla, Mexico Architect In Charge: Fred Dionne, Juan Ignacio Posada Collaborators: Rodrigo...
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RR House / Kerr Ritchie
Architects: Kerr Ritchie Location: Otago, New Zealand Design Team: Pete Ritchie, Bronwen Kerr Area: 270 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Paul McCredie From the architect. This house sits on a lifestyle...
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Park Point House / Vaughn McQuarrie
Architects: Vaughn McQuarrie Location: Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand Area: 140 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Simon Devitt From the architect. The house is located at the Western end of Waiheke...
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Wedge House / SOUP Architects Ltd
Architects: SOUP Architects Ltd Location: Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK Structural Engineer: BTA Structural Design Building Contractor: Young Construction Management Services Ltd (YCMS Ltd) Photographs:...
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OMA’s Santa Monica Scheme Re-evaluated
In July the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s (OMA) competition proposal for a mixed-use development in the heart of downtown Santa Monica was recommended by City Council members after they...
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Interview with Alain de Botton, Author of “The Architecture of Happiness”
Better known for his books and television documentaries, which address the importance of philosophy in our daily lives, Alain de Botton is founder of “Living Architecture,” a company which rents...
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Migliari Guimarães House / DOMO Arquitetos
Architects: DOMO Arquitetos Location: Brasília, Brazil Architect In Charge: Daniel Mangabeira, Henrique Coutinho, Matheus Seco, Rodrigo Scheel Collaborators: Daniella Rauber, Guilherme Mahana, Victor...
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London’s Largest “Living Wall” / Gary Grant
The Rubens at the Palace Hotel in Victoria, London, has unveiled the city’s largest “living wall” – a vertical landscape, composed of 16 tons of soil and 10,000 plants, designed to reduce urban...
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Software Engineers Map All the Buildings in the Netherlands
The Waag Society, together with designer and software engineer Bert Spaan, have put the Netherlands back on the map – the data map. After several months of coding and design, the partnership has...
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Turks Paint Public Walkways in Protest
In June we covered some of the anti-government protests that were taking Turkey by storm – but the Turks are still making headlines! Last week, one Istanbul resident decided to paint a derelict public...
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