RRC Studio Design Residential & Commercial Expansion for Al Dhakira
Italian Practice RRC Studio has released designs for new residential and commercial quarters in Al Dhakira, Qatar. The design will roughly double the size of the small city, situated 60km outside the...
View ArticleCan a Law of Linguistics Predict How Cities Grow?
An interesting article on io9 unveils a curious law that can apparently predict the size of cities - a law developed by a linguist. The original version of Zipf’s law states that in any language, the...
View ArticleCastle of Skywalkers / Doojin Hwang Architects
Architects: Doojin Hwang Architects Location: Cheonan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea Area: 2,988 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Youngchae Park Design Team: Euijin Park, Jongmi Ryu, Juhui Son,...
View ArticleApartments Jordaenskaai Antwerp / Crepain Binst Architecture
Architects: Crepain Binst Architecture Location: Jordaenskaai, Antwerp, Belgium Area: 6,000 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of Crepain Binst Architecture Project Manager: Ward Lagrain...
View ArticleGallery House / GM Arquitectos
Architects: GM Arquitectos Location: Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia Architect In Charge: Giovanni Moreno Area: 500 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Luis Fernando Ramos Construction: GM Proyectos...
View ArticleWalmart Sao Paulo / Estudio Guto Requena
Architects: Estudio Guto Requena Location: São Paulo, Brasil Concept: Arq. Guto Requena Development: Arq. Paulo de Camargo, Arq. Lucas Ciciliato Area: 6400 sqm Year: 2013 Photography: Fran Parente...
View ArticleSalem Harbor Station / COOKFOX
From the architect. The Salem Harbor Station, built between 1948 and 1951, is a coal fired power station which occupies a 65-acre site in Salem, Massachusetts. One of the region’s dirtiest coal- and...
View ArticleDivision1 Architects – Distinctive Design That Matters
Profiled Firm: Division1 Architects Location: Washington, DC and New York, NY, USA When Ali Reza Honarkar faced conservative college professors in the 1990s who emphasized the importance of honoring...
View ArticleGreen Edge House / ma-style architects
Architects: ma-style architects Location: Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan Architect In Charge: Atsushi Kawamoto, Mayumi Kawamoto Area: 73 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Nacasa & Partners Makoto...
View ArticleINTERIORS: The Yeezus Tour
Interiors is an online film and architecture journal, published by Mehruss Jon Ahi and Armen Karaoghlanian. Interiors runs an exclusive column for ArchDaily that analyzes and diagrams films in terms...
View ArticleAndré Parent Cultural Center / Olivier Werner Architecte
Architects: Olivier Werner Architecte Location: Anzin, France Project Manager: Franz Bourgeois Area: 749 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of Olivier Werner Architecte From the architect. Some places have a...
View ArticleKickstarter Campaign: The Blindspot Initiative
Like many in architecture, the Blindspot Initiative has grown tired of ”the exclusive, winner takes all mentality of competitions.” Instead, they value collaboration and open access to design ideas,...
View ArticleHotel WIND / TEAM BLDG
Architects: TEAM BLDG Location: Xiamen, Fujian, China Architect In Charge: Xiao Lei, Wang Jin Year: 2013 Photographs: Nacasa & Partners Collaborators: Chen Leeyang, Wang Qi, Zhang Tao, Jin...
View ArticleHeneghan Peng Architects Selected to Design Contemporary Arts Center in Moscow
Heneghan Peng Architects has won an international competition for a new National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA) at Moscow’s Khodynskoe Pole. Selected from a shortlist of three, the Dublin-based...
View ArticleMIRA / Dionne Arquitectos + Metarquitectura + JAR Jaspeado Arquitectos +...
Architects: Dionne Arquitectos + Metarquitectura + JAR Jaspeado Arquitectos + Adaptable Location: Concepción Guadalupe, Puebla, Mexico Design Team: Fred Dionne, Ezequiel Aguilar, Rodrigo Jaspeado,...
View ArticleInaugure Hospitality Group Headquarters / YLAB Arquitectos
Architects: YLAB Arquitectos Location: Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain Architect In Charge: Tobias Laarmann, Yolanda Yuste López Builders: Ebanistería Agüera, 7Works General Contractor,...
View ArticleFinalist Proposal for First Public University in South Africa Since Apartheid
TC Design Architects have been announced as one of the four finalists in a country-wide architectural competition to design the University of Mpumalanga in Nelspruit, the first public university in...
View ArticleMeeting Bar Plaza Castilla / Losada García arquitectos
Architects: Losada García arquitectos Location: Plaza Castilla, Madrid, Spain Architect In Charge: Alberto García, Ramiro Losada Collaborators: José Jiménez, Álvaro Carrillo Area: 105 sqm Year: 2013...
View ArticleK House / Kimura Matsumoto
Architects: Kimura Matsumoto Location: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan Design Team: Yoshinari Kimura , Naoko Matsumoto Area: 45 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Yuko Tada Structural Engineer: Eisuke Mitsuda...
View ArticleAndrew Road / a-dlab
Architects: a-dlab Location: Andrew Road, Singapore Design Team: Warren Liu, Lim Pin Jie Area: 650 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Derek Swalwell From the architect. Situated in the well-known Caldecott...
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