MIBI Yoga Centre / Elisabetta Carnevale Arquitectura De Terra
The MIBI yoga centre, on the ground floor of a residential building, was built with prefabricated rammed earth blocks. It is the first project using this technique in the Barcelona area.
Month: April 2021
New This Week: 5 Stylish Single-Sink Bathroom Vanity Areas (5 photos)
When you think about how much time you or your guests spend at a bathroom vanity, you realize it’s an area worthy of some careful thought and planning. Vanity type, cabinet hardware, storage considerations, paint color, countertop material, backsplash…
Courthouse Amsterdam / KAAN Architecten
The distinguished and welcoming new building of the Amsterdam courthouse has begun operation, replacing the old complex on Parnassusweg in Amsterdam. The first sessions take place here on Monday the 3rd of May. This scintillating and functional building in the Zuidas area was designed and built by the consortium NACH (New Amsterdam Court House) at the behest of the Central Government Real Estate Agency. The Amsterdam courthouse, with 50 different courtrooms, more than 1000 staff including 200 judges, and 140,000 verdicts per year, is by far the largest of the 11 courthouses in the Netherlands.
Marià Castelló creates geometric three-volume home on Formentera
Spanish architecture studio Marià Castelló has built a three-volume home with ceramic vaulted ceilings on the Mediterranean island of Formentera. Located on an agricultural plot in a rural area of Formentera – one of the Balearic Islands – Es Pou is a single-storey two-bedroom home. Built on the western side of the site, the south-facing
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aged wooden roof structure + touches of dark red decorate this hidden hotel in beijing, china
the space was rebuilt in a way that allows visitors to experience traces of growth from the old house as they walk from one space to another.
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SHoP Architects Unveils Mixed-Use Tower and Museum of Civil Rights in Harlem
SHoP Architects has designed a new mixed-used development and tower that will also house the Museum of Civil Rights in West Harlem. Combined, the project could total nearly one million square feet of office, residential, and retail space with the cultural program. SHoP submitted a draft scope of work for the project, dubbed One45, that was made in collaboration with Judge Jonathan Lippman and Reverend Al Sharpton.
origami-like inflatable shelter built by harvard researchers can pop up or fold flat
the bistable pop-up structure offers new possibilities for emergency shelters in disaster zones.
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SANAA designs cloud-like structure for Shenzhen Maritime Museum
Japanese architecture studio SANAA has revealed its design for a museum in Shenzhen, which will be enclosed by a collection of hemispherical forms blanketed by a mesh louvred roof. Dubbed Clouds on the Sea by SANAA, the 100,000-square-metre Shenzhen Maritime Museum will have a long horizontal, cloud-like structure that was designed to appear as if it
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Rydon Street House / Moxon Architects
Moxon Architects has transformed a Victorian townhouse in Islington into a bright, contemporary living space for its private client. Her dream was a series of minimalist open spaces for living, entertaining, and enjoying her garden.
Reappraising Chicago’s Most Endangered Building: The James R. Thompson Center
Perhaps no building is closer to a date with the wrecking ball in Chicago than the James R. Thompson Center. While those responsible for initiating this threat cite years worth of deferred maintenance and high costs of operation as the primary reasons for their decision, these are not the real reasons for the building’s demise. It suffers from a much more lethal ailment — treating it like a normal building. In this video, Stewart explains why the Thompson Center is definitely not a normal building and offers alternative ways to evaluate it. What if we considered it to be a piece of urban infrastructure or public plaza instead? Relating the building to Rem Koolhaas’ theory of ‘Bigness’, this video builds the case that the Thompson Center should be valued for how it brings people together in space rather than its colors, or material palette, or any other normal ways of appraising mere buildings.