Archi-Union’s Qiandao cable-car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio Archi-Union based the tiered form of this cable-car station on an abstracted geometric model of the mountains surrounding its site on the shores of Qiandao Lake. The Shanghai-based architecture office was invited to develop a proposal for the Qiandao Lake Cable Car Station in 2013, as part of a planning and architecture project

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Yast Khaneh / khavarian architects + Awe Office

May 16, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

The project is a ten-year old residential building in new context of city of Yazd that was referred to the architect during the final stages of reconstruction by another team, due to client’s dissatisfaction with the outcome. We started the process with evaluation of the improper functions Juxtaposition and proceed to problems like lack of harmony, identity and unity in building facade (just like other buildings in Yazd new city textures).Regarding the building location on the corner of a junction and having two western and northern facades, an accrete idea for optimum revitalization of the interior and exterior, by means of a proper method, which can fulfill the client and the architect requirements has been quested.

Brooklyn warehouse becomes showroom for hacked IKEA kitchens

May 16, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Danish brand Reform and US flooring company Madera have transformed a 1940s warehouse outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a Scandinavian-influenced showroom that displays hacked IKEA kitchens. Reform, which specialises in customising IKEA’s Metod kitchen cupboards, shares the 22 Waverly showroom and offices with Madera. The partnership was formed after Madera chose to install Reform’s Basis 01 kitchen in its new showroom and

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Metropole Architects Complete A New House In Tel Aviv

May 16, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Grant Pitcher   Metropole Architects have recently completed a new house in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, Israel.   At the front of the house, there’s a stone driveway that leads to a large gate and visitor entrance, that partially hides the view of the house. Photography by Grant Pitcher Inside the gates, the […]