No Image

House in Meerkerk / Ruud Visser Architecten

July 6, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

The Tolstraat in the small Dutch village Meerkerk is a historic street with houses built in the early 1900th. On one hand the facades are strictly lined-up making the street formal, but on the other hand the houses in the street are built up by small elements: annexes, sheds, roofs and fascias. Towards the back the houses are situated along a nature reserve. This leads to a totally different atmosphere. The main challenge was: ‘how to blend in a new (contemporary) house into this complex historic setting of the Tolstraat? We decided to adapt the local ‘messiness’ into our design.

No Image

Shanghai LuJiaZui Exhibition Centre / OMA

July 6, 2017 Daniel Tapia 0

The Lujiazui Exhibiton Centre is located on the northern and most recent development of Shanghai Pudong, along the Huangpu River, one of the most photographed waterfronts in the world. The project site, occupying the former ‘Shanghai Shipyard’, has a long history of marine industry. The new Exhibition Centre is positioned on the ramp of a former ship cradle and provides a concentrated event space within the surrounding financial district.

No Image

Liberty Lounge / Simplex Architecture

July 5, 2017 Rayen Sagredo 0

The site is located in an alley, a few blocks away from Dosandae-ro a busy boulevard in Seoul’s Gangnam district. The area used to be a low-rise residential district in the past, but now rapidly transforming into a commercial district full of shops and restaurants. The existing building had a simple rectangular structure with a courtyard in the middle, using concrete blocks and blackened steel as a major finish material. The main interest in designing the building was to keep the existing materiality, yet to make enough alteration to accommodate the new program. The concrete block wall on the north was maintained in order to preserve the original materiality of the building, and the blackened steel was mainly used for the newly built walls.

This Modern Home In South Africa Reinvents The Beach House

July 5, 2017 Keely 0

Photography by Grant Pitcher   Metropole Architects together with Lee Moon Interiors, and Image Landscape Design, have designed House VZ in Umdloti, South Africa. The house was made with the intention of reinventing the ‘beach house’.   The house, which is three levels and faces the ocean, features a main level with an outdoor pool and the entertaining areas, while […]

SUBdV Creates Sculptural Seating For An Office Reception Area

July 5, 2017 Erin 0

Photography by Rodrigo Chust   Brazilian architecture firm SUBdV have designed and created a custom office reception area for Monashees+ Venture Capital, that features a lounge setting that appears futuristic and aero-dynamic. After receiving the design brief from feng-shui design consultant Marisa Volonterio, who envisioned a calming fluid lounge setting whose design and fabrication would exemplify the […]