The old walls of a barn in the middle of the Latvian countryside serve as a shelter to a new contemporary house, creating a new comfy interior in the middle of the openness. One of my favorite houses so far.
ORDOS 100 villa by mexican architects at103. The villa is a series of 5 interconnected boxes, each one as an independent house (work, guests, family, parents, kids), unified by a common basement with the public areas.
El Surazo, a surfers lodge in one of the best surfing spots in South America. A simple construction, with simple materials, but on a prime location. Its name comes from the strong winds from the south.
The Wyly Theatre in Dallas is almost finished, and soon the home of Dallas Theater Center (DTC), recognized as one of the country’s few innovative theater companies located outside the triumvirate of New York, Chicago and Seattle.
Interview with Joshua Prince-Ramus, selected as one of the 20 most promising architects by ICON Magazine, with projects such as the Seattle Public Library, the Guggenheim Hermitage in Las Vegas and the new Willy Theater in Dallas.
The Seattle Public Library is by far my favorite building ever. It´s not just the materials, the lights or the furniture... it´s how a traditional library becomes more than just a mere shelve for books, but a public space around knowledge.
Amazing interior design for TBWA/Hakuhodo offices in Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Klein Dytham architecture. Green roofs as mini gardens, a central space similar to a skate ramp, small trees.... Love it!
DeBartolo Architects designed The Commons, a social center for all activities in a church campus. A big roof encloses the spaces, while generating open shaded spaces in the Arizona desert.
Norwegian architect Pushak designed this simple wooden roadstop in Nordkynnhalvøya. Despite of its orthogonal composition, it blends with the landscape through its materials.
NAO´s villa for ORDOS 100. The skin of the house is designed to keep weather elements on the facade: snow, sand, rain and moss, changing during the four seasons of the year.
The Abalos + Sentkiewicz proposal for the Taipei Performing Arts Center reminds me of the Cloud City from the Empire Strikes Back. Stunning renderings.
House renovation that gives an old house a vibrant look with new wooden skin. This skin folds and generates new spaces to enjoy the home near the beach.
Swiss architect Wespi de Meuron designed this house as two stones buried on a hill. Selected points bring natural light to the interior, while the rooftop holds a pool with a perfect view over the lake and the mountains.
A cool concept for the interiors of the Mameg + Maison Martin Margiela store in Beverly Hills, designed by Johnston Marklee & Associates: A wall made out of randomly placed containers.
HHF Architects and chinese artist Ai WeiWei designed Artfarm, a gallery for a professional art collection. Amazing use of prefab steel buildings used commonly for agricultural purposes.
The PS1 competition won by MOS (see #18508) also featured entries by BSC Architects, !ndie Architecture, PARA-project and L.E.FT. Interesting proposals, ranging from full leisure, green carpets to inflatable structures.
CB3 is an interesting mixed use development in Hanoi, Vietname, designed by ICE HK. Three towers tied at the top, with an active street level. Construction is set to be started in late 2009.
Parr House by Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects. Series of rooms and patios, create a labyrinth. Pitched roofs give each room a skylight, and the transparency across the house reflects the succession of rooms.
MOS Architects just won the competition to design the summer installation at MoMA´s PS1. Their proposal is called Afterparty, and it´s based on basic materials to address the current state of economy.
The Viva Street building in Republica Dominicana features a nice cladding system, when combined with variable LED lighting, come nightfall, turns this building into a dynamic object.
OMA just won the 1st prize in the international competition to build the new Performing Arts Centre in Taipei. New approach to relationship between stage/seats to give more flexibility to experimental performances.
The ORDOS 100 villa by NL Architects is seen as box with some openings from the outside, but features an amazing 'green heart' - a cool place to be, in the inner Mongolian desert.
A new building for music performance in the waterfront of Malaga, Spain. Designed by Federico Soriano + Agustin Benedicto, it will feature a skin made out of glass tiles to achieve a vibrant light effect similar to the waving sea.
The Consorcio Building in Santiago is one of the most sustainable office buildings, with up to 48% less energy usage thanks to its green wall, which turns red in autumn.
"Lost in Paris" is an amazing skin for a laboratory in Paris, featuring an hydrophonic wall system and 300 blown glass containers that add light refraction to the interior.
Religious buildings have been historically a sandbox for innovative architecture. The Prayer Chapel in Phoenix by debartolo architects is a good example of this, with a very delicate arrangement of materials and volumes for a fest of light.
Another great example of Jurgen Mayer architecture, a continuous formal study that ends up in buildings like the Mensa Moltke in Karlsruhe, Germany, with the help of ARUP engineers.
Johnston Marklee Associates proposal for the ORDOS 100 project uses the iconic the gable roofed shed to create this house, and features interesting interior spatial relationships.
The Tree House by Sander Architects is conceived as a vertical volume to avoid cutting trees. This new wooden volume becomes another 'tree' in this small forest.
Danish architects PLOT (splitted into BIG and JDS) built this youth center as a complex topography on the top of a polluted soil, in order to make the most out of the budget. The result is an amazing playground in the coast of Copenhagen.
