A blend of harmonious lines, soft colors and modern materials, the hotel conversion of a former industrial building expands the adjoining Aspria sport and wellness club in Berlin. Thirty-nine guest rooms, three apartments and two conference rooms spread over three floors result in an innovative series of calming, highly modern spaces.
First a church then a theatre, a slice of Brisbane’s heritage has been saved from demolition and transformed into two striking luxury homes. The existing buildings date back to 1867 and are heritage listed.
The programme of requirements includes a terminal building, a control tower, and two spaces for storages. Given their size, none of these elements were obvious candidates to represent a new airport. The strategy pursued therefore seeked to link the three programmes by means of a common visual element that avoids the impression that a strange object has landed in the fields of Lleida while also defining a recognisable landmark.
A concept for a tower that captures maximum amount of solar power
The Towers Of The Future
Majority of the towers designed these days are extravagant formal propositions. Towers are in vogue but most of them are unconcerned with the issues of today or the future. In this way, the flood of towers designed these days is outdated. Architects must seize this time of the greatest responsibility and develop sustainable strategies for towers to use all the physical and social energies of their sites; especially, because towers sustain the environment maybe better than any other building type.
SOM Awarded Commission for Eco-Urban Community in Danang, Vietnam
On May 5, 2011 (London, UK) Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM) was awarded the Master Plan commission for Golden Hills, and Eco-Urban Community in Danang, Vietnam. SOM’s preliminary plan for a sustainable residential community at the edge of the city looks to set a new benchmark for ecologically-sensitive development in Vietnam. SOM is now working closely with the city planning authorities to finalise the project’s design and ensure its delivery. This is SOM’s third recent project ‘win’ in the country and follows the firm’s recent successes of Green Tech City in Hanoi and FPT City also in Danang.
The approach to the nursery is on the basis of the land surface separated from the urban park of the same name. This place is chosen because is slighty higher than the elevation level of the rest of the park so the equipment has views of its surroundings.
The classrooms facade. Covered with interactive panels to make the children play directly with their building.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, friends and acquaintances, police and thieves, candidates for mayor and entrepreneurs, etc. and etc., the city still puts on quite a show. Struggling insolently with the prevailing imperative of sobriety and economy of resources, we are presenting an outrageous and exhibitionist building.
Exterior View (Images Courtesy Adrià Goula)
Architect:EQUIP Xavier Claramunt – Xavier Claramunt, Martin Ezquerro, Pau Rodríguez, Marc Zaballa
Name of Project: Hotel Arc del Teatre
Location: C. Arc del Teatre 58-58b – 08001 Barcelona, Spain
This house, situated in a village perched on a mountain overlooking the Mediterranean sea, is located on a site with a not very easy accessibility, full of cherries fields and open views.
Article source: JDS, CEBRA, Louis Paillard, SeARCH
JDS/CEBRA/Louis Paillard/SeARCH team wins a competition for a housing complex in Aarhus, DK
(Denmark, May 19, 2008) JDS/JULIEN DE SMEDT ARCHITECTS and Aarhus-based CEBRA, in collaboration with the Dutch firm SeARCH and French architect Louis Paillard wins the competition to build a 25,000 sqm housing complex in the new Aarhus Docklands development. The project will be developed by the Tækker Group and Brabrand Boligforening with an expected completion date of spring 2010
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