Month: June 2017

Swiss architecture students design and build wooden events pavilion beneath Zurich overpass

June 8, 2017 Lizzie Fison 0

Two hundred architecture students from a Lausanne university designed and built this events pavilion in Zurich, using lengths of timber to create a towering staircase, undulating seating and projection screens. Conceived by first-year students taking part in Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) – a summer workshop at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – the 240-square-metre structure was erected under an overpass in the Swiss

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Five houses to snoop around during Atlanta Design Festival 2017

June 8, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

A variety of contemporary homes in Atlanta are opening their doors to visitors this weekend, and we’ve selected the most interesting ones to take look inside. The open-house tours are taking place 10-11 June 2017 as part of this year’s Atlanta Design Festival, for which Dezeen is media partner. Tickets for the self-guided tours, organised

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Son Yang Won Memorial Museum / Lee Eunseok + Atelier K.O.M.A

June 8, 2017 Fernanda Castro 0

This architectural project was commissioned as a monument to the national patriot Son Yang Won who was made a saint of the protestant church, for a life of holy sacrifice and devout Christian faith during Japanese Colonial Era. The project has been constructed as a ‘Symbolic space memorial’, in which the three guiding mentalities of Son Yang Won, ‘Resistance’, ‘Sacrifice’, and ‘Reconciliation’ are structured for view throughout the three exhibition spaces.

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Son Yang Won Memorial Museum / Lee Eunseok + Atelier K.O.M.A

June 8, 2017 Fernanda Castro 0

This architectural project was commissioned as a monument to the national patriot Son Yang Won who was made a saint of the protestant church, for a life of holy sacrifice and devout Christian faith during Japanese Colonial Era. The project has been constructed as a ‘Symbolic space memorial’, in which the three guiding mentalities of Son Yang Won, ‘Resistance’, ‘Sacrifice’, and ‘Reconciliation’ are structured for view throughout the three exhibition spaces.

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Nendo looks to ancient Japanese tombs for first landscape architecture project

June 8, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Prolific Japanese design studio Nendo has now moved into urban design, unveiling its massive CoFuFun plaza near Kyoto. The plaza – located outside of Tenri Station in Japan’s Nara prefecture – is the studio’s largest architecture project after its renovation of the Siam Discovery shopping centre in Bangkok last year. It is also Nendo’s first

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A Perfect Day for a Sandcastle Contest (23 photos)

June 8, 2017 Brenna Malmberg 0
The 58 teams that competed in the 31st Annual AIA Sandcastle Competition could not have been more pleased with the weather conditions on Saturday, June 3, in Galveston, Texas. The sun shone overhead. The temperatures stayed in the 80s. And a cool breeze blew off the Gulf of Mexico. “It could not have…

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C.F. Møller Wins Competition for Innovative High-Rise in Stockholm

June 8, 2017 Patrick Lynch 0

C.F. Møller has been selected as the winners of a competition to design a community-focused highrise in the Stockholm neighborhood of Kista, a district known as the city’s tech hub that is in need of attractive, contemporary living options. Known as Geysir, the 15,000-square-meter building will provide 220 new units of varying size, as well as 2,000 square meters of retail space, helping to develop the urban quarter.