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House Of The Winds By Leo Romano

February 21, 2019 Erin 0

  Brazilian architect Leo Romano, has designed Casa Dos Ventos (House of the Winds), a modern concrete house with a structure of two overlapping boxes that are arranged in an ‘L’ shape.   The house has a large yard adjacent to the swimming pool, and a covered patio area that’s home to an alfresco dining […]

OMA adds iridescent glass escalator to New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue

February 21, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Saks staircase by OMA

Dutch architecture firm OMA has updated the Saks Fifth Avenue department store in Manhattan with a glass escalator that appears multicoloured from different angles. OMA’s stair connects the ground, first and lower levels of Saks Fifth Avenue and creates a diamond-shaped atrium, with the first floor visible from the ground level. The glass panels that

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911-VILLA / VACO Design

February 21, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Inspired by Villa Savoye and the openness of vernacular architecture, the house is a steel box sitting resting above columns, freeing up the ground floor space. The design is an answer to the minimal contemporary lifestyle of the young professional, who possesses an extensive collection of cars in the tropical climate of Ho Chi Minh City.

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Centennial house / IGASO architects & planners

February 21, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

Centennial have the maximum floor space as a mixed-use housing built on a small land, at the end of a cul-de-sac in the city center, and designed it in a creative way to overcome the forms inevitably determined by legal conditions. In addition, by creating an affluent space that can communicate with the outside elements, the resident comfort is secured and sustainable architecture is realized by using recycled materials.

ChiaramonteMarin Designstudio Has Created A Glass Lamp Named KNOT

February 21, 2019 Erin 0

  ChiaramonteMarin Designstudio has created KNOT, a collection of lights that combine a coarse natural fibre with smooth, transparent blown glass. Designed for lighting manufacturer BROKIS, the light collection consists of four pendant lights and a table lamp that are made from full-bodied globes in various shapes and sizes.   Each of the pendant lights […]

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U House / atelier NgNg

February 21, 2019 Pilar Caballero 0

U House is located in the new development area in the suburb of Binh Duong, a growing industrial city in the South of Vietnam. The owner is particularly interested in the garden house in rural Central Vietnam and wanted to recreate the lifestyle that is in harmony with nature, often seen in this traditional residential typology. The challenge for us is to adapt the traditional design to this new setting.

Studio Drift deconstructs everyday objects for Materialism series at Frieze LA

February 21, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Materialism by Studio Drift

Amsterdam-based Studio Drift “de-produced” a bicycle and a pencil into the chunks of the materials used to make them for an exhibit at the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles. The studio deconstructed the manmade items to highlight the amount of natural resources and effort involved in the extraction, labour and manufacturing of their

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White Arkitekter develops maternity unit concept for hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo

February 21, 2019 India Block 0
Panzi Hospital mother and baby unit concept by White Arkitekter

White Arkitekter has created a concept for a new mother and baby health unit at the Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Swedish architecture studio has designed the maternity unit as an extension to the Panzi Hospital, which was founded in 1999 by Denis Mukwege – recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize

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j. mayer h. erects sculptural concrete tram stop in kelh, germany

February 21, 2019 macnadusa 0

j.mayer.h is celebrating the completion of a new tram stop in kehl, germany. as part of the new transnational tram line crossing the rhine river from strasbourg, france into kehl, germany, the berlin-based architectural practice has erected a structure composed of bright round, exposed concrete discs that condense aspects of dynamism, balance, lability, and mobility […]

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