April 2020 - Page 15 of 120

Mies van der Rohe’s Lafayette Park in Detroit captured in new photographs

April 27, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0

A modernist housing development in Detroit designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is captured in photographs by architect and local resident Julio Alberto Cedano. Called Lafayette Park, the project was built by the German-American architect in 1959 and comprises two superblocks of differently sized buildings. Cedano photographed the development, which marks the largest collection

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South Dakota architecture students complete Passivhaus home

April 27, 2020 Kristine Klein 0

Architect Rob Arlt and his group of students in South Dakota have completed an experimental gabled passivhaus in South Dakota, which they claim is the first in the area to “sell energy back to the grid”. Arlt, an instructor in the South Dakota State University Department of Architecture, worked with students to complete the house in

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Newry House / Austin Maynard Architects

April 27, 2020 Paula Pintos 0

The owners of Newry, a family of four, wanted to renovate their single-fronted terrace home in inner-city Melbourne, on a tight budget. Though the house had already been renovated in the 90s, the two storey addition at the back failed to address the primary issue, a lack of light. The owners asked Austin Maynard Architects to reconfigure their living zone to allow in sunlight and make better use of their limited space.

An Indoor Plant Room Is The Perfect Place For Reading

April 27, 2020 Erin 0

Yevgenia Shilova and Ilya Eroshevich of architecture and interior design firm Design Rocks have recently completed an apartment that includes an indoor plant room. Located just off the dining room and highlighted by the black-framed glass wall with a door, the garden provides a place of calm within the modern interior. A door opens to […]

A Cantilevered Dining Table Separates The Kitchen And Living Room In This Apartment

April 27, 2020 Erin 0

Interior design studio Manuel García Asociados, has recently completed an apartment in Alicante, Spain, and as part of the design, they included a cantilevered dining table. A heavy Ceppo di Gre stone table top emerges as a horizontal element from a wood storage cabinet. A metal substructure together with a glass plane placed underneath is […]

Jinan Greentown Financial Center / gad

April 27, 2020 Collin Chen 0

The verse of “A picturesque city surrounded by hills and lakes lined with lotus flowers and willow trees” is a vivid reflection of Jinan, also known as Quancheng (the city of springs). Its traditional downtown appearance now presents with changes. At the same time, traditions are being revitalized in the integration and interaction with the modern. Greentown Financial Center Project is located at the traditional downtown area of Jinan, facing Luoyuan Avenue in the north. It is surrounded by many traditional commercial buildings and traditional residential buildings in different forms. Like a new comer, the new and the old bring a variety of interest with the intersection of different architectural features.

“This is not a hospital” says architect behind conversion of McCormick Place

April 27, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0

McCormick Place convention centre in Chicago

Convention centres that have been rapidly turned into facilities for coronavirus patients should not be called hospitals, says Doug King, the healthcare principal of Stantec, which has overseen the transformation of Chicago’s McCormick Place. Stantec worked with contractor Walsh Construction to turn three halls in the centre into an alternative care facility with 3000 beds.

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White House / Modaam Architects

April 27, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

“White House” seeks to change the essence of a home. It is a quest to benefit the upcoming generations who shall enjoy living their lives in it. The process of designing the White House is an effort to generate a dialogue with a generation who rejects anything that belongs to the past; such as functions, organizations, settings, accesses, and lighting sources.

Black Magic House / Rowland+Broughton Architecture

April 27, 2020 Andreas Luco 0

“Black Magic” is a carefully sited, modern gem with singular use of materials. Nestled in the woods with views of rock outcroppings to the east, the home features black metal corrugated skin, making a bold statement against surrounding mountainside.

Superblock of Sant Antoni / Leku Studio

April 27, 2020 Pilar Caballero 0

The Eixample of Barcelona, characterised byits uniform, regular and extensive grid, shows a solid, mixed and highly densified city with a consolidated public space that now needs to reprogram and recycle itself to respond to a rapidly changing social, environmental and economic reality.