Humans Living Together: Demonstrations, Festivities and Conflicts Seen From Above
The world’s population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050, an increase of 2 billion persons in the next 30 years.
Month: September 2020
45 House / Green Concept
The house is located in the middle of a small alley with only 50 square meters of land, which is a gentle intersection between modern architecture and a bit nostalgic… It includes 3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen and small playground. Although the area is quite limited, the home space is still filled with light and feels close to nature. Besides, the living room is also a place to connect family members giving them a space to talk together. Sometimes it is also a corner reminiscent of childhood with old items. It makes them remember their loved ones most…
söhne & partner architekten installs manneristic undulating ceiling within nightclub in vienna
the architects have adorned the interior with fine fabrics and wallpapers to generate an opulent, extravagant environment.
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Big Space, Little Space / Davidson Rafailidis
Davidson Rafailidis has turned a general contractor’s former office space into a small apartment dwelling, in interior adaptive re-use that treats space as constantly evolving and ever-changing. Over time, most spaces stray from their original programs and develop lives of their own.
Nieto Sobejano Unveils Elevated Garden Plan and Urban Stage for Paris
Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos have unveiled the new design for Cité du Théâtre, a large cultural center promoted by the French government in Paris. They will be working with French office Marin+Trottin Architectes, and the project will be located in the Ateliers Berthier. The winning project is based on the creation of a large elevated garden that establishes a visual continuity with Martin Luther King Park.
Fill in the Gaps: Infill Architecture in Urban Residual Spaces
In all cities around the world, there are some forms of residual space, forgotten pieces of the urban fabric, remnants of overlapping layers of past development. This land whose conditions make it unsuitable for most types of conventional construction might be a fertile ground for architectural invention. Assigning a new value to vacant corner lots, dead-end alleys and strangely shaped plots opens up a new field of opportunities for inward urban development, expanding available living space and increasing amenities in densely populated cities. The following explores the potential for experiment and urban activation held by urban leftover space.
Laurel Canyon: The Classic California Urban Ecosystem
The most arresting image, among many, in the documentary Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time, directed by Alison Ellwood, is a black-and-white photograph of Eric Clapton visiting Los Angeles for the first time on tour with Cream. He sits a few feet from Joni Mitchell, who is playing guitar, with a visibly stoned David Crosby in the background on the backyard lawn of Cass Elliot’s house. Clapton observes Mitchell with such a smoldering intensity you think he’s going to blow an amp. He is transfixed by Mitchell not because she was striking—and she was—but because of her musicianship.
Headquarters of the Province of Antwerp / XDGA – Xaveer De Geyter Architects
The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today’s sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green surfaces, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral, and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement of the competition brief. Surrounded by fragments of public green, the parcel is key to the formation of a larger, coherent park. Another – contradictory – demand was to maintain a more recent representational pavilion, which was positioned as an obstacle in between the fragments.
arcadia reuses an original horse sales ring to create a kids playground in sydney suburb
historic sandstone, recycled brick paving and salvaged timber from the stables have all been incorporated into the new inglis playground.
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Atour S Hotel / BEHIVE Architects
The project draws inspiration from the concept of “SAVHE”- meaning “the respiration” in the language of LISU minority group, which is traced back from the place where the hotel brand of “Atour” started. We reshape the originally wasted open space inside a service apartment and transform it into a spiritual space”SAVHE” for the hotel. It features a reading function andcreates a moment of reflection in the hustle-bustle of the city.