This building is a store and apartment complex in the Oku-Asakusa area, northwest of Sensoji Temple, where the population is aging.By building a 4-floor building without using up the floor-area ratio, the cost of the elevators was allocated to the private areas. The aim was to create a new hub of activity in the area by attracting young people to live and store.
In the beginning, the architect received the original commission to design a 300-square-meter public building for facilitating the county’s culture and art education in Xiuwu, Henan. However, considering the vast serving area (630-square-kilometer county area) and the difficulty of traveling between scattered villages, the architect came up with a proposal to divide one building into a series of miniature facilities in different locations so as to better serve local communities. These cast-in-place concrete miniatures are interpreted into a series of tree-shaped spaces with tentacles reaching out for the sky, bathing in light and shadow. Their locations vary from fields, woods, to mountaintops, and their forms differ as well: while one grows out from the ruined walls in an abandoned village, another embodies a floating theater on the water. Following the first completed “Peach Hut”, the second episode of the miniature series, “Library in Ruins”, is constructed alongside the remnant of an adobe house in Sunyao Old Village which is 20 kilometers away from the Peach Hut.
“This particular project for us has been not just architecture but an approach in designing experiences or merging nature or nature living. When we want to run away from the city, we want to run away from the feel of it mostly and what better escape can it be than this.”
Individual visitors will be banned from Thomas Heatherwick’s Vessel attraction in New York when it reopens on Friday, four months after a third suicide forced it to close. The 46-metre-high viewpoint at Hudson Yards in Manhattan will reopen on 28 May with a raft of new measures to prevent people jumping. These include a buddy
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the space was designed by BURR to evolve with the changing spatial and economic needs of the inhabitants.
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We have updated the windowsills of the dwelling units to be closer to the external environment of the housing complex.
New York’s Hudson River Park Trust has begun construction on Gansevoort Peninsula, a riverfront park by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations that will be home to Manhattan’s first public beach. The 5.5-acre park, which will also include lawns and sports facilities, is expected to complete by spring 2023. Located between Gansevoort Street and Little
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‘architects are stepping forward and saying: what if it could be this way?’ – designboom speaks with hashim sarkis about an architecture biennale like no other.
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Scottish architecture practice Kettle Collective has unveiled designs for a 703-metre-high supertall skyscraper in St Petersburg, Russia, which would be the second tallest building in the world. Called Lakhta Centre II, the 150-storey building would also have the highest occupied floor in the world at 590 metres. The tallest building in the world is the
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Located on a corner lot, in front of a historic school, and with a lot of exposure, we sought to protect the house from the outside and open it completely to the inside. It was planned on two levels, a ground floor for the social area and an upper floor for the private area.
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