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dadad market in thailand features floating structures of light in the night-time cityscape

November 17, 2018 macnadusa 0

designed by bangkok tokyo architecture and OPH, the dadad market is situated in front of a local mall in nakorn ratchasima, some 250 km northeast of bangkok. the market, which offers a diverse array of goods, takes its name from dadad — meaning various or plentiful in northeaster slang — and captures the essence of this […]

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casa ccff is an eco-friendly urban house by leopold banchini architects

November 16, 2018 macnadusa 0

designed by leopold banchini architects, casa ccff is an environmentally-friendly urban house overlooking geneva’s industrial train station. the design of the exterior mimics the surrounding industrial shed roof profiles, while the interior incorporates a large open volume, filled with sunlight. external views are carefully framed to create a brightly lit intimacy in this highly urbanized […]

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casa ccff is an eco-friendly urban house by leopold banchini architects

November 16, 2018 macnadusa 0

designed by leopold banchini architects, casa ccff is an environmentally-friendly urban house overlooking geneva’s industrial train station. the design of the exterior mimics the surrounding industrial shed roof profiles, while the interior incorporates a large open volume, filled with sunlight. external views are carefully framed to create a brightly lit intimacy in this highly urbanized […]

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risco extends existing clinic in lisbon to create new hospital in two volumes

November 16, 2018 macnadusa 0

risco has extended the oeiras clinic in lisbon and transformed it into the luz hospital. this transformation concerned the construction of a new building adjacent to the existing clinic. in addition to an overall reorganization of the program, the core theme of the project entailed giving the proposed building an entirely different design to the current […]

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the greenland center by nikken sekkei forms shanghai’s largest urban park

November 16, 2018 macnadusa 0

located above a two-line subway station, the shanghai greenland center by architecture office nikken sekkei forms the city’s largest urban park at approximately 20,000 m2. merging nature with human activity, the complex encloses various commercial facilities through a roof of cascading terraces and slopes topped with trees and other types of greenery. all images courtesy […]

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MVRDV breaks ground on ‘radio tower & hotel’ in new york

November 15, 2018 macnadusa 0

MVRDV has broken ground on its first project in the US, a colorful 22-story building conceived as a ‘vertical village’. located at 2420 amsterdam avenue in new york’s washington heights neighborhood, the project combines hotel, retail, and office programming within a series of vibrantly stacked blocks. the colors have been chosen to reflect the character […]

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herzog & de meuron-designed skolkovo institute opens in moscow

November 15, 2018 macnadusa 0

‘skolkovo’ is a new urban community initiated by the russian government. located in moscow, 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) west of the kremlin, the community will offer residents a vibrant and diverse mix of uses across five individual districts. as part of the development, herzog & de meuron was commissioned to design the conceptual masterplan of […]

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jardin robinson, a geometrical community center in geneva by SMA

November 15, 2018 macnadusa 0

recently built recreational center ‘jardin robinson’ designed by geneva-based stendardo menningen architectes (SMA) occupies a strategic position surrounded by the wooded banks of the rhone river on one side and the public facilities of the lignon district with an emblematic expression of a 1960’s concrete construction on the other side. the building is located on a steep […]

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paulo moreira creates a contemporary living space in 1980s residential building

November 14, 2018 macnadusa 0

pontinha is a peripheral district of lisbon characterized by anonymous residential buildings, built mostly in the 1980s. the pontinha apartment by paulo moreira architectures transforms an apparently uninteresting space into a contemporary living area. the project starts with the removal of the typical ‘marquises’ (awnings, which spread throughout the vast majority of suburban balconies). the […]

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fifteen hudson yards includes the highest outdoor residential space in NYC

November 14, 2018 macnadusa 0

designed by diller scofidio + renfro in collaboration with rockwell group, ‘fifteen hudson yards’ is a residential tower currently under construction in new york. the building, which topped out earlier this year, forms part of hudson yards — the 28-acre redevelopment program transforming manhattan’s west side — and will neighbor ‘the shed’, the site’s much-anticipated […]

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