Glass

Foster + Partners use trees as partitions inside Thailand’s first Apple store

December 13, 2018 Lizzie Crook 0

Indigenous trees and wooden workbenches line the inside of Apple Iconsiam in Bangkok, the first Apple Store to open in Thailand, designed by Foster + Partners. The store forms part of the new Iconsiam shopping complex that opened in November. Fronted by two expansive glass facades, it is designed as an extension of the plant-filled plaza it

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Jac Studios creates delicate glass exhibition inside Tadao Ando’s Genius Loci

December 6, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Jac Studios has designed minimal glass display cases for an exhibition in a Tadao Ando-designed museum – a project that has just won top prize at the Inside awards. The Yumin Art Nouveau Collection exhibition is a permanent showcase at Tadao Ando’s Genius Loci, a museum made up of board-marked concrete walls, located on Jeju Island, South

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The Design Of The Tacuri House Was Inspired By The Surrounding Landscape

November 15, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Bicubik   Gabriel Rivera Arquitectos have completed the Tacuri House, a single-family home in Quito, Ecuador, whose design was inspired by the natural environment and the surrounding Algarrobo trees, giving place to the architectural concept: “living amongst the trees”.   Photography by Bicubik Stepping inside the front door, and it quickly becomes apparent that the […]

This New Home Uses Materials That Complement The Landscape

October 17, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Casey Dunn   Michael Hsu Office Of Architecture have designed a new house in Mason, Texas, that’s located on and inspired by an old family campsite.   Situated on a remote stretch of the Llano River, the family chose a site for their home at the top of a hill overlooking the river, that’s […]

Foster + Partners unveils plans for Madrid office with diamond-shaped facade

July 12, 2018 Natasha Levy 0

Foster + Partners has unveiled plans to turn a 1970s building in Madrid, Spain, into offices, which will feature a diamond-patterned exterior and a rooftop terrace. The four-storey building, which will be named Axis Madrid, is situated at one of the city’s key intersections, perched between the main north-south artery, Paseo de la Castellana, and Génova

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Former military lookout in Gibraltar transformed into glazed viewpoint

July 2, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Arc Designs has created a cantilevered viewing platform, and walkway with a glazed floor, perched on one of the highest points of the Rock of Gibraltar. Named Skywalk, the viewing platform is built above an existing WWII military platform in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve that once served as a base for anti-aircraft Bofors guns. Arc Designs wrapped

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Casa Ortega By Estudio A0

April 10, 2018 Erin 0

Photography by Sebastián Crespo   Architecture firm Estudio A0, have designed a brick, glass, and steel house in Sangolquí, Ecuador, that has two pavilions, one for the client’s own family and one for his parents.   Photography by Sebastián Crespo Walls of glass wrap around the house, while a wood deck follows the shape of the […]

Staggered glass walls front visitor centre at Louisiana plantation house

February 7, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside “like an impressionist painting”. Trahan Architects’ building provides a gift shop, and exhibition and events space for the Magnolia Mound Plantation House – located in Baton Rouge, near the Mississippi

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World’s longest glass-bottomed suspension bridge has an intentional wobble

January 19, 2018 India Block 0

A deliberate sway is designed to unnerve visitors to this 488-metre-long bridge in China’s Hebei province, which has an entirely glazed walkway so they can also admire the 218-metre drop. The Hongyagu suspension bridge spans the gap between two cliffs in the Hongyagu Scenic Area. Made of 1,077 panels of 4-centimetre-thick glass and supported by cables that weigh

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