10 Innovative Affordable Housing Designs For Sustainable Living
These days, more and more people are moving to dense metropolises like New York and San Francisco seeking the amenities and opportunities found in large cities. But as city populations increase, so...
View ArticleGinkgo Project
Ginkgo project combines art, technology and architecture to integrate a housing complex in the nature of the existing park located in front. CONTEXT AND PROGRAM The project is located near the natural...
View ArticleOwn Your Own (Affordable) Shigeru Ban House!
This is the way home design usually goes: Architects design the box, which interior designers then fill with objects, which in turn are made by product designers. Sure, it's an efficient system when...
View ArticleKlong Toey Community Lantern
Client: Klong Toey Community Sponsors: Link Arkitektur & Ratio Arkitekter Cost: 35.000 NOK / 5800 USD Building period: March – April 2011 Built by: TYIN tegnestue with students and local community...
View ArticleA+ Winner Steven Holl's Recent Work In China Creates Cities Within Cities
During the last decade of China's building boom, Steven Holl was busy overseeing several large-scale urban projects functioning under his concept of "micro-urbanism." Tackling issues of urban density...
View ArticlePangen
Pangen by Historical Archive (1961) Suspension lamp. Moulded aluminium bowl with internal white finish. Diffuser in frosted plastic. Chome-plated canopy.
View ArticleBioclimatic Residence in Paiania
The lot is located in an area that evolves from industrial to residential, in the outskirts of Athens. It is a two floor building that follows the bioclimatic principles and uses alternative heating...
View ArticleBiologicum of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
The new build for the Biologicum is divided into four parallel elongated structures, which towards the west connect to a main circulation axis running in a north-south direction in a comb-like...
View ArticleRetirement Home Šmarje pri Jelšah
The existing building of the elderly people’s home in Šmarje pri Jelšah was built in the nineteen seventies. The building has a centered entrance and it is composed of the ground floor, two storey’s...
View ArticleHOUSE JR
The access is located at the worst oriented façade and allows the orientation of all the spaces to the southeast, where the best views and the best solar orientation. The building is crossed by a...
View Article10 Rugged, Geometric Homes That Cement Chile's Architects As Minimalist...
Chile is renowned for its rich heritage of 19th century neoclassical architecture left over from Spanish colonial rule. But, in a post-colonial nation that has seen unprecedented growth and change...
View ArticleHow Shanghai Constructed The World’s Tallest Wind Tunnel
The intrigue of tall buildings lies not merely in expansive views from the sidewalk and roof decks, but also in the challenge of the different atmospheric conditions encountered at perilously high...
View ArticleHataitai Home
Photographer : Paul McCredie This is a true Wellington home .Spectacular views, but facing the morning sun, with a slope to challenge any engineer. Situated on the eastern flank of Mt Victoria, near...
View ArticleTruth Hurts: 10 Facts Of Life They Don’t Teach You In Architecture School
It’s 4 am, the last deadline of your degree is fast approaching, and your vision is getting blurrier by the second… Still, after pinning up your drawings for the final time, at least you won’t haven’t...
View ArticleThis All-Glass Canary Island Look-Out Cantilevers 2,000 Feet Above The Atlantic
On his sojourn across the Atlantic, Christopher Columbus (and his posse of the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María) made a pit stop in the Canary Islands, that tempting archipelago off the coast of...
View ArticleParos StoneHouse
Paros Stonehouse Project: Residence Architect: Georges Evripiotis Location: Laggeri, Paros Island, Greece Status: Completed
View ArticleThe Bubble Or The Egg: Are Orbital Rooftop Additions The Next Big Trend In...
In the sleepy town of Zwolle, Netherlands, the Museum de Fundatie's neoclassical 19th-century portico and façade recently gained an ovoidal-shaped crown. This recently opened expansion, designed by...
View ArticleHot Off The Assembly Line: Behind The Fab Fabrication Of Snarkitecture's A+...
An awards program that honors the most innovative, beautiful, and echo-chamber-busting designs in the world needs a pretty killer trophy. Which is why Architizer has teamed up once again with...
View ArticleStopiče Sports Center
Sports Center Stopiče is located in a small village near the town of Novo Mesto, which is the capital of Dolenjska region. This project offers a new answer to the question as to how a contemporary...
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