© Milan Radovanović
Architects: EXE STUDIO
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Project Team: Andreja Mitrović, Tijana Lapčević
Collaborators: Marija Lapčević, Aleksandar Mitrović
Project year: 2010
Project area: 69 sqm
Photographs: Milan Radovanović
Cross Section
No.8 Wire is a paper architecture explorative analysis of the house, relative to the landscape of central Otago. As the title declares, the aesthetic is a bold foray of built form placed in conversance to the surroundings. The historic use of No.8 wire has entered into the cultural lexicon of many countries, especially the New Zealand concept of resourcefulness and creativity; best described as New Zealander’s ingenuity and adaptability.
Designed by Jonathan Gibb, the concept of No.8 Wire and its associated ideals of adaptability have been used to give emphasis to the juxtaposition of a house within the expanse of a landscape. The intimacy and concept of what constitutes a home has been simply portrayed by use of the gable end, used as an indoctrinating device to express the essence of suburbia’s aesthetic, a figure and ‘sign’ of what may constitute a home. Abstracted and re-formed into a self sustaining entity, self referential through mirroring, offset and re-expressed as a didactic expression of space.
© Kei Sugino
Architects: Tadahiro Shimada
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Project Year: 2010-2011
Project Area: 59.63 sqm
Photographs: Kei Sugino
© Elsa Ramirez
Architects: Javier Artadi
Location: Lima, Peru
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Elsa Ramirez
© Nelson Kon
Architects: Aflalo and Gasperini Architects
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Project Area: 228,104 sqm
Photographs: Nelson Kon and Daniel Ducci
© Courtesy of Casa de la Flora
Architects: VaSLab Architecture
Location: Phangnga, Thailand
Interior designer: VaSLab Architecture
Landscape designer: T.R.O.P
Lighting designer: APLD Lighting Design
Project Year: 2008-2009
Project Area: 4,850 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of VaSLab Architecture
© Kim Yong Kwan
Architect: Ken Min Architects
Location: Jeollanam-do, South Korea
Client: Lake Hills Golf & Resorts Group
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Kim Yong Kwan
© Courtesy of MVRDV
Amsterdam based project development corporation NIC started sale of the MVRDV designed Alphabet building. In Amsterdam small and mid-size creative companies have trouble finding suitable office space. The Alphabet building communicates through a clear exterior design which reveals on the East façade the house number and at the main façade the extension for each company, a letter of the alphabet. The interior is highly flexible and completed with a rough and pure finishing. The 3200m2 creative industry building will be completed in 2012 according to high energy efficiency standards.
© Courtesy of HAO
HAO / Holm Architecture Office in collaboration with Archiland Beijing and Kragh & Berglund landscape architects, has won first prize in a competition to design the Samaranch Memorial Museum in Tianjin, China.
Juan Antonio Samaranch of Spain was the president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001. Throughout his presidency he advocated for reform and inclusion and was a strong supporter of China’s bid as host city for the 2008 Olympic Games. Tianjin, a city of over 12 million people in northwestern China near Beijing, was the site of several Olympic events. The new museum and memorial will both highlight Samaranch’s professional history and look to the future, offering space for rotating exhibits of contemporary art and culture.
© Elsa Ramirez
Architects: Javier Artadi
Location: Lima, Peru
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 348.00 sqm
Photographs: Elsa Ramirez
© Jeffrey Jacobs Photography
Architects: Askew Nixon Ferguson
Location: Henning, Tennessee, USA
Principal in Charge: William Ferguson
Project Designer: Louis R Pounders
Project Team: Bob Land, Brian Martinelli, Liz Engel, Tava Frazier
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 604 sqm
Photographs: Jeffrey Jacobs Photography
© steve troes fotodesign
Architects: Metaform Architects
Location: Larochette, Luxembourg
General Contractor: Administration des bâtiments publics
Static Engineer: INCA
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 370 sqm
Photographs: steve troes fotodesign
© Céline Michelon
Architects: François Leclercq and Zakarian-Navelet Architectes
Location: Marseille, France
Project team: Romain Dufour, Olivier Navelet, François Leclercq, Stanislas Zakarian
Engineer: Sotec ingénierie
Project year: 2008
Project area: 5,000 sqm
Photographer: Céline Michelon
© Courtesy of rza arquitectes
Architects: rza arquitectes / rubén páez, aroa álvarez
Location: Girona, Spain
Engineer: Jaume Bellavista
Interior design: rza interiors
Project Year: 2007-2009
Project Area: 90 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of rza architectes
© Cristóbal Palma
Architects: Carreño Sartori Arquitectos / Mario Carreño Zunino, Piera Sartori del Campo
Location: Salamanca, Chile
Collaborator: Pamela Jarpa Rosa
Client: Municipality of Salamanca
Construction: INCOBAL Construction
Structural Engineering: SyS. Mauricio Sarrazin A.
Electrical Engineering: ICG S.A.
Services: Roberto Pavéz
Project Area: 4400 sqm
Project Year: 2008-2010
Photographs: Cristóbal Palma
© Patrick Helou
Architects: 109 architectes
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Client: Université Saint-Joseph (USJ)
Partner in Charge: Ibrahim Berberi
Architect in Charge: Nada Assaf TEAM: Rani Boustani, Etienne Nassar, Emile Khayat, Naja Chidiac, Richard Kassab
Collaborating Architect: Youssef Tohme
Project Area: 57,000 sqm
Photographs: 109 architectes
© Doug & Wolf
Architects: Mecanoo
Location: Shezhen, China
Client: Shenzhen Vanke Real Estate
Project Area: 90,000 sqm
Artistic Impressions: Doug & Wolf
© Peter Zaytsev
Architects: za bor architects / Arseniy Borisenko and Peter Zaytsev
Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia
Project Year: 2008-2009
Project Area: 1840 sqm
Photographs: Peter Zaytsev
© Philippe Van Gelooven
Architects: Creneau International
Interior design: Simone Pullens
Account mgmt: Babs Van Hassel
Project mgmt: Wim Janssen
Client: Galante
Location: Bruges, Belgium
Date of completion: 2011
Photographs: Philippe Van Gelooven
© Shania Shegedyn
Architects: Fiona Winzar Architects
Location: Orange Grove, Austrailia
Site Area: 180 sqm
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Shania Shegedyn
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