Architects: h2o architectes
Location: Paris, France
Project team: Charlotte Hubert, Jean-Jaques Hubert, Antoine Santiard
Client: private
Programme: Creation of a piece of furniture / partition / bed for a child in a 16 sqm room
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Stéphane Chalmeau
Architects: Hania Stambuk Marasovic
Location: Santiago, Chile
Structure Engineer: Claudio Hinojosa
Surface Area: 2,447 sqm
Constructed Area: 674 sqm
Project year: 2007
Construction year: 2008
Photographs: Marcelo Cáceres
Architects: h2o architectes
Location: Paris, France
Client: private
Programme: 60 sqm apartment
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Julien Attard
Architects: Schemata Architecture Office
Location： Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Programme： Bookshop + gallery
Completion year： 2008
Total Area： 115.1 sqm
Photographs: Schemata Architecture Office
The Stone Company, a natural stone company in Zulte, underwent a true metamorphosis. The renovated display hall cum meeting and office space was decorated austerely and elegantly with the natural stone product as a calling card used in all its facets. Belgian practice BURO II was in charge of this renovation.
Architects: x Architekten
Location: Oberösterreich, Austria
Client: APK Pensionskasse AG
Construction: Polycarbonate, PVC, Glass, Wood
Constructed Area: 525 sqm
Project Year: 2006-2008
Photographs: Max Nirnberger
Architect: Jacopo Mascheroni / JM Architecture
Location: Milan, Italy
Collaborator: Pietro Borzini
General Contractor: Molteni Enrico & C., Giussano, MI
Steel & Glass: Fratelli Ronchetti, Cantù, CO
Millwork: Fumagalli-Annoni, Mariano C.se, CO
Corian: Andreoli SNC, Cesano Maderno, MI
Home Automation: Domus Project, Carugo, CO
Project year: 2005-2008
Photographs: Jacopo Mascheroni
Conceived as an urban oasis, the new guestrooms of the W Hotel designed by BBG-BBGM offer a respite from the chaos of the city by immersing the guest in soothing colors and textures inspired by nature. Curving, organic shapes complement modern angles while crisp white is softened with tones from the forest and earth.
Architects: LOHA Architects
Location: Burbank, California, USA
Principal in Charge: Lorcan O’Herlihy
Project Team: Pierre de Angelis (PM), Mark Mendez
Client: Authentic Entertainment, Inc.
Project year: 2008
Constructed Area: 1,393 sqm
Photographs: Douglas Hill
Architects: Mas y Fernández arquitectos / Cristóbal Fernández, Andrés Mas
Location: Santiago, Chile
Associate Designers: Francisca Goycolea, Anita Domínguez
Collaborator: Claudio Tapia
Constructed Area: 2,260 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Nicolás Saieh & Daniela Vicuña
Italian practice studiometrico shared with us how they converted an old cinema in Milan, into the new Bastard flagship store, which also includes a suspended bowl and offices for Comvert.
Skateboarders dreamed place to work.
Architect: Massimo Mariani
Location: Livorno, Italy
Project Team: Elda Bellone, Roseda Gentile, Alessandro Mariani
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Alessandro Ciampi
Architects: Slade Architecture
Location: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Client: Ricky Kenig
Project Year: 2007
Photographs: Jordi Miralles
Architect: Lior Vaknin + Sabi Aroch
Location: Gedera, Israel
Client: kfir Bason
Main Materials: Gypsum, wood, ceramics
Constructed Area: 40 sqm
Project year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Felix Spivack
Architects: Dieguez Fridman Arquitectos & Asociados
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Project Team: Tristan Dieguez, Axel Fridman, Leonardo Buffa, Maria Carranza, JazmÌn Zang, Ana Sol Smud, Rosario Guiraldes, Belen Gandara
Contractor: Javier Ferreyra Ordoez, Sering S.A.
Structural Engineering: Sebastián Berdichevsky
Lighting Consultant: Pablo Pizarro
Landscape: Cora Burgin
Product Design: Martin Wolfson, Iíhsiu Chen
Client: Ayres
Constructed Area: 400 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Dieguez Fridman
Architects: Mackay & Partners
Location: London, England
Project Manager: Symonds Group
Quantity Surveyor: Symonds Group
Mechanical & Electrical: Hilson Moran
Furniture Suplier: Symonds Group
Photographs: Mackay & Partners
French architects Emmanuel Combarel Dominique Marrec sent us the transformation of this small apartment, with a clear strategy: Decompartmentalise the place so as to fit out an open plan and elude the demand of an extra room by conceiving in the center of the volume a suspended white cube which generates comic and disconcerting use situations.
Architects: Christian Pottgiesser - architecturespossibles (Paris)
Location: Paris, France
Client: private
Design Team: Christian Pottgiesser (architect) , Alejandro Ratier (designer), Pascale Pottgiesser (artist)
Engineer: Joël Betito
Assistant: Dr. Florian Hertweck
Furniture design: arch. Raphael Budin (low table + dining table)
Contractors: ERCN (main construction), Carrières du Bassin Parisien (masonry), Menuiserie du Val de Loire (carpentry), ATN (landscaping), CMBR (windows), Miroiterie MARUT (mirrors), ESBEI (waterproofing), EGEBAT (plumbing), SAP/ABD (paintwork)
Design year: 2002
Construction year: 2003
Constructed area: 140sqm extension, 40sqm entrance + winter garden,
160sqm terraces + gardens + 160sqm existing house
Budget: private
Photographs model: Pascale Thomas
© Photographs: Gert von Bassewitz (Hamburg)
Architects: Saucier + Perrotte architectes
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Project team: Gilles Saucier, André Perrotte, Jean-Philippe Beauchamp, Anna Bendix, Trevor Davies, Yves De Fontenay
Structural Engineer: Stavibel
Mechanical & Electrical engineer: Leroux,Beaudoin, Hurens et associés
Contractor: Société Desjardins-Larouche
Client: Gestion Rivière du Diable
Constructed Area: 1,000 sqm
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Marc Cramer
Architects: Rotstein Arkitekter
Location: S:t Eriksgatan 46, Stockholm, Sweden
Project year: 2007
Photographs: Rotstein Arkitekter
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