Kimball Art Center in Utah, USA by BIG + Architectural Nexus
BIG + Architectural Nexus + Dunn Associates + VBFA + Envision Engineering + Big D design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of Kimball Art Center in Park City, projected for completion by Mid-2015. The Kimball Art Center, home to Sundance House during the Annual Sundance Film Festival, invited an international group of...
BIG unveils a ski resort in Lapland
BIG wins an invited competition for a 47,000 m2 ski resort and recreational area in Levi. The future Ski Village will transform the existing Levi ski resort into a world class destination, offering top quality accommodation and leisure services for skiers of all levels and demands. The proximity to the Kittilä airport ensures easy access...
BIG + OFF win the competition to design a research centre in Paris
BIG + Paris-based architects OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15.000 m2 research centre for Sorbonne’s Scientific university Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. The new multidisciplinary research centre, Paris PARC, located between Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe and...
‘Moses Bridge’ by Ro&Ad Architecten
The West Brabant Water Line is a defence-line consisting of a series of fortresses and cities with inundation areas in the south-west of the Netherlands. It dates from the 17th century but fell into disrepair in the 19th century. When the water line was finally restored, an access bridge across the moat of one of...
RAKE visningsrom (RAKE Showroom) in Trondheim, Norway
The showroom RAKE is the latest addition to Trondheim’s art landscape. It is the result of a student workshop in which thirty students from the architecture schools of Trondheim, Oslo and Bergen joined forces to design and construct this new exhibition space for art and architecture. A majority of the materials used in the construction...
Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) by Stefano Boeri Architetti
Milan-based architecture studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has designed an outstanding project that was entitled Bosco Verticale or Vertical Forest. Bosco Verticale is a project for metropolitan reforestation that contributes to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. Bosco Verticale is a model of vertical...
Compact living:: PACO by Sschemata Architecture Office Ltd.
We have recently written about the one 3x3x3 metres house. This time we would like to feature one more house with the same dimensions. It has been designed by a Tokyo-based studio Sschemata Architecture Office Ltd. and titled PACO. From the outside, PACO is a compact twenty-seven cubic metres white box. But, despite its tiny...
Unique multi-storey office building by NEAPO
A Finnish building company NEAPO has reported about an outstanding sea voyage. Its new three-storey office building, 33 metres long and 12 metres tall, was transferred in one piece by water to its plot on Hirvensalo Island near Turku, Finland. The voyage of this 220-tonnes construction from the shipyard to the island took just under...
Compact living:: The Cube Project
Today we start a new series of posts. The series will follow the idea of compact living which means that all that a person needs for comfortable living could occupy a rather small space. Following this series we will try to feature projects and ideas which could raise standards of compact living to new levels....
Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport by Zaha Hadid Architects
The long-expected opening of Glasgow Riverside Museum of Transport, which construction was at first postponed because of the crisis and then lasted for about four years, took place on 21 June, 2011. The project has been designed by a famous London-based architecture studio Zaha Hadid Architects, which had been founded by the first and only...
Auditorium and Congress Palace Infanta Doña Elena
This project by estudio barozzi veiga is a natural response to the particular stimulus, offered by the location. On the one hand, the need to respect the urban tissue that growths inside, on the other hand, the one’s to preserve the expressive hue of the natural landscape. It is through from this contrast that we...
Paula Rêgo Museum by Eduardo Souto de Moura
The Casa das Historias Paula Rego was designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura. The building makes use of certain aspects of the region’s historical architecture, which is here reinterpreted in a contemporary way. It can be immediately recognised thanks to its two pyramid-shaped towers and the red-coloured concrete used in its construction. The...
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