The temporary structure is akin to a theatre set within the dark void of the original store. Its linear forms, softened by the velvet curtains, echo modernist buildings. The Cathedral-like configuration, housed within an existing store, is a work of art made from tulipiè wood and billowing velvet. It pays homage to the ‘Sergio Rossi [...]
The construction has two floors that have been built according to the slope of the house´s plot. The first level, where the pedestrian access is, has a area of 653m2. This floor has been distributed in three areas: a familiar area, lounge, dining room, kitchen, office, a living room for the children. a private [...]
Kingma Roorda Architects is a Rotterdam based office which aim is to achieve a stable architecture driven by contextual conditions and aiming at timeless solutions for tomorrow. Sustainability is the result of an integrated approach, where space, material, energy, water and mobility have equal attention. Recently finished apartment building in Zierikzee, the Netherlands. designed by [...]
Aiming to encourage research and architectural creativity and boost the opportunities on offer for the current generation of young international architects, the brief asked for an innovative design which would house 18 students on a 200 sq m plot, in an area set to become a student hub for the Greek capital. The bold scheme [...]
The brainchild of Barcelona-based Fermin Vazquez – b720 arquitectos, the terminal, control tower and garages are gathered into one single construction – typical of airports of yesteryear. The purpose of this construction is as a sizable iconic volume that works well with the surrounding flat and stratified agricultural landscape and can be extended according to [...]
The building is largely opened on the short access to allow views out of site with the living level utilising sliding screens to opening the interior completely to the exterior. The long axis walls are largely solid and openings are finely screened with vertical timber to blend with the vertical cedar cladding to give the [...]
A shelving unit that evolves according to our frame of mind, a chair that transforms itself each season, a sofa that can take endless configurations and looks. In short, furniture that grows and change with time. The way approached materials has recently produced mostly monomaterial designs. Steel, solid wood, plastic, fibre glass, concrete, injection foam [...]
