Located at the Vitra Campus at Weil am Rhein in Germany, architects Herzog & de Meuron have designed of VitraHaus. The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of Herzog & de Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes. In Weil am Rhein, [...]
In 2003 Shigeru Ban, Jean de de Gastines and Philip Gumuchdjian won an international competition to design Pompidou Center in Metz, France. The 12,000 m2 cultural complex includes 6,000 m2 of exhibition space all contained under the roof. Three rectangular, cantilevered boxes house parts of the Pompidou Center’s permanent collection in a climate controlled environment. [...]
The redevelopment of a 1970’s concrete frame and brick frame office building by Allan Murray Architects has received the Residential Bronze Award at the 2009 Roses Design Awards. Allan Murray Architects were asked by Sundial Properties and the Kilmartin Group to look at how they could bring new life back to Croythorn House – a [...]
City of London Information Centre is contemporary building design was designed by Make Architect. Located to the south-west of the South Transept of St Paul’s Cathedral, on one of London’s principal tourist routes, the building also sees substantial pedestrian movement. The combined sensitivity and prominence of this site posed a unique design challenge. Extensive analysis [...]
27 East Sussex Lane is luxury house design was designed by ONG&ONG Pte Ltd located in Singapore. The house is hidden behind plenty of bamboo plants which imparts a sense of privacy and an oriental outlook. The house has a strong horizontal form, but it is actually not quite so internally. It is a two-storey [...]
Architect Neil Denari, best known for his theoretical writings and teachings as the former head of the LA based Sci-Arc, will see his first major freestanding structure rise in New York City in a red hot location next to the High Line, the elevated abandoned rail line now being transformed in to a linear, lyrical [...]
