RAU Architects convert existing building into sustainable office for World Wildlife Fund. The RAU Architects firm has restored an old agricultural laboratory in the Schoonoord nature preserve near Utrecht. The building, which was built in 1954 and had not been used for a few years, is now the Dutch WWF headquarters. The Amsterdam firm’s design [...]
Jarmund/Vigsnæs AS Architects was designed Edge House located in a suburb south of Oslo, Norway. With Norway house floor plans, this house design is a magnificent masterpiece with angled facade and internal walls and windows, a long built-in bench to explore the outdoors, and a bathroom that looks that was pulled straight from the “Gattaca” [...]
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, [...]
David Savage have shared with us about The Sustainable Neighborhood, green housing development in southern Italy who Andrea Salvini and Barbara Berni as project architects.
In collaboration with Italian architect Barbara Berni, this mixed-use residential project was conceived as a large-scale, green building development on nearly 12 acres in the province of Caserta in southern [...]
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 brief for St Botolphs called for a landmark building of significant architectural merit on a site that forms a key gateway to the City of London. Located in the prestigious EC3 insurance district, a short walk from the Lloyd’s Building and the busy terminus of Liverpool Street, the building is ideally located for business [...]
