Posts tagged Architecture
Museum Plaza / Rex USA
Feb 26th
Museum Plaza rethinks conventional attitudes towards property development. It begins with a vision to construct a contemporary art institute and concludes with a business pro forma that supports this commitment. Culture is placed physically and spiritually at the project’s center.
Source: Archdaily.com
Architecture: Garden Garage
Feb 9th
Garden Garage combines the garden and the parking space together, it developed a unique to design that deals the loss of front garden areas to car parking space in urban environment. The minimalist contemporary garden not just provides ample space to park your vehicle underneath it, but it also helps in maintaining the exterior aesthetics of your dwelling.
News: TheDesignblog.org
Stackable Apartments
Nov 23rd
Stackable Apartments at Sky Village High Rise
By: MVRDV
The lower levels will offer space for retail and restaurants, with a surrounding public plaza. Over that, the building starts to widen for office space, and then starts to lean to the north to generate terraced gardens to the south, an orientation that benefits the residential apartments on that portion of the building. At the top, the hotel will have a great view of the city.
Basque Health Department Headquarters
Nov 14th
Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos – Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza
Location: Bilbao, Spain
Collaborators: Fernando de la Maza, Jorge Bilbao, Pablo Castro, Gorka García
Project year: 2003-2004
Construction year: 2004-2008
Constructed area: 9,200 sqm
Bilbaos got to be one of the most interesting cities of europe when it comes to contemporary architecture design, the building of Basque Healt Department HQ goes with all the restrictive city zoning rules, but still the glass shell, or a double facade while it solves the rules requirements, it also gives energetic, fire-resistant and acoustic advantage to the building.
from archdaily.com
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