A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
Description & concept of Treehotel Mirrorcube: The starting point is to create a shelter up in the trees: a lightweight aluminium structure hung around a tree trunk, 4x4x4 metre boxes clad in mirrored glass. The exterior reflects the surroundings and…
© CUBE architecten Description of Brouwersgracht, Amsterdam by CUBE architecten: This distinctive loft is located on the first floor of a historic warehouse on the Brouwersgracht in the centre of Amsterdam. The apartment is designed by Remco Wilcke of CUBE…
Description of MEDIATHEQUE / Dominique COULON & Associés: The building reveals its preciousness at first sight. Its pure, sophisticated geometry situates it as a public building. The deliberate areas of transparency reveal its content. The reading rooms present the building…
NE, located in central Osaka, is a hair dressers shop for a young couple that started up their own business. The small space doesn't reveal it's actual purpose and is conceived as a narrative sequence of abstracted objects and volumes. An iconic stair, that contains the wash- and backroom, marks the waiting area and serves as seating accomodation and display.
4 Projects in Paris by Kotaro Horiuchi Architecture 1. salon du fromage A wall with curved surfaces was designed to softly wrap around the space on the ground and 1st floor of the existing building of the 18th century. Pierce…
Press Release 26.01.2011 BIG + realities:united + AKT + Topotek 1 & Man Made Land is selected to design the new Waste-to-Energy Plant that doubles as a ski slope for Copenhagen’s citizens and its many visitors by 2016. Located in…
Project description of 2 Houses in Tokyo, Japan by cheungvogl: Looking out, seeing people come and go while trees are standing still, witnessing the change of scenery season after season. Street poles spanning across the narrowest allies, providing mysterious connections…
SAUNA project establishes ecological revitalization of a fragment of the right shore of Vistula River in Warsaw. The site for saunas is an area between two bridges: Slasko-Dabrowski and Gdanski. The proposal for multifunctional program contains: sauna complexes for both…
