A Directory of Great Architectures
A Directory of Great Architectures
Designed by Marco Casagrande, the Chen House is sited on Datun Mountains, North-Taiwan. This small house constructed with mahogany and concrete and designed as a vessel to react on the demanding wind, flooding and heat conditions on the site. Aimed…
Designed by young Italian architect, Paolo Gianfrancesco, the Barn House is a small project for the isolated West fjords of Iceland. This project made with inspiration to the Icelandic old style to fit in a preserved area. The area is…
Designed by X-Architect, the floating houseboat sited at Dubai Marina, Dubai. This leisure home is built on top of two catamaran beams to make it stable, and the whole building covers 220 sqm of floor area mixing the use of…
Zaha Hadid has won the competition to design the headquarters of Antwerp Port Authority in Belgium. Covering 12,000 m² of floorspace, the project is expected to be completed in 2013 and will accommodate 500 people when finish. The construction will…
I just realized that water is not a Netherlands’ specific problem, but we can find such problem and its solution in Ontario, Canada. MOS designed this floating house with vernacular approach and specific to its site condition especially the water…
Designed by Torofu, a Tokyo-based architect, this family house is located in Yokohama, Japan. It has uncommon 3D mass especially on it roof. This one-storey house is constructed with cast concrete. The house being one-storied, we were able to form…
The Castle House is expected for completion in 2009. It’s designed by Hamilton as an eco-residential tower by utilizing wind turbin on the top of the tower. When complete, the main tower will reach 147 m tall and the adjacent…
James Stockwell’s Leura House was awarded the 2008 Wilkinson Award from Australian Institute of Architects New South Wales. Mr. James adopting Japanese design method ‘discontinuous unity’ that’s popularized by Takamasa Yoshikaza, it means there are more opened-space rather than closed-space…
