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Alila Villas Uluwatu Bali by WOHA
The Alila Villas Uluwatu doesn’t match the breezy tropical stereotype one might expect from a Balinese resort. Eschewing Bali’s lush northern locales, WOHA Design of Singapore built the villas in the Uluwatu region on the Southern Bukit Peninsula, a dry and stony savannah region. Following the construction of a nearby international airport and calls from […]
Club BlackboX by Parasitestudio
The design proposal started from generating a completely black box, as well as a shape and as a concept, an abstract space that doesn’t breathe towards the outside world but keeps locked within the memory of events. Therefore the existing windows become showcases for exhibiting and communicating towards the outside, a sort of dynamic information […]
Villa Nurbs - Extreme Curved-in-3D Home Construction
With the shape of a spaceship, scaled skin of some giant serpent and amazing futuristic forms that defy easy description, this home seems like some kind of science-fiction vision or creative artist rendering … but represents a reality architects have dreamed of for decades - a whole house of NURBS.”Non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) is […]
Manchester Civil Justice Centre by DCM
An international competition-winning design for the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice in the North West of England, the biggest court complex to be built in the UK since the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The building provides accommodation of around 34,000m² on 15 levels. It houses 47 courtrooms, 75 consultation rooms, in addition to […]
New Zealand’s Tree House Restaurant
The Yellow Tree House stands 10 meters up a Redwood tree in a forest near Warkworth, north of Auckland, New Zealand. The project was part of a marketing campaign for the Yellow Pages. Claiming they can “get anything done” Yellow commissioned Pacific Environment Architects to design the treetop restaurant. The company then posted an ad […]
Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec
Denmark-based architecture firm BIG teamed up with Fugere Architectes to create this proposal for the Musée National des Beaux Arts du Québec competition. The main feature of the design is a grand green roof that slopes at quite a precarious angle, but is accessible for people to walk on. The sweeping form surrounds two […]
Centre Pompidou Metz by Shigeru Ban
Inspired by the technical properties of Chinese hats and bridges, the nearly complete Centre Pompidou-Metz will be a satellite branch of the Centre Pompidou modern art museum in Paris.Architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines designed the building to have a “superstructure” - a curved roof made of wooden hexagonal units supported by a central […]
Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for iPad
Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.Whether you are an occasional doodler or a professional illustrator, SketchBook […]
House in Somosaguas, Madrid by A-cero Architects
A new house design was built by the Spanish architecture firm A-cero, directed by Joaquin Torres in the Madrid outskirts that synthesizes the evolution of the studio’s signature design language and its technical experimentation over the last years. The house can be aesthetically inscribed in the series of projects made by the studio since its […]
Marina & Beach Towers By Oppenheim
For the U.A.E. Marina and Beach towers project, Oppenheim created an high-rise mixed-use building that in addition to the typologies, is a response that is simultaneously building and landscape; a project whose fluidity merges sky and water. This allows for more varied living experiences beyond the capabilities of the normative tower. Basing the unit types […]