Architects: Aedes Studio Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Year: 2013 Photographs: Courtesy of Aedes Studio The surrounding neighborhood consists mostly of apartment blocks that date back from the 70’s. The buildings are large with enough space in-between and plenty of greenery. Because the whole area is built in relatively short period of time and not very long ago, it lacks the typical historic layers of the city center. Here the connection to nature is direct enough, the access to all city-
Architects: Simon Gill Architects Location: Batak, Bulgaria Architect In Charge: Simon Gill Architects Executive Architect: RTConsult Structural Engineer: RTConsult Area: 290.0 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Simon Gill Architects Simon Gill Architects completed the fishing lodge at Batak, Bulgaria, in the summer of 2012. The 290 m2 building is divided into two sections with one half of the house built into the hillside and the other rising above ground in an insulated tower-li
Free of clutter but filled with light, shadow and sculptural forms, filmmaker Matthew Donaldson takes you inside the minimalist masterpiece that Italian architect Claudio Silvestrin calls home. As part of NOWNESS’ In Residence series, this video sheds light Silvestrin’s “reductive, contemplative, near-ecclesiastical spaces” that can be found across the globe – from Moscow to Majorca, and soon-to-be in Miami, where Silvestrin is currently designing a home from Kanye West that will undoubt
Architects: Inarc Architects Location: Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia Directors: Reno Rizzo & Christopher Hansson Project Architect: Wilson Tang Year: 2012 Photographs: Peter Clarke Project Interior Architect: Andrew McLeod Contributors: Cathie Wheelahan Landscape Architect: Fiona Brockhoff Structural Engineer: BHS Consultants Services Engineer: R. Terenyi & Associates Builder: VCON Construction Bluff House on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria is a holiday home wh
James Corner Field Operations (JCFO) and nARCHITECTS have released updated renderings for their competition-winning redesign of Chicago’s 3,300 foot long Navy Pier. The slightly scaled-back, revised plans seemed to have dismissed the more “dramatic” and costly facets reviewed in last years’ submittal, such as the floating pool and sand beach, to depict a contemporary “park-like feel.” Highlighted features include the south-facing Wave Wall and grand stairway, inspired by the Spanish Steps in R
Architects: Lourdes Bueno Garnica, José Miguel Chaparro Mora Location: La Rinconada, Sevilla, Spain Technical Architect: Alberto de la Cruz Martínez Area: 6,507 sqm Project Year: 2009 Photographs: Javier Orive Promotor & Constructor: Soderin Veintiuno Desarrollo y Vivienda SAU Other Agents: Enrique Vázquez, estructura. José Manuel Morilla, delineante Total Area: 6,133.60 sqm These 58 protected houses are part of the more funding program (VIMA). This increase on the budget allows no
For this architect, there is an indiscernible line between art installation and building. Alexander Brodsky studied architecture in Moscow, while working on art installations and drawings both independently and in collaborations with other artists. Brodsky admits that his career path was unconventional, that he felt unready to take on the responsibility of building. Instead, Brodsky’s approach to architecture is through the lens of art: occupiable, room-sized installations that test spa
Architects: Andrés López, Jesús Bozzo, Rosa Palacios Location: Campus de la Salud, Granada, Spain Area: 3,405 sqm Project Year: 2010 Photographs: Jesús Granada Collaborators: Marcos Plazuelo López Promotor: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Justicia y Administración Pública Structure: Francisco Duarte Jiménez Installation: Tomás Ruiz de Terry. Insur JG S.L. Project Managers: Andrés López Fernández, Jesús Bozzo Fernández de Tirso, Rosa Palacios Garrido Project Director: Rufino Manuel Quesa
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won an international competition to design “Sydney’s next masterpiece.” Selected over three other shortlisted firms – Renzo Piano, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, and KPF – the London-based practice will now be responsible for the design of a $1.5 billion sculptural icon to host a six-star Crown Sydney resort on a 6000-square-meter site in the inner-city waterfront precinct of Barangaroo. Subject to approval, the 235-meter-tall skyscraper will provide 350
Architects: James Carpenter Design Associates Location: Jerusalem, Israel Production Architect: A. Lerman Architects Ltd Area: 8820.0 sqm Year: 2010 Photographs: Tim Hursley, Courtesy of James Carpenter Design Associates, Reid Freeman Structural Engineers: J. Kahan & Partners Lighting Designer: Tillotson Design Associates Graphics: Kasher Visual Communications Landscape Design: West End Architects and Environmental Planners Project Management: Nizan-Inbar General Contractor: Danya S
Brooklyn-based architect and Harvard GSD alumni Gia Wolff has been awarded the $100,000 Wheelwright Prize for her proposal Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats. Now in its first edition, the Wheelwright Prize is a travel grant issued by Harvard University in an effort to foster new forms of architectural research led by cross-cultural engagement. Mohsen Mostafavi: “The positive response to the Wheelwright Prize has been extraordinary. It is inspiring to see so many
Architects: Ippolito Fleitz Group Location: Hamburg Architect In Charge: Ippolito Fleitz Group Design Team: Peter Ippolito, Gunter Fleitz, Tilla Goldberg, Christian Kirschenmann, Tim Lessmann, Alexander Fehre, Christine Ackermann, Roger Gasperlin, Katja Heinemann Area: 520.0 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: Zooey Braun The SPIEGEL Group, whose stable includes Germany’s most important news magazine Der SPIEGEL, moved into its new publishing house in Hamburg’s HafenCity development. We were
