All Blog Posts Tagged 'architecture' (554)

The Orange Cube is a vibrant 6,300-square-foot structure on the edge of the Saône River in a converted industrial zone in Lyon, France.  Surrounded mostly by grey buildings, the bold design by Paris-based architecture practice Jakob +…

Amidst a block of more traditional houses in Bilzen, Belgium, Narrow House stands out with a display-box-like facade that houses sculptural balconies.  Brussels-based architect Bassam El-Okeily collaborated with fellow Belgian…

The Friend House is an eco-hotel in the forest by the river bank, 30 kilometers from Dnepropertrovsk in the Ukraine.  The architecture and interior design are both the work…

The 420-foot tall mixed-use Phoenix Observation Tower is poised to become the headline destination in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona.  The design by BIG has been nicknamed "The Pin," and…

The traditional grey world of convention center buildings is flipped on its head by the multi-colored glass facade of the Palais des Congrès in Montreal.  Five-foot by 12-foot glass panels in pink, orange, yellow, green, and blue line the west side of the…

Designed by Randall Stout Architects, the Art Gallery of Alberta sits in downtown Edmonton, Alberta on Sir Winston Churchill Square.  The original museum was an undersized 1960s brutalist concrete…

Set on a four-legged base to give it a minimal footprint, Isolée is an ecologically friendly retreat from the world.  The design by Netherlands based firm Tjep…

From the time she was a young girl, the family's daughter played in the yard and climbed its two trees.  As an adult, she and her husband wanted to build and live in an extension on her parents' home.  Instead of simply tearing out the trees that stood next to the home for 35…

Completed in August 2012, Quai de la Graille is the work of French firm R2K Architectes.  This fascinating structure is an apartment building in…

The new Nanjing Sifang Art Museum sits at the gateway to the Contemporary International Practical Exhibition of Architecture.  Rising from the landscape of the Pearl Spring, the museum by…

Cube Tube consists of an office building and a restaurant in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.  With the requirement to design a distinctive landmark with good natural lighting and an open, airy feeling,…

The interior design for the Stuart Weitzman flagship store evolved from the concept of shoes as a delightfully anticipated gift.  Milan based architect Fabio…

The starting point of this project came from the ongoing conflict over one of the most attractive pieces of fallow land in Berlin: the Spree riversides located between Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg.  Drawing on the spatial partitioning strategy of a Voroni diagram, elements from differing social demands…

On the edge of a residential area where the road curves sits the House on the Other Side by Japan’s FujiwaraMuro Architects.  The house in Muko City, Kyoto is inhabited by two married…

The Melkwegbridge is designed by NEXT Architects in collaboration with Rietveld Landscape and is located in Purmerend, the…

Lighthouse Tower is a proposal by Mikou Design Studio that marks the entrance to Rio de Janeiro.  It is intended to be the poetic embodiment of its surroundings: the lush tropical…

Bloom is an architectural research installation by DOSU Studio Architecture displayed at the Materials and Application Gallery in Los Angeles.   Made primarily out of a smart…

At the request of the architect, Belgian firm dmvA has refurbished Jan Van den Berghe’s home for his daughter.  Built in the eighties, House vvdb is…

Situated in Osaka, Japan, House of Cedar evokes the feeling of being in a forest.  Japanese practice Suga Atelier developed a new structural system for the house that uses wooden framing and steel bolts.  The result is an open, warm atmosphere…

Sunwell Muse Kitasando is the office building and showroom for a textile planning and trading company.  Since the company had been focusing on female apparel, the architecture by…