Springer's Blog – January 2012 Archive (8)

Ordos Museum

In the city of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, the Ordos Museum stands as a bright shell protecting the local culture from the encroaching urbanism. It was conceived as a reaction against the strict geometry of the city’s masterplan. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s “Manhattan Dome," MAD…

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Added by Springer on January 25, 2012 at 11:01am — No Comments

House with Empty Lot

In traditional homes, bedrooms (and maybe a bathroom if you’re lucky) constitute the only private – or sometimes only semi-private – space within a home. The rest of the living space is communal. House with Empty…

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Added by Springer on January 23, 2012 at 10:04am — No Comments

Kirk Kapital A/S Headquarters

Can the words graceful and fort describe the same building? Apparently so, as you can see from the beautiful renderings of the planned Kirk Kapital A/S headquarters by Olafur Eliasson. The building is part of a new…

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Added by Springer on January 18, 2012 at 2:50pm — No Comments

Mirror House

The middle of this playground in Copenhagen used to be marred by a sad, anonymous, graffiti-covered structure. Now, however, MLRP Architects have transformed it into Mirror House, an inviting…

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Added by Springer on January 16, 2012 at 12:02pm — No Comments

Sea Tree

The Sea Tree is an elegant piece of sustainable architecture that is deliberately not accessible to humans. The design by Waterstudio.NL will serve as a habitat for the local native plants…

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Added by Springer on January 12, 2012 at 11:00am — No Comments

Ephemeral Architecture – Hotel de Glace

Located in Quebec, Canada, the Hotel de Glace is painstakingly constructed using 500 tons of ice and 15,000 tons of snow. Thirty construction professionals worked long hours to erect the basic framework, and then handed the finishing…

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Added by Springer on January 11, 2012 at 10:35am — No Comments

Slit House by EDO

Slipped into a 7 x 50 meter site, the Slit House challenges the traditional notion of large glass-filled windows. A 105 meter wall wraps around the site, slashed with sixty 140 mm wide slits. The architecture by…

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Added by Springer on January 6, 2012 at 9:53am — No Comments

Crescent Moon Tower

The Crescent Moon Tower is the architectural design project submitted to the 11^th ThyssenKrup Elevator Architecture Award by the California-based firm…