Chapel Tree of Life / Cerejeira Fontes Arquitectos. Architects: Cerejeira Fontes Arquitectos Location: Braga, Portugal Design Team: António Jorge Fontes, Asbjörn Andresen, André Fontes Photography: Nelson Garrido The intervention strategy results on the insertion of a Chapel at the Seminary of St.
James. It is a volume released into the antechamber of the Seminar which takes for its centrality. The design of this project-”body” wants this to be a unique structure, balanced and visible, making a piece with this exceptional presence within the building. Architecture In Development - news - The Urban Transformation of Medellin, Colombia. The Urban Transformation of Medellin, Colombia Tuesday 21 August 2012 *contributed by ir.
John Drissen Medellin has been involved in a series of economic, social and violence issues caused by drug trafficking and conflicts between communist guerrillas and paramilitaries. Illusionary Dalston House. L’argentin Leandro Erlich revient avec une nouvelle illusion en trois dimensions créée à la demande du Barbican.
Située à Dalston, au nord-est de Londres, elle représente la façade d’une maison victorienne, rappel de l’architecture d’antan du quartier. Un projet bluffant à découvrir en images. The Keret House / Jakub Szczesny. Voici l’achèvement de la maison la plus étroite du monde à Varsovie, en Pologne. La maison Keret a d’abord été conçu comme une vision qui semblait impossible de l’architecte polonais Jakub Szczesny , qui dans un premier temps a présenté cette idée comme un concept artistique durant le festival WolaArt en 2009.
Aujourd’hui, trois ans plus tard, le concept est devenu une réalité. JEAN NOUVEL: LOUVRE MUSEUM, ABU DHABI. As mentioned above, the Louvre Museum began as a cluster of palaces that were added successively by French kings and emperors throughout centuries.
Later, François Mitterrand proposed a plan to modernize the museum, following the ideas by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei and his famous glass pyramid. Such expansion was very controversial at the time. Buckminster Fuller. Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983) was an architect and designer based in the US.
His design philosophy of 'more for less' was applied across a range of projects, from the design of a car, housing, boats, games, to perhaps his most famous design: the geodesic dome. Geodesic domes are lightweight structures that can span large distances without any internal supports; highly cost effective they became popular for military and exhibition use as well as for emergency shelter. ConceptMODEL. Église de San Giovanni Battista par Mario Botta. La structure de cette église est d’une forme elliptique aux rayures noires et blanches, avec un toit en pente totalement vitré.
Une fois à l’intérieur, on est pris dans le tourbillon d’un damier vertigineux dû à l’utilisation de couches de marbre et de granit. Sans fenêtre, la seule entrée de lumière se fait par le toit et agit comme un puit de lumière, divin ! Devenue un monument emblématique de la région et même au-delà, cette église résolument contemporaine à de quoi impressionner ! Un beau travail que l’on doit à l’architecte Mario Botta. Pour en savoir plus sur Mario Botta, cliquez ici. Troll Wall Restaurant by Reiulf Ramstad Architects.
The jagged glass edges of this restaurant by Norwegian studio Reiulf Ramstad Architects point up towards a sheer cliff face.
Named the Troll Wall Restaurant, the building is located at the foot of the tallest vertical rock face in Europe, in Norway’s Romsdal Valley. Full-height glazing gives diners a view of the landscape, behind a criss-crossing pattern of structural beams. Charred timber clads the elevations at the rear of the building, where additional rooms provide a local service and information centre. Reiulf Ramstad Architects also completed a timber-clad nursery in Oslo this year - see our earlier story here. Photography is by the architects. Here's some more text from Reiulf Ramstad Architects: Trollwall Restaurant.
Optical Glass House by Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP. A tree-filled courtyard is glimpsed through the shimmering glass-brick facade of this house in Hiroshima, designed by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura (+ movie).
Optical Glass House was constructed beside a busy road, so Hiroshi Nakamura and his studio NAP wanted to create a private oasis where residents could still make out the movements of people and traffic beyond the walls. OSAKIDETZA - Le prisme architectural basque de Bilbao - popavenue - Happy French Pop Blog. OSAKIDETZA - Basque Health Department Headquarters - Bilbao, Espagne Architects: Coll-Barreu Arquitectos - Juan Coll-Barreu & Daniel Gutiérrez Zarza Photographs: Aleix Bagué.
The Sage Gateshead. The Sage Gateshead is a regional music centre of international standing, with approximately half a million visitors each year.
It fills a 'gap on the map' for music venues in the North-East and has helped to consolidate Tyneside's position as an arts destination. The building forms the heart of an ambitious project to regenerate Gateshead's river frontage and lies alongside the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and the Tyne Bridge with its great arch, which is echoed in the form of the Sage's roof. Home to Northern Sinfonia and a base for and Folkworks, which promotes folk, jazz and blues performances, The Sage Gateshead provides three auditoria and accommodation for the Regional Music School The largest of the three main performance spaces is an acoustically state-of-the-art concert hall that can seat up to 1,650 people. The second hall can be arranged to suit folk, jazz and chamber performances and seats up to 400.