Also Seen: The Candy Room by Red Design Group. Patrick Kennedy to unveil micro apartments in San Francisco. This rendering shows what Patrick Kennedy's new 23-unit apartment building at 38 Harriet St. will look like once assembled.
In a crowded city like San Francisco, size matters. That’s why developer Patrick Kennedy of Panoramic Interests is building bite-size apartments in S.F.’s South of Market district. Click on the image to see renderings of Panoramic Interests’ upcoming micro-dwellings. >>> Kennedy plans to unveil a 23-unit apartment building at 38 Harriet St. in October. The units were designed and built in collaboration with Zeta Communities, a San Francisco-based maker of prefabricated buildings. The builder will ship the units via trucks to San Francisco, where they will be assembled like building blocks. Blanca Torres covers East Bay real estate for the San Francisco Business Times. Columbia University Unveils an Unorthodox Med School Building. Diller Scofidio + RenfroA rendering of Columbia University Medical Center’s new medical and graduate education building in Washington Heights.
Modern Skyscraper a Testament to Adaptation. Underground Skyscrapers? Australia’s First Green Skyscraper Named ‘Best Tall Building’ Dror Unveils Futuristic, Net-Positive-Energy Island In Istanbul. This year Istanbul Design Week goes back to the future with a very ambitious project: HavvAda, a cutting-edge net-positive-energy residential island conceptualized by New York-based Studio Dror.
Turkish developer Serdar Inan has commissioned the project, which will be unveiled in Istanbul on September 29. Add To Collection Save this image to a collection HavvAda will be built off Istanbul’s shore, using excavated soil from a new massive canal planned between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara. Inan has asked that the project be completed in time for the Turkish Republic’s Centennial in 2023.
For the design, Dror has drawn on its fascination with spatial geometry, as well as Buckminster Fuller's legacy in structural engineering and Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City. The island is envisioned as a landscape of six residential hills, surrounding a circular valley dedicated to parks and recreation. On the Horizon: Streamsong Resort and Conference Center. With two world-class golf courses, a spa, three restaurants and a clubhouse, the Streamsong Resort and Conference Center is an opulent work in progress — a 300,000-square-foot resort housed in Polk County, Florida.
The project is set to feature 216 rooms in the main lodge, 12 rooms in the 50,000-square-foot clubhouse, the finest amenities, 18,000 square feet of conference space, a swimming pool, two retail outlets, guided bass fishing, a sporting clay range, and two 18-hole golf courses designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw of Coore & Crenshaw and Tom Doak of Renaissance Golf Design. Alfonso Architects design firm is overseeing every inch of the clubhouse and six-story resort, from floors to ceilings. The clubhouse will open in December 2012, with the resort scheduled to open in fall 2013. Streamsong has been a lengthy and challenging project for Alberto Alfonso, but also a very enjoyable one filled with creative latitude.
Reclaimed wood is also the basis for the lobby. A Room With A View: Abandoned Italian Bridge May House High-Rise Vacation Homes. If you've ever been to southern Italy, you know elevation is key for some of the most breathtaking views.
So when news spread about a historic viaduct bridge in Salerno-Reggio Calabria possibly facing destruction, a team of architects took charge to create a way to not only save the site but make the most of it. Samuel Nageotte, OFF Architecture, and PR Architects joined forces to propose a set of vertical villages stacked on top of one another under the bridge. Patrick Kennedy aims for big splash with small units. Photo: Spencer Brown / SFBT File 2010 300-square-foot units will appeal to people who like living in cities, says Patrick Kennedy.
Small is coming to SoMa — apartments, that is. East Bay student housing developer Patrick Kennedy is close to installing his first San Francisco project, which will feature units measuring a compact 300 square feet. The project’s 23 units are currently moving along the assembly line at Zeta Communities’ factory in Sacramento and will be ready for occupancy in October. “This kind of living is appealing to people who like living in cities and all the stimuli and attractions that are available,” said Kennedy, who heads the development firm Panoramic Investments.
Sneak peek of Panoramic Interests' micro apartments in San Francisco. Each unit features a single window at the back where dwellers can set up a table or seating area.
Panoramic Interests is weeks away from finishing up Smartspace SoMa, the firm’s first, 23-unit, micro-apartment building at 38 Harriet St. in San Francisco’s South of Market district. Click on the image to view of the slideshow of 38 Harriet. >>>>> The firm, headed by Patrick Kennedy, could begin leasing the 300-square-foot units in about two weeks. The firm has yet to set the rental rates, but Kennedy said last summer he would aim for $1,500 per month. China: Luxury hotel planned in abandoned quarry. For more than a decade, China has been a front-runner in the world’s skyscraper race.
Now the country is taking the pole position in digging “groundscrapers” -- enormous structures built mostly underground. Most recently, ground has been broken on construction of a high-end hotel at the foot of Shanghai’s Tianmashan (天马山, a k a Tianma Mountain) in a 100-meter-deep pit. Developed by Shanghai Shimao Property Group and to be managed by InterContinental Hotels Group, the hotel, named InterContinental Shimao Shanghai Wonderland, is expected to extend 19 stories into the bottom of the pit. It's due to open in late 2014 or early 2015. Once completed, the deepest story of the luxury resort will be approximately 700 meters lower than the top floor of the world’s-highest-hotel-to-be, the Shanghai Tower J Hotel in Shanghai Tower, set for completion around the same time. 19 stories, 380 rooms, underwater restaurant The pit now and what it's expected to look like in two years.
3 Projects We’re Looking Forward to in 2013. It’s going to be an exciting year ahead.
There are a number of projects on the horizon that we can’t wait to see come to fruition as the months go by, and you can count on us for continued coverage of them. Here’s just a little preview of a handful of those on our radar that we thought might peak your interest on this second day of 2013. The Santa Barbara Auto Camp Otherwise known as the Airstream Hotel, this project by architect Matthew Hofmann’s custom renovation firm HofArc is going to do for the RV Park what “glamping” did for camping.
This unique, kitschy lodging experience features locally renovated vintage Airstreams available for nightly rentals as of New Year’s Day. Pastry Lab, phase two The Pastry Lab by Think Fabricate and Doban Architecture (affiliated studios) is part culinary arts laboratory and soon-to-be part fine dining in New York City.